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Management Consultant (PMO/Project Manager/Senior Consultant)
Rob Cunningham
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Twickenham, United Kingdom
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Results-oriented financial services professional with a strong background in service delivery and business and technology change within the finance industry. Strong project management and team leadership skills honed to deliver exceptional results in various engagements and endeavors. Charted success utilising innovative problem-solving and effective communication skills to drive operational excellence and reduce costs in competitive markets. AREAS OF STRENGTH AND EXPERTISE • Program/Project Management • Team Leadership • PMO Operations • Management Consultancy • Training and Development • SDLC - Agile - Waterfall • Transformation • Service Delivery • IT Strategy • Regulatory Change • AML - KYC
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My experience
2010 - 2020
freelance
Management Consultant (PMO/Project Manager/Senior Consultant)
CAPCO.
• Pioneered a variety of regulatory, business and technology transformation programmes, operating as a PMO/ Project Manager in a consultancy capacity.
• Streamlined planning and reporting tools and processes across client's functions at the portfolio and programme level resulting in reduced reporting overheads by 30%, improving the quality and accuracy of PMO processes by 20% and delivering scalable, repeatable fact-based reporting processes.
• Experienced in hands-on implementation of value added functions to support challenging programme timelines and provide the tools necessary to provide timely, accurate reporting of deliverables. Ensured full alignment across multiple work streams becoming a trusted partner to the senior stakeholders and work stream leads.
◦ Project and programme plans, roadmaps, work breakdown structures, status reporting and governance, change control and approval, RAID, resource management, meeting scheduling and management, Quality Assurance, financial tracking and reporting, stakeholder management.
◦ Experienced in using MS Project 07/10, Jira, Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint, Clarity, Confluence.
• Ability to speak and gain consensus across work streams leads and key stakeholders to ensure buy in and drive successful ongoing delivery with fact based, robust, repeatable, scalable reporting.
• Managed and supervised the activities and functions of on-shore and off-shore teams to achieve prescribed specifications and requirements.
• Streamlined and improved various business processes, to assure compliance with all regulatory agencies and enhance productivity.
• Utilised resource management and vendor negotiation skills to reduce costs and enhance profitability.
• Facilitated the on-boarding and continuous training and development of personnel, to meet and exceed organisational goals and objectives.
Key Achievements:
Designed, implemented and led best practice PMO teams on AML/KYC regulatory compliance programmes across the cleints Retail, Investment and Cards businesses, delivering successful ongoing fact based, robust, repeatable, scalable reporting, reducing overhead for Project Managers, improving and formalizing the mechanisms and framework for reporting and resolution of project/program issues. Established a central point for escalation, resolution and reporting of defects.
• Designed and implemented Can Accord's IT strategy including ITOM, ITIL, Architecture, Vision, Mission and Roadmap for delivery under multiple acquisition scenarios.
• Spearheaded CanAccord's IT cost benchmarking exercise to input into client bid strategy.
• As Senior Consultant, chaired and executed the proposal to Barclay's CTO of ERBB Technology to roll-out and orchestrate Consolidated IT Performance Reporting Suite and Dashboard.
• Drove wider business transition planning through workshops and using the IT roadmap to demonstrate multiple IT platform build and migration scenarios.
• Streamlined planning and reporting tools and processes across client's functions at the portfolio and programme level resulting in reduced reporting overheads by 30%, improving the quality and accuracy of PMO processes by 20% and delivering scalable, repeatable fact-based reporting processes.
• Experienced in hands-on implementation of value added functions to support challenging programme timelines and provide the tools necessary to provide timely, accurate reporting of deliverables. Ensured full alignment across multiple work streams becoming a trusted partner to the senior stakeholders and work stream leads.
◦ Project and programme plans, roadmaps, work breakdown structures, status reporting and governance, change control and approval, RAID, resource management, meeting scheduling and management, Quality Assurance, financial tracking and reporting, stakeholder management.
◦ Experienced in using MS Project 07/10, Jira, Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint, Clarity, Confluence.
• Ability to speak and gain consensus across work streams leads and key stakeholders to ensure buy in and drive successful ongoing delivery with fact based, robust, repeatable, scalable reporting.
• Managed and supervised the activities and functions of on-shore and off-shore teams to achieve prescribed specifications and requirements.
• Streamlined and improved various business processes, to assure compliance with all regulatory agencies and enhance productivity.
• Utilised resource management and vendor negotiation skills to reduce costs and enhance profitability.
• Facilitated the on-boarding and continuous training and development of personnel, to meet and exceed organisational goals and objectives.
Key Achievements:
Designed, implemented and led best practice PMO teams on AML/KYC regulatory compliance programmes across the cleints Retail, Investment and Cards businesses, delivering successful ongoing fact based, robust, repeatable, scalable reporting, reducing overhead for Project Managers, improving and formalizing the mechanisms and framework for reporting and resolution of project/program issues. Established a central point for escalation, resolution and reporting of defects.
• Designed and implemented Can Accord's IT strategy including ITOM, ITIL, Architecture, Vision, Mission and Roadmap for delivery under multiple acquisition scenarios.
• Spearheaded CanAccord's IT cost benchmarking exercise to input into client bid strategy.
• As Senior Consultant, chaired and executed the proposal to Barclay's CTO of ERBB Technology to roll-out and orchestrate Consolidated IT Performance Reporting Suite and Dashboard.
• Drove wider business transition planning through workshops and using the IT roadmap to demonstrate multiple IT platform build and migration scenarios.
Development, Quality Assurance, It, Implementation, Transformation, Support, Cto, Management Consultant, Regulatory, Resource management, Off-shore, KYC, Framework, Processes, Manager, LED, It platform, PMO, Project Manager, Powerpoint, Retail, Jira, ITIL, SharePoint, Training, Stakeholder Management, Excel, Visio, Management, Architecture, Technology, Compliance, Confluence, Workshops
1999 - 2010
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Programme Manager
CitiGroup.
• Oversaw the authentication and integration of innovative reporting and analysis systems for CitiGroup enterprises in the United States.
• Coordinated a variety of upgrades, conversions and migrations, operating within fixed budget specifications and stringent time frames to deliver qualitative services and products to high-profile, international clients.
• Guided business units in the completion of multiple gap analysis and requirements gathering.
• Contributed to UAT and general adoption of new initiatives and applications.
Key Achievements:
• Authored and incorporated STP initiatives, designed to focus on OTC Derivatives lifecycle.
• Catalysed annual savings of $4.5M through the successful migration and conversion of systems across over 30 countries to allow the creation of 'Center of Excellence' operational teams and an STP model that dramatically reducing costs and processing times.
• Successfully accrued over $1.5m in savings across three regional centers EMEA, ASPAC and the US.
• Championed Agile development methodologies (Scrum/Waterfall) and implementation projects for various Citigroup divisions.
• Spearheaded the migration of legacy systems to Citrix products.
• Coordinated a variety of upgrades, conversions and migrations, operating within fixed budget specifications and stringent time frames to deliver qualitative services and products to high-profile, international clients.
• Guided business units in the completion of multiple gap analysis and requirements gathering.
• Contributed to UAT and general adoption of new initiatives and applications.
Key Achievements:
• Authored and incorporated STP initiatives, designed to focus on OTC Derivatives lifecycle.
• Catalysed annual savings of $4.5M through the successful migration and conversion of systems across over 30 countries to allow the creation of 'Center of Excellence' operational teams and an STP model that dramatically reducing costs and processing times.
• Successfully accrued over $1.5m in savings across three regional centers EMEA, ASPAC and the US.
• Championed Agile development methodologies (Scrum/Waterfall) and implementation projects for various Citigroup divisions.
• Spearheaded the migration of legacy systems to Citrix products.
Scrum, Budget, Agile development, Agile, Citrix, Integration, Implementation, Authentication, Development, International, Processing, Manager, STP
My education
1996
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1998
University of East Anglia
BSc, Business Information Systems
BSc, Business Information Systems
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