I am an accomplished Agile and Scaled Agile Senior Project Manager and Lead Business Analyst, with over 10 years' experience leading small, medium and large banking, telecommunications, risk, regulatory, and retail projects.Effective at building deep working relationships with business and technology stakeholders to coordinate complex initiatives, and help squads define, plan, align, document, and deliver to prioritised business outcomes.Extensive Agile experience delivering complex initiatives end-to-end.Skilled at providing strategic guidance and expertise and driving change and transformation at all levels.My areas of expertise:• Expert level knowledge of Project Management and Project Delivery tools: JIRA, RALLY, Confluence, Clarity, Clarity UX• Developing, managing, and leading teams of 20+ Business Analysts, Data Scientists, Analysts, and Subject Matter Experts.• Building partnerships with central and cross-divisional teams (i.e., Finance, Data Governance, Divisional Controls, Data and Analytics, Operations, Transformation, Credit Risk, Group Regulatory Reporting, Technology).• Coaching, mentoring and leading teams and squads on Agile ways of working and Agile at Scale approach, including orchestrating work, progressive elaboration, estimation, and driving continuous improvement.• Strategy, planning and business case development.• Transforming traditional mindsets across diverse business and technology teams.• Aligning multiple squads across organisations to ensure compliance with Technology, Risk, Finance, Data Governance, and Group Regulatory Reporting.• Trusted advisor to key stakeholders on project delivery, reporting, and improvement practices.• Cultivating a culture of collaboration, continual improvement, and acceleration.• Managing disruptors, such as Mergers and Acquisitions impacts, cross-program dependencies, constraints.• Managing negotiation in complex environments.• Driving strategies and innovation to improve customer and colleague experience.• Organisational change management; change strategy and planning, materials, comms, training and embedding.
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