PROJECT CREDENTIALS
Selection of Delivery Case Studies
Gideon Kretschmer
Global Investment Bank | PMO lead + Delivery lead
Brexit Operational readiness PMO lead, managing various critical change initiatives across work streams, functions and locations
Skills Applied
- Project Management
- PMO design and Implementation
- Complex Stakeholder Management and Reporting (highly complex, visible, time-critical)
Value Delivered
- Played a key support role in the successful design and enablement of a new Brexit- ready European Bank
- On-time, high-quality and pro-active program management, reporting and issue resolution
South African Digital Bank | Business Architect lead
Defining the target state digital banking blueprint and roadmap, incl. capabilities, processes and value drivers
Skills Applied
- Business Architecture
- Operating Model Design
- Strategic Storytelling
Value Delivered
- Delivered a comprehensive Digital Banking Level 1 – Level 3 Business Architecture framework (incl. Level 2 processes) to the Executive team
African Development Bank | Consulting Lead
Finance effectiveness review – restructuring and realignment of finance function to strategy
Skills Applied
- Operating Model Assessment and Design
- Finance Operations expertise
- Strategic Storytelling
Value Delivered
- Critical Finance Strategy and Target Operating Model recommendations, with supporting business case (efficiency and control focused) adopted by the Executive team
Global Investment Bank | Project lead + Process Lead
Design and implementation of a new automated Basel II Liquidity Management reporting solution plus various reporting and process improvements across Finance + Treasury
Skills Applied
- Business Analysis
- Process improvement
- MI Solution Build
- Project Management
Value Delivered
- Group-wide real-time liquidity view enabled for first time and new reporting standards met
- Material process efficiencies (automation and controls)
German Banking Start-up | Strategist
Critical review and recommendations for initial investor pitch deck
Skills Applied
- Critical Thinking
- Storytelling and Communications
- Benchmarking
Value Delivered
- Proposed improvements taken on board and delivered to VC targets
African Development Bank | Project Lead + Business Architect
Shaping enterprise transformation program to establish a new future fit bank (incl. Strategy, Ops, Tech & Org)
Skills Applied
- Business Architecture
- Operating Model Design
- Project Planning
Value Delivered
- Rapid delivery of a current state assessment and target state blueprint and delivery roadmap to the Executive team that informed the banks’ long-term strategy
South African Bank | Project Lead + Innovation lead
Shaping the clients’ digital innovation strategy and roadmap, focused on experience transformation via digital
Skills Applied
- Research and ideation
- Strategic Storytelling
- Stakeholder Management
Value Delivered
- Helped new CDO/CXO with shaping an initial digital innovation strategy in context of the banks’ current state
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