Luxembourg
Over 10 years of international working experience in the fund industry (audit, risks and compliance…) with an extensive knowledge in Project Management. Having excellent communication skills and able to build collaborative relationships with colleagues or clients. Highly analytical mind capable of managing multiple projects simultaneously and capable of meeting deadlines. Fast learner well motivated to constantly develop knowledge and skills.
Gresham Tech is a company that provides cash management and payments integration solutions to corporate clients. As a Program Manager my role is to ensure the delivery in production of their 11 actives clients projects and monitor the production support for the clients which are already live. - Be accountable for scope, cost, schedule and contractual deliverables, apply techniques for planning, tracking, change control and risk management - Provide expertise on procedure enhancements for ticket management and developments to secure coherent and quality deliverables - Lead and coach developers and BAs jointly with BA team lead and Head of developers - Propose governance enhancement for a seamless communication - Workshops animation - Writing the project meeting minutes - Lead and schedule client’s status and prioritize deliveries - Deal with client’s complaints - Preparation of production and UAT release notes - Issue client invoicing after production release - Animation of daily stand ups - Interacting with Managing directors and members of management committee => Results : Management of a program of 11 active projects Total budget: € 0,5 million On-going delivery of project deliverables => Skills: Communication with external clients, high hierarchical reporting, Project planning, Prioritization of project deliveries and productions issues with limited development resources, Coordination
As an IT Project Manager, I was in charge of coordination the projects resources, across 5 locations (Australia, Hong-Kong, Poland, Germany & Channel Islands), for the decommissioning of BP2S current Private Capital funds administration platform in favor of a new one complying more with the current needs of the market. In addition, I was overseeing the budget, tracking key IT Milestones and risks/issues. - Draft and maintain IT project plans, governance, status reporting - Effectively communicate projects status to the CIO of BP2S and other committees - Ensure project updates are routinely and effectively communicated to clients, business partners and vendors - Ensure that approval from the any regulatory authorities are obtained in due time to secure the decommissioning - Ensure all project’s key milestones are delivered on a timely manner and within budget - Ensure the daily follow up on actions, risks and issues - Coordinate the testing phases for both IT and Business (IST and UAT) - Prepare functionalities delivery notes detailing the bug fixes and functionalities delivery for the upcoming production release - Workshops Animation => Results: - Management of 5 different projects (3 until go-live) - Total budget: € 3 million - 10 Managed FTEs => Skills: PMO, Project Scoping, Animation, Organization, Project Planning
As a PMO, my main was to accompany the migration of the Transfer Agency, Custody, Depositary and Fund Accounting activities AllianzGI’s funds accross its jurisdictions (APAC, EMEA, Americas) from their former incumbent to Statestreet Bank, by overseeing the budget, tracking Key Milestones, risks/issues and dependencies Workshops animation - Lead weekly status meeting - Follow-up of the project’s roadmap - Formalization of deliverables following workshops - Ensure traceability of requirements from scope through the User Acceptance Testing - Responsible for ensuring user test planning, execution of test scripts, defect resolution and upload in the HPQC ALM platform for tracking purpose - Consistently escalating issues, risks, progress to ensure appropriate and effective mitigation - Delivery of Ad Hoc studies and templates => Results: - On-boarding of all client’s funds in all bank’s subsidiaries - Completed migration to a new TA platform - Total budget: € 1 million => Skills: Animation, Budget management, PMO of multiple projects, Test management