11/08/2026 updated
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100 % availableSettlement / Post-Trade PMO – EU T+1, CSDR, T2S, ISO 20022, migrations
Bucharest, Romania
Germany +3
M.Sc. Finance & Accounting (Germany)info: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg
About me
Ex-dwpbank Deputy Head of Settlement and IT Project Manager, 11 years in German banking: I lead settlement and post-trade programmes for EU T+1, CSDR, T2S and ISO 20022.
Scrum MasterBankingData MigrationImpact AssessmentInterim ManagementProject ManagementMigration TestingRelease ManagementRequirements AnalysisRequirements ManagementTest ManagementRegulatory ChangeSecurities Settlement SystemsIT Project Management
Settlement / post-trade PMO for banks, brokers and custodians – from someone who has run a settlement department, not only planned for one.
EU T+1 goes live on 11 October 2027. For settlement, matching, cash and custodian communication that means less time, less tolerance for error and more automation. That is where I come from.
dwpbank, 2018–2023:
- IT Project Manager throughout, project teams of up to 60–80 people
- Sub-project lead for the settlement workstream of a CSDR implementation: impact analysis, error handling, communication with custodians
- T2S releases, migrations and test cycles
- Onboarding of a Landesbank (about 1,500 project days) incl. relocation of custody locations, migration of an online broker, off-boarding of a large retail bank
- Automatic matching of all settlement and cash instructions, built under Scrum with a nearshore unit
- In parallel Deputy Head of Settlement (interim Head Dec 2022–Apr 2023): 30–40 staff, roughly 100,000–300,000 instructions a month, T2S, Clearstream, Euroclear, custodians worldwide, SWIFT MT and ISO 20022
Before that TARGOBANK and a banking apprenticeship at UniCredit (HVB). MSc Finance & Accounting. Scrum Master. German and Russian native, English fluent.
Roles: project lead / PMO, settlement workstream lead, migration lead, or interim lead of a settlement unit. Remote; on-site days in DACH/EU by arrangement. Available now.
Experience
Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2024
Languages
GermanNative speakerEnglishFluentRussianNative speaker
Project history
- Deputy Head of Settlement (interim Head Dec 2022–Apr 2023): 30–40 staff, roughly 100,000–300,000 instructions a month
- T2S, Clearstream, Euroclear, custodians worldwide; SWIFT MT and ISO 20022
- Day-to-day operations and compliance, coordination with business and IT stakeholders
- Process and systems improvement: reconciliation, four-eyes controls, audit trails, incident and exception handling
- IT Project Manager throughout, project teams of up to 60–80 people
- Sub-project lead for the settlement workstream of a CSDR implementation: impact analysis, error handling, communication with custodians
- T2S releases, migrations and test cycles
- Onboarding of a Landesbank (about 1,500 project days) incl. relocation of custody locations, migration of an online broker, off-boarding of a large retail bank
- Automatic matching of all settlement and cash instructions, built under Scrum with a nearshore unit