Senior Business Analyst / Senior Project Manager

7/2017 – 6/2018

• Actively participated in presales activities by coordinating with technical leads and responding to RfPs and successfully participated in the client demos
• Responsible for the pitching the associates to the client and successfully generated revenues
• Role as senior business analyst / project manager at HSBC to enable them to connect directly as DCP to Target 2 Securities System
• Responsible for gathering client requirements, performing gap analysis in the areas of asset servicing, clearing and settlement and cash and collateral
• Gained deep understanding in core banking applications and processes
• Liaised with software vendor for IT implementation
• Responsible to coordinate with BAT & UAT Teams and operations for release testing and regression testing
• Facilitated release panning, sprint planning, backlog refinement and retrospective meetings and efficiently implemented issue tracking process to track the gaps and user stories
• The project involved significant client migration. Extensively consulted all the stakeholders and laid out the migration and go-live master plan
• Organized internal team building activities, coached the team to raise the level of customer satisfaction. Published a Cognizant internal paper on “Impact of Brexit on European Market Infrastructures”

CRM (Customer Relationship Management), Projektleitung / Teamleitung (IT), Projektmanagement, Projektmanagement (IT), Requirement Analyse, SWIFT

4/2014 – 6/2017

• Role as Line manager for a distributed team – Frankfurt & Prague. Demostrated excellent capabilities to setup a nearshore team and motivated the team to be self independent within short period of time
• Led the BAs for the Eurex Clearing Securities Clearing CCP
• Responsible to specify the new business requirements in CCP and to handle BAU issues.
• Owner of BAU budget and stayed accountable to the steering committee
• Raised RfP for managed services and actively participated in the vendor selection process
• Played a major role governing and directing the functional scope of T2S implementation in Eurex Clearing CCP
• Strategically steered the service offering of CCP, together with BU leads and IT
• Specialized in analyzing the requirements in corporate actions, clearing and settlement and cash processing of CCP
• Proficient in analyzing, agreeing and documenting interface description and executing bilateral or multilateral E2E tests.
• Engaged different methodologies like waterfall, Agile or Hybrid, depending on the project requirement and test-driven development method

Lieferantenmanagement (allg.), Release Management, Personalführung, Stakeholder-Analyse, Business Analyse

2/2012 – 6/2017

Roles and Responsibilities
• Role as overall release manager for Eurex Clearing Securities Clearing CCP
• Demonstrated solid performance in (data and client) migration and integration projects
• Planned the release cycles across CCP portfolio, defined and agreed the scope with respective stakeholders and executed the release through different environments until production system
• Assured milestone adherence and approved mitigation plans when necessary
• Identified, managed and resolved risks and issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality with prompt reporting to the management
• Conducted release readiness reviews, milestone reviews, and business Go/No-Go reviews as part of the release launch
• Reported directly to steering committees and product committees of Eurex Clearing
• Planned the training activities to various internal stakeholders like operations (technical and functional) and sometimes also including sales and business relationship management
• Created release closure report for executive committee and collected release feedback from stakeholders for continuous improvement

Projektmanagement (IT), Release Management, Stakeholder-Analyse

2/2009 – 1/2012

Roles and Responsibilities
• BAT Test Manager for Eurex Clearing CCP and responsible for the final quality gate before production environment. Aligned and followed Eurex Clearing test guidelines
• Managed a team of test analysts performing release and regression tests under strict time pressure delivering high quality
• Responsible for BAT test planning, execution and test declaration to the release / project management
• Ensured timely reporting and escalations in case of software issues to PM and IT lead
• Managed the defect life cycle by efficiently prioritizing the defects and their retests
• Involved in multiple end to end tests with internal and external parties of Eurex Clearing, including various connected banks and CSDs
• Direct reporting to steering committees and product committees of Eurex Clearing. Preparing and presenting management reports
• Engaged in training the operations team on the new functionalities

Projektmanagement (IT), Testmanagement / Testkoordination (IT)

10/2005 – 1/2009

Roles and Responsibilities
• External consultant at Deutsche Börse AG
• Performed backend and frontend programming, both in C, C++ and Java / J2EE respectively
• Engaged in development, system testing and integration testing
• Assisted BAT teams closely in various tests during end-to-end tests with external parties.
• Leading the system test teams.

Testdesign (IT), Testing (IT), Softwareentwicklung (allg.)