Ashothman Rajivan

Organised and analytical PMO with 3+ years' experience managing and delivering programmes and projects using Agile, PRINCE2, and Waterfall methodologies. Proven record of providing continuous improvement of processes within Aviation, Insurance, and Healthcare sectors.

Project Management Officer at International Airlines Group (2024-02 – 2026-04)

Operated the financial controls, risk regulation, procurement and resource management, event co-ordination, and other project requirements.

• Implemented governance framework across Business Areas for Finance, enhancing financial tracking accuracy and ensuring compliance to governance standards
• Created and maintained Jira board to manage the RAID items and action register for the Portfolio, enabling the Portfolio team to effectively quality assure project delivery
• Prepared weekly Steering Committee decks and Project Status Reports, created Power BI dashboards to provide insight to Senior stakeholders to drive informed decision-making
• Implemented process for New Joiners and Leavers, cutting onboarding time by 50% and improvement in offboarding efficiency
• Provided financial control and support of Cyber Security Portfolio budget (£4.9m), creating forecasts, tracking actuals, and managing resource allocation
• Led small team of PMO's across Business Areas, mentoring new members of the team

Junior Portfolio Analyst at Legal & General (2022-10 – 2023-12)

Played key role in the Portfolio Management Office, supporting Transformation & Change Portfolio with financial controls, risks regulation, planning, resource management, and other project requirements.

• Operated budgets of Programmes (£13.4m and £9.6m), performing analysis on monthly Actuals to make necessary adjustments to ensure financial accuracy
• Governed RAID meetings and artifacts of more than 20 projects using Jira, improving quality of delivery
• Planned multiple Programme-Increment events by preparing the event venue, catering, accommodation, and social activities for events with 50-120 people, leading to successful PI Planning sessions
• Arranged and facilitated meetings with key stakeholders, recording important decisions agreed and translating them into a meeting minutes document
• Produced weekly project reports to Stakeholders through the Agile Release Train and Programme Increment updates, reporting KPIs such as scope, time, cost, and quality
• Improved the onboarding process of new joiners, organising accesses, equipment delivery logistics, and software installation, reducing average turnaround time by 2 days

Business Consultant at FDM Group (2022-06 – 2022-09)

Consultancy company that provided training in Project Management, Business Analysis, Professional Skills, Business Fundamentals, Excel and SQL before being placed on partner company sites.

Referrals Coordinator & Training Officer at The Doctors Laboratory (2017-02 – 2022-02)

Trained staff of the Referrals department to ensure all members of the team were competent and performing to the expected standard.

• Delivered the Referrals Catalogue Project, improving test requirement data for more than 1,000 tests
• Educated new staff of departmental processes and SOPs
• Improved staff performances allowing department to take on three new contracts with partner hospitals
• Developed and applied competency assessments to evaluate staff performance to management every quarter
• Corresponded with external hospitals and doctors to resolve issues and queries in under 24 hours
• Processed over 250 samples per day for testing at external laboratories, providing all relevant documentation in a timely manner

Store Manager at KVK Supermarkets (2015-07 – 2017-01)

Managed family businesses consisting of two convenience stores and an event venue.

BSc in Biological Sciences – University of Portsmouth (2012-09 – 2015-06)