Ralf Bickel

Experience

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  PricewaterhouseCoopers

  Jan 1997 - Mar 2000

  Senior Consultant

  Conducting consulting projects as program manager for major international corporations (various industries) in the area of business process reengineering, mainly in the finance and controlling area, followed by the implementation and customization of the respective standard software components (SAP FI CO).

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  Meteor Consulting GmbH

  Apr 2000 - Dec 2006

  Managing Director

  Conducting consulting projects for small and medium size private banks as well as multi national financial institutions (self employed business consultant)

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  UBS

  Jan 2007 - now

  Business Initiative lead for introducing instant payment services at UBS. This is a large, complex, and multi-year implementation that requires extensive stakeholder management. It includes the development and maintenance of the Implementation Roadmap, as well as the requirements management (ensure alignment with overall business objectives/ OKRs). Ensure effective communication and coordination across all teams and departments involved in the initiative (representing the business in the ceremonies of the Agile Development Organization). Continuously evaluate and improve the initiative's performance to ensure successful delivery. Show less Responsible for the UBS Group wide planning process for all IT related change implementations (>500 Programs). Defining and executing the planning process for all Business Divisional, Group Functional and Cross-Portfolio change initiatives based on business cases. This includes the definition of prioritization criteria (limit management), instructing the portfolios to submit their demand, consolidation and analysis, e.g. regarding financial benefits, regulatory compliance and investment categories. Submissions are getting reviewed and challenged and recommendations are formulated to the Group Executive Board (GEB) for decisions regarding limit allocation and composition of the Group Strategic Change Agenda. Show less Project Manager for the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) project at UBS AG in New York. CCAR is an annual exercise by the Federal Reserve to assess whether the largest bank holding companies operating in the United States have sufficient capital to continue operations throughout times of economic and financial stress and that they have robust, forward-looking capital-planning processes that account for their unique risks. The process comprises various scenarios with respective loss and revenue implications which are based on thorough risk models and Pre-Provision Net Revenue (PPNR).Main focus of my activity is the management of the CCAR process itself from the kick off to the final delivery to the FRB, a process which has to be passed twice a year from 2017 onwards and which involves the orchestration of various functions such as Risk, Finance, Treasury, Reporting and Data Management. Show less Project Director for a highly complex corporate action initiative. The project is one building block of the bank`s response to regulatory requirements such as TBTF (Too Big To Fail) and resolvability. Main objective of the project was the establishment of a financial holding company through a share for share exchange. This included the preparation and execution of all related tasks in liaison with the main functions Group Legal, Finance, Treasury, Shareholder Services, Investor Relations, HR and the Investment Bank. Main tasks included:- Supervised the preparation of relevant offer documents and relief letters from specific US and Swiss legal obligations (e.g., F-4, Swiss offer prospectus, EU offer prospectus, SEC no-action letters)- Managed the communication towards shareholders and the public (e.g., press releases, letters to clients and registered shareholders)- Supervised the change-in-control process (e.g., obtained regulatory approvals and submitted notifications to supervisory bodies worldwide) Show less

  • Business Initiative Manager - Instant Payments

    Sept 2022 - now

  • Strategic IT D&E Change Planning

    Jan 2018 - Aug 2022

  • Project Manager - CCAR

    Nov 2015 - Jan 2018

  • Project Director - "Group Organizational Structure Alternatives” - Group Holding Company

    Aug 2013 - Oct 2015

  • Projekt - Portfoliomanager / Wealth Management & Retail Banking

    Jan 2007 - Jul 2013