Riku Saastamoinen

Chief Information Officer at Garantia Insurance company Ltd
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(386) 825-5501
Location
FI
Languages
  • English -
  • Finnish -

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Experience

    • Finland
    • Insurance
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Chief Information Officer
      • Dec 2021 - Present

    • Head of IT
      • Oct 2020 - Dec 2021

      As the most senior IT person in the organization, I held the overall responsibility of organising and managing the IT-function. Within the first year, the single most infuential task has been forming and implementing the new IT-strategy, including hiring new IT personel, reorganising responsibilities within the team so that everybody can utilize their strenghts and focusing on daily operations to things that really matters. Currently we are aiming to build future-proof capabilities so that the IT can serve the company's business objectives as efficiently as possible, while taking into account the requirements set by the regulatory environment. Show less

    • Development Director
      • Nov 2019 - Oct 2020

      The main area of responsibility was leading the development of IT solutions of the new rental guarantee business, as well as participating in customer and cooperation projects as an IT representative. In addition, I consulted the top management on various IT-related matters, such as regulation, continuity and recovery planning, IT documentation, and forming the general IT roadmap.

    • Development Manager
      • Jan 2018 - Nov 2019

      The main task was to organize and manage various development projects related to internal insurance systems. Responsibilities also included adhoc reporting to the top management, hands on coding of the new rental insurance software, as well as other ICT management related tasks.

    • Credit Risk Analyst
      • Jun 2016 - Dec 2017

      The main responsibility was to assess the credit risk of the dedicated customer portfolio, as well as writing industry analysis to suport the desicion making. The credit risk assesment was carried out in close cooperation with Garantia's sales team and included in-depth interviews of the top management of the customer companies. The position enabled extensive learning about different kind of business models as well as industries.

    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Financial Manager
      • Jan 2014 - Jun 2016

      I worked with our customers to transform their needs into technical solutions. In addition, I worked with different kind of internal development related tasks mainly concentrating on automation, Excel analysis models (equity and credit risk) and reporting.

    • Junior Operation Specialist
      • Mar 2013 - Dec 2013

      My main tasks included customer service, system testing, writing technical specifications, and Excel model development.

    • Supervisor
      • May 2011 - Aug 2011

Education

  • Lappeenranta University of Technology
    Master of Science (M.Sc.), Strategic Finance
    2010 - 2015

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