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Delivery focused project manager and business analyst with over 8 years work experience
Experience covers:
- Planning, execution and management of different activities throughout the whole project life cycle (including risk management, reporting to stakeholders and top management, creation of project documentation)
- Delivery of front to back change projects
- Team management including cross-location teams (Cross-cultural experience gained while working in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela, Columbia and India)
- Projects both on business and IT sides
- Target Operating Model definition
- Agile delivery methodology
- Business analysis, oversee of change implementation and testing (including end to end process analysis, process mapping, definition and documentation of requirements)
Project Management
Agile
Business Analysis
BREXIT Client Migration - Project Manager – Revenue Services (May ’18 – Jun ’19) - Responsible for the coordination and for the delivery of the BREXIT client migration project in the Revenue Services division, from project initiation, execution to completion and lessons learnt. Managed 7 cross location teams to ensure client migration is done accurately and within the agreed timeframe. Developed the plan, the teams’ deliverables as well as the business case and tracked project performance to ensure successful completion of the short and long-term goals. Identified and managed risks as well as dependencies to ensure delivery is on time. Developed a migration runbook and a test plan for each team to follow. Created a list of controls for Revenue Services and was responsible for breaks management (a process the bank did not have before). Reported to top management on a regular basis (daily status updates on breaks, weekly Operating Committees and monthly Steering Committees). Responsible for the successful migration in the Revenue Services area of Brexit impacted clients. Project was ran in Agile Methodology
Operations Transformation Program – Senior Business Analyst (Aug '17 – May ‘18) - Responsible for target state definition and requirements gathering for a new reconciliation tool. Developed a forecast for invoice processing based on target state FTE count. Created a F2B roles and responsibilities matrix. Responsible for project management duties (reporting to stakeholders and preparing all required project documentation
Equities Markets: Booking Standardisation – Lead FO Business Analyst (Mar '15 - Mar '17) - Lead Front Office Business Analyst responsible for global F2B analysis of the current booking models for Non-Deliverable Forwards, FX Forwards and FX Spots across Global Equities. Worked in the front office with traders daily to understand how the trades are booked, the issues they have and the required workarounds to overcome them. Defined target state together with traders and captured their requirements for target state. Assisted development team with the new booking model implementation. Prepared and coordinated the user acceptance test of system and process changes, from the development of test cases, to resource assignment, to UAT environment setup. Coordinated testing and implementation. Documented project outcomes as well as lessons learnt and prepared training for traders. Project was ran in Agile Methodology
Equities & FI Markets: Front to Back Trade Lifecycle Process Definition – Lead BA (Feb '14 – Jul '14) - Defined business and functional F2B use cases to cover all events. Worked in Agile environment, assisting teams to deconstruct use cases and create user stories. Worked as a Scrum Master and managed a team of 7 BA’s working in the Agile environment
Equities & FI Markets: Cash Record System Definition – Business Analyst (Nov '13 – Mar '14) - Managed the requirements gathering process for the development of a Cash Record system including workshop facilitation, interviews and documentation of the BRD
Equities & FI Markets: Operations Governance Model Design – PMO (Aug '13 – Mar '14) - Established a central PMO function for Securities Ops with consistent, high quality outputs. Responsible for defining governance and organizational structure across Securities Ops. Assisted work streams in establishing their internal governance
Application Rationalisation Strategy – Assessment Analyst (Apr '13 – Aug '13) - Assessed current state, identified customer requirements and defined future state. Researched, gathered and synthesized application information, including business and technical specification, decommissioning plans and cost/benefits data
Data Centre Migration and Transformation – PMO Lead (May '12 – Apr '13) - Documented the migration execution, captured metrics and reported risks and issues. Responsible for creating the high-level migration plan and for keeping stakeholders engaged. Managed 5 offshore resources: assigned tasks, improved team engagement, provided feedback
Data Centre Migration for a Pharmaceutical Company – Business Analyst (Aug '11 – May '12) - Conducted technical and functional evaluation of applications. Gathered requirements for server migration and conducted data centre audit on client site in Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina and Columbia. Tested applications’ suitability to the new environment
Manchester Business School - BSc Management, Accounting and Finance
Cass Business School - MSc Finance
PRMIA - Associate Professional Risk Manager
