Colin Rowlands
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Credentials
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Prince 2 Practitioner
APM GroupOct, 2012- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Quorsus - Part of Capgemini
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United Kingdom
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Capital Markets
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1 - 100 Employee
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Project Manager
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Jun 2022 - Present
Engaged as a project manager by Quorsus, an outcomes driven consultancy, to design a framework to map the current and future state technology landscape for their end client, a large market utility in the pre and post trade management space. The end client has disparate IT platforms and some aging technology with differing hosting solutions which means there is a growing level of technology debt. Work was done to examine the issues faced by the end client for both internal and external drivers with desired outcomes and solutions captured and aligned to an agreed roadmap with a robust governance model. The agreed framework will act as a set of guiding principles for the end client’s Business and Technology owners for the next three to five years.
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Verdant Projects
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London, United Kingdom
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Director
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Jun 2013 - Jul 2022
A customer focused Project Manager with a portfolio of Operations and Business projects delivered concurrently for Corporate & Investment Bank and Asset Management clients. Work collaboratively with COO, Operations and Business functions for delivery of Target Operating Models, business process standardisation, regulatory and IT reengineering projects using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies. Managing multiple projects through transparent leadership with stakeholders at all levels to deliver best practice business outcomes and transformation projects. Sponsors for these projects are strategic business owners at Managing Director and CxO level. Engagement experience with Group control functions across Risk, Compliance, AML, Data Protection, Group Tax and Audit internal control functions and globally distributed stakeholders and project teams across EMEA, USA, and Asia to deliver projects from start up to formal closure with strict budget control, reporting and governance and effective Risk & Issue management I also manage my own Business Analysis including requirements gathering and comprehensive process mapping and solution delivery roadmap for the majority of my projects. I can be contacted via; rowlcol@outlook.com or 07921839705.
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Ventrica
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United Kingdom
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Outsourcing and Offshoring Consulting
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200 - 300 Employee
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Project Manager
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Oct 2020 - Apr 2022
Currently responsible for delivery of a Vendor supplied Omni channel contact centre software package for client’s customers, agents, and supervisors for this outsource contact centre service provider. Additionally Responsible for delivery of a new vendor supplied HR system Product includes core HR functions, Recruitment, Payroll and a Learning Management System. The new HR product will support a staff of approximately 900 FTE. Currently responsible for delivery of a Vendor supplied Omni channel contact centre software package for client’s customers, agents, and supervisors for this outsource contact centre service provider. Additionally Responsible for delivery of a new vendor supplied HR system Product includes core HR functions, Recruitment, Payroll and a Learning Management System. The new HR product will support a staff of approximately 900 FTE.
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Link Group (LNK)
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Australia
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Project Manager
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Nov 2019 - Mar 2020
Dividend & Settlement platform Migration Responsible for delivery of all Euroclear UK & Ireland facing dependencies for a migration from a legacy platform to a new bespoke platform including Share Dealing; Corporate Actions and Registrar Maintenance activities. Coverage includes the engagement of globally distributed DevOps and end to end Testing Teams to deliver system and integration test phases and User Acceptance Testing to ensure the delivery of the migration of all Client Registrar and Post Trade Settlement activities across the business.
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Lloyds Banking Group
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United Kingdom
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Project Manager
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Feb 2018 - Jun 2018
Managing closure of multiple IT audit points as identified by Lloyds Banking Group internal Audit function to ensure post go live data masking & segregation is complete, secure and fully documented for both front office and operations groups. Delivery of operational and systemic data segregation for Front Office Non Ring Fenced Bank (NRFB) dependencies for Shared Drive, Group Mailbox structures and the Front Office trading desk data drives. Coverage includes Rates, Swaps, and FX and equities desks. Coverage also includes user access for future state RFB/NRFB alignment for 150+ front office and operations support colleagues.
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NatWest
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Banking
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Project Manager
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May 2017 - Dec 2017
Reporting to the head of Transaction Management Office (TMO) operations business management group to deliver transformation and transition cost saving projects as part of a programme to standardise and optimise the existing Finance and Business Management function service offering. Delivered subsequent migration to India and Poland based low cost operating centres. Leading a team of subject matter experts and a business analyst to ensure all in scope processes are fit for purpose, defined, documented and approved before training is developed and delivered to ensure transition without impact to BaU client activities. Service offering now supports Headcount management, Management Information, Cost Forecasting, Cost Control, People Management and Joiners, Movers Leavers controls from India and Poland based low cost operating center's.
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MUFG
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Japan
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Project Manager
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Oct 2015 - Jun 2016
Delivered standardisation & optimisation projects for the European Operations Division; the role reports at the Managing Director level with interactions across the MUFG Risk Management, Corporate Cash & Post trade settlement services and IT groups. Projects include: • End to End technology footprint review for EMEA to reduce technology debt • Process Standardisation to drive out duplicate and redundant operations processes • Realignment of Paris operations processes to London operations hub • Relocation of 150 London operations team members to a low cost centre of excellence • Design of new BCP model for the European Operations Division These projects were successfully delivered with no open issues or risk items and realised occupancy cost saving for UK operations staff and significantly reduced overall business costs to client facing services.
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Northern Trust
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United States
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Delivery Lead
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Jul 2015 - Oct 2015
Working on models for new processes for large corporate clients across the Business and Operations group for Fixed Income, Triparty, Bilateral and DbV trade and settlement processes across Euroclear EUI. Role also delivered projects covering SWIFT enhancements for new and existing products. Upgrades to Fixed Income applications to drive STP improvements & cost reduction for DbV settlement in Euroclear EUI (Crest) Working on models for new processes for large corporate clients across the Business and Operations group for Fixed Income, Triparty, Bilateral and DbV trade and settlement processes across Euroclear EUI. Role also delivered projects covering SWIFT enhancements for new and existing products. Upgrades to Fixed Income applications to drive STP improvements & cost reduction for DbV settlement in Euroclear EUI (Crest)
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UBS
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Switzerland
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Project Manager (Risk & Audit Remediation)
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Apr 2014 - Apr 2015
Role reports to the Executive Director for Asset Management and Security IT with responsibility for global production support. Managed a globally distributed portfolio of change and restructuring projects for the Global Production Service team for Asset Management and Security IT support silos. Project Management responsibility for delivery of a new data security model for data access controls & monitoring. Scope was to close any actual or perceived breaches or weaknesses in the existing regulatory facing model to ensure access to any data was controlled and monitored. Project delivered a standard access management governance model for in scope groups and processes to ensure compliance with both internal audit policies & standards and regulatory requirements (SOX, Monetary Authority of Singapore & Federal Reserve/SEC) including controls design and implementation for data access and handling.
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Project Manager (Business Contingency Management)
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Jan 2014 - Apr 2014
Project delivered new structure for the Global Asset Management process for Business Continuity Management (BCM) and an end to end execution of BCM exercise for 30+ Global AM applications.Handed agreed process over to BCM SME as a BaU activity with no outstanding risk or issue items.
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Project Manager Application On-Boarding project (Process restructuring)
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Jul 2013 - Feb 2014
Project delivered industrialisation of the O’Connor & Global Asset Management business integration process for centralising application Production Support. 150 Applications supported directly by development teams based with businesses were identified and packaged for management under re-designed Global Production Services model. Successfully handed agreed process over to Global Production Services team as a BaU activity with no outstanding tasks or risk and issue items.
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Deutsche Bank
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Germany
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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VP-Project Manager
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Jun 2008 - Oct 2012
Project Manager/Business Analyst at Vice President level with a portfolio of investment Bank projects with accountability for end to end delivery of Corporate Trust and Agency Services projects. Project portfolio included:• Strategic projects for front office global business and technology change programme objectives• Upgrades for multiple Corporate Trust applications for annual SWIFT Standards • Application enhancement to deliver Islamic Banking (Sharia) compliant structure for Dubai based clients• Tactical projects to address short and mid-term operational risk and technology challenges.• New trade, payment and trade settlement-custody processing platform analysis and application launches.• SDLC and technical hardware rollouts. • New business product implementation and process re-engineering projects. • Discreet projects as tasked by Director and Managing Director level Sponsors.• ISO20022 business analysis• T2S Business impact analysis• All projects were managed to ensure the Risk, Compliance, AML, Data Protection, Group Tax and Audit internal control functions were aware of and approved each project and in line with corporate policy and strategy.
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VP-Technology Service Delivery-UAT Management
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Sep 2006 - Jun 2008
Managed a team of six technology focused analysts tasked with ensuring the group operational technology was available and fit for purpose. The team consisted of three onshore and three offshore team members.• Managed all technology facing application development phases including Drafting of Business Requirement Documents, Functional Specification Document reviews, execution of User Acceptability Testing, approval for release into production and post-deployment monitoring.• Managed onshore team dedicated to the development and upgrade of the high volume operations primary debt obligation processing application.• Managed Offshore India based UAT team dedicated to the maintenance and upgrade of the high volume operations primary debt obligation processing applications. This consisted of between four and six major technology releases per annum and included the annual mandatory S.W.I.F.T Standards Release.• Managed all middleware and inter-application testing for stability and data integrity.• Managed all downstream testing requirements for group wide change programmes. .
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J.P. Morgan
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United States
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Manager Customer Service
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Jun 2004 - Sep 2006
Manager Customer Service & Data Entry Teams • Managed a customer service team covering transaction-trade settlement and liquidity management for fixed Income (MMI) and collateral within Crest, Certificates of Deposit and Eurobonds within Euroclear. • Managed cash payment processing and trade funding requirements. • Managed user acceptability testing of new or enhanced systems functionality for process support applications. • Employed and trained new staff, supported the company cross-training programme. • Ensured all key operating procedures covering Audit, AML, Compliance, Data Protection, and Risk awareness policies are understood and adhered to. • Wrote annual appraisals for this team and provided input for the wider operations team members. • Attended and contributed to senior management meetings and participated in customer calls/visits to provide operational overview of products and services
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Education
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Prince II Practitioner
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South Hackney Secondary School
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Upton House Secondary School
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