Corina Mlendea

Experience

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  BRD Groupe Societe Generale

  Apr 2006 - Dec 2006

  Universal Desk Operator

  This first job has provided me the opportunity to have a close contact with the bank’s clients, improve my communication skills and adopt a customer focus attitude. My daily tasks consisted in selling and assistance on bank’s products and performing cash and non-cash operations and have contributed to a deep knowledge on banking products and services.

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  SSIF Broker SA

  Jan 2007 - Jun 2008

  The Financial Analyst role was my first step towards the analysis profession. It has provided me an opportunity to sharpen my financial analysis skills and to have a closer insight on companies’ financial status. I was providing analysis reports on several companies listed on the stock exchange, from various business fields. This has often provided me the occasion to enter in contact with the companies’ management or financial department clerks. I have achieved deeper knowledge on modeling and price prevision methods. Show less

  • Risk Manager

    Jul 2007 - Jun 2008

  • Financial Analyst

    Jan 2007 - Jun 2007
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  Piraeus Bank Romania

  Aug 2008 - Aug 2010

  SME Retail Lending Officer

  My responsibilities of providing analysis reports on the companies’ financial statements and stability for the purpose of loans granting have contributed to the strengthening of my financial analysis skills. The job was also a very good opportunity to have a deeper look in the companies’ activities and financial statements, to have wider exposure to the companies’ management.

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  Wolters Kluwer Financial Services

  Aug 2010 - Mar 2016

  In my PMO role I was actively involved in organisational project management implementation, processes creation and improvement, change management and had significant contributions to key initiatives, some of which I lead (Agile roll-out, Capacity and demand planning - leading role).I delivered coaching on project management and internal project management processes for 10+ teams that were managing 20+ development projects for products targeting top banking institutions in Europe and Middle East. I was an Agile coach for 10+ teams distributed across 9 offices. I have delivered internal trainings on project management, internal processes and Agile SCRUM methodology. Show less In this project management role I have developed my abilities for building and managing teams and successfully delivering projects at the highest standards for some of our top regulatory markets in Europe and Middle East.I have proactively contributed to the implementation of several development process changes, initially to a Prince2 based process and afterwards to an Agile process (SCRUM). I have used my abilities and my deep knowledge on the development of our products in order to better adapt and implement the process changes to the day-to-day work performed within the development teams. Show less This was the role where all my analytical and solution providing skills, in combination with my knowledge on banking products were best put at use. I have achieved excellent results in my work of translating the regulatory reporting requirements into software solutions, through specifications and implementation. I have gained a deep knowledge on the products and managed to become a solution provider in terms of optimised development and maintenance. I have taken every opportunity to share my knowledge and contribute to the growth of my team. Show less

  • Principal Project Management Officer

    Jul 2015 - Mar 2016

  • Project Lead

    Feb 2012 - Jun 2015

  • Line Manager for the Business Analysts team

    Sept 2013 - Feb 2014

  • Business Analyst / Sr Business Analyst

    Aug 2010 - Jan 2012
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  IQuest Group

  Mar 2016 - Apr 2018

  Project Manager

  I had the opportunity to widen my experience as a project manager in a customer services business, where identifying the customer needs and constantly adapting to them as they evolved was key. Keeping the balance between the customer focus and the pressure of delivering high quality software and services within restrictive terms has been an insightful, challenging journey.

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  IQuest Group

  Oct 2018 - Jan 2019

  PMO Project Manager

  My main focus in this role within the PMO team was on leading key initiatives on product delivery processes improvements, process awareness and training, design & creation of the internal PM audit process, involving people from all development functions and several support functions. I have created an internal Scrum training and delivered several sessions to over 70 participants in our development locations.

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  Betfair Romania Development

  Jan 2019 - now

  Portfolio Manager

  In my current role I have taken a journey in building portfolio governance expertise in three different complex organisational setups, with focus on investment assurance, scalable framework & process design and embedding, including performance & benefits realisation measurement and reporting for C-level. I have successfully lead the change initiatives for reshaping portfolio governance forums & reporting to adapt to several waves of changes in the organisational structure, operating model and ways of working. I drove transparency on the performance of the portfolios I managed by collaborating with senior stakeholders to embed adequate process changes and improvements. Show less