Maria Zenchenko

A data professional, ACCA-certified, with experience across finance, data analytics, and project management, particularly in implementing data governance frameworks to meet regulatory requirements. Experienced in financial resource management, data quality and reporting. Proficient in 4 languages, tailored communication for diverse audiences to ensure effective collaboration and stakeholder engagement.

1. Career History

Data Governance Business Analyst (AML Transaction Monitoring) 

• Drove consensus on data governance by design and priorities while addressing key issues, ensuring stakeholder buy-in by leading the bi-weekly working groups (~7 people), using PowerPoint presentations
• Resolved data quality issues, leading to informed decision-making and process improvement for the programme.
• Liaised with a range of business and IT stakeholders to reconcile and align data and identify and prioritise 80 Data Elements (DEs), then catalogued and implemented in a Strategic Data Management tool (Collibra).
• Pioneered ingestion of technical lineage within Collibra to ensure compliance with BCBS239.
• Advocated for data team’s strategy and achievements to the wider department (~200 audience) in an auditorium.
• Complied with audit request by delivering lineage creation (from Datawarehouse) in JIRA in an agile environment.
• Streamlined project risk management by logging risks and assumptions, enabling management to address critical issues and dependencies.

Sales Data analyst 

• Developed into a newly created position, handling uncertainty and lack of structure.
• Led the full implementation of a new system (Monday.com) by learning solo and training colleagues for immediate testing and within 1 week. Documented the process leading to improved reporting for management.
• Delivered Key performance indicators (KPI’s) for the sales team to investors, reconciling from 5+ sources by collaborating with 3 departments in a two-day frame.
• Improved sales commissions review process and eliminated errors with controls in place for end-of-month sales commissions calculations in Excel.

Sep 2012 – Apr 2015

Financial Resource Management Associate

• Identified and escalated risks and concerns to global PMO to enable timely resolutions and mitigating potential disruptions to the delivery of a Basel 3 global regulatory project.
• Conducted and visualised financial resources analysis (liquidity) with sensitivity analysis to create reports for senior management for compliance and optimal resource reallocation. 
• ICAAP – facilitated data manipulation and cleansing and basic modelling for regulatory requirements compliance.

Sep 2010 – Sep 2012

Corporate Reporting Financial Reporting: Monthly and quarterly Bank of England regulatory reporting and internal reporting for financial statements, using financial systems.

Treasury Planning and Analysis: Produced and delivered global liquidity dashboards for 4 regions for Tokyo Head office and regulatory reporting to the FSA (liquidity limits compliance and avoiding breach fines). Repurposed dashboards for senior management.

Jun 2008 – Aug 2009

Finance Placement Student: Reconciliations to Bloomberg and accounting systems to deliver daily P&L reports to 3 trading desks; produced daily trading market results snapshot through liaising across finance, quantitative analysts and the front office. Online training on derivatives

1. Additional Experience

1. TESOL qualified, university of Arizona online course

• Coached clients to pass exams, succeed in interviews, improve career opportunities and boost confidence.
• Enhanced quality and content of the sessions by integrating AI
• Facilitated communication between clients through translation.
• Launched 3 x Udemy courses with 4k+ students with an average rating of 4.5.

• Guided a growing engineering business for more efficient business execution aligned with the business strategy.

1. Legal assistant – Sheila Garcia – real estate lawyer Oct 2019 – Feb 2020

1. Education
2. Bayes Business School (AMBA, AACSB, EQUIS) – BSc (Hons) Business studies

• 1st Class - A top 10% 3-year average; Beta Gamma Sigma membership, elected student representative. 
• Statistics, Financial analysis, Corporate Finance, Marketing, French for Business.

• All exams passed on first attempt within 2 years.
• Financial management, financial & management accounting.

1. Professional Certificates

• IBM (via Coursera) Data Analyst Professional Certificate Mar 2023 

• Google (via Coursera) Data Analytics Professional Certificate – (5/8 modules)

• Alteryx  Nov 2024

• Data Management  (CMPD) Dec 2024

1. Data Governance, Data Quality, Metadata Management, Master & Reference Data Management, Data warehousing and Data Security