Senior Project Manager with over 20 years of international experience leading multi-million-dollar projects in top-tier financial institutions. Proven track record in delivering end-to-end technical and non-technical projects, including application development, system migrations, process redesigns, and regulatory assessments, within agreed timelines, budgets, and scope. Expertise in financial management, cost categorization, change control processes, and risk and issue management. Strong leadership skills in managing and developing teams, setting objectives, and conducting appraisals.
Provides expert consultancy on digital strategy for CRACKWITS, focusing on fintech solutions and market positioning for a mobile banking client.
ForexClear (LCH) upgrade project from release MX 3.1.24 to MX3.1.44. Supervised binary deliveries and product development on time, managing communication, budget, planning and resource management.
Managed UBS Murex program implementation with two instances MX.3 Rates&Credit and FX involving up to 40FTEs and 6000 MD. Oversaw operational excellence for all project deliveries, ensuring adherence to budget and schedule: planning, budgeting, managing priorities, handling changes, resolving issues, mitigating risks, and ensuring client satisfaction. Led communication with stakeholders and sponsors, and different team members. Managed various teams (technical, functional, operations, legal, …) to ensure adherence to the program strategy as well as a best-in-class delivery and support.
Defined and executed of the MX.3 Accounting and Hedge Accounting Module ensuring compliance with market regulations, using SAFe Agile methodology. Led the team to adapt the agile practices. Mitigated impediments, and aligned with other teams to drive continuous improvement and innovation. Defined and implemented the functional roadmap for the Collateral Module and integration with global platforms such as Marginsphere (Acadiasoft), TriOptima. Acted as Design Authority on Murex Collateral Management System implementation projects: ensured best practices, and coordination with product and development teams.
Ensured the execution of the project according to client requirements, within schedule, budget and high-quality standards. Implemented appropriate project methodologies and milestones, managing project plans and coordinating with various teams. Managed steering committee meetings, measured and reported project progress and communicated information to management, stakeholders and sponsors.
Established a quality assurance team for MX platform workflows and integration (MXMLExchange, post-trade, import-export functionalities), improving the value chain and ensuring efficient quality assurance methods. Defined and implemented a test strategy, interacting with product managers and developers to align with product evolution. Led the implementation of quality control measures for enterprise platforms.
Developed the Data Migration approach (for static, market and trade data covering data scoping, mapping, extraction, validation, transformation, and reconciliation. Coordinated with the other streams. Implemented trade validation business processes (economic and non-economic checks in Trade-life cycle). Project: FXMM treasury implementation at ABN AMRO Amsterdam.
Implemented several Information systems (Peoplesoft CRM, Perforce revision control) at Murex as part of the production chain and release engineering, managing operations and support. Provided support and trainings to clients on MX.3 architecture and environment management.
Conducted design workshops on Credit Risk and Market Risk Control with clients, producing requirements and functional specifications documents. Defined and planned delivery backlogs using a Scrum-Agile approach and provided support and training to users. Managed 3 team members and worked closely with the others streams to ensure end-to-end fulfilment of client requirements.
