Freelance Management Consultant

Jul 2024 – Feb 2025 Transformation (NDA – Clients)

Implementation of the value creation plan in a private equity-backed industrial company

Served as Interim Transformation Officer; responsibilities: central project management including timeline, budget, resources, reporting, risks

Oct 2023 – Apr 2024 Sourcing, Regulation (Retail Bank DE)

Change Lead for the implementation of a regulation (CESOP), responsible for project governance, project controlling (budget, resources) and project reporting, stakeholder management, timeline and project risks

Drafted SLAs and aligned with relevant 2nd lines (Legal, Compliance, Tax, Third Party Risk – MaRisk BAIT, ORM) for sourced services; aligned on the Statement of Work

Apr 2023 – Aug 2023 IT Program Management (Retail Bank DE)

Local coordinator for the rollout of a project management software combining program and agile backlog management views

Responsible for migration preparation, communication of changes and new logic in Germany, stakeholder management

Oct 2022 – Aug 2023 Regulation (Retail Bank DE)

Local lead of the global program; combined 4 local projects (retail/wholesale banking) to implement the next generation messaging standard (ISO 20022)

Implemented local project governance, communicated progress, aligned and managed stakeholders with global HQ

Jul 2022 – Mar 2023 Digitalization, Data Management (Retail Bank DE)

Change Lead aligning the local retail data model to the global standard and its implications for internal data providers and consumers

Designed and aligned a detailed implementation plan with global and local stakeholders

Project management: set up new project governance and routines, reviewed progress in weekly meetings with product owners, chaired SteerCo meetings, documentation

May 2022 – Apr 2023 KYC Regulation, Process Management (Retail Bank DE)

Built a highly automated customer offboarding process for retail clients due to non-compliance

Change Lead in development, testing and implementation in an agile environment with a 40-FTE project team

Project management: held SteerCo meetings, accountable for the business case, project risk management, stakeholder management

Jan 2022 – Mar 2022 Strategy, Product Development (NDA - Exchange)

Coordinator in the concept phase for developing a cryptocurrency certificate with an external investment bank

Orchestrated 5 workstreams, provided overarching PMO and stakeholder management

Created the business case and aligned strategic options

Oct 2020 – Oct 2021 Business Transformation, Sourcing (Largest German Bank)

Implemented the organizational target operating model for KYC Germany as project manager

Managed staffing and location setup (hired 250 FTE, logistics for new site)

Built the KYC competence center for German large caps (department, team, roles) process-wise and organizationally

Advised on contract negotiations with procurement for sourcing an external KYC provider

Jan 2020 – Sep 2020 Digitalization, KYC Regulation (Largest German Bank)

Germany coordinator (project manager) in an agile project to introduce an AMLD-5 compliant KYC software (MVP)

Stakeholder management as nexus between local staff and management (back & front office), global project management, product owners, IT

Incident management (capture, prioritization, tracking) with JIRA

Jan 2018 – Jun 2019 Business Transformation, Tax Evasion Prevention Act Regulation (Largest German Bank)

Led the implementation of the Tax Evasion Prevention Act in the global Corporate & Investment Banking division

Analyzed legal requirements and developed a control concept in alignment with business and infrastructure units

Successfully implemented IT and process solutions within budget and timeline; prepared initial regulatory reporting to the Federal Central Tax Office

Project management: initiation, chaired SteerCo meetings, communication

Dec 2016 – Dec 2017 Business Transformation, Banking Separation Act Regulation (Largest German Bank)

Led the implementation of the Banking Separation Act in the global Global Transaction Banking (GTB) division

Developed target operating model and process design (control concept) in coordination with IT and 2nd lines (Legal, Compliance)

Successfully implemented changes in business units and IT per regulatory requirements

PMO and represented the internal GTB project management in committees

Jul 2015 Project Management (Largest German Bank – Asset Management)

Implemented an asset management front-office system

Interim head of the global PMO (Frankfurt, New York) with 4 staff

Planned milestones, budget, regular reporting

Prepared, attended and followed up on senior governance meetings

Apr 2015 – Jun 2015 M&A Consulting – Due Diligence (NDA – Asset Management)

Led a European operational due diligence (buy side) for a European asset manager back-office provider

Produced red flag reports: screened data rooms, assessed organizational structure, identified risks in acquisitions

Designed operating model scenarios for operations including business case

Jan 2015 – Feb 2015 Target Operating Model (Largest German Bank)

Conducted market and competitor analysis to realign multiple securities processing units (private & corporate clients)

Ran a strategy workshop to develop a new target operating model for securities processing

Jan 2014 – Dec 2014 M&A Consulting – Post Merger Integration (Largest German Bank)

Organizational restructuring and group integration during the post-merger integration phase

Deputy project manager leading 4 staff in the Integration Management Office (status reporting, attended sponsor meetings with senior management)

Advised workstreams on cost reduction, synergy realization and business case controlling across 11 subprojects

Feb 2013 – Dec 2013 Sourcing (State-owned Resolution Agency)

Coordinated sourcing activities for the bankwide service-level agreement (SLA) creation with an external service provider

Checked SLAs for completeness and consistency, facilitated cross-functional alignment within the bank

Advised on preparing negotiation positions and participated in discussions with service providers and senior management

Jun 2012 – Jan 2013 Sourcing (State-owned Resolution Agency)

Developed site strategy: scenario analysis for European locations and created business case

Advised and prepared tender and contract documents per EU procurement rules for outsourcing portfolio management services

Led a team in drafting portfolio management service-level agreements

Mar 2012 – Jun 2012 M&A Consulting – Carve-Out (Largest German Bank – Asset Management)

Global carve-out of the institutional asset management business to a US investor

Led the global operations workstream focusing on 3rd-party contract review, portfolio analysis, drafting and negotiating transitional service agreements

Oct 2011 – Feb 2012 Regulation (various banks)

Central support for FATCA project teams with technical work and Deloitte position papers

Conducted client workshops for a cooperative bank on FATCA strategy for foreign financial institutions

Process redesign and advisory support during implementation

Jul 2011 – Oct 2011 M&A Consulting – Carve-Out (Life Insurance)

Planned and prepared an M&A carve-out transaction

Analyzed existing processes and defined target processes; facilitated cross-functional workshops and created day-1 checklists

Operationally led the PMO with 3 staff for the carve-out (prepared and participated in steering committee, developed project plan)

Feb 2011 – Jul 2011 Project Management (Life Insurance)

Operational leadership of the PMO, project risk management

Prepared post-merger integration steering committee at C-level

Project reporting, stakeholder management, project and budget controlling

Nov 2010 – Jan 2011 Securities Processing (Landesbank)

Created data processing and business concepts for securities trading

Designed test cases for IT interfaces

Independently coordinated test execution with business requirements

Sep 2010 – Oct 2010 Project Management (Asset Manager)

PMO for introducing an independent P&L

Budget tracking, prepared and documented steering committee