🏢 FINTECH PM 🤖 LENDING 📊 CAPITAL MARKETS 🏭 AI BUILDER 🏳 ACCENTURE JAPAN

AKHILESH
CHAUHAN

LENDING · BANKING · CAPITAL MARKETS

I translate complex user needs and messy financial workflows into structured product decisions, clear requirements, and measurable outcomes. 3+ years shipping fintech products across global financial institutions in Japan.

Akhilesh Chauhan
ACCENTURE JAPAN IIT GANDHINAGAR MIZUHO SECURITIES YAMAGUCHI FINANCIAL AI AGENT BUILDER CAPITAL MARKETS PM LOAN ORIGINATION USER RESEARCH RICE PRIORITIZATION PRODUCT STRATEGY INDIA STACK AGILE DELIVERY ROADMAP THINKING ACCENTURE JAPAN IIT GANDHINAGAR MIZUHO SECURITIES YAMAGUCHI FINANCIAL AI AGENT BUILDER CAPITAL MARKETS PM LOAN ORIGINATION USER RESEARCH RICE PRIORITIZATION PRODUCT STRATEGY INDIA STACK AGILE DELIVERY ROADMAP THINKING
WHY ME

Why Hire Akhilesh?

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ENTERPRISE FINTECH
EXPERTISE

Hands-on product delivery across lending, banking, and capital markets at Mizuho Securities and Yamaguchi Financial Group. From loan origination workflows to trading platform enhancements.

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AI-AUGMENTED
PRODUCT OPS

Designed and deployed connected AI agent suites across the full product lifecycle, meetings transcription to requirement scoring to test-gap detection. Reduced documentation and triage effort by 70% per release cycle.

STRUCTURED PM
EXECUTION

Sprint planning, backlog grooming, SIT/UAT/Regression coordination across 15+ monthly releases. First-principles problem definition. RICE and MoSCoW prioritization. Full go-live ownership end to end.

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USER-CENTERED
PRODUCT THINKING

Synthesizing feedback from 80+ traders and 20+ user interviews into prioritized roadmaps and MVP feature sets. Every decision anchored in real user behavior, not assumptions or stakeholder opinions.

IMPACT

Measurable Business Impact

Not just shipped but delivered

¥15M
BUSINESS IMPACT
Trading latency improved by 0.04ms at Mizuho Securities, unlocking ¥15M in additional trading gains
80+
USERS INTERVIEWED
Traders and financial professionals whose feedback directly drove roadmap prioritization decisions
70%
EFFORT REDUCED
Per product cycle via AI agent suite covering documentation, requirement triage, and test gap detection
15+
MONTHLY RELEASES
Coordinated end-to-end go-live validation across offshore and onshore Agile delivery teams
50+
TEST SCENARIOS AUTOMATED
Order-lifecycle scenarios reducing UAT regression effort 70% and sign-off time by 2 days per cycle
60%
DUPLICATE RECORDS CUT
Via automated detection in loan origination, saving 5–10 minutes per loan application processed
3+
YEARS SHIPPING PM WORK
At global financial institutions in Japan delivering complex enterprise fintech platforms
10+
PM CASE STUDIES
Across FinTech, AI, lending, marketplace, gaming, and sustainability domains
EXPERIENCE

Professional Experience

Professional product work across global financial institutions from capital markets and lending platforms to AI-driven product operations and startup MVP research.

Accenture Japan · Yamaguchi Financial Group · 2026–Current AI & Product Ops
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AI Agent Suite for Product Lifecycle Automation

Problem: Product operations were manual and time-consuming — call action items lost in notes, requirement quality inconsistent, test coverage gaps discovered too late in the cycle, costing 2+ days per release.
Approach: Designed a connected suite of 3 AI agents: (1) call transcription → structured action items, (2) requirement scoring against quality criteria, (3) test-gap detection against prioritized backlog.
AI Agents Automation Product Ops System Design
↓ 70% effort per cycle 3 agent types deployed
Accenture Japan · Yamaguchi Financial Group · 2026–Current Lending
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Loan Origination Platform — Product Operations

Problem: Complex loan origination workflows — onboarding, credit assessment, approval routing, disbursement — operated with manual duplicate checks and slow processing times, creating data quality issues and poor applicant experience.
Approach: Drove automated duplicate-customer detection and credit-bureau trigger automation within the loan origination system. Coordinated enhancements across product, engineering, and business teams in an offshore/onshore Agile model.
Lending Product Ops Automation Agile
↓ 60% duplicate records 5–10 min saved per application
Accenture Japan · Mizuho Securities · 2023–2025 Capital Markets
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Trading Platform Enhancement via User Research

Problem: Traders experiencing latency and feature gaps that reduced execution speed and platform confidence — but no structured process existed to capture, validate, and prioritize their feedback at scale.
Approach: Designed structured feedback sessions with 80+ traders. Synthesized pain points via affinity mapping. Built a prioritized roadmap translating trader needs into engineering requirements.
User Interviews Roadmap Prioritization Requirements
¥15M trading gains 0.04ms latency improvement 50% feature adoption in 4 weeks
Accenture Japan · Mizuho Securities · 2023–2025 Capital Markets
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Agile Delivery & Release Management

Owned 15+ monthly releases end-to-end — sprint planning, backlog grooming, SIT/UAT coordination, and go-live validation. Automated 50+ order-lifecycle test scenarios, cutting regression effort 70% and UAT sign-off by 2 days per cycle.
Cross-Functional Collaboration Stakeholder Management SIT/UAT/Regression
15+ Monthly Releases 70% Regression Effort Reduction 2 days UAT sign-off reduction
ImBesideYou · Internship · Remote · 2022 AI · HealthTech
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MVP Research & UX — AI Mental Health Platform

Problem: A Tokyo-based AI mental health startup needed to validate product assumptions for the Indian market before engineering investment — without wasting resources on unvalidated features or misread user needs.
Approach: Led 20 user interviews across students and working professionals. Synthesized insights using MoSCoW to define a prioritized MVP. Built wireframes and user journey maps for engineering handoff.
User Research MVP Scoping Wireframing MoSCoW
✓ 75% validation success 20 user interviews Full Case Study ↗
CASE STUDIES

Case Study Library

End-to-end PM case studies demonstrating structured product thinking across FinTech, AI, and consumer products. Every case applies a disciplined methodology from user research to KPI framework.

Loan Decision Engine
FinTechLending

Loan Decision Engine

A stress-test decision intelligence system modeling real-world financial scenarios to determine true loan affordability.

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JAR B2B Growth Vertical
FinTechB2B Growth

JAR — New B2B Growth Vertical

Designed a payroll-linked micro-gold savings vertical to expand beyond JAR's B2C model.

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NRI Loan Onboarding IDFC
FinTechLendingKYC

NRI Loan Onboarding — IDFC FIRST Bank

Redesigned NRI loan onboarding to reduce KYC drop-off under strict regulatory constraints.

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Snabbit Child-Care Vertical
MarketplaceConsumer

Snabbit — Child-Care Vertical Launch

Designed a child-care product vertical for urban Indian families with Continuity Booking and 10-min Backup.

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PRD · B2B SaaS GOCOMET: DOCUMENT UPLOAD PRD
PRDB2B SaaS

GoComet — Document Upload PRD

A structured PRD for GoComet's Document Upload, Extraction & Validation with clear acceptance criteria.

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ImBesideYou Mental Health AI
AIHealthTechGTM

ImBesideYou — AI Mental Health Platform

Full product strategy and GTM deck for an AI mental health startup targeting the Indian market.

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MPL Gamified Engagement
GamingRetention

MPL — Gamified Daily Engagement

Designed habit-forming engagement loops for MPL solving the off-season retention problem.

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Carbon-Neutral Travel Card
FinTechESG

Carbon-Neutral Travel Credit Card

Designed a corporate travel card with real-time CO₂ tracking, Tiered Green Rewards, and One-Tap Carbon Offsets.

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SKILLS

Skills & Expertise

PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

User Research & Interviews Product Roadmapping PRD Writing MVP Definition & Scoping RICE / MoSCoW Prioritization KPI Design & Metrics Persona Development Competitive Benchmarking

EXECUTION & DELIVERY

Agile / Scrum Sprint Planning & Backlog Grooming SIT / UAT Coordination Release Management Go-Live Validation Stakeholder Management SDLC Cross-functional Collaboration

ANALYTICS & RESEARCH

SQL (Data Analysis) Mixpanel Product Metrics & KPIs User Journey Mapping Affinity Mapping Behavioral Analysis Market Research AARRR Funnel Analysis

AI & AUTOMATION

AI Agent Design & Deployment Microsoft Copilot Claude (Anthropic) Prompt Engineering Workflow Automation AI Product Strategy

TOOLS & PLATFORMS

Jira Figma Miro Notion & Confluence Whimsical.ai Salesforce / nCino Canva Git

TECHNICAL LITERACY

SQL (queries & analysis) Python (scripting & data) API & system integration concepts HTML / CSS / JavaScript Git / Version Control C# / .NET awareness
QUOTES

Focus on creating genuine user value.

Build one product that a hundred people love, rather than a product that a million people just sort of like.

~ Paul Graham, Y Combinator

PRODUCT THINKING

Product Thinking

Essays, teardowns, and observations on FinTech, AI products, and the India Stack. More coming soon.

FINTECH Coming soon

Why India’s Gig Economy Needs Smarter Repayment Systems

India has 15M+ gig workers facing irregular income cycles. Traditional EMI models are built for salaried employees. What does a cash-flow-aware lending product look like, and what does the UX of financial flexibility mean at this scale?

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UPI & INDIA STACK Coming soon

UPI’s Next Chapter: Group Finance and Shared Ledgers

UPI processes 20B+ transactions monthly yet group expense management still routes through third-party apps. An analysis of the native product gap and what embedded UPI group finance could unlock for the 500M+ active UPI users.

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AI PRODUCTS Coming soon

The Explainability Problem in AI-Driven Financial Decisions

When an AI system recommends a rental price or scores a loan application, can the user understand why? Exploring the tension between model accuracy and human trust — and what PM decisions actually shape explainability in fintech AI products.

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ABOUT ME

About Akhilesh

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EDUCATION

B.Tech — Chemical Engineering Minor in Management Studies IIT Gandhinagar · Jul 2019 – Jul 2023

MY JOURNEY

Chemical Engineering + Management at IIT Gandhinagar
PM Intern → ImBesideYou (AI startup, Tokyo)
Program Manager → Accenture Japan (FinTech)
Delivered products at Mizuho Securities & Yamaguchi Financial
Built AI agents for product ops automation
9 PM case studies across FinTech, AI, and gaming domains
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