Experienced leader in banking and finance area with strong background in project and program management for cross-border end-to-end initiatives from initiation to final implementation. Subject matter expert for various lending related business processes and IT systems, regulatory reporting, portfolio migrations and mergers
Passionate about improving customer service and delivering business value through smart, modern, data-driven solutions.
Assignment to Luminor Bank projects:
Project: Lending Automation
Role: Lead of Business Analysis stream
Time period: from Jan, 2021 - Jan, 2022
Management of business analysis work: establish business analysis routines and techniques, create business analysis plan, resource allocation according to business road-maps, priorities and cross-area dependencies. Business requirements engineering. Prioritization of the tasks for the business and IT teams in the project. Management of other project activities: follow-up developments backlog, plan sprints and iterations for IT teams and implement effective testing process.
Project: New Bank Core Consolidation, Lending Area
Role: Lead of Business Analysis LV/ EE, Lending migration stream lead in EE
Time period: Jul, 2019 - Dec, 2020
Leading the project analysis, development and testing activities for the most important project in organization with time critical delivery. Covering migration requirements, data analysis, prioritization of development backlog for Lending area. Worked in close cooperation with CC Program management to create and coordinate go-live migration execution plans for multiple migration waves in Latvia and Estonia including migration night activities.
Key delivered projects in Swedbank AS
Project: Implementation of GDPR
Role: Analysis lead and project manager for Baltic Lending
Preparation, launch and management of data inventory in Lending systems according to GDPR requirements. Analysis of business processes and IT applications for compliance with GDPR – identification of gaps, formulation of development needs, prioritization, development support and testing of developments.
Project: Anacredit reporting
Role: Program coordinator for Latvia/ Stream lead in Lending area
Covering all product areas coordination and requirements alignment with ECB/ Anacredit regulations. Facilitation of requirements and coordination of developments for Regulatory reporting tools in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia for submitting reports to Central banks.
Project: EURO implementation in Latvia
Role: Project manager/ Stream lead/ business analysis
Coordination and management of Lending stream, reporting to overall EURO program management. Management of end-to-end activities, from project start-up, testing iterations and changeover night activities.
Project: Acquisition of Hipoteku bank portfolio
Role: Business analyst
Analysis, negotiation, and implementation of business processes for the first major portfolio migration in Swedbank Baltic. Time critical takeover, covering migration requirements, detailed migration plan, takeover steps (data loading techniques, data analysis and improvements) and customer communication
Other responsibilities
Ownership of IT systems portfolio: responsible for developments priorities, follow-up SLAs execution, maintenance costs allocation, plan future strategies for new technologies developments.