Christine Mährle-Freelance Regulatory & IT Specialist in Banking

Conducting ICT/DORA management trainings based on DORA Article 5(4) at various banking institutions

Teaching the key elements of DORA requirements with a focus on ICT risks, third-party risk management, incident and problem management, and information registers

Deriving implementation measures and recommendations for management and business units

Advising a global systemically important "Brexit bank" in Germany on regulatory implementation of MaRisk/BAIT requirements

Preparing for a Section 44 audit with focuses on credit risk (BTO 1 / CRR), strategy and planning process (AT 4.2 or BAIT II.1), new product process (AT 8.1), project management process (AT 8.2 or BAIT II.6), and outsourcing (AT 9)

Developing and supporting measures to meet audit requirements and to sustainably embed regulatory requirements in processes and IT

Advising on the implementation of optimization approaches in master data management at a major German bank

Optimizing data quality reports and the quality assurance process to ensure the KYC process and BCBS239 compliance

Reducing the number of process interfaces to increase efficiency and data quality

Program management for an IFRS 9 project at a large German state bank

Independently managed the budget for the entire program

Coordinated and tracked measures from the project audit

Prepared documents for decision-making bodies

Quality assurance for the overall project management during the IT realignment of a large German savings bank

Advised on IT architecture

Developed a heatmap to track the progress of individual projects

Ensured coherence of the work outputs from the individual projects

Support for the PMO in the realignment of the entire IT of a large German savings bank (08/2016–10/2016): Preparing the PMO setup, budget planning and ensuring cost targets, creating committee documents, project planning

Feasibility study for a potential core banking system migration at a German fund provider (03/2016–07/2016): Developing migration scenarios, creating a business case, identifying and assessing project risks

Strategic development of the functional and sales features of a securities account for a German financial service provider (11/2015–03/2016): Designing market, competitor, and stakeholder analyses, working out strengths and weaknesses of the current product based on the 4 Ps and a business case, deriving sets of measures

Assisting a leading German IT service provider in responding to an RFI (11/2015–12/2015): Coordinating and moderating the response process, preparing proposal presentations

Developing a KPI system for implementing a new IT strategy at a German fund provider (10/2015–03/2016)

Project management and business analysis for the development of a new IT system to implement regulatory EMIR requirements at a large German bank (07/2014–06/2015): Preparing and coordinating decision papers, project planning, test management including creation and documentation of tests, capturing EMIR and management requirements, designing interfaces and functionalities, technical support during implementation

Project management for the strategic realignment of a core settlement system in the fund industry (02/2014–10/2014): Analyzing alternatives (source, make or buy), business analysis and assessment of the DIAMOS D fund settlement system (functional suitability, integrability), creating business cases and risk analyses, evaluating different partnership models

Short study on the future viability of COBOL/Host for a German fund provider (01/2014–02/2014)

Sub-project management for the realignment of sales at a large German IT financial service provider (09/2013–03/2014): Developing a new organizational and operational structure, creating a product strategy involving potential partners

Collaboration on the development of a modular model as part of the strategic realignment of a German securities settler (08/2013–01/2014): Developing a map of current and future service modules, designing the modules (process descriptions, upstream and downstream processes, process costs), business analysis for the harmonization of securities account numbers

Leading the "Functional Content" sub-project in a feasibility study for an ASP in fund settlement (04/2013–08/2013): Recording functional requirements, preparing, moderating, and following up on workshops with a potential provider

Sub-project management in the PMO for the realignment of the entire IT of a German fund provider (10/2011–03/2013): Managing the "Benefit Collection" sub-project, budget responsibility, program planning

Realignment of product management at a cooperative central bank (09/2011–11/2011): Creating the organizational and operational structure, defining the product portfolio, creating a business case

Program management and support for the "Functional Content" sub-project as part of the GenoSysWP securities migration project (01/2008–06/2008): Program planning, budget planning

PMO for Project Greenwich (outsourcing of market data management) (06/2007–12/2007): Creating status documentation, general PMO tasks such as meeting coordination and preparing minutes