Business Manager – Group Functions Technology
Director
UBS, www.ubs.com
April 2023 – present
Zürich, Switzerland
Delivering financial management, workforce planning, sourcing- and vendor management and technology investment governance services to Reference Data Technology, Data Reconciliations, Data Analytics, AI/ML/Data Science and Core Data Engineering agile delivery Streams. Planning and execution of relevant Credit Suisse acquisition- and integration activities across business management scope.
Business Management Team Lead – Legal Technology
Director
UBS, www.ubs.com
Dec 2016 – March 2023
Zürich, Switzerland
Accountable for financial management, workforce planning, sourcing and vendor management, technology project portfolio governance and technology investment governance of the function delivering technology solutions to the Group Legal department.
Key achievements:
Built the Business Management Capability for the function from ground up, after its split from the legacy Legal & Compliance Technology function.
Devised planning and forecasting framework for the function, resulting in maximum cost transparency, optimal workforce and on-target spend.
Facilitated consolidation of contingent workforce vendors to fewer strategic key suppliers, resulting in contracts simplification and optimization, and avoidance of vendor lock-in.
Co-led agile transformation of the function, resulting in full adoption of OKR methodology and transition of Investment Governance to Quarterly Business Review process.
Business Manager – Risk IT
Associate Director
UBS, www.ubs.com
Nov 2015 – Nov 2016
Zürich, Switzerland
Responsible for consumer financials planning and reporting, regulatory technology operational risk attestations, and Service Catalog of the Risk IT function.
Production Services Manager – Finance IT
Associate Director
UBS, www.ubs.com
Nov 2006 – Oct 2015
Zürich, Switzerland
Accountable for IT production services for global Finance applications out of the business region Switzerland: General Ledger processing; Balance Sheet and P&L reporting availability; Financial Consolidation and Reporting processing; Treasury, Liquidity and Funding applications; Cost Ledger applications. Swiss regional BCP/DR Lead.
The role evolved from a standalone Support Manager with smaller remit to Regional Support Manager leading 3 teams and a major vendor engagement.
Key achievements:
Onboarded major ITO managed service contract, outsourcing global Cost Accounting and SAP production support to a Tier-1 global service supplier.
Onboarded new domains to production services – Treasury, Consolidated Cost Ledger, Divisional Revenue Reporting, Cost Transparency Reporting, Facility Management Reporting.
Reduced Swiss-specific Investment Bank production support demand by 80% through batch processing optimization, resulting in IT support savings of approx. USD 1m p.a. in downsizing support team and eliminating on-call requirements.
Document Management Engineer – IT Infrastructure
UBS, www.ubs.com
Jun 2006 – Sep 2006
Zürich, Switzerland
Project – Engineering & integration of an enterprise document management system (Open Text Livelink, Oracle, Solaris). Brought in due to expert knowledge of the third party product to support get-to-green of a previously red project overrunning time and budget.
Career Break
Aug 2005 – May 2006
Travel and personal time out
Document Management Engineer – Database and Collaboration Services
Winterthur Insurance*, www.axa.ch
*) a Credit Suisse Group Company, later AXA Winterthur
Aug 2001 – Jul 2004
Winterthur, Switzerland
Project – Engineering & integration of an enterprise document management system (Open Text Livelink, Oracle, Solaris). Brought in due to expert knowledge of the third party product to support get-to-green of a previously red project overrunning time and budget.
IT Analyst
FCA Serbia, formerly Zastava Automobili A.D., www.zastava.net
Oct 1997 – July 2001
Full Stack Developer – ASP, IIS, MSSQL
Education
Dipl.-Ing. / M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering
School of Mechanical Engineering, www.mfkg.rs
University of Kragujevac, Yugoslavia
High School Diploma
Mt. Pleasant High School, mtpleasant.esuhsd.org
San Jose CA – USA