Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
With over 20 years of experience, I specialize in HRIS project management and transformation, currently serving as an HR Product Manager and Integration Delivery Lead at KPMG Switzerland. My focus lies in managing HR technology initiatives, where I guide international teams, oversee project plans, and address risks, dependencies, and stakeholder engagement. My expertise spans HR processes and tools of the entire employee lifecycle, SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central, and training. As a certified Professional Scrum Master and holder of Microsoft Azure Fundamentals certification, I work collaboratively to deliver impactful HR tech solutions. My mission is to enable organizations to optimize their HR operations and drive strategic value through seamless digital transformation.
As an integration delivery lead, manage a key HR initiative to migrate from a legacy HRIS platform to SuccessFactors Employee Central - Guide and coordinate an international project team, organized in technical and functional workstreams - Manage risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies, to create visibility and keep the project on track - Create and maintain the project plan, to understand the critical path and dependencies between the workstreams and from external stakeholder - Informe and involve the project stakeholder, to ensure their continuous support and decision making
Run HRIT projects from A to Z, partner with experts across the organisation, and keep stakeholders up to date. Servant leadership of an international project team and managing the project budget. Co-lead of Project Manager community of interest. Overall technical manager for two HR applications. • Successfully implemented functional requirements for Time & Absence- and Payroll applications, to stay compliant with regulatory requirements • Migrated an inhouse-build HR application to Microsoft Azure Cloud, allowing increased scalability and monitoring • Led data migration and performance improvement initiative for a core HR application in the context of the UBS merger with Credit Suisse. Ensured seamless transition with no downtime for the users • Played a key role in introducing and improving the efficiency of the Agile development process, resulting in faster delivery of new features
Overall HR responsible for entire HR application portfolio: ERP (PeopleSoft; Microsoft Dynamix AX), ECM (Autonomy), Recruiting, Performance, Document Management (OpenText). Technical implementation of Group HR strategy. Day-to-day development of existing application landscape. • Successfully replaced legacy application tracking system, resulting in increased candidate experience and optimized application handling • Introduced digital personal files. Replaced legacy, paper-based solution. “eFile” was a core requirement for implementing a new, centralized HR strategy of KPMG Switzerland • Played a key role in sourcing HR services to Poland, allowing a smooth transition and substantial HR operational cost reduction • Contributed to the implementation of a new ERP technology (Dynamics AX) for KPMG, covering access security concept and position management
As a Project Manager, led an international team of business analysts, developers and testers. Maintained project plans, engaged with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and ensured project delivery on time and within budget. Assignments in Poland and India. • Successfully implemented a new global HR platform, responsible for the HR processes onboarding, recruiting and internal mobility. The new platform allowed sourcing of HR operational tasks to teams in Poland and India • Co-led the rollout of a global HR Reporting & Analytics solution, allowing better visibility of key HR metrics to HR management and -stakeholder
As a Business Analyst, translated HR demand in business requirements for the development- and testing-teams. Coordinated user acceptance testing. Created user documentation and provided user training. • Played a key role in the implementation of a new Swiss HR platform (PeopleSoft) with the modules HR administration, recruiting and payroll. This new platform was an important element for the new HR strategy in Switzerland.
Assistant in the Audit department of KPMG Fides Peat, Zurich. Extensive customer focused mandates in various industries.