Adnaan Rasool

- Senior position at Saudi Arabia’s largest Retail Bank, responsible for delivering strategic projects in the Digital and Payments domain for C-Level Executives
- Successfully launched new microfinance company (new entity) with new lending products, delivering multibillion SAR loans within the first 6 months
- Project was completely off-track when I joined. I took control to understand the key requirements, organise the team, and bring back to a controlled delivery, working with third parties including Leonardo, Deloitte and Accenture
- Successful delivery of new multi-vendor Marketplace using Magento. Delivery dates were missed multiple times and required strong leadership to re-group and deliver to new committed dates
- Monthly update presentation to C-Level Executives on Strategic project progress, delivery risks and issues, and directional escalations
- Running daily triage sessions with wider project teams to keep issues on radar and close out in the shortest possible time. Agreeing timelines to complete and holding team members to deadlines
- Diving into the detail and working with project teams to understand the issues, plan or re-plan, hold RAID workshops, all with the aim to identify the critical path
- Alignment of Projects to Strategic objectives to ensure all projects are aligned to longer-term goals
- Preparation of the 2021 delivery Strategy, and identifying prioritisation for all future deliveries. This also involved creating the inputs for the Board approval presentations to ensure approval for the budgets for the following year

- Head of PMO for Enterprise & Data Services within the Private Bank (includes Digital)
- Leading Governance forums, including pack preparation and chairing the meetings
- Key member of other governance forums, such as Project Boards, and representing the Division at other senior meetings such as Group Risk Reviews
- Leading Sub Domain Townhalls including pack preparation
- Scrum Master for key projects, including running Agile reviews
- Responsible for 2020 budgetary, benefits and resource setup
 Reviewing mandatory and discretionary business aims, and coordinating the prioritisation process
 Ensuring Project Managers are delivering projects within budget, and timelines Reviewing RAID details, status reports as well as owning the gate process and change control

- PMO Manager implementing best Agile practices to deliver key Regulatory deliverables
- Worked within Risk Management on Ringfence & Brexit programmes
- Produced SteerCo and Regulatory Working Group packs
- Led daily Triage meetings to bring key project back on track
- Daily challenge of key project resources responsible for deliverables
- Analysed Brexit implications to Risk Management, ensuring projects were on track for delivery. Reported progress and issues to Brexit SteerCo
- Scrum blocker, organiser and coordinator for the projects
- Comfortable working in detail at the project level, as well as taking the 30, 000ft view at the portfolio level

- Lead PMO for Fixed Income consisting of multiple complex programmes (including Credit, Rates, and FX)
- Set up the PMO - Implemented best practice for Planning, Governance, Financial Management, Change Control and RAID management
- Vertical and Horizontal (matrix) teams, based in global time zones
- Centrally coordination - Governance, RAIDs, Changes, Planning, Financial, and Resources
- Attended and produced key meeting packs including for SteerCo meetings

- Set up and managed central PMO for Tax Operations in Investment Bank
- Worked with direct and matrix teams in the Business, IT, and Functional areas
- Management of $25m programme budget and key deliverables across 11 workstreams
- Carried out cross-programme health assessment and providing recommendations
- Implementation of first Agile projects - Producing roadmaps and training
- Set up and ran daily stand up meetings and other key Agile meetings
- Scrum Master for a number of projects, and coached other Scrum Masters
- Managing project activity in Jira

- Top 5 Programme within the Investment Bank reporting to C-Suite Executives
- Industry leading initiative to outsource business processes and functions to third party suppliers, bringing in excess of $500m in sustainable saves
- Working in tandem with 30 Deloitte resources, including 3 Partners
- Set up the Global PMO team and processes - including Governance, Reporting, Planning, RAID Management, and Executive packs
- Working with global team of PMs and BAs and matrix team of 30+ senior stakeholders
- Produced monthly Executive Reporting packs, and coordinated Business Cases
- Chaired weekly project & programme status meetings. Ownership of change control, resources and financial planning process
- Coordinated Myth-buster sessions with senior executives to tackle thematic concerns

Head of Finance - PMO
- Financial management of £165m budget for FATCA programme
- Actively working with 20+ Project Managers to allocate budget and resources
- Month End Accounting - Accruals, Invoicing, Variance analysis
- Tracking and Reporting against budgets
- Post implementation analysis, reviews, and recommendations
- Designing and set up the financial management tool for Global Payments
- Ownership and presentation of financial details in Business Cases

Global Payments Governance & Control PMO
- Central role responsible for governance, financial control, planning, reporting, and RAID management. Management of two direct staff and eight indirect PMO staff
- Set up planning guidelines. Assisted PMs to set up detailed plans
- Presented Business Cases to Governance Boards for approval

Treasury PMO & Project Manager
- Treasury PMO within Group Finance to integrate Lloyds and HBOS Treasury functions
- Projects included Asset Liability Management, Banking Volatility Management, Central Hedging Function, and Trade Bookings
- Liaised with Project Audit & SOX teams to ensure project compliance
- Managed QRM implementation to manage the Bank’s £1 trillion Balance Sheet