Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Passionate about payments, transaction banking and CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency / Digital Euro)
Market Infrastructures (MI) is responsible for timely identification of external developments regarding financial market infrastructures (FMIs), such as SWIFT and Target (among others). These infrastructures and networks form the backbone of banks meaning that banks cannot exist and function without FMIs, which make them a crucial part of the financial world. By monitoring external developments regarding FMIs I am able to assess the potential impact for ABN AMRO and advise relevant stakeholders throughout the bank to take informed decisions. Next to monitoring, assessing and advice I participate in various projects and represent ABN AMRO within various interbank groups and committees. Focus areas: Recovery & Resolution Transaction banking / payments Innovation; Digital euro / central bank digital currencies ( CBDC ) Cross border payments Card schemes
Project- and change management within Operations NL / Transaction Banking / Fraud & Investigations Some of my responsibilities and projects included: - Coordination and implementation of new fraud processes from start to end in close collaboration with IT, grids, legal and other stakeholders. - Improving existing processes to stop more fraud, recover more fraud money, and provide better care to victims of fraud - Design, set-up and coordination of continuous improvement infrastructures for both MT and throughout the departments (based on lean management principles) - Digitalization and optimization of case management processes resulting in more efficiency and smooth employee / customer experience.
First rotation Department: Operations NL/Transaction Banking Responsible for product rationalization in the world of correspondent banking. Closed 100 nostro accounts with the network management team, resulting in 2.5 mio EU cost reduction. Second rotation Department: Digital Processing Grid of Private Banking International Together with a team of developers I facilitated the creation of Management Information (MI) for our ABN AMRO entities in Germany, France and Belgium. The first set of MI dashboards went live in Tibco Spotfire. Third rotation I worked as a strategy consultant in the Strategy review project of 2020. In collaboration with McKinsey I contributed to the design of fundamental organizational principles to simplify ABN AMRO’s structure of its products and processes. More specifically I delivered a bench mark study and business case.
Suburbia is a start-up of ING and provides solutions in alternative data. As a data analyst my tasks included: - Data analysis - Background research on brands and companies - Data visualisation
The New Business department of KPN focuses on innovation and developing new ideas into solid businesses. As an intern I conducted market research and used data to help implement a new innovation; 'Addressable TV', as well as specifying concrete ideas for the commercial strategy and business case.
As project & account manager I am responsible for setting up new partnerships, representing UniPartners at network events and acquiring new consultancy projects, as well as managing those projects and maintaining the relationships with existing clients.