Piotr Seredyn
CTO Program Manager, Theme Owner / Senior Project Manager
Experience
Aug 2022 - Present
3 years 5 monthsZürich, Switzerland
CTO Program Manager, Theme Owner / Senior Project Manager
Avaloq Group AG
- 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
- Accountable for managing the delivery of a portfolio of digital wealth and consumer relationship management initiatives
- Project managing portfolios of projects within CTO product and technology business area (cyber security, architectural changes, re-organisational transformation, 3rd party apps)
- Products: Kernel & Parametrisation for Core Avaloq Banking Platform; modules: CRM, client data management, wealth management, portfolio management (generating over 90% of company revenues)
- Key responsibilities:
- Reporting to Head of Disruptive Innovation Division; stakeholder to five product owners & two domain owners
- Accountable for delivery of annual themes and quarterly key deliverables
- Managing demand vs supply via QBR process: book of work, execution, reporting, risk management
- Directly managing around 40 external consultants (front-end/back-end engineers, BAs, designers)
- Hiring and managing resources in eight countries
- Running quarterly divisional closure meetings presenting achievements and challenges
- Resolving cross-team dependencies and internal/external conflicts
- Owning and controlling maintenance budget; planning, forecasting, execution; ensuring demand matches supply
- Identifying and staffing key roles with chapter leads
- Approach: Agile, Scrum of Scrums, QBR/OKRs
- Technology: Angular, PL/SQL, JavaScript, Confluence, JIRA (JQL)
May 2021 - Aug 2022
1 year 4 monthsIT Program Manager, Senior Project Manager / Agile Coach / Product Owner
Luxoft
- Client: Cross-Asset Financial Risk Technology at top-tier American investment bank
- Program: Facilitating Global Spread Products businesses onto strategic, cross-asset, real-time, firmwide Financial Risk Management Platform
- Product: Real-time, cross-asset, cloud-based data repository, feed generation and calculation services for risk management platform
- Key responsibilities:
- Owning IT delivery portfolio by specifying and accepting epics/user stories; handing over to teams of ~30 developers
- Planning, prioritising, tracking, escalating, managing risks and dependencies with senior technology management (US/UK)
- Collaborating with front office/markets and regulatory engineering on solution design and requirements
- BAU maintenance: component refactoring, production issue remediation
- JIRA administration for XiP platform: automated/integrated Confluence pages, boards, roadmaps
- Approach: Scrum/Kanban, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Technology: Java, Node.js, Storm, Spring, Kafka, Hadoop, MongoDB, Kinetica, BlackDuck, 3T Studio (SQL), Confluence, JIRA (JQL)
Jan 2017 - Apr 2021
4 years 4 monthsSenior Associate, Associate VP/Executive Director and Senior Business Analyst
Goldman Sachs
- Product: Real-time, cross-asset, integrated eligibility services for digital Regulatory Reporting platform (MiFID II Post-Trade Reporting)
- Ownership of MiFID II RTS 1-2, 22-23 business/data requirements analysis, solution design (definition of ready, acceptance criteria as user stories), end-to-end testing (definition of done), transition to BAU
- Achievements and responsibilities:
- Mitigated regulatory/financial risks, preventing penalties and revenue/reputation loss
- Named Embedded Risk Champion for transaction, trade and order reporting group in Warsaw
- Interacted with compliance, legal, regulatory, front and middle office engineering, stock exchanges, global firms, strategic fintech startup
- Identified and corrected significant transactions; back-reported to regulators/public market tape
- Analyzed Brexit impact; implemented extensive pre/post-Brexit updates
- JIRA administrator for global Regulatory Operations
- QA/UAT strategist for MiFID II Post-Trade Reporting (RTS 1&2)
- Developed internal procedures and trained new team members
- Interviewed and recruited dozens of candidates within Operations Division
- Approach: DevOps, Agile/Waterfall, Kanban, RAIDs
- Technology: Aqua Studio (SQL), Signavio, Kibana, Confluence, JIRA (JQL), GS bespoke stack (Blueprint, Zebra testing)
Aug 2016 - Dec 2016
5 monthsSenior Business Analyst, Project Manager and Senior Consultant
Credit Suisse
- Initiative: Chief Risk Office change program
- Scope: Financial risk management covering market risk (VaR per FRTB regulatory framework) and global stress testing scenarios per EU regulatory framework
- Approach: Roadmaps, RAIDs, risk score cards for project portfolios
Feb 2014 - Aug 2016
2 years 7 monthsRisk Manager
Opera
- Maintained and developed all-risks management system for investment funds (
2 bn PLN AUM) and investment firm (128 mln PLN RWA) - Ensured alignment with industry best practices, EU regulations (AIFMD, CRD IV, Basel III), Polish Financial Supervision Authority recommendations, Polish legislation
Nov 2012 - Feb 2014
1 year 4 monthsRisk Specialist
New World Alternative Investments
- Maintained and developed all-risks management system for boutique brokerage house (~17 mln PLN RWA)
- Ensured alignment with industry best practices, EU regulations (AIFMD, CRD IV, Basel III), Polish Financial Supervision Authority recommendations, Polish legislation
Mar 2011 - May 2011
3 monthsJunior Data Analyst
Mercer
Mar 2011 - May 2011
3 monthsIntern, Risk Department
PZU Insurance Group
Jul 2009 - Aug 2009
2 monthsIntern, Retail Division
Deutsche Bank
Sep 2008 - Nov 2008
3 monthsBanking Products Consultant
Expander Advisors
Summary
Seasoned Digital Transformation Leader specialized in the fields of investment banking with special focus on Risk / Asset Management and Regulatory Reporting. Serving for the leading international companies from financial industry for 13 years I have earned unique and well-diversified experience. Academic background in Quantitative Finance. Certified Professional Scrum Product Owner II.
Devoted to aligning strategic business goals with the latest market conditions by designing and delivering the cutting-edge digital solutions. Modern and applied business solutions expertise of mine comes together with the fast-learning, fast-pivoting skills, and ability to complete global and time-constrained projects resourcefully.
Securing firms’ contingency and relentless growth by introducing optimal, undisrupted, and high-quality working standards to achieve and outperform predefined business and reputational goals.
Skills
- Advanced Experience With The Ms Office, Atlassian Software (Jira, Confluence)
- Operational Experience With Signavio And Kibana Dashboards
- Basic Knowledge Of The Programming Languages R, 4gl, Vba, C++, Bloomberg Terminal, Sas Studio And Sql, Jql Querying
Languages
Polish
NativeEnglish
IntermediateEducation
Oct 2015 - Jun 2016
Warsaw School of Economics
Postgraduate studies · Risk Management in Financial Institutions · Warsaw, Poland
Oct 2010 - Jun 2012
University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences
Master’s degree, Quantitative Finance · Quantitative Finance · Warsaw, Poland
Oct 2007 - Jun 2010
University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences
Bachelor’s degree, Finance and Accounting · Finance and Accounting · Warsaw, Poland
Certifications & licenses
Anti-Money Laundering
Ministry of Finance
Bank Audit
PwC
Inspire To Action Effectively
KPMG
Basics Of The Technical Analysis
X-Trade Brokers
Certified Professional Scrum Product Owner Ii
Scrum.org
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