Lead tech transformation PMO for Global Ops – involved in end-to-end management of business tech portfolio from strategic planning to rigorous execution, and adoption. Data-driven approach to multi-year planning and monitoring – leveraging KPIs and productivity trends to track the effectiveness of our investments. Drive scalability of new and existing ideas to eliminate silos, foster broad applicability of solutions and bolster ROI. Oversight of 100’s of PMs and IT leads• Drive strategic planning to establish multi-year blueprint 1) Facilitate strategy discussions and align BU priorities 2) Buildout inventory of ideas, and drive prioritization based on ROI and contribution to overall strategy 3) Portfolio tiering to ensure appropriate oversight e.g. efficiency vs risk vs regulatory• Standup appropriate governance structures to manage, execute and deliver on set objectives• Partner with IT to drive execution and eliminate impediments to delivery• Run an investment control board comprising all business leads to review and challenge new ideas. This fosters cross-functional alignment of goals, breaks down silos, extends applicability of solutions, and new strategic partnerships across business units• Continuous demand mgt and portfolio rebalancing to accommodate new ideas and ensure BoW is calibrated for maximum impact, while maintaining strict adherence to investment guardrails• Oversight of all program artefacts – costs, benefits, KPIs, milestones, issues/risks• Program lead for key global, cross-functional projects that require rapid implementation e.g., deployment of AI for IDD prevention• Conduct ideation sessions to generate new investment ideas, support idea owners to buildout a solid business case, allocate funding to approved initiatives, and oversee execution• Led a PMO for a 3-year $1B company-wide transformation program that generated over $500M in recurring savings. Program was fast-paced, and benefit realization came in ahead of schedule

Led a team of 20+ PMs, Consultants and CoE in the implementation of a multiyear global operational excellence program with a target scope of 30k employees. Leading multiple waves of overlapping implementations and deployment teams. Roadmap involves months of rigorous user onboarding and technical implementation; fit-for-purpose construction of operations to align with operational excellence standards and methodologies; building of data feeds to enhance systems interoperability and user experience; training and mechanical compliance; management of technical, regulatory and legal entity dependencies; an extensive change management regime aimed at institutionalizing "culture of ops excellence and continuous improvement"; as well as continued Post Program Support through the CoE.

Responsible for capital budgeting, performance tracking and reporting, forecasting, establishing controls, analysis and overall financial management of Finance and Risk Technology and Business Solutions Portfolio (with over 50 technology projects and several hundreds of millions of dollars in funding)• Analyze, and evaluate investments, and prepare financial business cases for all technology projects with focus on ROI. Maintain a 5-year investment proforma on P&L and Cash basis• Designed a robust financial tracking and performance reporting model that seamlessly collates detailed financial information from project teams, systems, SMEs etc., and process them into relevant data for insightful decision making, forecast true-ups, expense, and balance sheet management

State Street Finance Transformation team was focused on a 3-year program to improve both the efficiency and the effectiveness of the Finance organization through technology transformation, operating model redesign, footprint optimization, standardization of processes, and organizational design• Participated in design and implementation of an integrated technology roadmap to reinvest $25M of run rate savings• Program Controller: core FP&A activities (planning, budgeting, forecasting), built savings and costs tracking process, metrics, and dashboards to provide key decision support to senior and executive management• Organization Design: Realigning the organization to meet target operating model through recalibration of organizational hierarchies by leveraging more efficient spans & layering strategies, role chartering, skills assessment, knowledge transfer, and location optimization

Steward for $120M investment in technology transformation, and its resultant $25M in recurring savings. Coordinated Technology, Org. design, and Location Strategy plans across several working groups/ project teams, established program financial and KPI baselines, tracked and managed all financial statements for the program, and reported performance to monthly program steering committee. Oversight of resources onboarding, capital, and operating expenditures to ensure utilization is within established guardrails• Designed an earned-value-management system for evaluating the performance of investments which provided greater insight to senior management on cost, scope, and schedule of projects. As this system was novel, I drove the change by influencing participating IT and Business stakeholders to adopt a new way planning, forecasting, and reporting on projects• Modelled multi-year proforma P&L and cashflow statements for savings and investments. These financial models were built in a dynamic way to allow for on-the-fly decision making as forecasts and other key variables change• Received an Above & Beyond award for developing best-practice control and reporting process

Financial Management, Global Strategy, Corporate Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Modern Investment Banking, International Accounting, Global Management, Managerial Economics, Global Operations, International Marketing, Management Communications, Consulting Methodology, Quantitative Analysis, Managerial Skills, Corporate Responsibility, IT Management, Derivatives, Entrepreneurship, Management Consulting

Managed a team of three, responsible for maintenance and reconciliation of 20 general ledgers and over 50 wage accounts. Oversaw financial and systems audit to ensure compliance with established risk framework. Managed all regulatory and statutory transactions including corporate governance, policies, vendors and budgeting. Liaison for all internal and external audits. • Oversaw asset depreciation, provisions, payments and reconciliation of liabilities and net pay accounts, including management of financial systems and databases.• Reconciled, analyzed and presented group staff cost report to country executives on a monthly basis.• Developed a risk framework for HR department and integrated into Standard Bank Group Risk leading to a greater sensitivity to financial risks in local operations. • Proposed and managed the restructure of HR Shared Services unit from a business-unit-based support system to a functional support structure; new structure saved 24% in cost by eliminating additional headcount needs and improved process turnaround time by 30%.

Managed strategic partnership with Corporate and Investment Banking business units in analysis and implementation of human resource strategies. Presented analysis to senior management for decisions regarding performance management, reward and remuneration.• Selected to oversee the challenging implementation of a new company structure following the withdrawal of the universal banking license by Central Bank of Nigeria. “Project Jigsaw” birthed 7 new companies and led to the adoption of a holding company structure. Completed this complicated project in record time.• Managed successful migration of Finance and HR payroll systems to comply with Nigeria’s amended Personal Income Tax Act (PITA 2012). Recomputed and recovered $1.6M from tax authorities being over-payments for the periods affected by the new law.• Increased staff salaries at no cost to the bank by changing the compensation structure in a way that leveraged on the subtle opportunities in the new tax law.• Designed targeted corporate communications, set up adhoc call centers to communicate with employees regarding the effect of the change on remuneration and their tax status.• Successfully managed employee expectations while strictly aligning to the stipulations of the Act.

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Periodic testing of raw materials and semi-finished products to ensure conformance to quality standards.