Program Manager
Citi - United Kingdom
Total years of experience :10 years, 2 Months
As a Program Manager within Citi Bank's strategic global preventative booking controls program, Amer assumes a crucial role in the implementation and enhancement of controls on all transactions across all market’s asset classes. His core responsibilities encompass:
• Product Lead - Managing the End-to-End delivery of agile technology initiatives in collaboration with Client On Boarding, front office, business management, and technology - aligning to regulatory mandates and the Bank's overarching strategic objectives of the implementation of robust front office preventive booking controls.
• Proposing a new centralised approach to data acquisition and streamlining regulatory workstreams. Appointed as lead on this initiative with responsibility for budgeting and resourcing.
• Full responsibility for team resource budgeting and new team hires.
Amer served as a hands-on, results-driven agile Program Manager in the Operations Reference Data Services team at Deutsche Bank, specialising in the delivery of Master Data Management (MDM) initiatives for client reference data. His robust subject matter expertise (SME) covered key areas, including implementing golden source MDM initiatives to enable excellence in reference data quality for KYC, preventative booking controls, regulatory reporting, and other Target Operating Model (TOM) initiatives. Key contributions to impactful delivery include:
• Led the end-to-end MDM delivery of the Banks golden source client reference data, including a front-end workflow redesign to capture at source client reference data points in addition to working with external vendors to consume an integrate additional client reference data and identifiers (e.g., AVOX, Dun and Bradstreet).
• Led the end-to-end delivery of a preventative booking controls project for the Bank's front-office loan applications, from senior committee material preparation, senior stakeholder engagement to resource management.
• Pioneered a new data model, integrating Loan client data with client reference data leading to Bank wide adoption and a new on boarding process to improve efficiency and KYC metrics. Stakeholder included, Business, Technology, Client on Boarding and External Audit (KMPG).
• One of three delivery leads in a dedicated taskforce, successfully delivering a BaFin KYC, legal entity and product preventative booking control external audit commitment in a high-pressure and time-sensitive delivery scenario. This involved a critical review of client reference data quality across 78 Global Transaction Banking applications and developing a remediation strategy, building out a team and producing weekly MI, reporting directly to Deutsche Bank’s Management Board.
• Served as the delivery lead in a reference data quality remediation of 12, 000 internal Deutsche Bank accounts, ensuring MiFID compliance in pre-trade eligibility screening, transaction reporting, and post-trade reporting.
Amer was an agile Program Manager working in the Operational Change Group (OCG), delivering the integration of the Front Office Trade capture systems into the strategic master data Book Reference Data System. He:
• Successfully delivered the adoption of multiple front office booking systems to a golden source, controlled and audited Book Reference Data Service, gaining exposure to various trade capture, credit risk and settlement systems across a range of products including equity swaps, derivatives, and loans.
• Product manager for the technical enhancements to book master workflow with support from of five offshore developer direct reports.
Amer was a lead business analyst on the creation of the Bank’s Global Policy to meet external regulatory and internal best practice requirements with regards to risk data aggregation and risk reporting (RDAR). He:
• Led key workshops for the development of the 'Self-Assessment and Reporting Tool, ' a critical component ensuring BCBS 239 compliance. A hands-on approach engaging cross-functional senior stakeholder was instrumental in delivering strategic analysis that directly contributed to the tool's successful implementation.
• Lead analyst on the mapping of BCBS 239 Principles to corresponding requirements and compliance statements, ensuring a seamless alignment with regulatory standards.
• Ran working groups, steering comprehensive gap analysis on the Bank's governance structure to achieve compliance. Through collaborative efforts with stakeholders in Design Governance, Control Group, and the Enterprise Data Policy team. Enhancements successfully met the criteria set out by Audit.
Amer was the lead business analyst on a complex I.T. project sitting under the wider strategic separation of Lloyds.
and TSB. He reported and consulted directly with the Head of Programme Delivery.
• Produced all relevant requirements deliverables and impact assessments for the ‘Define’ element of the project.
• Responsible for delivering project initiation workshops, producing management packs, architecture diagrams and appropriate training and communications to relay the business change.
Amer was as a lead business analyst on StRIDe (Strategic Risk and Information Delivery) - A global ETL and Data Warehousing (DWH) strategic end-to-end architecture redesign to streamline the business, align risk and finance data and come into line with regulatory and reporting requirements (e.g., Regulatory: Dodd Frank, Basel 3, CCAR and Reporting: BASTA, BoE and GAAP indicators: IFRS, HGB).
• Lead business analyst and SME for a multi-currency accounting finance component - project managing a team and liaising with technical teams in international offices daily to ensure on time milestone delivery.
• Delivered full suite of business requirements, functional specification documentation and use case artifacts.