Vesela Radeva
Director - Strategy & Transformation Currencies, Commodities, Derivatives Transformation and Opex @Bank of America
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WORK HISTORY
Director - Strategy & Transformation Currencies, Commodities, Derivatives Transformation and Opex @Bank of America
New York, NY, US
I work as Director – Strategy & Transformation, Currency, Commodities, Derivatives Transformation and OpE, where I lead the transformation of a large department from a volume-driven to an exceptions-monitoring function to optimize cost and allocate resources effectively. I direct strategic vision, enhance technology infrastructure, and align people and processes against a common goal. I supervised seven direct reports and maintained oversight over the implementation and smooth execution of 200+ deliverables, projects and programs.I collaborate with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders across different lines of business and build high-performing global product & program management teams. I oversee a technology infrastructure replacement program consolidating multiple asset classes onto a single platform with a potential of further scalability. The program spans across 5 systems and integrates 6 upstream systems and multiple vendors. I oversee a sizable regulatory and industry initiatives book of work.I reduced inbound department footprint by 15-20% through a combination of technology infrastructure build and intelligent automation solutions. I streamlined the delivery of exceptional customer experience, scalability, and improved risk management by achieving and maintaining high Straight Through Processing outputs. I acted as Scrum Certified Product Owner for eight agile technology teams, established relevant metrics, supported back-log prioritization & management (+1.2k JIRAs). I established a scalable plan for operational support and resilient technology solutions to support an increasing number of new products across various OTC derivatives lines of business.I conceptualized forward-looking strategy and business case pipeline to support future implementations through opportunity analysis, business case creation, financial and risk analysis, funding requests, technology viability studies, and vendor capabilities analysis and POCs.
EDUCATION
Ithaca College
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Business Administration - Finance and International Business. Minors in Economics and German
Columbia University
Executive Master of Science (M.Sc.) Technology Management, Dual area of focus Digital and Business Transformation; Data Management and Analytics
SKILLS
ABOUT VESELA RADEVA
Transformation is not a one-time event, it\'s a continuous journey towards achieving sustainable growth and excellence.\"Seasoned strategy and transformation executive with a proven track record of success in leading large-scale, complex business transformation initiatives that achieve sustainable growth and performance excellence objectives. With a versatile skillset that can be applied across diverse industries and organizations, I have expertise in digital transformation, culture transformation, strategic planning, workforce upskilling and leadership, operational scalability and resilience, and intelligent process automation.As a transformational and results-driven leader, I have reshaped large, complex organizations and processes by realigning work, assessing financial impacts, building new processes, rolling out innovative technology, building readiness plans, enacting solid governance and control frameworks, and evaluating and monitoring success. My experience includes managing multi-year programs across multiple platforms, executing transformative initiatives aimed at cost optimization, delivering robotics AI solutions, and streamlining the delivery of exceptional customer experience, scalability, and improved risk management. I ensure on-time and on-budget implementation of programs by working with technology executive leadership. I navigate communication and messaging across altitudes with a sophisticated level of expertise.I possess outstanding communication, collaboration, problem-solving, multitasking, and time-management skills, and I\'m able to professionally collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
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