Christian (Dr.) Piffer - Migration Lead for Accounting & Year-End Closing Tests
Experience
Migration Lead for Accounting & Year-End Closing Tests
Raiffeisenverband Salzburg
- Project and test management for the accounting migration
- Coordination of resources
- Planning, creation and alignment of scenarios with functional experts and IT product owners
- Responsibility for accounting KPIs of the migration cockpit
- System environment: Jira, XRay, Confluence
Management Consultant
MediaPrint
- Sparring partner for relevant IT topics
Project Auditor / PM Expert
Oberbank Leasing GmbH
- Conducting qualitative interviews with internal IT, business and supplier stakeholders
- Facilitating a planning workshop to keep critical milestones and schedule on track
- Preparing recommendations for corporate management and project or IT managers
Work Package Responsibility Across Project Streams
Raiffeisenlandesbank OÖ
- Setting up the SAP infrastructure in the in-house operations (RaiTec) as well as application management and release management (PFH)
- Optimization measures for the handed-over SAP infrastructure, transport management and processes (RaiTec, Axians, Phoron)
- Introducing and building basic authorization management and coordinating with modules and suppliers (Axians, Adweko, CNT, MSG)
- Introducing and establishing data quality management for the test phase and later operations (IKS)
- Analyzing, coordinating and implementing performance optimizations in SAP FPSL and middleware (RSG)
- Coordinating and optimizing the overall process, both functionally and technically, of the various job tickets from bank delivery deadlines to the DWH
- Cross-stream test responsibility for the ERP and FPSL project streams, as well as responsibility for overall test and environment management between suppliers, RSG, PFH, RaiTec and the bank
- Replacing the existing test approach; introducing XRay as a test/defect plugin in Jira
- Planning and setting up cut-over governance including a dress rehearsal
- Planning and coordinating a parallel run phase in the test environment with production data to ensure operational stability for the go/no-go decision
- Establishing operational governance after the project: product/application responsibility, test management, operations concept
Project Manager
ARZ/Verbundbanken
- Managing the external supplier TeamViewer
- Coordinating with Information Security, Legal, Procurement and ARZ product management
- Project-specific coordination between the SaaS provider, technical contact and business units (sales & digitalization)
- Creating documentation of technical processes and architecture
- Supporting the project through roll-out to all affiliated banks and mortgage banks
Auditor/IT Expert
MediaPrint
- Conducting 22 qualitative interviews with IT and business stakeholders
- Developing an assessment of IT governance and IT management based on the COBIT 2019 framework
- Creating recommendations for company management and IT managers
- Creating documentation for technical processes and architecture
CRM/IT/Data Expert
Erste Group AG
- Providing ongoing advice and support to the CRM team on various focus topics
- Supporting the Data Analytics platform team with impact analyses
- Clarifying reporting options for archived and historized data
- Piloting the financial health module of the advisory software (BON)
Project Manager
ARZ/Volksbanken
- Leading workshops to develop high-level processes and business requirements with the client
- Coordinating project-specific details between the SaaS vendor, technical contact, and business units (sales & digitization)
- Creating documentation of technical processes and architecture
- Supporting the project through the go/no-go decision for the roll-out to all Volksbanken and mortgage banks
Interim CTO / Project Manager
Fintech company (mortgage business)
- Supporting management on all IT matters
- Leading workshops to define high-level processes and business requirements
- Coordinating project specifics with peripheral system vendors
- Analyzing core systems and processes in banking, real estate, and legal environments for mortgage financing and innovative processing
- Creating documentation for APIs, processes, and architecture
- Modeling and optimizing business processes for end-to-end analysis (fit-gap analyses)
- Supporting the project until handover to the client's internal staff
Project Manager
Erste Bank & VIG
- Deriving a prioritized list of requirements (use cases/topics) for banking and insurance departments, considering legal requirements, especially GDPR
- Designing and piloting topics in end-to-end processes (insurance, branch, online banking)
- Defining data definitions for the group's bancassurance reporting requirements and controlling
- Creating reports to prepare management reporting
Business Project Manager
Erste Bank Österreich
- Project lead for digitalization and omnichannel integration (5M budget, 30+ people)
- Concept and implementation of a strategic roadmap for CRM infrastructure and omnichannel initiatives
- Support with reorganizing team structures
- Development of an overarching CRM strategy
- Management of IT resources and deliverables
- Coordination of business requirements and prioritization across the entire bank
Business Project Manager / Product Owner
Erste Bank Österreich
- Project lead for CRM data and reporting in customer insights using Scrum (1.6M budget, 20+ people)
- Concept and methodological development of customer journey, omnichannel reporting, customer contact history, campaign optimization, DMP/Adobe integration, and deep analytics
- Concept and implementation of a prospects database
IT Project Manager
Raiffeisen Software GmbH
- Project management for the IRB rollout at Raiffeisen Regional Bank Upper Austria (2 projects)
- Agile methodology using Kanban
- Core project team (14 people), total team >50 people, >2000 person days
- Coordination across 5 different team locations
Multi IT Project Manager
Raiffeisen Software GmbH
- Testing and support for the year-end financial statements/balances of 5 regional banks after core banking migration
- Various small projects to harmonize the accounting environment
- Subproject leadership for IFRS9: parallel run, Geos Nostro, opening balance sheet
- Overall bank testing after CBS migration of VAKIF & Posojilnica
- Delivery of risk parameters for IFRS9
- Collective provision / portfolio value adjustments
- Loan-to-value / loan-to-income
Data Quality Management Expert
Erste Group AG
- Definition of roles, structures, and guidelines for group-wide data quality management
- Review of policy rollout and implementation
- Quality assurance of the DQM approach and development of an impact scoring model
- Further development of in-house training to support long-term establishment of data governance
Business Analyst
Erste Group AG
- Analysis of the AS-IS processes in credit risk reporting with a focus on regulatory reports
- Conducting interviews with subject matter experts and problem assessment
- Modeling in ArchiMate 2 using Enterprise Architect
- Preparation of process analyses, a feasibility study, and a software requirements specification
Facilitator / Data Governance Expert
Allgemeines Rechenzentrum
- Company analysis through open discussions with all stakeholders
- Presentation and discussion of data governance methods and reference models
- Development of central roles and tasks to anchor data governance in data center operations
- Supporting the development of a new requirements process considering data governance specifics
- Supporting the technical implementation of the tool
Project Manager / Data Governance Expert
Berner Group
- Company analysis through workshops and interviews on data governance and IT strategy
- Processing findings into actionable recommendations
- Definition of roles, structures, guidelines, and responsibilities
- Preparation of as-is status, findings, recommendations, roadmap, and planning figures
Data Governance Expert
Erste Group AG
- Defining roles, structures, and guidelines for a group-wide data governance roll-out
- Reviewing the policy roll-out and its implementation
- Ensuring the quality of the data governance approach and developing an impact scoring model
- Further developing in-house training for the long-term establishment of data governance
BI-Consultant/Designer
ÖBB/IKT
- Analysis and logical modeling of requirements from group subsidiaries through workshops
- Definition of all relevant attributes and data loading chains
- Specification of reports with special focus on timeline consistency
- System environment: Oracle, SAP BW, SAP BO, Remedy, HP ALM, various in-house solutions
Test Manager / Project Manager
Raiffeisen Software Solution und Service GmbH
- Project and test management for 'Regulatory Reporting' integration and 'Financial Accounting'
- Coordination of test resources
- Creating and aligning test scenarios with domain experts and product owners
- System environment: HP ALM, MS Project, core banking systems, host programs, DB2
Requirements Management and Detailed Specification
Volksbanken Investments
- Creating a requirements specification for consolidating different treasury applications
- Managing requirements together with requirement owners and stakeholders
Senior Consultant
Mobiltel Bulgaria
- Ensuring the accuracy of pricing plans in the new billing system
- Designing validation logic for pricing
- Setting up monitoring in Access to support a structured migration
- System environment: Amdocs, Access
Consultant
Universität der Angewandten Künste
- Gathering requirements through workshops with representatives of all IT clients
- Classifying requirements and mapping resources and services
- Building an IT measures catalog and dividing it into projects with recommendations and effort estimates
- Supporting the implementation of a service catalog
Test Manager
Telekom Austria
- Creating a company-wide concept for a central test center
- Defining prerequisites, constraints, basic concept, and procedures for phased quality assurance
Business Unit Manager
Focus Media Research
- Business responsibility for the online platform schnapp.at and roll-out to 25 countries
- Management of strategy, processes, budget and sales
- Negotiation and coordination of partnerships (PR, SEO, SEM, affiliate, social media)
- Resource planning for developers, editorial team, testers and external vendors
- System environment: Oracle, PostgreSQL, JBoss, Java, J2EE, Seam, HTML, CSS, Ajax, XML, RESTful services, Android, iOS, Apache Tomcat
Requirements Management / Consultant
A1 Mobilkom
- Deriving goals and greatest mutual benefit from expert workshops
- Documenting results and coordinating with IT
- Building a data dictionary to improve communication
- Creating a comprehensive specification of requirements for a new sales control system
- Preparing the basis for the make-or-buy decision
Test Manager
A1 Mobilkom
- Test management for the A1 Service Portal: defining test strategy, test cases and managing the test center
- Black box testing, system testing, acceptance testing, cross-browser testing, load testing
Test Manager
A1 Mobilkom
- Test management for customer SLA monitoring: black box testing, component testing, integration testing, system testing, regression testing, end-to-end testing, load testing, user acceptance testing
Project Manager / Data Governance Expert
ITSV
- Organizational and IT consulting for cross-agency consolidation of operational data assets of the Austrian social security institutions
- Migration of operational data from four systems into a common DWH model (100 GB updates per month)
Senior Consultant
A1 Mobilkom
- Organizational and IT consulting to analyze and monitor the data quality of three operational customer master data systems (20 million records, 100,000 updates/day)
- Systematic data quality checks and monitoring
- Data profiling, data cleansing, duplicate matching, value-of-data defects
- System environment: Clarify, Amdocs, POS, SAP BO, Teradata
Group Lead Data Quality Management & Reporting Systems
Volksbanken AG
- Responsibility for data governance and data strategy up to SAP BO
- Building and optimizing the reporting infrastructure in the data center (ARZ)
- Data quality management for Basel II requirements including rollout, guidelines, monitoring and escalation process
- Managing group-wide data specifications and change requests
- Project management KPMG/ZEB (collateral, receivables segmentation, rating)
- SAP BO implementation including training and rollout
- Group contact for reporting and interface to audit, regulatory reporting, risk/controlling, branches, marketing
- System environment: DB2, Oracle, SAP BW, SAP BO
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Experienced in Banking and Finance, Media and Entertainment, Insurance, Government and Administration, Information Technology, and Telecommunication.
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Experienced in Project Management, Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Quality Assurance, Marketing, and Finance.
Summary
In various projects and programs at the interface between IT and business, Christian Piffer was able to build solid knowledge in IT project management, business analysis, test management, data governance, business intelligence and leading diverse teams.
His focus areas include business intelligence, data governance, CRM, as well as designing and building innovative web solutions, spanning banking, telcos, pharma, public health, public transport and market research.
Thanks to his expert knowledge and practical experience in data governance, he has a critical eye on business data modeling, data quality, data management, and the structured management of policies, standards, processes, organization and technology to achieve any data-driven goal of a company.
Overall, Mr. Piffer stands out for his quick comprehension, strong analytical skills, team spirit and implementation strength.
Skills
Key Achievements:
- Mobilizes The Client's Solution Potential And Creates Structures For Decision-making From Operational To Strategic It Topics
- Effective Combination Of Technical Expertise, Method-driven Approaches, Analytical Skills And Innovative-pragmatic It Know-how
- Leading Project Teams Even In Critical Phases
- Open, Pragmatic, Close To The Client And Their Needs
Project Topics:
- Project Management – 17 Years – Level E
- Data Governance (Processes, Organization, Tools And Methods) – 12 Years – Level E
- Data Management / Data Quality – 12 Years – Level E
- Digital Transformation – 5 Years – Level E
- Reporting Strategy Including Tool Evaluations – 8 Years – Level M
- Test Management – 7 Years – Level M
- Information Modeling / Processing – 7 Years – Level M
- Conceptual / Logical Data Modeling – 4 Years – Level A
- Crm, Sales Control, Omnichannel, Digital Transformation – 5 Years – Level A
- (Core Banking System) Migration Experience – 6 Years – Level K
Analysis Skills:
- Business Requirements And Business Process Analysis – 8 Years – Level A
- Structural Data Analysis – 5 Years – Level A
Other It Skills:
- Ms Office (Excel, Powerpoint, Word, Ms Visio, Ms Project) – 25+ Years – Level M
- Sql Databases (Postgresql, Oracle, Teradata, Ms Sql, ..) – 10 Years – Level A
- Modeling With Enterprise Architect, Archimate, Togaf – 3 Years – Level K
- Hp Quality Center / Hp Alm – 2.5 Years – Level K
- Various Modeling Methods (Uml, Er, Archimate, ..) – 8 Years – Level A
- Seo / Sem (Including Google Analytics, Adwords, Adsense) – 8 Years – Level A
- Sap Business Objects – 4 Years – Level A
Industries:
- It Consulting – 13 Years – Level E
- Banking & Insurance – 17 Years – Level E
- Healthcare – 4 Years – Level M
- Retail & Consumer Goods – 5 Years – Level K
- Market Research – 5 Years – Level A
- Industry (Pharmaceuticals) – 2 Years – Level K
- Telecommunications – 3 Years – Level K
Languages
Education
Vienna University of Technology
Doctor of Business Informatics · Business Informatics · Vienna, Austria
Certifications & licenses
Agile Scrum Master
Exin
Cobit 5 Certificate
tecTrain
Consulting Curriculum
Werk4
Prince2 – Foundation & Practitioner Certificate
BTC Weiterbildung
SAP BO - Administrator & Report Developer
ARZ
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