Magdalena Adelina Tugui

• Act as a business partner to IT Project Managers, overseeing a portfolio of IT projects to ensure they stay within budget, meet deadlines, and align with business objectives
• Monitor and manage project costs, ensuring forecasts are accurate and addressing any discrepancies with Senior Leadership
• Participate in meetings with Senior Leadership, providing updates on cost performance, risk status (e.g., red/yellow risk), and any deviations from forecasts
• Work closely with Project Managers to ensure accurate financial reporting and that costs are properly allocated to the correct cost centers
• Advise on forecasting practices, helping Project Managers to refine their budgets and understand cost variances
• Provide clear and concise explanations of project financials to both Senior Leadership and Project Managers, ensuring all stakeholders are aligned
• Address ad-hoc requests or urgent needs from Senior Leadership related to financial status or project risks

• Led end-to-end project implementation, managing all phases from initiation, planning, execution, and monitoring to project closure with cross-functional collaboration across Accounting, Legal, Trading, and IT departments to ensure seamless project execution and alignment with business objectives
• Implement key company projects, including the launch of Mutual Funds, Preservation of the Qualified Intermediary (QI) license and Date Warehouse (Reports Organization at the company level) by applying Agile and Scrum methodologies to enhance efficiency in project delivery, utilizing internal systems such as Aplic, Axis, and Tradeville’s desktop and mobile platforms
• Manage and coordinate resources allocated to projects/interdependent projects, prioritize team tasks to meet deadlines, and oversee the delivery process, deliverables, risks and budget and prepare status presentations for project sponsor, management, stakeholders, and the project team
• Explore and deepen my knowledge of capital markets, financial instruments, stock exchange dynamics, and trading mechanisms and apply this expertise directly in managing and implementing the strategic projects, ensuring alignment between technical requirements and business objectives, contributing to the development and optimization of company processes.

BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions - Transformation PMO

• Designing, testing, budgeting and implementing global corporate and local projects (E-signature, E-invoice, E-transport, Call Center app for Collection and Customer Service departments, Charisma CRs)

Porsche Holding - Finance Project Manager

• Implementing digital solutions across financial processes, actively involving increating and updating project blueprint design and closed collaboration with all stakeholders involved in the tool implementation - Porsche Holding.

• Work closely with Process Owners to understand business objectives, identify, prioritize and execute initiatives aimed to improve GBS process efficiency, effectiveness, user experience and customer satisfaction;
• Led various automation initiatives, SAP enhancements and CI projects for the dedicated financial departments and cross functional teams;
• Created and delivered CI trainings and organized various events to foster CI mindset and culture and met innovation demands at GBS level;
• Used a rigorous risk identification and mitigation process and budget forecasting across all projects including the additional ones (Business Continuity Plan, E-signature and E-archiving).

• Coordinate process assessment sessions for end-to-end financial processes, identifying new projects opportunities from reducing wastes to reducing costs and FTEs releasing;
• Provide coaching and mentorship for 3 global Black Belt projects and multiple Green and Yellow Belt projects for increasing process efficiency and customer satisfaction as well as improving the operational metrics;
• Review and improve the KPIs across the entire company and implement the new ones using the U-Connect platform and program;
• Organize regular reviews with business stakeholders to align projects, priorities, risks, status and next steps.

• Created and monitored the Continuous Improvement Roadmap on the assigned Finance and Banking Business Line;
• Building and maintaining the Lean Six Sigma culture and mindset through: set up the vision, design the strategy and implement specific methods at the entire company level and align with all the stakeholders involved;
• Developing training frameworks and conducting training sessions: Green Belt (quarterly) and Yellow Belt (monthly) for the entire organization;
• Lean Six Sigma Mentor / Coach: provided direct mentorship and coaching for all Lean Six Sigma projects and initiatives;
• Managed projects from initiation to closure for Lean Six Sigma area and additional portfolios (Business Continuity Plan, ServiceNow and GDPR);
• Acting as Coach for Lean Management program deployment specifically adressed to management teams.

Lean Six Sigma Project Manager

• Coordinated all designed and development Lean Six Sigma requirements (projects, initiaves, events) for the designated Business Line, overseeing 25departments and 900 employees; collaborating with hub leaders, business stakeholders and operations managers;
• Implemented quality control measures and monitor metrics (KPIs and SLAs) and developed visual dashboards (Power BI, Qlik Sense) to set and track performance and areas for improvement;
• Managed the full project life cycle for finance and accounting processes starting with needs identification, project initiation to project closure, ensuring successful projects delivery aligned with the agreed scope, business objectives, budget, governance and timeline;
• Conduct brainstorming sessions to identify opportunities for improvement, evaluate the resulting pipeline and determine the appropriate technology for implementation (RPA, optimization, automation, and Lean Six Sigma);
• Lean Six Sigma Mentor / Coach: provided direct mentorship and coaching for all Lean Six Sigma projects and initiatives and coordonated specific LSS training programs.

• Manage accounts receivable (OTC) related tasks, analyse and communicate discrepancies between AR and accounts payable (PTP) balances;
• Collaborate with the General Ledger (RTR) team to resolve month-end imbalances in the SAP system prior to final submission;
• Provide training to new team members on end-to-end process activities and support them in effectively transferring process knowledge.

• Execute comprehensive strategies for promoting and directly selling pharmaceutical products;
• Design and create customized sales reports and dashboards using internal specific reporting tools;
• Conduct product presentations and facilitate training sessions for company’s clients;
• Present sales insights and recommendations to stakeholders, including sales managers, executives, and other relevant teams.