Daniel Vencker Email & Phone Number

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• 2.5 year £205M Integration Programme including; migration of the Cofunds Retail business of over 400,000 customers to Aegon Platform, migration of Cofunds Institutional business to outsourced 3rd party, migration of.
• Supported Exec Steering Committee by collating materials and reports, managing agendas and invites, creating packs, attending meetings and providing outputs. Also responsible for Board packs and inputs/MI for Group.
• Ensured other PMO on programme (at peak 4 contract analysts) had clear objectives and were providing support as required to workstreams.
• Ownership of costs approval/tracking process. Ranged from confirming availability of budget with Finance team, raising Purchase Order with PO team and tracking incoming invoices against POs and project budgets.
• Developed custom Change Request process for Programme, utilising the digital toolset (JIRA), and then tracking approval emails from Exec stakeholders.
• Ensured PMO team were maintaining programme controls, governance and Stage Gate checklists. Worked with PMs to ensure they understood associated requirements and timescales.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• This position was held concurrently while I continued to oversee the Integration Portfolio in a Lead capacity. I held the role of PMO Manager on a 12 month contract (later extended to 15 months) while the business.
• Responsible for creation and provision of new PMO Service Catalogue across Digital Solutions. This established administrative, support and control activities provided by PMO function that I managed (at peak this was 2.
• Overall accountability for governance and controls around all projects in Aegon UK Digital Solutions (in 2017 this was a £244M portfolio).
• Initiation and oversight of new training materials repository which ranged from guidance on use of new digital toolset (primarily JIRA and Confluence) to rules on how to raise appropriate RAID items through to.
• Provision of project related AUK Business Unit MI and Reporting to Aegon Global PMO forum and ensured adherence to Global PMO standards.
• Responsible for tracking and auditing the hiring of over 150 contractors in Digital Solutions.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• From March 2016 to September 2016, while directly supporting the Chief Operating Officer and Finance Director, I worked on the Bluebird programme as sole PMO, under NDA, to provide support to the highly confidential.
• Investment Funds Rationalisation: I spent 6 weeks “rebooting” a high value programme of work which required urgent PMO attention with a view to ensuring governance was in place, all project artefacts were auditable.
• Provision of the sole PMO support on the project to split Aegon UK into 2 separate businesses; Digital Solutions and Existing Business. This involved working under NDA to produce Executive meeting packs and taking.
• I assisted with the early development of the new digital toolset for the business and supported the move to make all project information more digital. I worked on the setup, training and quality control to support this.
• Working with the Finance Director I developed a new programme budget tracking, forecasting and costs approval process and template.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Production of inputs (meeting papers) and outputs (minutes, actions, decisions) for Executive Steering Group, Management Operational Group and Programme Delivery Groups and several other meetings which supported.
• Responsible for provision of PMO support to the Digital Platform team which worked in relationship with several programmes within the Aegon portfolio. This work included maintenance of plans, creation of inputs and.
• Ownership and maintenance of the plans across the Growth Programme, including implementation, milestone, environment and test plans. Responsible for updating these on a daily basis and ensuring their availability at.
• Working within an Agile environment and responsible for maintenance of Sprints and corresponding dashboards, Agile Boards and heatmaps on JIRA (this is an issue tracking product with project management functionality).
• Production and consolidation of the regular reports to all fora requiring input from the Growth Programme; Global PMO, Chief Operating Officer, Insurance Executive Committee, Programme Operational Group.
• Responsible for ensuring that projects remain within governance and that all project documentation is signed off and stored as per Aegon Stage Gate methodology.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Sole PMO for 12 projects in the Finance Transformation Programme (FTP), working directly with the programme manager, whilst maintaining relationship with central PMO to ensure continuity of Aegon standards and.
• Production of all inputs (meeting papers) and outputs (minutes, actions and key decisions) for the Executive Steering Group, Programme Management Group and Programme Delivery Group as well as the project.
• Regular meetings with and provision of inputs to the central PMO function to demonstrate that FTP was operating within governance in terms of RAID, creation and storage of key project documentation, programme planning.
• Ownership of all administrative tasks within the programme; on-boarding new staff, tracking of all contractors within the Finance dept, processing and tracking all FTP invoices, preparation of programme communications.
• Ownership of costs tracking and analysis on the programme. Fortnightly meetings with PMs to review spend vs budget and resource tracking. Regular reviews with the programme manager and director as well as ad hoc.
• Production and consolidation of the regular reports to all forums requiring input from the FTP Programme; Global PMO, Chief Operating Officer, Insurance Executive Committee, Programme Control Group.

Gogarburn, Edinburgh

• Provision of PMO support on a companywide budgeting and forecasting reporting cycle. The cycle spanned multiple divisions within RBS and was run as a project with appropriate governance and controls in place.
• Facilitation and set up of regular Planners Forum meetings and daily stakeholder calls in support of the project. Responsible for preparing all documentation in advance of the meetings and capturing and issuing the.
• Creation and maintenance of the project milestone plan. Monitoring and control of key reporting deliverables and tracking of emerging issues, challenging relevant owners where necessary.
• Root Cause Problem Solving champion for Group Reporting Edinburgh.
• Stakeholder management to ensure understanding and timely completion of deliverables.
• Point of contact for issuance, and quality control, of communications to the wider project team.

• Assisted with the creation and continuing development of the entire project governance framework within the business.
• Preparation for, and attendance at, senior management programme review and steering meetings. Recording of minutes and actions as well as chairing some meetings.
• Ownership of documentation library which covered processes, procedures, method statements and templates that defined the approach for the delivery of projects within Business Stream.
• Communication to all stakeholders and education of all participants to ensure that project delivery followed the agreed approach. I did this through development of educational workshops, handbooks and other appropriate.
• Execution of programme and project 'health-checks' to quality assure the consistency of practices and standards.
• Consolidation of project progress reporting to provide a view of all active projects.

• Carried out analysis of all data received from the water wholesaler before converting it into meaningful information for various departments within Business Stream. Running of daily reports and audits to ensure work.

• Responsible for generating bills for all metered customers, dealing with internal and external customers’ queries and finding ways of resolving complex billing issues

M.A. (Honours), English Literature

Postgraduate Degree (Pgd), Vocational Information Technology