Maria Teresa Pinto
Northam,Northamp
Summary
Accomplished Strategy Manager with extensive expertise in Elastic AI and GenAI, driving innovation and strategic planning across diverse projects. Demonstrates proficiency in Agile methodologies, including Kanban, Scrum, TDD, and BDD, ensuring efficient project management and process improvement. Skilled in business analysis, risk analysis, and residual risk management, leveraging ISEB certification to enhance corporate governance knowledge. Adept at stakeholder management and mentoring teams to achieve cost-reduction strategies and cultural awareness. Career goals include advancing digital transformation initiatives as a Product Owner while fostering innovation implementation within cloud environments.
Inspirational leader with knack for strategic planning and problem-solving. Demonstrates strong analytical skills and ability to drive cross-functional collaboration. Poised to deliver transformative strategies that enhance organisational growth and efficiency. Commercially-astute Strategy Manager with experience developing customer, market and competitor insight for informed decision making. Coordinates cross-functional teams to deliver against objectives, aiding project success. Presents persuasively with strong negotiation skills for constructive stakeholder relations.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Senior Product Strategy Manager
Barclays
Northampton, Northamptonshire
01.2022 - 04.2025
- Lead and successfully delivered a complete re-design of the supplier exiting process. The whole process was re-designed around the risk and control framework to ensure risk and control are implemented and managed effectively throughout the whole supplier's lifecycle.
- Successfully lead and delivered 3rd Party Supplier Payment Automation across 4 different continents. This was delivered in line with the Payment Central Infrastructure Reform Programme (PCIR).
- Currently leading a User End Digital proposition to provide Procurement dedicated support globally with machine learning and AI.
- Develop the strategy & approach for achieving the desired business outcomes for assigned programmes working with stakeholders.
- Navigate complex information and quickly gathering knowledge of the topic to achieve optimal outcomes across the whole project.
- Lead and define a clear project timeline with a set of defined deliverables for the whole project team with the milestones project's objective.
- Successfully delivered by synchronize deliverables across multiple backlogs and different time zone locations.
- Managing the interdependencies, risks and issues, and actively escalate when required.
- Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise-Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards
- Secured new business partnerships by presenting compelling proposals.
- Developed strategic plans for effective problem resolution.
- Monitored industry trends to stay ahead of competition.
- Improved operational efficiency with comprehensive strategy development.
- Analysed competitive landscape, enabling creation of robust counter-strategies.
- Translated business objectives into actionable goals, driving corporate success.
- Constructed and designed implementation strategies for profitable growth.
Programme Manager and Risk Analyst
Barclays
01.2020 - 04.2021
- This is a high-profile programme. The scope is to asset securitise the entire UK Card Loan, Residential Mortgage and Barclays Partnership Finance portfolio while remaining Compliant with EU (European Union - European Securities and Markets Authority) regulation so that new issuances can take place. With the 1st release, 3bn of contingent/BAU funding capacity were created.
- Planned, managed & delivered the E2E project on time, within cost & quality.
- Acted as a Product Owner and managed the overall backlog.
- Lead overall relationship with two external vendors to fulfil relevant regulatory requirement.
- Lead the overall stakeholder management and the full set of dependencies.
- Lead the control of financial & resource forecasts & actuals to budget.
- Lead the migration into Cloud EC2 Instance and set up all the environments.
- Successfully delivered on time and on budget in an extremely resource and budget constrained context.
- Ensured regulatory compliance in all aspects of programme management processes.
- Promoted a culture of continuous improvement amongst team members through regular feedback sessions.
- Collaborated with senior leadership, aligning project goals with corporate strategy.
- Resolved critical issues promptly, ensuring minimal disruption to programme timelines.
- Managed complex projects for successful completion within stipulated deadlines.
- Improved team efficiency by fostering a collaborative work environment.
- Leveraged technology tools for efficient task tracking and reporting.
Programme Manager and Risk Analyst
Barclays
01.2019 - 12.2020
- Delivered an enhanced strategic reporting dashboard to monitor and analyse risk liquidity fluctuations.
- Liquidity End User can now view liquidity data 2WD earlier, empowering the Strategic Liquid Board to have more decision-making time.
- Planned & delivered the Liquidity Risk Dashboard for the UK and US.
- Lead backlog of work and created & maintained plan and Kanban management.
- Closely manage the data related inter-dependencies.
Senior Business Analyst
Barclays
01.2018 - 12.2018
- Leading the management of the OLAF pipeline to establish priority over multiple initiatives.
- Leading the Digital Estimation Forum to T-shirt size initiative across the Digital portfolio (1App, BCA, OLAF, AS3).
- Collaborated with IT department to integrate technology solutions into business strategy.
- Led cross-functional team to successful project completion.
- Performed gap analysis, identifying areas of underperformance and inefficiency.
- Leveraged predictive analytics tools to forecast future trends.
Senior Business Analyst / Scrum Master
Barclays
01.2018 - 12.2018
- Working in a multi-stakeholder fast-phased environment responsible for Digital delivery for the IHQ aggregator programme.
- Responsible for engaging with the business and the Product Owner to elicit the requirements and the design of the solution.
- Leading multiple external relationships with 3rd party aggregators and associates to design E2E journey.
- Working in an Agile environment, create and refine user stories with an offshore Development Team.
- Produce and maintain full analysis documentation set – BRD, Functional Specification, User Stories (Jira), Acceptance Criteria, Process Flows, API Data Mapping.
- Improved overall productivity with comprehensive process analysis.
- Collaborated with IT department to integrate technology solutions into business strategy.
- Evaluated business requirements to formulate effective strategies.
- Leveraged predictive analytics tools to forecast future trends.
Lead Digital Business Analyst
Barclays
01.2017 - 12.2018
- Delivered an E2E Digital on-boarding online application for SME Merchant Customer.
- Responsible for defining the strategy for BPS online on-boarding roadmap for 2018.
- Owned and delivered Technical and High-Level Impact Assessment (HLIAs).
- Produced and designed the solution to accommodate the long-term strategy to extend the portfolio of customer that can apply online.
- Maintained full set of analysis documentation – BRD, Functional Specification, User Stories (Agile Central), Acceptance Criteria, Operational Design and supported Testing Strategy.
- Created use cases for Merchant Acquiring pricing On-boarding process based on OLA and Salesforce.com.
Lead Business Analyst for Affordability Work stream
Barclays
01.2017 - 12.2017
- Worked in a high pressure and fast-phased environment, responsible for combining the affordability calculation across Barclays and Barclaycard as result of the Transaction Cycle Strategy.
- Responsible for producing an affordability strategy approach document.
- Worked with Solution Architects to identify appropriate interfaces in an Agile environment.
- Responsible for presenting affordability strategy to Ashok Vaswani (CEO of Personal and Corporate Banking) to gain buy in.
- Closely supported Solution Architect to ensure solutions are correctly designed to reflect the business needs always keeping in mind the short and long-term impact on business objectives as well as technology rationalisation.
Lead Business Design Analyst /Project Manager
Barclays
01.2017 - 12.2017
- Responsible for delivering an upgrade of the technical platform to align with the new data security privacy standards gateways.
- Proactively brought together Technology Team, Third Party (Bancos) and Test Team to collaboratively work together.
- Streamlined workflow with efficient analytical strategies.
- Interpreted financial reports for improved budget management.
- Leveraged Excel functions for streamlined data evaluation and presentation,.
- Created comprehensive reports, aiding in strategic planning.
- Facilitated client meetings to discuss and interpret analysis findings.
Lead Business Design Analyst
Barclays
01.2016 - 12.2016
- Responsible for delivering a new complaint platform across several clusters.
- Lead full stack business analysis across Barclaycard, Barclays Corporate, Barclays Wealth and PPI.
- Responsible for collaborative BDA working across cluster to create a ‘plain vanilla' solution.
- Managed 214 CR and delivered workaround for 95% of them to minimise cost and speed delivery time.
- Lead consultation and a cost/benefit analysis for BPF and BPS in expanding complaint platform to their respective business areas.
Lead Business Design Analyst
Barclays
01.2015 - 12.2015
- Responsible for delivering a new interest base rate change for customer with a repayment plan.
- Re-designed all the existing repayment plan process to incorporate base rate change.
- Developed system journey for each scenario to emulate system behaviour in re-calculating base rate change.
Lead Business Analyst/Project Manager
Barclays
01.2013 - 12.2014
- Delivered data and system migration project from legacy solution.
- Ownership of Functional and Technical Business Requirement Documents, detailing the solutions, with the traceability and the relevant control and sign off in place.
- Created test scripts for the UAT testers, as well as user manual for knowledge transfer.
Lead Business Analyst
Barclays
01.2012 - 12.2012
- Responsible for delivering a contactless payment in partnership with EE mobile company.
Lead Business Design Analyst
Barclays
01.2010 - 12.2011
- Responsible for designing a sustainable reconciliation process across all currencies for merchant customer operating in Europe and America.
- Gained SME expertise together with a significant knowledge of the commercial reconciliation and transaction process at corporate level.
- Responsible for delivering BACS payment gateways in Europe.
- Assimilated technical and non-technical information swiftly, enhancing problem-solving capabilities.
- Enhanced decision-making by analysing complex data sets.
- Contributed to team projects by providing key analytic insights.
- Reviewed peers' work to ensure highest quality of output,.
- Cultivated a deeper understanding of industry trends through continuous research,.
Education
BCS Certification - Information Security Management Principles and residual risk management or third party vendors
BCS The Chartered Institute for IT
London 01.2012 - 03.2015
Cloud Practitioner Qualified - undefined
Scrum Master - undefined
RAML - undefined
Leadership and People Management Certified - undefined
Prince 2 Foundation - undefined
Full ISEB - undefined
AGILE - undefined
Lean Agile - undefined
Master Degree - Finance Analysis
Salerno University
09.2006 - 07.2008
Science Politics Degree - undefined
Salerno University
Salerno, ItalySkills
- Elastic AI
- GenAI
- Strategy Manager
- Risk Analysis & Residual Risk
- Business Analysis
- ISEB
- Agile
- Kanban
- Scrum
- TDD
- BDD
- User Stories
- Epics
- Business Process Mapping (BPMN)
- API
- Design & Integration
- Jira
- Agile Central
- Data Analysis
- HTML
- CSS
- Scrum Master
- Crystal Reports
- Data Modelling
- Data Mapping
- Data Transfer and ETL
- Reconciliation
- Data Curation
- Stakeholder Management
- Project Management
- Problem Solving
- Mentoring
- Line Management
- Digital SME
- Product Owner
- Testing Manager
- Cloud Practitioner
- Innovation implementation
- Data analysis and interpretation
- Corporate governance knowledge
- Business modelling
- Cost-reduction strategies
- Cultural awareness
- Product knowledge
- Public speaking
- Strategic planning
- Process Improvement
- Data analysis
Custom
Available on request
Affiliations
- Voracious reader
Languages
Italian
Proficient (C2)
Spanish
Intermediate
Portuguese
Upper intermediate
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Senior Product Strategy Manager
Barclays
01.2022 - 04.2025
Programme Manager and Risk Analyst
Barclays
01.2020 - 04.2021
Programme Manager and Risk Analyst
Barclays
01.2019 - 12.2020
Senior Business Analyst
Barclays
01.2018 - 12.2018
Senior Business Analyst / Scrum Master
Barclays
01.2018 - 12.2018
Lead Digital Business Analyst
Barclays
01.2017 - 12.2018
Lead Business Analyst for Affordability Work stream
Barclays
01.2017 - 12.2017
Lead Business Design Analyst /Project Manager
Barclays
01.2017 - 12.2017
Lead Business Design Analyst
Barclays
01.2016 - 12.2016
Lead Business Design Analyst
Barclays
01.2015 - 12.2015
Lead Business Analyst/Project Manager
Barclays
01.2013 - 12.2014
BCS Certification - Information Security Management Principles and residual risk management or third party vendors
BCS The Chartered Institute for IT
01.2012 - 03.2015
Lead Business Analyst
Barclays
01.2012 - 12.2012
Lead Business Design Analyst
Barclays
01.2010 - 12.2011
Master Degree - Finance Analysis
Salerno University
09.2006 - 07.2008
Cloud Practitioner Qualified - undefined
Scrum Master - undefined
RAML - undefined
Leadership and People Management Certified - undefined
Prince 2 Foundation - undefined
Full ISEB - undefined
AGILE - undefined
Lean Agile - undefined
Science Politics Degree - undefined
Salerno University
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