Manawar Saeed Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

Award Winning Co Chair of Spectrum - The FCA Race and Ethnicity Network. Promoting Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Budget of £10million.▪ Leading and managing the Programme analysis/delivery in Global Transactional Compliance around the Customer Risk Assessment (CRA), Customer Due Diligence (CDD), Court Production Orders (CPO) and Politically Exposed Persons programme (PEPs), system delivery and business compliance reviewcompletion as per LBG policy using Agile project methodology.▪ Managing and Coaching direct reports including performance management and continuous professional development.▪ Providing leadership for completion of the end to end planned activities for the roll out and delivery of required regulatory, Compliance and Business critical updates (Schedule of events and post deployment proving).▪ Leading effective communication and engagement with key business compliance stakeholders and 3rd Parties.▪ Leading the programme plan and RAID logs effectively with excellent risk and issue management skills.▪ Benefits management ensuring that FTE benefits are achieved against the strategic targets as set out at programme mobilisation.▪ Leading my team in Collaboration with IT and 3rd party vendor teams in defining and translatingbusiness requirements and expectations for appropriate timely delivery.▪ Acting as the Leadership point (escalation) for all programme / key work streams related activities and communications.▪ Continually enhancing the processes and supporting technology using Agile methodology and approach.▪ Developing an integrated framework (PEGA Workflow) to manage financial crime risk more effectively across the complete customer lifecycle (Customer Due Diligence /Know Your Customer /New to Bank).▪ Leading the relevant Technology and delivery teams to get an agreed set of milestones and plans and take ownership of the overall technology ‘milestone plan’.▪ Leading the discussion with appropriate project/programme managers to understand strategic road-map and key applications.

GTC PEGA Upgrade ProjectDelivered on track and time for (6.5m) – January 2015▪ Business Project Manager on the PEGA Application Upgrade (v5.4 to v6.2) for Financial Sanctions,Customer Sanctions and Group Politically Exposed Persons for the UK and USA.▪ The upgrades included 14 completely new infrastructure builds as well as the application upgrades,enhancements and the introduction of single sign on for the UK.▪ Working with analysis, design, deployment and architecture teams to understand the capture of detailed functional requirements for each application (global solution and validated country localisation).▪ Working in partnership with application development teams, collaborated with them to make sure that requirements were included in releases and were tracked appropriately.▪ Travel to LBG New York offices to project manage changes into BAU.

Funds Transfer Regulatory Project and FATCADelivered on track and time for (£1.1m) – June 2014▪ The delivery of the GTC FTR Regulatory Reporting Tool upgrade project allowed Lloyds Banking Group to align with the Group Payments Policy transparency rules, developed from the FATF R16 standard and the Funds Transfer Regulations.▪ This included the additional monitoring and reporting of beneficiary data over and above that already captured under FATF SV11 (e.g Originator/Remitter data).▪ Ensured the Programme fully complied with the Group Payments Policy.

SWIFT and SEPA Programme and FircoSoft Upgrade & PEGA Update. Delivered on track time and below budget (£2.5M)▪ The project delivered the various Payment Scheme mandatory rulebook changes required for delivery on the weekend of 29th and 30th October 2011 and SWIFT Upgrade in late November.▪ The upgrade applied to the FircoSoft Filters along with the rules and list files.

London, United Kingdom

Swift & Bacs Projects

London, United Kingdom

Business Analyst on Regulatory Payments projects

London, United Kingdom

Technical Helpdesk Operations Manager

London, United Kingdom

Various Operational Roles