Senior Executive (Finance, Contracts & Compliance) - Odisea Catamarans Ltd - UK/Cyprus/Singapore
(2024-01)
Yacht Building Company
- Directed financial governance activities, including budget management, cash flow forecasting, and cost optimization initiatives, resulting in improved financial visibility and reduced operational expenditure.
- Led international commercial contract governance and vendor management across the UK, Cyprus, and Singapore, standardizing contractual frameworks and accelerating procurement processes.
- Managed procurement governance and financial controls, overseeing vendor evaluations, budget compliance, audit readiness, and executive-level financial reporting.
- Led business transformation initiatives through the evaluation and implementation of enterprise technologies, including ERP and customer portal solutions, driving process standardization and operational efficiency.
Interim Segment Portfolio Manager - Mars Global Services
(2021-12 - 2023-12)
Royal Canin segment
- Served as Strategic Financial Advisor to the CIO, CFO, and Segment Finance Leads during capital planning cycles, ensuring $70M+ capital investments strictly aligned with 3-5 year corporate financial goals.
- Driven robust governance and quality assurance protocols within a massive digital transformation portfolio, achieving a 98% success rate in meeting financial targets—the highest result in recent segment history.
- Streamlined the annual enterprise budgeting and planning process, facilitating segment leadership through investment prioritization and delivery orchestration to maximize financial value realization.
- Partnered with the Digital Technology Leadership team to provide high-level portfolio insights, leveraging financial analytics to empower rapid, data-driven executive decision-making.
Senior Portfolio & PMO Consultant (Commercial & Financial Strategy) - Mars Global Services
(2021-12 - 2023-05)
Royal Canin segment
- Improved portfolio financial transparency by establishing standardized processes for real-time cost tracking and benefits management, enabling regional partners to accurately track project ROI.
- Led Regional and Global Functional sub-portfolio financial reviews with senior management to guarantee data integrity, accurate asset accounting, and transparency in the global project pipeline.
- Orchestrated engagement with Business Partnership Managers to enforce 100% adherence to agreed corporate governance, risk tracking, and procurement principles.
- Spearheaded the end-to-end implementation of the Project Portfolio Management (PPM) tool, developing training programs covering demand management, financial tracking, and benefits realization.
PMO Manager - Asendia UK Ltd - Heathrow, UK
(2020-09 - 2021-11)
Joint Venture of Swiss Post/French Post, Logistics/Ecommerce company
- Optimized and operationalized the corporate PMO function, implementing a comprehensive portfolio management framework, upgraded governance models, tight change controls, and a dedicated Smartsheet PPM system.
- Developed and executed standardized prioritization frameworks for project selection, ensuring investments directly mapped to strategic growth targets while maximizing resource capacity.
- Enhanced the organization's Change Delivery Model by establishing and chairing recurring Change Boards to proactively manage cross-project dependencies and mitigate delivery bottlenecks.
- Cultivated a data-driven culture by introducing regular portfolio health reporting, including automated RAG dashboards, KPIs, and risk analytics for the Management Board.
- Upskilled the internal project delivery community through comprehensive training programs, successfully driving best practices and compliance across the governance framework.
- Provided continuous lifecycle support to Project Managers, offering expert guidance on business case development, predictive resource planning, and risk resolution.
- Led the functional procurement cycle for a new enterprise PPM platform, managing business requirements gathering, vendor evaluation matrixes, user acceptance testing, and final community rollout.
Maternity and study break
(2019-01 - 2020-08)
- Acquired Scrum Master and Kanban Master Foundation certifications and completed advanced PMO leadership training to align with evolving hybrid-agile delivery frameworks.
Project Manager/ Business Analyst - William Russell Ltd - Surrey, UK
(2017-05 - 2019-01)
Health/Life Insurance Company
- Coordinated the delivery of an IT Security and Governance program, successfully preparing the company for independent auditing and achieving pre-assessment ISO27001 certification.
- Drove enterprise-wide operational readiness for GDPR by designing and executing an information security awareness campaign, successfully shifting compliance behaviors across all organizational levels, including senior executives.
- Optimized infrastructure costs and operational efficiency by running the commercial tender, financial evaluation, and contract replacement for cloud-based telecommunication services.
- Managed complex business and technical requirements across cross-functional, multi-timezone stakeholder groups to deploy front- and back-office insurance software solutions.
Career Break
(2014-10 - 2017-04)
Senior PMO Analyst & Cross-Functional Business Change Project Manager - RWE Supply & Trading - Essen, Germany & UK
(2011-10 - 2014-07)
Energy Trading Company
- Governed a €35M portfolio across IT, Risk, HR, Finance, and Back Office, establishing a robust governance framework that optimized project delivery and maximized ROI.
- Evolved the PMO into a Center of Excellence (CoE), standardizing internal delivery processes, implementing Planview, and decommissioning inefficient projects to drive cost savings.
- Enhanced stakeholder decision-making by developing comprehensive reporting suites, financial analysis, and benefits tracking dashboards for improved portfolio visibility.
- Delivered high-impact initiatives, successfully leading "Counterparty Data Management" and "Gross Margin Interface Reporting" projects to streamline operational efficiencies.
- Championship-level continuous improvement, designing and delivering in-house training, fostering best practices, and conducting regular portfolio health checks.
Project Manager /Consultant - ICON-INSTITUTE GMBH - Germany
(2004-10 - 2011-09)
PRIVATE SECTOR International development consultancy firm
- Successfully implemented a portfolio of 10 technical assistance projects across Europe, Central Asia, and East Africa with a total turnover of €12M, consistently completing deliverables on time and exceeding revenue targets.
- Established strategic partnerships that successfully secured several multi-million, multi-year delivery contracts.
- Led bidding and procurement processes for high-value project contracts funded by major international financing organizations.
- Consistently increased profitability on all projects by up to 60% of initial estimates through precise expenditure optimization and streamlined operational procedures.
- Managed the mobilization of cross-functional international project teams, ensuring clear deliverables, timelines, and resource allocation.
- Delivered financial due diligence, feasibility studies, and cost-benefit analyses, preparing and controlling budgets for large-scale, multi-year programs.
