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Christian (Dr.) Piffer - Migration Lead for Accounting & Year-End Closing Tests

Christian Piffer
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Vienna, Austria

Experience

Aug 2023 - Jan 2025
1 year 6 months

Migration Lead for Accounting & Year-End Closing Tests

Raiffeisenverband Salzburg

Expertise details
Position Summary
Migration Lead for Accounting & Year-End Closing Tests at Raiffeisenverband Salzburg
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business Areas
Accounting
Project Management
  • 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
May 2023 - Present
2 years 11 months

Management Consultant

MediaPrint

Expertise details
Position Summary
Management Consultant at MediaPrint
Industries
Media and Entertainment
Business Areas
Information Technology
  • Sparring partner for relevant IT topics
Feb 2023 - May 2023
4 months

Project Auditor / PM Expert

Oberbank Leasing GmbH

Expertise details
Position Summary
Project Auditor / PM Expert at Oberbank Leasing GmbH
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business Areas
Information Technology
Project Management
  • 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
Jan 2022 - Apr 2023
1 year 4 months

Work Package Responsibility Across Project Streams

Raiffeisenlandesbank OÖ

Expertise details
Position Summary
Work Package Responsibility Across Project Streams at Raiffeisenlandesbank OÖ
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business Areas
Information Technology
Project Management
Quality Assurance
  • 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
May 2021 - Dec 2021
8 months

Project Manager

ARZ/Verbundbanken

Expertise details
Position Summary
Project Manager at ARZ/Verbundbanken
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business Areas
Information Technology
Project Management
  • 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
Mar 2021 - May 2021
3 months

Auditor/IT Expert

MediaPrint

Expertise details
Position Summary
Auditor/IT Expert at MediaPrint
Industries
Media and Entertainment
Business Areas
Audit
Information Technology
  • 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
Jan 2021 - Feb 2022
1 year 2 months

CRM/IT/Data Expert

Erste Group AG

Expertise details
Position Summary
CRM/IT/Data Expert at Erste Group AG
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business Areas
Business Intelligence
Customer Service
Information Technology
  • 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)
Sep 2020 - Dec 2021
1 year 4 months

Project Manager

ARZ/Volksbanken

Expertise details
Position Summary
Project Manager at ARZ/Volksbanken
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business Areas
Information Technology
Project Management
  • 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
Apr 2020 - Dec 2020
9 months

Interim CTO / Project Manager

Fintech company (mortgage business)

Expertise details
Position Summary
Interim CTO / Project Manager at Fintech company (mortgage business)
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business Areas
Information Technology
Project Management
  • 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
Nov 2019 - Dec 2021
2 years 2 months

Project Manager

Erste Bank & VIG

Expertise details
Position Summary
Project Manager at Erste Bank & VIG
Industries
Banking and Finance
Insurance
Business Areas
Business Intelligence
Finance
Project Management
  • 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
Nov 2018 - Dec 2020
2 years 2 months

Business Project Manager

Erste Bank Österreich

Expertise details
Position Summary
Business Project Manager at Erste Bank Österreich
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business Areas
Project Management
  • 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
Nov 2017 - Mar 2019
1 year 5 months

Business Project Manager / Product Owner

Erste Bank Österreich

Expertise details
Position Summary
Business Project Manager / Product Owner at Erste Bank Österreich
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business Areas
Business Intelligence
Marketing
Project Management
  • 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
Nov 2017 - Dec 2018
1 year 2 months

IT Project Manager

Raiffeisen Software GmbH

Expertise details
Position Summary
IT Project Manager at Raiffeisen Software GmbH
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business Areas
Information Technology
Project Management
  • 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
Jun 2016 - Dec 2017
1 year 7 months

Multi IT Project Manager

Raiffeisen Software GmbH

Expertise details
Position Summary
Multi IT Project Manager at Raiffeisen Software GmbH
Industries
Banking and Finance
Information Technology
Business Areas
Accounting
Finance
Project Management
  • 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
Jan 2016 - Aug 2016
8 months

Data Quality Management Expert

Erste Group AG

Expertise details
Position Summary
Data Quality Management Expert at Erste Group AG
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business Areas
Business Intelligence
Quality Assurance
  • 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
Sep 2015 - Jun 2016
10 months

Business Analyst

Erste Group AG

Expertise details
Position Summary
Business Analyst at Erste Group AG
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business Areas
Business Intelligence
Finance
  • 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
Sep 2015 - Mar 2016
7 months

Facilitator / Data Governance Expert

Allgemeines Rechenzentrum

Expertise details
Position Summary
Facilitator / Data Governance Expert at Allgemeines Rechenzentrum
Industries
Information Technology
Business Areas
Information Technology
Quality Assurance
  • 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
Jun 2015 - Sep 2015
4 months

Project Manager / Data Governance Expert

Berner Group

Expertise details
Position Summary
Project Manager / Data Governance Expert at Berner Group
Industries
Automotive
Business Areas
Information Technology
Project Management
Strategy
  • 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
Jan 2015 - Jun 2015
6 months

Data Governance Expert

Erste Group AG

Expertise details
Position Summary
Data Governance Expert at Erste Group AG
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business Areas
Information Technology
Quality Assurance
  • 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
Sep 2014 - Dec 2014
4 months

BI-Consultant/Designer

ÖBB/IKT

Expertise details
Position Summary
BI-Consultant/Designer at ÖBB/IKT
Industries
Transportation
Business Areas
Business Intelligence
  • 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
Sep 2013 - Jan 2015
1 year 5 months

Test Manager / Project Manager

Raiffeisen Software Solution und Service GmbH

Expertise details
Position Summary
Test Manager / Project Manager at Raiffeisen Software Solution und Service GmbH
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business Areas
Project Management
Quality Assurance
  • 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
Jan 2011 - Feb 2011
2 months

Requirements Management and Detailed Specification

Volksbanken Investments

Expertise details
Position Summary
Requirements Management and Detailed Specification at Volksbanken Investments
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business Areas
Information Technology
Product Development
  • Creating a requirements specification for consolidating different treasury applications
  • Managing requirements together with requirement owners and stakeholders
Apr 2010 - Jun 2010
3 months

Senior Consultant

Mobiltel Bulgaria

Expertise details
Position Summary
Senior Consultant at Mobiltel Bulgaria
Industries
Telecommunication
Business Areas
Information Technology
  • 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
Dec 2009 - May 2010
6 months

Consultant

Universität der Angewandten Künste

Expertise details
Position Summary
Consultant at Universität der Angewandten Künste
Industries
Education
Business Areas
Information Technology
Project Management
  • 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
Nov 2009 - Nov 2009
1 month

Test Manager

Telekom Austria

Expertise details
Position Summary
Test Manager at Telekom Austria
Industries
Telecommunication
Business Areas
Quality Assurance
  • Creating a company-wide concept for a central test center
  • Defining prerequisites, constraints, basic concept, and procedures for phased quality assurance
Oct 2009 - Aug 2013
3 years 11 months

Business Unit Manager

Focus Media Research

Expertise details
Position Summary
Business Unit Manager at Focus Media Research
Industries
Media and Entertainment
Business Areas
Marketing
Sales
Strategy
  • 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
Sep 2009 - Mar 2010
7 months

Requirements Management / Consultant

A1 Mobilkom

Expertise details
Position Summary
Requirements Management / Consultant at A1 Mobilkom
Industries
Telecommunication
Business Areas
Information Technology
Product Development
  • 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
Feb 2009 - Jun 2009
5 months

Test Manager

A1 Mobilkom

Expertise details
Position Summary
Test Manager at A1 Mobilkom
Industries
Telecommunication
Business Areas
Quality Assurance
  • 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
Jan 2009 - Mar 2009
3 months

Test Manager

A1 Mobilkom

Expertise details
Position Summary
Test Manager at A1 Mobilkom
Industries
Telecommunication
Business Areas
Quality Assurance
  • 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
Sep 2008 - Nov 2011
3 years 3 months

Project Manager / Data Governance Expert

ITSV

Expertise details
Position Summary
Project Manager / Data Governance Expert at ITSV
Industries
Insurance
Government and Administration
Business Areas
Business Intelligence
Information Technology
Project Management
  • 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)
Sep 2008 - Jul 2009
11 months

Senior Consultant

A1 Mobilkom

Expertise details
Position Summary
Senior Consultant at A1 Mobilkom
Industries
Telecommunication
Business Areas
Business Intelligence
Information Technology
Quality Assurance
  • 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
Jun 2006 - Aug 2008
2 years 3 months

Group Lead Data Quality Management & Reporting Systems

Volksbanken AG

Expertise details
Position Summary
Group Lead Data Quality Management & Reporting Systems at Volksbanken AG
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business Areas
Business Intelligence
Information Technology
Project Management
  • 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

Industry Experience

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Experienced in Banking and Finance, Media and Entertainment, Insurance, Government and Administration, Information Technology, and Telecommunication.

Banking and Finance
Media and Entertainment
Insurance
Government and Administration
Information Technology
Telecommunication
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Business Area Experience

See which departments and functions this freelancer has contributed to most.

Experienced in Project Management, Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Quality Assurance, Marketing, and Finance.

Project Management
Information Technology
Business Intelligence
Quality Assurance
Marketing
Finance
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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

German
Native
English
Advanced

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

Statistics

Experience

Total positions 32
Experience in Banking and Finance 13 y
Avg length 1 y 1 m
Longest experience 3 y 10 m

Expertise

Recent roles Migration Lead for Accounting & Year-End Closing Tests, Management Consultant, Project Auditor / PM Expert
Main industries Banking and Finance, Media and Entertainment, Insurance
Main business areas Project Management, Information Technology, Business Intelligence

Qualifications

Highest degree Doctorate
Certifications earned 5

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Where is Christian based?

Christian is based in Vienna, Austria and can operate in on-site, hybrid, and remote work models.

What languages does Christian speak?

Christian speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced).

How many years of experience does Christian have?

Christian has at least 20 years of experience. During this time, Christian has worked in at least 26 different roles and for 23 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 7 months. Note that Christian may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

What roles would Christian be best suited for?

Based on recent experience, Christian would be well-suited for roles such as: Migration Lead for Accounting & Year-End Closing Tests, Management Consultant, Project Auditor / PM Expert.

What is Christian's latest experience?

Christian's most recent position is Migration Lead for Accounting & Year-End Closing Tests at Raiffeisenverband Salzburg.

What companies has Christian worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Christian has worked for Raiffeisenverband Salzburg, MediaPrint, Oberbank Leasing GmbH, Raiffeisenlandesbank OÖ, and ARZ/Verbundbanken.

Which industries is Christian most experienced in?

Christian is most experienced in industries like Banking and Finance, Media and Entertainment, and Insurance. Christian also has some experience in Government and Administration, Information Technology, and Telecommunication.

Which business areas is Christian most experienced in?

Christian is most experienced in business areas like Project Management, Information Technology, and Business Intelligence. Christian also has some experience in Marketing, Quality Assurance, and Finance.

Which industries has Christian worked in recently?

Christian has recently worked in industries like Banking and Finance, Media and Entertainment, and Insurance.

Which business areas has Christian worked in recently?

Christian has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology, Project Management, and Business Intelligence.

What is Christian's education?

Christian holds a Doctorate in Business Informatics from Vienna University of Technology.

Does Christian have any certificates?

Christian has 5 certificates. Among them, these include: Agile Scrum Master, Cobit 5 Certificate, and Consulting Curriculum.

What is the availability of Christian?

Christian is immediately available full-time for suitable projects.

What is the rate of Christian?

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