Farah E.

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ABOUT FARAH E.

Experienced Senior IT & Business Project / Program Manager who has successfully mentored PMO’s and project manager’s using industry best practices learned during extensive tenure in financial services. Adaptability to constantly changing business/regulatory priorities.• Superior time management and conflict resolution skills to manage business critical projects in Big Data for Equities, Exchange Traded Derivatives (ETD), Over the Counter Derivatives, Foreign Exchange (FX) to meet tight timelines.• Excellent collaboration skills with colleagues from multiple geographic locations and effective communication and stakeholder management at all levels of the organisation. Established client facing working groups to elicit requirements, manage expectations and review project documentation such as business case, project plan and project initiation document.• Strong emotional intelligence and negotiation skills to re-prioritise tasks with key stakeholders to meet Regulatory demands such as Fundamental Review of the Trading Book, LIBOR Transition, FED SR 11-7 (Model Risk), Potential Future Exposure (PFE) and Expected Positive Exposure (EPE)- Basel and Stress Testing. • A technical background in Computer Science and a Management Masters which underpins my success. Superior communication skills to all levels of the organisation. • Exceptional leadership and teamwork with a number of internal stakeholders and vendors to evaluate and implement cloud / leading edge technology to meet business strategy and goals (AZURE and Amazon Web Services).