Piotr Seredyn - CTO Program Manager, Theme Owner / Senior Project Manager

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Zürich, Switzerland

Experience

Aug 2022 - Present

3 years

CTO Program Manager, Theme Owner / Senior Project Manager

Avaloq Group AG (an NEC company)

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).
Programs: 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.
Key responsibilities: Being accountable for the delivery of annual Themes / quarterly Key Deliverables.
Key responsibilities: Following QBR process to efficiently manage the demand vs supply, book of work, execution, reporting and managing risks.
Key responsibilities: Managing mostly directly around 40 external consultants (FE/BE SW engineers, BAs and leading designers).
Key responsibilities: Hiring new resources and managing existing ones in 8 countries locations.
Key responsibilities: Running quarterly closure divisional meetings presenting my domain achievements and challenges.
Key responsibilities: Managing delivery by resolving multiple cross-teams dependencies and internal / external conflicts.
Key responsibilities: Owning and controlling the budget for the maintenance, ensuring required funding from the sponsors.
Key responsibilities: Initiatives / budget requesting, planning, forecasting and execution. Report budget status into the management meetings. Ensuring demand is matched with supply in the efficient manner.
Key responsibilities: 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).

May 2021 - Aug 2022

1 year 4 months

IT Program Manager, Senior Project Manager / Agile Coach / Product Owner

Luxoft (a DXC Technology company)

Client: Cross-Asset Financial Risk Technology at top-tier American Investment Bank.
Program: Facilitating Global Spread Products businesses onto strategic, cross-asset, real-time and firmwide Financial Risk Management Platform.
Product: Real-time, cross-asset, cloud-based data repository, feed generation and calculation services for the Financial Risk Management platform ensuring the most quick, accurate and secure risk calculations for trades, positions, orders and collaterals and supporting the most strategic businesses and regulatory requirements.
Key responsibilities: Owning the portfolio of projects of IT delivery by specifying and accepting Epics / User Stories and handing them over to teams of ca 30 developers in total.
Key responsibilities: Working with Senior Technology Management from US and UK in planning, prioritising, tracking, escalating, and managing risks/dependencies.
Key responsibilities: Working with FO/Markets and Regulatory Engineering to work out the optimal solution design and requirements.
Key responsibilities: BAU maintenance (components refactoring, production issues remediation etc.).
Key responsibilities: JIRA administrator for the whole XiP platform program (automated / integrated confluence pages / boards / roadmaps to conduct business management duties).
Approach: Scrum / Kanban, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe Agile).
Technology: Java, Node.JS, Apache licensed (Storm, Spring, Kafka, Hadoop), MongoDB, Kinetica, BlackDuck, 3T Studio (SQL), Confluence, JIRA(JQL).

Jan 2017 - Apr 2021

4 years 4 months

Warsaw, Poland

Senior Associate, Associate VP/Executive Director and Senior Business Analyst within Regulatory & Control Operations division

Goldman Sachs

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.
Achievements and responsibilities: Named Embedded Risk Champion for the Transaction, Trade and Order reporting group overseeing risks within Warsaw team.
Achievements and responsibilities: 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.
Achievements and responsibilities: Identified and mitigated number of project’s risks by correcting and back-reporting to the regulators / public market tape significant transactions.
Achievements and responsibilities: Analysed the impact of Brexit on Post-Trade reporting and ensured the implementation of numerous and extensive updates under the Pre / Post-Brexit models.
Achievements and responsibilities: JIRA administrator for the Regulatory Operations globally.
Achievements and responsibilities: QA/UAT strategist for MiFID II Post-Trade Reporting (RTS 1&2).
Achievements and responsibilities: Developed internal procedures and trained newly hired team members.
Achievements and responsibilities: 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.)

Aug 2016 - Dec 2016

5 months

Senior Business Analyst, Project Manager and Business Analyst, Senior Consultant on behalf of EY and Crisil (an S&P Global

Credit Suisse

Initiative: Chief Risk Office change program.
Scope: Financial Risk Management covering market risk area (VaR in accordance with FRTB regulatory framework) and Global Stress Testing Scenarios in accordance with EU regulatory framework.
Approach: Roadmaps, RAIDs, Risk Score Cards for the project portfolios.

Feb 2014 - Aug 2016

2 years 7 months

Poland

Risk Manager, independent expert position reporting directly to the Chairman

Opera (an independent hedge fund and broker/dealer)

Was solely in charge of maintaining and developing all-risks management system for investment funds amounted to ca 2bn PLN (~500 mln USD) AUM, aligning with the industry’s best practices, EU regulations (AIFMD / CRD IV / Basel III etc.), Polish Financial Supervision Authority recommendations and Polish legislation acts.
Was solely in charge of maintaining and developing all-risks management system for 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.

Nov 2012 - Feb 2014

1 year 4 months

Poland

Risk Specialist, independent expert position reporting directly to the Chairman

New World Alternative Investments (an independent Broker/dealer)

Was solely responsible for maintaining and developing all-risks management system for a boutique brokerage house having ca 17 mln PLN (~4,5 mln USD) RWA in accordance with the industry’s best practices, EU regulations (AIFMD / CRD IV / Basel III etc.), Polish Financial Supervision Authority recommendations and Polish legislation acts.

Mar 2011 - May 2011

3 months

Junior Data Analyst in the NAM team

Mercer (a Marsh & McLennan company)

Mar 2011 - May 2011

3 months

Poland

Intern in the Risk Department

PZU Insurance Group

Jul 2009 - Aug 2009

2 months

Intern in the Retail Division

Deutsche Bank

Sep 2008 - Nov 2008

3 months

Poland

Banking Products Consultant

Expander Advisors (a General Electric company)

Summary

Seasoned Digital Transformation Leader specialized in the fields of investment banking with special focus on Risk / Asset Management and Regulatory Reporting. 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.

Languages

Polish

Native

English

Advanced

Education

Oct 2015 - Jun 2016