Sonal Bahl, Pmp, Csm Email & Phone Number

Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Senior Project Manager on a variety of Regulatory and IT programs

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Led the Risk Compliance workstream to support a large, complex $13B enterprise-wide data, systems and personnel M&A initiative to integrate the Canadian operations of a large international bank with RBC• Managed communications with 20+ client stakeholders, internal and external IT partners, vendors, Business Consultants and senior leadership • Point person and key liaison for all business communications, documentation of risks, impacts and critical information between RBC and external business consultants as well as technology partners at the large international bank• Proactively identified opportunities, risks and issues that had an impact on successful project closure and made recommendations to Business stakeholders to deliver effective, efficient and innovative solutions• Demonstrated strong critical thinking and leadership abilities to guide and advise stakeholders at all levels and ensure consistent and clear messaging and alignment to support the business initiative• Guided clients to plan for and understand the relevance of key technology, regulatory and business changes and the impacts to their operations.• Develop, monitor and execute project plans and coordinate timely execution of major milestones, approvals, sign-offs and implementation• Regularly report progress of project status, milestones and achievements to Program Operating Group and Executive Steering Committee• Facilitate small to large meetings, conduct information gathering sessions, prepare and deliver presentations to senior management• Communicate effectively with key stakeholders and project sponsors• Manage communications including status reports to all stakeholders• Ability to effectively multi-task while maintaining high quality standards and attention to detail• Ability to work effectively with clients, business, IT and data professionals, 3rd party vendors and external Business Consultants

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Led the integration of 1200+ employees as part of a $10M Wealth Management M&A initiative into the banks HR, payroll and ID and Access management (IAM) systems in close collaboration with Scotiabank Technology SMEs, Business Leaders, HR Consultants and 3rd party vendors for payments, pension and benefits solutions• Led the planning and execution a large and complex initiative involving data and workload migration to Google cloud to improve the end-user experience for ML users and enhance security controls impacting 2000+ end users• Led the implementation of a cutting-edge Google Cloud MFA solution for the bank’s Google Cloud Platform impacting 1800+ end-users• Led the end-end implementation of MS Teams and Achievers to enable employee recognition within MS Teams• Demonstrated excellent knowledge and experience in leading highly visible business initiatives with full software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies and end-end transition to operations• Managed and successfully led a one-of-a-kind initiative to assess gaps, align and adopt recommendations for the bank's internal Cloud architecture against industry PCI Security standards and best practices for Google Cloud. Managed the $0.5M initiative in close collaboration with internal IT security and Risk Management consultants, external Business Consultants, senior leadership and steering committee members, Google, Microsoft and Badal.io

Toronto, Canada Area

Delivery Lead, Project Manager, Scrum Master on large transformation technology initiatives such as: - Actuarial Valuation Systems Transformation- LICAT / Capital Efficiency for Business Capital Transformation- IFRS4, IFRS17- North America HR Payroll Optimization• Managed and led 6 LOBs, 8+ workstreams (Eg. Modeling, Transformation, Analytics, Presentation) and allocation for 35 resources for a complex $50M Enterprise-wide Actuarial data and process transformation initiative • Led and executed a $5M Payroll transformation initiative with 30+ stakeholders, external consultants and 3rd party vendors to support an improved process and web UI overhaul to employee pay view experience. • Led steering committee meetings with clients, senior leadership and business consultants for ongoing business and regulatory initiatives.• Led daily scrums and sprint meetings and retrospectives and successfully released over 500+ project deliverables (incl. front-end UI) using JIRA• Oversaw and closely managed project financial and budgeting activity, incl. resource allocation to forecasted spend vs. current operating needs.• Managed relationships and agreements with 3rd-party suppliers related to applications development and support, ensuring the appropriate controls, agreements, support and service levels are in place

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

• Led the end-end integration of a $2M SaaS solution to drive both customer engagement and implement critical safety factors for Automotive segment.• Elicited clear requirements, obtained sign-off on scope and controlled project deliverables for numerous internal technology applications.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Responsible for Canadian pricing for Services (ProSupport, ProSupport+, Managed and Cloud) on entire Dell product lineup across Canada• Managed budgets for sales executives, created and owned sales conversion tracker to capture planned vs. delivered sales for Canada across entire product portfolio

Worked on Business analytics & pricing strategy for core smartphone campaigns.Project work includes process re-design, developing core performance metrics and introducing competitive plans based on hard research and consumer demand

Project Management and Device Forecasting for Hardware programsProject work included managing end-to-end rollout of a new data-transfer solution nationally, working with tech. vendors to develop online reporting tool used by multiple stakeholders, and creating a real-time analytics system

Mississauga, On

Toronto

Provide the highest level of customer satisfaction while conducting personal/business financial transactions