Senior Project Manager

Clients: Central banks of the most developed economies in the world, German / Swiss / Luxembourgish / Monegasque / Singaporean / Japanese Wealth Managers and Universal / Private Banks, world's largest investment banks.

Programs:

• Accountable for managing the delivery of a portfolio of the digital wealth and consumer relationship management initiatives (both parametrised client change requests and internal (cross client) improvements).
• Project managing for the portfolios of projects within CTO product and technology business area (e.g. cyber security, architectural changes, re-organisational transformation, 3rd party apps etc.)

Products: Kernel & Parametrisation for Core Avaloq Banking Platform. Modules: CRM, Client Data Management, Wealth management and Portfolio management modules (generating over 90% of the company revenues).

Key responsibilities:

• Reporting to the Head of Disruptive Innovation Division and being a key stakeholder to five Product Owners & two Domain Owners
• Being accountable for the delivery of annual Themes / quarterly Key Deliverables
• Following QBR process to efficiently manage the demand vs supply, book of work, execution, reporting and managing risks
• Managing mostly directly around 40 external consultants (FE/BE SW engineers, BAs and leading designers)
• Hiring new resources and managing existing ones in 8 countries locations
• Running quarterly closure divisional meetings presenting my domain achievements and challenges
• Managing delivery by resolving multiple cross-teams dependencies and internal / external conflicts
• Owning and controlling the budget for the maintenance, ensuring required funding from the sponsors
• Initiatives / budget requesting, planning, forecasting and execution. Report budget status into the management meetings. Ensuring demand is matched with supply in the efficient manner
• Identify the roles required for the initiatives or programs, staff key roles jointly with the Chapter leads

Approach: Agile, Scrum of scrums, QBR / OKRs.

Technology: Angular, PL/SQL, JavaScript, Confluence, JIRA(JQL).

Product: Real-time, cross-asset and integrated eligibility services for the digital Regulatory Reporting platform supporting one of the most critical and comprehensive regulatory obligation for the banking industry (MiFID II - Post-Trade Reporting).

Ownership: MiFID II RTS 1-2, 22-23 business/data requirements analysis and specification, followed by solution design (Definition-of-Ready and acceptance criteria in a form of user stories), end-to-end testing (Definition-of-Done) and lastly transitioning from the Change Management into the BAU.

Achievements and responsibilities:

• Mitigated risks which could have materialised as regulatory / financial risks (penalties imposed by regulators) or loss of the revenue and reputation
• Named Embedded Risk Champion for the Transaction, Trade and Order reporting group overseeing risks within Warsaw team
• Interacted with key internal (inc. compliance, legal, and regulatory, Front Office and Middle Office engineering) and external (inc. stock exchanges, global firms providing professional financial services and strategic Fintech start-up) clients
• Identified and mitigated number of project's risks by correcting and back-reporting to the regulators / public market tape significant transactions
• Analysed the impact of Brexit on Post-Trade reporting and ensured the implementation of numerous and extensive updates under the Pre / Post-Brexit models
• JIRA administrator for the Regulatory Operations globally
• QA/UAT strategist for MiFID II Post-Trade Reporting (RTS 1&2)
• Developed internal procedures and trained newly hired team members
• Interviewed and recruited dozens of candidates within the Operations Division

Approach: DevOps, Agile / Waterfall, Kanban, RAIDs.

Technology: Aqua Studio(SQL), Signavio, Kibana, Confluence, JIRA(JQL), GS bespoken stack (Blueprint, Zebra testing etc.)

Was solely in charge of maintaining and developing all-risks management system for:

• investment funds amounted to ca 2bn PLN (~500 mln USD) AUM
• investment firm amounted to ca 128 mln PLN (~32 mln USD) RWA aligning with the industry's best practices, EU regulations (AIFMD / CRD IV / Basel III etc.), Polish Financial Supervision Authority recommendations and Polish legislation acts