Vlad Costinas

PMP®, PMI-ACP® and PSM I-certified Senior Delivery PM specializing in Insurance and Regulatory Transformation (IFRS 17, Solvency II) across SaaS and cloud, with ~10 years leading end-to-end implementations of enterprise risk, actuarial and data platforms. Accountable for projects of $0.5M–$7M+ (including strategic accounts), owning budget, scope, schedule, risk, quality, communication management and stakeholder engagement across Waterfall, Agile and hybrid delivery. A background in financial and statistical engineering and hands-on Solvency II / IFRS 17 expertise allows me to bridge business, actuarial and technology teams and turn complex regulatory and digital transformation programs into on-time, high-quality outcomes.

Experienced in remote, distributed delivery across EMEA and North America.

Project Manager – Insurance Solutions at Moody's Analytics (2017-04 – 2026-12)

Lead delivery teams deploying Moody's risk, actuarial and data solutions to top-tier global insurance companies, reinsurance companies and pension funds, in SaaS and on-premise models. Solutions delivered: RiskIntegrity for IFRS 17, RiskIntegrity Solvency II, AXIS, Intelligent Risk Platform (RMS), RiskLink, EDF-X, Orbis, NewsEdge, Scenario Generator.

• Team coordination: Coordinate cross-functional Moody's teams of up to 60 people (consultants, actuaries, developers, product specialists) from kick-off to go-live and post-go-live support.
• Budget management: Own project budgets of $0.5M–$7M+: forecasting, time and effort-burn tracking, and margin control; delivered ~75% of projects within initially approved budget.
• Scope management: Define project scope, plans and work breakdown; run structured change control to protect scope, timeline and margin.
• Schedule management: Build and manage integrated schedules and milestones across client and internal teams; delivered ~80% of go-lives on plan.
• Stakeholder engagement: Engage client stakeholders up to C-level and internal product, sales and development teams; lead status reporting, internal senior management meetings and actively contribute to steering committees.
• Risk, issues & quality management: Identify, assess and mitigate risks, issues and dependencies (using RAID logs), escalated risks requiring senior attention; run quality gates and internal UAT to ensure high standards of quality and rigor for regulatory deliverables.
• Delivery & performance: Tailor the delivery approach (Waterfall, Agile or hybrid) to each client; analyze project performance KPI to drive decisions; manage incidents in Salesforce and act as customer advocate towards product and engineering teams.
• Agile delivery: Run Scrum ceremonies (daily stand-ups & retrospectives) and contribute to product backlog prioritization for 5 product-release teams; work with Product Owners to translate client and regulatory requirements into user stories and release plans.

Product Consultant – Solvency II & IFRS 17 at Moody's Analytics, Customer Success Services (2015-01 – 2019-03)

• Implemented Solvency II and IFRS 17 solutions (SaaS and on-premise) for insurance clients.
• Configured SCR, MCR and Risk Margin calculations for composite and non-composite entities and produced Solvency II regulatory reporting.
• Delivered IFRS 17 LRC (GMM, PAA, VFA) and LIC calculations, with the related accounting and reporting.
• Presented Moody's Analytics tools, calculations and reports on client sites; managed Oracle databases.
• Contributed to RFI/RFP/RFQ responses supporting new business.

Consultant – Solvency II Project at Covéa Finance (2014-06 – 2014-12)

• Contributed to the implementation of the Solvency II tool and the reference-data management tool (GT Data).
• Controlled and validated collected data (freshness, consistency, completeness); analyzed Solvency II CIC code generation; priced bonds.

Portfolio Manager Assistant – Strategic Allocation at Coface SA, Group Investment & Financial Direction (2014-01 – 2014-06)

• Centralized, monitored and optimized group investments; estimated and controlled net asset value; reported on mandated portfolio performance.
• Developed VBA / Microsoft Office applications; researched and analyzed potential investment targets.

Earlier Experience at Banking & asset management (2007 – 2013)

• Crédit Mutuel CIC Securities, Paris – Apprentice, Credit Research (corporate sell side), Sep 2012 – Nov 2013; Intern, Issuers Middle Office, Mar 2012 – Sep 2012
• Edmond de Rothschild Investment Managers, Paris – Intern, Client Middle Office, Sep 2011 – Feb 2012
• National Bank of Romania, Bucharest – Intern, Economic Studies (macroeconomic research), Aug 2010
• UniCredit Bank Romania, Bucharest – Loan Administrator, Credit Risk Management, May 2007 – Feb 2009

M2 in Financial & Statistical Engineering (apprenticeship) – Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas & Université Paris-Dauphine (2013)

M1 in Money, Finance & Banking – Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas (2011)

Bachelor in Economics & Management – Université de Rennes 1 (2010)

Bachelor in Finance, Banking & Stock Exchange – Bucharest University of Economic Studies (2009)