Niko Mikkola Email & Phone Number

Helsinki, Fi

Helsinki Metropolitan Area

My goal is to ensure S-Pankki has the technological vision and resources to deliver top-performing services and products to meet the business goals - while maintaining full compliance and the highest class of cyber security.

Oulu Area, Finland & Helsinki Area, Finland

Lead teams and organizations to provide the best talent and technologies for our Insurance business.

Oulu Area, Finland, Helsinki Area, Finland

Lead teams responsible for business results of the company's key customer processes and data.Main business processes include for example digital customer onboarding and data management, authentication and verification services, and customer lifecycle management.

Oulu / Helsinki

Lead the professional organization responsible for product and technology development for housing and living services.Main products and services include mortgages, secured consumer loans, student loans and collaterals.Direct development activities for aforementioned areas using agile processes and SAFe framework. Primary mission is to enhance and extend some of the most traditional banking products to prosper also in the digital world.

Oulu / Helsinki

Lead the professional organization responsible for the group's mobile application, web services and marketing automation solutions. Direct development activities for aforementioned areas using agile processes and SAFe framework. Create new services and new business models to drive digitization throughout the group.Roll-out renewed web channel.Create and implement data analytics and targeting methodologies for the group's digital channels.Responsible for financial result of the department.

Oulu, Finland

Direct the development programs and production operations of the group's mobile channel. Lead the mobile digital (r)evolution inside the group, provide new services and enable new business models in the digitized financial industry.Manage the team of mobile service development professionals.Responsible for financial result of the unit.

Oulu

Development and maintenance of the Group's asset and wealth management services, products and systems.Leadership for the team of experts and management of the development program portfolio. Responsible for financial result of the unit.Customer segments range from institutional investors and high net worth individuals to retail investors and savers.

Oulu

Responsible for defining, implementing, and maintaining mobile banking services for OP-Pohjola Group.Product Owner for the application.Main tasks: portfolio management of develpoment programs, service definition, development program management, service launch, and service maintenance.

Oulu, Finland

Executed business development with ICT companies/new business ideas that have potential for fast international growth.Provided access and connections with investors for the new companies.Directed the feasibility study of Finland’s first regional risk capital fund, based on Public-Private-Partnership concept.Created and coached the Student Entrepreneurship Society of university students in the Oulu-region.

Oulu, Finland

Created business cases for major technology investment opportunities and provided recommendations for Nokia’s senior management to optimize Nokia’s technology investment portfolio.Contributed to the initial business case about Nokia acquiring Symbian Ltd.Implemented portfolio management operations of the business unit, covering 3000+ people. Managed a team of senior managers to accomplish the tasks above. Team size was 10 people.

Oulu, Finland

Established and operated program management office of the change program.Managed alignment of the implementation in main operational organizations of Nokia. Alignment included 15 sub-teams, affecting overall 12000+ people in Nokia and several partner companies.

Espoo, Finland

Improved product portfolio’s cost competitiveness and cost management.Aligned the unit’s R&D-, component sourcing- and F&C targets with top-level business targets.Achieved significant savings in bill-of-materials costs in several product programs. The change included 1000 people, mainly R&D and component sourcing personnel.

Irving, Texas, Usa

Had ownership of business results for several Nokia product families that were sold in both North- and South American markets.Worked with the regional sales organization to address significant customer requests and to prepare major system sales proposals for the leading operators, such as AT&T and T-Mobile USA.Achieved benchmark results in product sales revenue, inventory management and product reliability improvements.Organized and managed global program teams that included contribution from about 100 people.

Leaded teams to manage local product programs’ component selection, pre-production, and prototype management activities. Combined size of the teams was 30 people.

Oulu, Finland

Developed and implemented a global product program documentation management system for Nokia’s R&D sites. The system had roughly 13000 users in the year 2009.Managed a team of 10 specialists.

Oulu, Finland

Responsible for company’s finance and accounting. Established the needed systems and procedures.Completed book keeping, financial statements and annual reports for the company.Was part of the management team that organized an international congress with over 700 participants from more than 20 different countries. The congress’ official language was Swedish.

M.Sc, Computer Science

M.Sc, Corporate Finance & Management Accounting