Varun Bansal (SAFe®, PSM®, PMP®, Prince2®, MBA)

Experience

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  NIIT Technologies

  Sept 2007 - Nov 2009

  Senior Business Associate

  •Business Analyst in travel, transportation & logistics vertical, airline/ travel domain expertise, Business and market research for building Solution Accelerators, presentations, reports and proposals (RFP’s), project handling, Airlines website rankings reports (website comparison), making Research reports, newsletter and articles using various databases and tools like- Google, nexus, factiva, forrester etc.•Worked as a billable resource in projects like Sabre Holdings, United Airlines and American Express. Participating conference calls and video conferences and direct interactions with clients from offshore on Event driven basis to provide feedback and updates on progress and results.•QA Testing, Use Case Specifications, SRS documentation, UML, Test Planning and strategy, Writing Test Scenarios and cases, Implementing, executing and evaluating the Test Cases, Bug reporting / tracking in HP Quality Center 9.2, perform the ad-hoc testing, functional & regression testing. •Worked on different IT tools- JIRA, RPT portal and Admin-in house, MSOffice (Excel, Access and PowerPoint), PDF converters, Visual Basic, SQL, SAP tools, PeopleSoft and HP Quality Center. Show less

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  HCL Technologies

  Nov 2010 - Jul 2012

  Asst. Manager, PMO

  •PMO – India Business team, project governance, monitored & controlled all small and large projects in all India regions, by interacting and reviewing all project managers and technical leads and did customer communications for regular interactions/ resolving escalations representing HCL team.•Conducted Project Review Meetings for all India regions, maintaining a detailed project tracker for all projects running all across India, analyzing and preparing the reports from trackers, fixing the action points & discussing them with project managers & stakeholders for resolving the critical project issues.•Client interactions, preparing Customer Communication reports, Research reports, analysis reports and presentations for top management every monthly. Worked on Share point, MS Projects for preparing project plans, SAP systems for order loading, various reports generation and analysis.•Worked on various Bids and pre-sales by preparing the pre-bid documents and presentations for Sales and Customers (like- MPSDC, UID, NICSI and NISCAIR) under bid-management in PMO- India Business. Prepared project plans, project mgmt. methodologies and competencies from HCL to RFP’s.•Undertaken 4 days PMP training for 35 PDU’s from PMAC Consulting Ltd. for understanding project management and use its techniques in projects. Also, preparing to appear in the PMP certification soon. Show less

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  HSBC

  Aug 2012 - Aug 2013

  Assistant Manager - Global PMO

  •Working in Global Project / Program Management (G-PMO) team, assist the global program office for Management Information Reporting. Create & support core MI processes and utilise collated data to create Management reports for use by the HSBC Bank - Senior Leadership team. •Produce regular reports and presentations & support core PMO processes (control documents, reporting, risks & issues, change management, planning and project management). Monitor and ensure that relevant program teams comply with the Governance framework.•Doing various project analysis through self created reports like - variance reports, exceptions reports, milestone tracking & milestone charts, dashboards, status reports, business reports, project plans etc. •PMO duties for preparing the Steering Committee reports for Regulatory and Financial Reporting programs / projects for HSBC Bank – Senior Leadership team, to take strategic business decisions based on these business reports.•Working on PPM tools like CA Clarity to store & fetch the data & reports used for project analysis & milestone tracking. Used tools like OWB (Open work bench) for maintaining the project plans. Push for document standards and templates, base lining documents. •Working on different IT tools- MS Office (Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint), Adobe PDF converters, CA Clarity tool, PeopleSoft, SharePoint, MS Projects.•Awarded for Excellent work performance in Q4,2012 by the VP, HSBC, within 6 months of joining. Show less

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  Religare

  Aug 2013 - Jul 2014

  Manager - Program Management (PMO) & Governance

  •Worked in Program Mgmt. Office (Group PMO), support the execution of the governance model between the Religare & Vendor (Tech Mahindra), managing procurement team (VMO).•Responsible for ensuring that IT service management and vendor management processes are created, implemented, maintained, complied (indirectly via audits) and continually improved.•To oversee procurements & vendor performance to commitments, resolve issues, measure vendor performance, approve purchase orders & invoices, assess penalties & oversee charges & payments.•To ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget & according to specifications. Contracts management, vendor resources tracking & analysis, prepare & approve monthly provisioning for finance and publish AOP (budget) v/s Actuals Spends presentation for senior management.•Creates and maintains continual service improvements. Planning and conducting internal audits to ensure 100% compliance of SLAs, Asset & Software Compliance & publish SLA trend analysis.•Regular tracking, monitoring & closure of Action items. Working on different IT & PPM tools – Qlikview, Sharepoint for Contracts & CR workflow, Expense Manager, BMC Remedy. Show less

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  Royal Bank of Scotland Business

  Jul 2014 - Apr 2017

  PMO Manager (Program Management)

  • Worked in Program/Portfolio Mgmt. Office for TMOSS vertical under C&IB Technology division.• Worked in Programme PMO role for Collateral & Margin (C&M) Programme worth 20 million pounds and more than 300 resources, worked on ECO Programme and Data – Internals project previously.• Implement minimum standards for core PMO processes (e.g. Project plan management, RAID management, benefits management, change control, sharepoint mgmt.) across the C&IB Technology Programme. Provided key reports & analysis for the programme/projects for governance & controls• Prepare & control Programme financials & reporting, review Financials & Resourcing on a regular basis to ensure realistic forecasting within budgets/caps. Challenge unrealistic forecasts, highlight variances.• Regular chase up with PgMs and PMs on risks, issues, project statuses and resource management for the entire programme to control any deviation along with Quality Gates reviews on a regular basis through Planview and clearsight tools.• Promote Delivery Assurance achievement & performance improvement throughout the Collateral & Margin Programme through collaboration with PgMs and PMs. Preparation of working & steering group presentations & producing various reports across programme on the health and status.• Preparing of purchase orders for resources, non-resources & capex for the entire programme from different procurement tools and preparing, maintaining the PO tracker and invoices for governance.• Awarded SPOT awards for the Nov-14 & Dec-15 months for the excellent work performance and highly appreciated for the financial report showcasing the visibility into project financials, budget variances & PO tracker and sharing knowledge on Planview & P3M.• Working on different IT & PPM tools – Harbour, PlanIT, Clearsight, MSP (project plan), Sharepoint, OBIEE, time tracker, Iprocurement, IQN, Directa, Planview, SAP’s Fieldglass etc. Show less

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  BT

  Apr 2017 - now

  • Currently working for Rolls Royce account as a PMO Account Lead and managing 11 resources directly for managing the Rolls Royce and 7 other accounts - Nestle, Sabadell, Zurich, WBA, Visa, Alstom, Santander & Rolls Royce. Managing customer escalations, conflict resolution mgmt., team management, time and BCP mgmt. and KPI’s scorecards and appraisals mgmt.• Developed and implemented Risks & Issues improvement initiative in 2022-23 for MYPD clean-up at Global level through reports, analysis, comms, regular meetings. Almost 13K risks and 4.5K issues were closed on MYPD through the initiative.• Process initiatives – Billing Forecasts analysis, Resource Forecasts trackers and Billing vs Invoice’s analysis are implemented for account benefits through timely billings and revenue realizations through A3’s and JDI.• Hosted few PMO Podcasts / talk show series with senior management and clients on visits to share their life experiences for team motivation at Global levels.• Key contributor in KPI scorecard preparations, SLA scorecards & metrics, new process implementations, RFT milestones and key initiatives for team at global levels.• Conducted trainings for all the PM’s and vertical leads across locations on important processes to implement the BT – PMO best practices in the PM domain. Conducted multiple interviews as panelist for internal and external hirings for PMO team. Show less •Currently working for Rolls Royce account as a PMO Account Lead and managing the account across locations onshore and offshore consisting of 30 PM’s and 200+ resources.•Managing the new projects requests in the form of RFQ’s/RFP’s/NSSR requests through Triage calls with leads and then getting the projects initiated and created on Expedio and CAPPM-MYPD tools.•Ensuring the Purchase orders are received on from customer tools (PO Coupa) and getting delivery PM’s assigned for implementations. Getting Service Impact Assessments (SIA’s) and SSD design requests reviewed & closed on customer sharepoint and portals within timelines appreciated from Rolls Royce.•Creation of Governance Reports, SLA review reports, Scorecards and Other Reports created from MYPD and shared with senior Management within BT (internally) and RR customers (external).•Knowledge management, account sharepoint admin, design and access and documents storage, updated and shared to account team. Ensuring the On-boarding/Off-boarding activities, resource management (access, time codes) and time bookings reports are managed by team regularly.•Process initiatives – Billing Forecasts analysis, Resource Forecasts trackers and Billing vs Invoices analysis are developed and implemented for the account benefits through timely billings and revenue realizations.•Recently Awarded in Rolls Royce account – May-2020 for developing Billing and Resource forecasts analysis and Jul-2020 for RR customer feedback for excellent work on RR account. Show less ●Worked for the Lloyds Banking Group account as a PMO Account Lead for managing the resources in Lloyds account across locations onshore and offshore (consisting of 500+ resources).●Manage overall governance of the programme/project, including the assurance, reporting function of PMO, Strong internal Stakeholder management working with Project managers, Project directors and technical and other teams to the best use of project management disciplines and approaches.●Developed the RFT (Right First Time) milestone tracking and scoring mechanism, established in order to measure deviation between the current milestone plan and the baseline plan for each of the projects.●Established the risks and issue management process and regular production of key mgmt. dashboards, reports and senior management packs which are shared with BT mgmt. & Lloyds Bank to take key strategic decisions.CDS / PMO Governance (Ongoing initiatives in parallel with BT Clients Accounts)●Conducted trainings for all the PM’s and vertical leads across locations on important processes to implement the BT – PMO best practices in the PM domain. Initiatives taken for CDS Governance reports and analysis along with Organization level (CDS) governance for Service Review governance across contracts.●Identifying the opportunity to get the time booking codes creation automated through automation team thus saving 0.8 FTE efforts used for manually creation of time bookings codes in clarity for resources.●Awarded the BT awards showing BT values - Brilliant from the PMO team for the Nov-2017 for developing the RFT scoring metrics, in Sep-2018 for taking PM training’s and in May-2019 for BT–PMO Best Practices.●Working on different governance tools – Clarity, CAPPM - MyPD, Expedio, Sharepoint, OBIEE, Customer Portals and in-house tools. Show less

  • People Manager & Portfolio PMO - Rolls Royce at BT Global

    Mar 2022 - now

  • Portfolio & Program PMO - Rolls Royce Account at BT Global Services

    Jan 2020 - Mar 2022

  • Project Manager (PMO) - Lloyds Banking Group at BT Global Services

    Apr 2017 - Dec 2019