Project Management Senior Director

Praveer Srivastava

571-***-**** ************@*****.*** LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/praveersrivastava/ Ashburn, Virginia

Education

Master of Business Administration (MBA) Kingston University 2008 to 2009 field of study - Business Administration, Strategic Project Management, Management of Change, Management Consultancy and Corporate Finance

Bachelor of Engineering (B. Eng) Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar University 1998 to 2002 field of study - Computer

Practitioner Certificates in Management of Portfolios (MoP); Managing Successful Program (MSP); Portfolio, Program and Project Office (P3O); PRINCE2; ITIL

Experience

Senior Director Strategy Program Management Santander Consumer Bank United Kingdom Jan 2022 – Feb 2025

Strategy & Program Delivery: successful 10 programs delivery (300+ team) in ringfenced bank (RFB) in UK & Europe

osuccessfully managed post merger integration (M&A) across people, process & technology after acquisition of 3 organizations

led IT integration across systems, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and minimal disruption

achieved 25% cost synergies via platform consolidation, vendor rationalization, and cloud migration

mitigation post audit of AML, FC, KYC, ESRA (compliance gaps, unauthorized access & data retention breaches across storage platforms, ensuring alignment with GDPR, SOX, FLOD, SLOD, TLOD, CDD, EDD)

saved further €30M annual Capex & Revex by improving project prioritization, strategic alignment/ blueprint

saved €100M annual Opex by negotiating vendor contracts, reducing contractors & resource optimization

oavoided £85M potential loss (reduced credit risk RWA and IRB) by structured auto-index-linked derivatives in £1.2 billion portfolio hedged against used car price volatility & rising interest rates in UK post covid

osaved £8M Opex by successful self-serve customer portal using CRM, AI, SaaS, API & process reengineering

o£100M revenue stream by development & launch of 5 new insurance products and IDAM in SaaS platform

o33% (1 day) improved SAR filing schedule (cognitive AI & NLP based) after anti-money laundering/AML audit

o15% improved AI-driven credit decisions by effective customer risk profiling saving £12M defaults annually

oConsumer Duty regulation implementation mandated by UK’s financial regulator FCA

oAI driven fraud detection and prevention for credit card transactions

o£10B+ loan record mainframe data migration to cloud, SAP S/4HANA & FICO based financial reporting

Leadership:

oachieved successful audit (no concern, breach) by 3 lines of defense (LoD) and UK’s financial regulator FCA

oprogram financial modelling - €300M (Capex, Revex, ROI, payback, NPV) and €1B (Opex)

oimplemented PMO governance & framework - adopted across Consumer Finance in 16 countries globally

Mentorship and People Development:

ocoached & mentored 2 internal secondments, 1 of which selected for Santander’s “Emerging Women Leaders”

Director Program Management Infosys Consulting Ltd. United Kingdom Aug 2018 – Dec 2021

Strategy & Program Delivery: successful 8 programs delivery (200+ team) in 55 countries in British Petroleum, BP

oprocurement - reduced vendor payment from 60 days to 3 days for $16 Billion USD annual spend by SAP Ariba

otravel, expense & invoice – reduced travel booking time from 2 hours to 10 min, reduced expense raising time from 30 days to 2 min - boosted compliance, real-time visibility of $500 million USD invoices by SAP Concur

oreduced 40% workforce, saving $75M annually and increased compliance by 28%

odefined organizational strategy (“redesign, reinvent, re-org & redefine”) in Covid saving £3.5B annually

oreduced finance reconciliation for actuals from 5 days to 4 hours by automation & data visualization in Power BI

Leadership:

oprogram financial modelling - €500M (Capex, Revex, ROI, payback, NPV) and €1B (Opex)

oachieved £100M upsell (4 times of annual upsell target) & influenced decisions by exceptional performance

Mentorship and People Development:

omentored 6 rotational graduates & sandwich year students with valuable professional experience

Senior Program Manager FCA United Kingdom Jan 2018 – May 2018

Program Delivery: Headhunted by UK’s financial regulator (FCA) to mobilize 5 BREXIT programs

oachieved clear plan of action within 1 month of joining – received appreciation from Head of Delivery

omobilized programs once considered “impossible to start” due to political turmoil and hard-edge managers

oengaged & influenced impacted government stakeholder’s decisions for successful implementation of programs - EU Withdrawal Steering Group, Brexit Select Committee, BREXIT secretary office, HM Treasury, Bank of England, DCMS, UK’s 70K+ banking & financial services representing bodies - TheCityUK and UK Finance

Senior Program Manager Accenture Consulting Ltd. United Kingdom Feb 2015 – Jan 2018

Strategy and Program Delivery: several successful transformations in multiple roles held concurrently in many banks

Barclays and HSBC - BREXIT Program Manager - helped banks to prepare for BREXIT & later headhunted by FCA

Barclays - Portfolio Manager - Wealth Management go-to-market (GTM) product for high-net worth individuals (HNI)

ospearheaded launch by aligning product, digital, compliance, marketing to deliver a tailored, high-impact solution

Barclays - Deputy Global Business Transformation Lead - SAP SuccessFactors in 55 countries - $150 million USD

orecognized and appreciated by SAP as the best implementation of SuccessFactors globally

Barclays - Card transactions - Senior Risk Resilience Program Manager - £250 million GBP

oInitiated regulatory programs after identifying PRA non-compliance in Barclaycard transactions; aligned systems ahead of PSD2 SCA rollout using 3D Secure 2

HSBC - Global Portfolio Manager Digital Transformation - 200 project delivery in 58 countries - £250 million GBP

oprovided delivery leadership & direction to Digital Transformation portfolio (1 of the 6 global workstreams) in all 6 markets (ANZ, Asia, MEA, EU, NA, SA) - also appreciated for cutting resource hiring cost by 25%

Barclays - Program Manager - Mortgage - 6 critical end-to-end mortgage transformation initiatives in tight deadline

ohelped Barclays achieving strategic delivery target when vendor failed to perform and proving in-house capability

JPMorgan Chase - Program Manager - CRM & Analytics transformation in Wealth, Investment & Asset Management

osuccessful digital banking solution increased customer base to 47 million & exceeded personalized client service

Deutsche - Portfolio Manager Asia, EU-saved $12 billion USD RWA in Run the Bank (RtB) & Change the Bank (CtB)

oSaving through FRTB-SA, reducing model complexity and correcting associated risks

Nokia-Alcatel-Lucent - Program Manager - IT integration post M&A of Alcatel-Lucent with Nokia in over 100 countries

oLed unification of ERP, CRM, HR, and infrastructure platforms to streamline operations & realise synergy targets

Leadership:

oachieved annual upsell target each year by globally appreciated successful transformations, building trust with clients and influencing key decisions while working on deals with legal, commercial & Sector Lead (Partner)

Mentorship and People Development:

omentored, coached, developed several sandwich year students and new joiners for their professional development

Principal Technical Program Manager TfL London Underground United Kingdom Aug 2014 – Oct 2014

successfully transitioned public transport journey planning app from 3rd party (MENTZ) to AWS

Principal Technical Program Manager GfK Group United Kingdom Feb 2012 – Jun 2014

successfully launched consumer market research product in 110 countries with 1 million+ global clients including Apple

transformed SAP BODS DWH & implemented self-serve online portal to support 400% growth in 2 years

improved vendor performance from 12.75% to 99% & increased 25% delivery without increasing headcount

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Senior Technical Program Manager Roxburgh & Fredrickson Ltd United Kingdom Jul 2008 – Jan 2012

successfully developed in-house and led delivery of $1 million USD go-to-market (GTM) product in UK market

Senior Technical Program Manager Commtel Ltd. New Delhi, India Sep 2002 – Feb 2008

Headhunted by Commtel Networks to manage PowerGrid’s 24X7 mission critical environment with 99.99% availability

Personal Growth

Industry Speaker – invited by Financial Times, London for industry discussion on Technology and Data delivery

Judge – Kingston University Bright Ideas Entrepreneurial annual competition for young entrepreneurs

Mentor – Santander Emerging Women Leaders Program, Women in STEM

Ambassador – Mental Health and Cybersecurity network across organization

Volunteer – community programs for local cause (children with special needs) organized by various organizations

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