Levent Önder
Digital Transformation
Experience
Digital Transformation
African Development Bank
Freelance project in collaboration with STC Services.
- Objective: Develop IT governance and a governance framework based on DORA requirements.
- Role: Coordinate and train external service providers.
Digital Transformation
Energieversorger
Freelance project in collaboration with STC Services.
- Digital & finance transformation.
- Objective: Migration to S/4HANA and optimization of booking processes.
- Role: Project lead, managing 21 team members, €9M budget.
- Tasks: Defined the TOM, implemented system solution and change management measures.
- Result: Implemented new system solution & improved process quality.
Digital Transformation
Landesbank
Freelance project in collaboration with STC Services.
- Objective: Optimize backoffice through automated workflows and DORA readiness.
- Role: Led 7 team members, €4.5M budget.
- Result: Developed roadmap for automated system migration.
Workplace Transition
Landesbank
Freelance project.
- Workplace transition of ITSM suite for operational processes in market support.
- Objective: Implement new solution and optimize processes via change management measures.
- Role: Led team of 8, €6M budget.
- Result: Established new organizational structure and increased efficiency.
Senior Manager, Business Transformation
EY
Digital transformation for a health insurance provider in Thuringia.
Objective: Transition to an agile organization and optimize processes.
Role: Led interdisciplinary team of 15, €18M budget.
Result: Introduced agile structure, increased process efficiency by 22%.
Blockchain strategy for a banking group.
Objective: Evaluate and implement a digital strategy for digital assets.
Role: Developed strategy and managed a development team for platform deployment.
Result: Successful market launch with increased market presence.
Interim head of regulatory reporting at Landesbank (Munich).
Objective: Ensure VAG reporting and GroMiKV compliance, optimize processes and build new team.
Role: Led an 8-person reporting team.
Result: Optimized reporting and data quality, ensured regulatory compliance.
Director, Financial Services & Petrochemicals
STC Services
Digital bank transformation in the Middle East.
Objective: Develop a target operating model & regulatory strategy for a fully digital bank.
Role: Led strategy development and optimized regulatory reporting structures.
Result: Increased efficiency through digital automation and implemented a compliant target operating model.
Digital transformation for a petrochemicals group.
Objective: Optimize processes and enhance customer experiences.
Role: Led 50-member team, $25M budget.
Result: Efficiency improvements via digital automation.
Team development & leadership programs.
Objective: Enhance leadership skills and establish a strategic team structure.
Role: Lead operations & consulting; coached teams and introduced a leadership program.
Result: Higher employee satisfaction and improved leadership culture.
Manager, Finance, Risk & Compliance
CAPCO - The Capital Markets Company
MiFID II implementation (Capital Markets & AWM) at Deutsche Bank.
Objective: Adapt advisory and trading processes to new regulations.
Role: Project lead for Asset & Wealth Management, collaborated with BaFin and business units.
Result: Optimized market efficiency and introduced a target operating model.
Post-merger integration for a central bank in the Middle East.
Objective: Harmonize credit and financial processes after the merger.
Role: PMO lead and developed target operating model.
Result: Harmonization and efficiency gains through digital automation and system implementation.
Senior Consultant
Deloitte Consulting GmbH
Restructuring at a universal bank in Frankfurt.
Objective: Reduce costs in finance through standardization and digitization.
Conducted as-is process analysis and identified savings potentials.
Developed and implemented cost-cutting measures.
Established a shared service center; standardized and optimized internal processes for long-term scale effects.
FX benchmark manipulation case at Commerzbank (Capital Markets).
Objective: Identify and eliminate compliance breaches.
Role: PMO and developed risk mitigation strategies.
Result: Implemented new compliance processes.
Consultant, Financial Services
BearingPoint Consulting GmbH
Founded BearingPoint Turkey.
Objective: Market entry strategy and due diligence.
Role: Led preparation and implementation.
Result: Successfully established the company in Turkey.
Post-merger integration at a universal bank in Frankfurt.
Objective: Data migration and process modeling for the merger of two major banks.
Role: Responsible for design, modeling and functional testing.
Modeled and optimized financial processes.
Result: Successfully harmonized and optimized internal processes.
Board Assistant & Project Lead
WIL AG
Industry: Recycling & plant engineering.
- Strategic finance & corporate management:
- Objective: Lead M&A projects to acquire and integrate multiple recycling companies.
- Developed and executed growth strategies for new business areas.
- Optimized organizational structures by realigning business and financial processes.
- Finance transformation & post-merger integration:
- Restructured accounting & controlling including new reporting standards.
- Implemented and built a shared service center for increased efficiency.
- Investor relations & corporate strategy:
- Conducted market analyses & valuations of potential acquisition targets.
- Communicated with investors & moderated international roadshows for capital raising.
- Result: Successful acquisitions, restructurings and financial transformations driving sustainable growth and efficiency improvements.
Program Lead Backoffice AWM
Deutsche Bank
- Objective: Develop a strategic transformation program to optimize and automate financial processes.
- Role: Led a transformation program with 34 projects, €500M budget.
- Result: Introduced risk-based control concept and optimized overall bank management.
Summary
Experienced IT-strategic change & project management consulting and digital transformation professional, expert in process optimization and overseeing company-wide team leadership. Key achievements include leading transformation projects and strategic initiatives with over 50 team members and a €25M budget to optimize processes and enhance customer experiences.
CORE COMPETENCIES:
- IT-strategic change & project management
- Process optimization & digitalization: Implementing efficient process environments using AI & automation
- Corporate governance & strategy: Developing and executing strategic directions in regulated industries
- Leadership & team development: Over 6 years of disciplinary leadership; coaching of employees & teams
- Finance & controlling: Optimizing financial processes and performance
- Governance & compliance: Ensuring international and national regulatory requirements
Languages
Education
Middlesex University
Doctor of Business Administration · London, United Kingdom
TH Köln
Diplom-Kaufmann · Banking & Finance · Cologne, Germany · good
Certifications & licenses
Blue Prism Developer Training
Certified Agile Coach
Certified Agile Project Manager
Certified Digital Transformation Manager
Certified New Work Expert & Agile Change Manager
PMP
Prince 2
Professional Scrum Master I
Similar Freelancers
Discover other experts with similar qualifications and experience