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London, GB

London, England, United Kingdom

Albany Beck is a Consultancy firm that specialises in the execution and delivery of clearly defined programmes of work and transformation projects.As a Consultancy we operate within:➢ Digital Transformation➢ Systems Implementation / Integration➢ Robotic Process Automation (RPA)➢ Data Engineers / Data Science / Data Analytics➢ Cloud implementation and.

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for ownership and accountability of the implementation the long-term Target Operating Model (TOM) within a leading financial services provider. Appointed to programme director role with a key client which.
• Leadership, management and motivation of a multi-functional team of programme and project staff
• Top-level stakeholder engagement and management, including governance, reporting and delivery

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for global programme leadership within a world-leading Global custodian bank.C-Level stakeholder engagement and management, including governance, reporting and deliveryDay-to-day management responsibility & control for the both IT & Operational business deliverables in a large-scale and high profile global programme that seeks aims to bring.

Large and complex programme of work to On-Board a new client onto Citi’s global best of breed platforms. Day to day Management responsibility for the IT deliverables across the multiple work streams delivering the transition of data and services to Citibank. The project entails the migration of Investment Operations, Fund Accounting, Custody, Client.

London, United Kingdom

• EMEA’s largest programme of work to On-Board a new client onto State Street’s newly developed Enterprise Architecture.
• Management responsibility for the 14 programme work streams delivering the transition of data, services and people to State Street. Each work stream is made up of multiple projects staffed by both IT & Operations staff.
• The Project teams undertaking the work are located in many Centres’ Of Excellence throughout, Europe, USA & Asia.
• The project entails the migration of Investment Operations, Fund Accounting, Custody and Transfer Agency, Client Reporting, Performance Measurement, KIID Reporting, Fund fact Sheets, Collateral Management, OTC.
• Dual Reporting lines directly into UK Head of Territory & Global Head of On-Boarding in US.
• Programme management undertaken via the creation of internal & client facing governance structure, project budget and reporting framework for the successful delivery of the programme.

High profile programme to deliver 550 Change controls and new services for the company’s 2nd largest client. Day to day management responsibility for the 4 programme work streams, Target Architecture Deployment, Service Enhancements, New Product Development & Client Transition. Each work stream contained multiple projects, with project teams comprising.

Day to day management responsibility for all IT project & Support work, 110 staff, with an annual total budget of £18.5 million pounds. Major budget cost cutting exercise completed sourcing significant savings:Contractor costs cut - annual saving of £1.305m, 21% of the Contractor costs; Local Group IT recharges for BP2S globally reduced by £586k, a 6%.

Day to day management responsibility for both the Institutional IT development projects and UK Transversal IT teams of 80 staff with a total budget of £15 million pounds. Adopted standardised project methodology across all projects and achieved CMMi Level 2 accreditation. Deployment of 24 hour operating model for core Fund Accounting and Middle Office.

Day to day management responsibility for the 10 individual projects within the programme and with a total budget of £12.5 million pounds. Proactively managed software suppliers, DST, to deliver 2200 Man days of development to cater for US Fixed Income processing within Fund Accounting and Data Warehouse applications in 4 phases. This necessitated 2 full.

Managed the IT relationship with BNP Paribas's large Institutional clients, acting as senior IT liaison. Day to day management responsibility for up to thirty five BAU and project staff and a budget of £10 million pounds. Created a new support structure for Institutional Systems, industrialising processes and procedures via automation and internal.

Managed day to day support for Core business applications systems including Hiportfolio, STP, COBAS, and other packages and bespoke systems. Proactively managed application software suppliers (DST, Braid etc.) to deliver enhancements and software fixes within agreed service levels.Project managed upgrades to all STP hardware and software for Swift 2001.

Managed day to day I.T operations and maintenance of Hardware & Software. Managed implementation of new Management Information system, new Group Insurance processing system and Replacement Cargo Insurance system.Identified and Prioritised Core processing system change requests and ensured development and delivery by external software companies.Administered.

Devised joint business and IT strategy for achieving Year 2000 compliance in 10 Asian territories.Undertook full impact assessment of Year 2000 projects and created detailed project plans in conjunction with local project managers.Monitored and reviewed all territories progress against project plans on a monthly basis and summarised into project status.