Akanksha Singh

About

A seasoned Director who is passionate about driving change management, leading global teams, strategic planning, executing business initiatives and end to end portfolio transformation. Experience in Banking and Financial Services driving and executing programmes across Technology, Investment Bank, HR and Financial Crime Group Control. Passionate about people management, building strong partnerships with stakeholders with an acute focus in strategic change along side end to end execution of product value chain.

Experience

• Programme Director Group Control Financial Crime at Barclays
  Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos

• HR Transformations Lead at Barclays UK
  Jun 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 1 mo

• Barclays (Full-time · 6 yrs 8 mos)
  • Head of Functions Technology Portfolio Management
    Jan 2020 - Jul 2023 · 3 yrs 7 mos

    • Led Technology team in managing end-to-end portfolio delivery for Business Technology Change Pipeline. • Owned Technology platforms for hiring and onboarding new joiners. • Delivered key initiatives driving value add, cost reduction, streamlining processes, and digital onboarding.

  • Programme Delivery Manager
    Dec 2016 - Dec 2020 · 4 yrs 1 mo

    Responsible for delivery of key mission critical business for Barclays Exco. Change and Technology programmes across Colleague Onboarding, HR Case Management, Lithuania Business Transformation and enabling a single data platform for HR business organizations

• Location Strategy Lead - Investment Banking at Barclays Corporate & Investment Bank
  Oct 2009 - Feb 2014 · 4 yrs 5 mos

• Graduate Program Barclays Private Bank at Barclays Wealth Management
  Sep 2007 - Sep 2009 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  Operations/Client Services/ Private Banking