Grigori Potemkine

- Acted as senior project and test manager on a major integration project and transformation program, coordinating multiple workstreams and project teams.

- Defined and implemented the end-to-end test strategy, with governance for planning, execution tracking and defect management aligned with banking, risk and compliance requirements.

- Led cross-functional coordination between Business, IT, Operations, Risk, Finance and Compliance to clarify requirements, arbitrate priorities and secure timely decisions.

- Produced structured progress / risk / issue reports and recommendations for project committees and senior stakeholders to support decision-making.

- Supported business and operations during go-live and stabilisation, helping teams adapt processes, controls and documentation to the new set-up.

Customer Journey Expert in Savings, Investment and Client Advice:

- Squad Discretionary: TAP migration Project - 10 months.

- Squad Customer, Securities, Transaction: SRD II Project - 6 months.

- Squad Securities Handling: EMIR REFIT alignment project - 3 months.

- Squad Customer, Securities, Transaction: Settlement cycle shortening Project - 3 months

- Design, development and management of services and processes in the scope of the Tribe. Contribution to all events of the Agile way of working.

- Participation in the squad and chapter meetings, events like stand-ups, replenishments and retrospectives. Undertaking of data analysis and introduction of measuring of financial instruments. Proposition of actionable solutions and suggestions to improve to improve customer journeys.

- Optimization of processes in a customer friendly way to maximize customer and business value. Delivery of the customer journey strategy, management of the stakeholders, formulation of the product/service process and channel of the policy in line with external regulations, risk and compliance policies.

- Led a large-scale back-office migration project for life insurance, managing scope, planning, risks and issues across multiple entities and vendors.

- Coordinated cross-functional teams (Accounting, Finance, IT, Operations, Compliance, external providers) and chaired working groups to align on the target architecture and processes.

- Provided banking, insurance, regulatory and operational input to solution design, ensuring compliance with Luxembourgish and French life insurance regulations and internal policies.

- Reported to senior management through weekly project committees and monthly steering committees, providing structured analysis, decisions to be made and recommendations.

- Directed the collection and consolidation of business and functional requirements, challenging proposals from a risk, legal and operational perspective where necessary.

- Acted as principal contact for outsourcing partners, custodian banks, asset managers and valuators, ensuring a consistent understanding of valuation, reporting and regulatory constraints during and after migration.