Dilesha Fernando

• PMO Governance & Oversight: Establish and enforce project management standards, processes, and best practices. Ensure adherence to governance frameworks, risk management practices, and compliance requirements
• Regulatory & Compliance Governance: Designed and implemented an operating model for regulated applications migrating to cloud. Collaboration with Compliance and Legal teams on updates to FCA.
• LSEG Board Updates: Engaged with CIO delegates of each division to prepare programme updates to LSEG Internal boards.
• Reporting Dashboard Development: Designed, developed, and maintained comprehensive reporting dashboards. Ensure dashboards provide real-time visibility and key indicators to support data-driven decision-making.
• Senior Stakeholder Engagement: Planned & facilitated meetings, prepared meeting materials for D&A CIO and other divisional CIOs with LMP programme updates, influencing direction in complex environments.
• Project Tracking & Reporting: Monitor the performance and progress of ongoing projects.Provide regular updates and detailed reports to senior management, identifying and addressing any issues or deviations from project plans.

EquityClear Paris:

• Managed a team of seven Business Analysts (BA) based in Paris.
• Involved in resource allocation and planning work for BAs to align with the programme plan.
• Represented the BA team in senior stakeholder forums; actively resolved issues which may affect strategic delivery and ensure expectations by internal and senior stakeholders are managed accordingly.
• Translated senior management directives into actionable front-line policies and implemented changes with staff.
• Build and maintain collaborative communication channels with all stakeholders – working closely with Business, Front line risk, Market data systems and other downstream systems.

RepoClear Paris:

• Managed the product backlog by working with business and technology leadership to deliver business requirements in time and within budget.
• Understanding the business need and responded with the necessary functional, system and data requirement analysis.
• Acted at test lead for parts of the project, taking the ownership of the parallel run before the go-live.

Cleared Equity Swaps London:

• Lead BA for the project, trained Business Analysts, conducted knowledge transfer sessions.
• The work encapsulated EMIR reporting requirements to Unavista.
• Compiled documents to be shared with external sources.
• Involved in external testing assisting with business as well as technical queries.
• Testing was done in collaboration with LSE Turquoise and internal testers.
• Involved in Sprint planning sessions to assist MillenniumIT in prioritizing the requirements.

EquityClear London:

• Involved in reference and transactional data migration, adhere to EMIR account structure.
• Assisted Equities operations team, Exactpro on MCCP related queries.
• Managed and resolved all queries related to external member reporting.

• Worked in Millennium CCP product which replaced the Equity and Repo clearing and settlement platform of London Clearing House (LCH.C).
• Managed a Scrum team as the Product Owner, based on LCH's priorities got stories allocated to sprints and managed the story backlog.
• Conducted client demos and training sessions.
• Liaised with business and IT groups to establish short-term and long-term goals.
• Analysed datasets for verifying accuracy of reports generated via the CCP system.
• Assured feasibility and estimations of proposed solutions, collaborating with business and IT stakeholders.