Stream Lead

Business analyst on creating value and benefits from new technology systems

• Understanding of bank's fundamentals throughout analysis and writing specifications
• Deep analysis of Security measurements to be transferred into new environment
• Process design and optimization
• Collecting requirements from different areas and processing them into agreement documentation, concepts and process description for internal and external partners
• Analysis of data delivery sources and transformation of relevant functions into new environment
• Analysis and priorisation of value and benefits resulting from introducing smart data tools
• Mapping and migrating data within Power BI upgrade
• Change management support and evaluation
• Marketing automation and technology enablement
• Executing test and release support

Achievements:

• Creating training documentation for the client's employees to understand value and benefits by using new technologies when acquiring new or creating benefits to their existing customers
• Creating a complete database of existing firewalls supporting the security of the client's infrastructure
• Migration and re-architecture of reporting systems from multiple data sources into the cloud environment

Supporting the consolidation of information security systems of Postbank Systems and Deutsche Bank

• Defining and preparing security reports on monthly, quarterly and half-yearly basis – mainly the Information Security Management System (internal & external) reporting
• Building and defining KCIs for internal and external reporting
• Functional support of projects within Information Security reporting
• Pro-active support of managing project risks and issues and minimise their impact on the project
• Supporting daily business and organisational decisions by building presentations on behalf of senior management
• Tracking deliverables and programme meeting structures including preparation of post-meeting minutes and protocols
• Ensuring business requirements are clearly defined, understood and signed off
• Support of business analysis by handling tasks and defining the structure of documentation
• Communication between the requirement office of IT Security and the executing units
• Working proactively on defining new and optimizing existing processes

Achievements:

• Creating 7 new KCIs for the repeating reporting on monthly and quarterly basis
• Defining a new PKI-area to adjust to Deutsche Bank requirements

Leading an agile project as Project Manager in digitalisation and change of the bank's trading environment

• Leading daily task management meetings and raising prioritisation requests to senior management in case any dependencies occur
• Strategic guidance to the teams and coordination of tasks across the department of a digitalisation project of a budget of € 15 M. annually
• Keeping track and updating task execution in Jira (Confluence) and preparing dashboards for senior management and stakeholders to make the project's progress visible
• Negotiating release dates and (if given) delays with the TRM team and supporting Automation Office
• Managing information coming from business side and commute them into user stories and next into tasks to be delivered by the IT section

Achievements:

• Building a new digitalised approach of the trading system and preparing the environment for the migration of the house internal trading platform
• Decommissioning of existing database and replacing it with an Oracle equivalent which is saving annually € 130 k maintenance costs

Supporting several programmes and leading workflow optimisation projects using waterfall and agile methods, single point of contact for audit issues

• Process design within projects and daily business
• Responsible for communication between high level managers, stakeholders and execution teams
• Collecting requirements from different units, converting them into tasks, planning and preparing decisions on project execution
• Responsible for tracking ongoing work progress and preparing resources (e.g., visualisations, protocols)
• Preparing budget requests, planning budget for further task execution, tracking and forecasting future expenses, organising extra budget
• Responsible for executing tasks and tracking updates resulting from audit findings, coordination of audit negotiations and delivering results for finding closures
• Analysing and optimising of processes and systems, writing and reviewing documentation (procedures, processes, manuals)

Achievements:

• Supporting a € 25 M. programme on introducing a standardized security measurements process
• Supporting a € 9 M. programme (Future Workplace) introducing a digitalized working environment
• Leading an optimisation project on network service requests
• Building and introducing a house-owned WLAN with break-out points across main locations in Luxembourg, Frankfurt, Singapore and Chicago; saving annual operation costs of € 230 k