Guided BMs on the financial and workforce planning in multiple tools and aligned both tools as per defined target. Controlled and maintained quality of planning by analysing actual spent vs their previous month's forecast and alignment to targets. Developed reconciliations and coordinated with workforce team to ensure the team represented properly in workforce tracking and budgeting tools to examine and validate resource allocations to projects. Provided summarised information to the Operational Committees by analysing and improving reports and comments from all product lines.• Planned and managed 2020 and 2021 budget valued of 1B$ and activitiesacross population of over 25 business managers, communicating guidance,target setting based on latest order book, and control planning quality.• Designed an automated reporting tool in excel that supported the team tocontrol and track the progresses of financial planning and monthly spend vsforecast.• Developed the coordination between central finance / transformation teamsand the network of business managers in the asset classes and liaised withstakeholders constantly to align the project funding with the budgettargets.• Defined and maintained KPIs to measure any gaps of forecast versus targetsand provided aid in finding the best ways to represent their asset classes'budgets in the tools applying the internal budget policies.

Formulated and implemented the workforce strategy by coordinating with the CIO, which combined the rebalancing of Contractor vs perm population in anticipation of IR35, also prepared the location strategy with offshoring in India and near shoring in Europe, including Scotland and Poland. Streamlined business process and enhanced performance through reporting and reviewing existing location footprint of workforce and future location strategy. Conducted process review and contributed to the development of a new tool to budget / forecast and prioritize at a project level.· Successfully managed a budget of 150M$ and supported post trade IT through monthly reforecasting and reporting.· Led the offshore team of 3 Business Management Specialists and supported globally distributed team of ~ 950 FTE across 4 countries to achieve defined business objectives.

Integrated Corporate Operations and Technology within Investment Banking workforce management processes by performing best practice analysis, defining a solution, and implementing changes. Tracked and analysed the global hiring pipeline, weekly global FTE and third party trajectory reporting, Ad Hoc analysis on location foot print, hiring trends and workforce structure through close collaboration with central HR and functional Business Managers. Validated and streamlined the datamanagement around workforce management.· Conducted weekly review of all hire requests and contractor extensions by cooperating with the Head of BC&I O&T.

Managed the performance analysis process and Chief of staff activities, suchas organising and facilitating mid-year and end of year staff performancereviews. Planned the budget for all Fixed Income IT Change programmes andmanaged the bank activities by leading cross-functional team. Administered the staff allocation to projects through creation and maintenance of a resource tracker.· In charge of analysing the actual spent, ensured the forecast wasaccurate and delivered on target, and took actions for cost cutting and getting more funds.· Formulated and executed workforce transformation/location strategy through collaboration with Fixed Income IT management and organisational effectiveness team.

In charge of communicating the governance following internal policies and assuring it was respected from collected risk and issues as well as project statuses, and computed them in packs to present updates in steering committee. Interacted with Global Functional heads to develop annualbusiness cases as part of a global prioritisation process, project costing, and articulation of the technologic and business benefits. Tracked timelines, risks, issues, and dependencies for all Risk related projects by conducting portfolio reviews.· Performed the maintenance of resource allocation and all other financial topics related to major Risks IT and Regulatory programmes within Fixed Income IT (Trade Processing / Trade Reporting / RWA).

Led headcount caps around 200 FTE across 6 countries, conducted performanceand compensations reviews, provided guidance, gathered feedback, andconsolidated and validated with the management team and HR.Controlled spends at an asset class and project levels, including managementand tracking of T&E expenditure, accruals, consulting invoices, contractorrenewals, SOW’s, and business cases.· Developed budget worth of 120M USD for all Rates IT Change programmes and enabled all functions completed within defined constraints to enhance business performance.· Built the MI framework and standards and held responsibility for provision of executive level reporting on project/programme progress and financials, such as month end reports and month end steering committee decks.

- Planning and Financial control - Annual Operating Plan, monthly reforecast of the IT department' PnL (direct costs and recharges), inter company invoicing - Unit Rates - Calculation of regional Unit Rates used globally to recharge IT Costs to the business lines across the global organisation- Analysis, Reporting & MI - Building of the MI structure, production of monthly analysis on IT costs to various business stakeholders (local and global business lines)- Certification - Monthly accounting certification for the department

- Accounting Control - Validation of PnL booking in general ledger for all Bonds desks by reconciling theoretical PnL and the actual ledger records, booking of any required adjustments- Certification - Monthly accounting certification documentation - RWA MI- Calculation and communication to business heads of their Risk Weighted Assets on a weekly basis- Testing - Review and testing of any new IT implementation related to the application of new accounting schemes