Anwar Khan
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
London, United Kingdom
Toptal member since February 15, 2022
Anwar is a strategically-minded IT product and project management professional with extensive experience in heavily regulated and innovation-led banking and fintech platforms on an international stage. He blends advanced leadership, business, and technical acumen to optimize information architecture and Agile project delivery across remote teams. Anwar enjoys working with dedicated teams to deliver high-quality products to satisfied clients.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile Leadership
- Agile Project Management
- Automation
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
- Product Management
- Project Discovery
- Regulatory Compliance
- Stakeholder Management
Work Experience
IT Project Manager | Product Lead
Deutsche Bank
- Led a strategic data migration program across eight remote teams in multiple time zones ensuring adoption of strategic data architecture topics, such as event-based messaging and data security centralization.
- Generated product vision and roadmap for the data adoption program delivery and agreed backlog with senior management.
- Coached and led three teams to deliver strategic data store adoption on Oracle and GraphQL while managing the product backlog.
- Set up and ran governance and control forum for the data program and chaired the weekly working group.
Product Manager
Deutsche Bank
- Enhanced CRM performance by introducing initial automated credit-decisioning automation capability in four months, enabling 15% automated sanctioning decisions.
- Led product roadmap focused on credit risk management of limit excess management application, including commercial banking and traded products books–covering digital product and strategy planning.
- Delivered and maintained core excess management platform—€400 billion exposure across margin-traded products, money markets, futures, options, and commercial banking.
- Defined and implemented product vision, business architecture, stakeholder relations, product backlog management, and delivery plans. Led remote cross-functional teams across multiple time zones.
Agile Product Manager
Deutsche Bank
- Managed delivery of rules framework from the start, automating 21 processes, including robotic process automation over two years.
- Defined and implemented product vision, business architecture, stakeholder relations, product backlog management, and delivery plans for the product.
- Reduced development time by over 25% by enabling rapid onboarding of automation implementation.
- Conducted project discovery with stakeholders across portfolio management, credit risk management, and credit operations.
Regulatory Change Manager
DWS
- Generated solution architecture and coordinated delivery of Salesforce-based business solution for regulatory MiFID II sales and distribution workstream.
- Interpreted legislation of the target market and client suitability regulatory (MiFID II) requirements for sales and distribution workstream covering DWS asset management's active, passive, and alternative fund offerings.
- Analyzed MiFID II legislation to derive compliant business solution architecture for DWS products working with a team of external consultants and DWS architects. Solution spanned ten different DWS systems, including BlackRock Aladdin.
Risk Change Manager
Deutsche Bank
- Developed and implemented core collateral allocation and distribution risk methodology of gross and net limits and utilization in calculating net exposures across more than €50 billion in collateral.
- Agreed collateral allocation methodology with internal risk and analytics functions and internal auditors.
- Enabled adherence to BCBS-239 regulatory requirements for €100+ billion in collateral via reconciliation and delivery of collateral feeds from five upstream booking platforms.
- Planned a milestone in the delivery of collateral feeds and change management and oversaw the work of two business analysts.
Agile IT Project Manager
Barclays Capital
- Managed the delivery of urgent credit decision automation system, blending vendor methodology and internal data to replace manual sanctioning.
- Coordinated efforts of three Scrum teams of 20 members with a budget of £1.4 million.
- Improved the governance controls, replaced two legacy applications, and resolved audit issues via end-to-end delivery of loan loss and impairment and recovery application for distressed corporate and commercial banking clients.
- Shared expert understanding of Agile development methodology within the Scrum and Agile frameworks. Reviewed and recommended best practices, product backlogs, user stories, documentation, and change and implementation processes.
Consultant | Project Manager
Lloyds Bank
- Designed the complex £100 million banking divestment of Sainsbury’s Bank from Lloyds, defining divestment structure to initiate work program between multiple stakeholders.
- Prepared the credit cards and loans separation topics between Lloyds Bank and Sainsbury Bank.
- Collaborated with the external consultancy to provide segregation solutions.
Senior Business Analyst
Barclays Wealth Management
- Wrote business analysis specifications and delivered and integrated RiskMetrics WealthBench market risk tool via vendor software to support investment managers' client risk profiling and asset allocation.
- Collaborated with the quantitative analysts and RiskMetrics and senior investment managers to define the underlying asset allocation methodologies and implement them in RiskMetrics WealthBench.
- Delivered training internationally to the investment managers to utilize RiskMetrics WealthBench.
Project History
Deutsche Bank
Reengineered the key strategic credit risk management platform that covers €400 billion risk exposures reducing technical tickets by 30% and headcount by 4 FTEs.
The rapid delivery of the re-imagined excess breach calculation engine resulted in:
1. optimization to achieve T+1 processing of breach calculations from T+4,
2. reduced technical suppressions by 30% leading to 4 FTEs reduction,
3. meeting the key regulatory deliverable for timeliness and accuracy (BCBS-239), and
4. meeting the key project KPI on time and budget.
The business was delighted at the delivery's pace and outcome and had a high satisfaction level.
My task was to generate the backlog with business stakeholders, set the vision and roadmap, and coach the new Scrum team through the delivery while keeping key business stakeholders informed of progress throughout the project. It was a great experience participating in a highly performant, empowered, and cross-functional Scrum team in delivering solutions within the compressed timeframes.
Decision Automation Framework
From project discovery to completion of MVP, I managed and delivered a cloud-based business rules framework and process automation engine replacing 21 different processes and enabling a rules-based approval process for credit limit decisioning.
• rapid prototyping to prove the hypothesis,
• third-party vendor selection,
• working with architects to define the cloud-based, data-agnostic solution,
• implementing the first four use cases of the framework,
• supporting multiple delivery teams to onboard their use cases onto the platform while enhancing the platform to meet their needs.
The project has been a highly valued success with IT and business stakeholders. The platform provides a high level of corporate governance and the ability to manage internal controls while allowing end business users to self-manage their business logic.
The application increased the pace of change in Deutsche Bank's credit risk management and lowered the cost of implementation and maintenance.
Barclays
Delivered front end and back end of a new corporate training (recoveries) and loan impairment application for relationship managers and recoveries operations.
The case management solution enabled a single dashboard view of a company's assets, liabilities, impairments, and collateral. It allowed the recoveries relationship managers to restructure the liabilities and payment streams using embedded workflows. In collaboration with the business stakeholders, we delivered the project via classic project discovery, including competitor analysis, user research, and roadmap for delivery.
Certifications
Professional Agile Leadership PAL I
Scrum.org
Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I)
Scrum.org
Certified Scrum Master PSM I and II
Scrum.org
SAFe 4 Certified Practitioner
Scaled Agile Inc
Prince2 Foundation Project Management
Prince2
Skills
Tools
Jira, Confluence, SQL, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Atlassian Suite, Google Workspace, Google Docs, Visio, Microsoft Project, Slack, Tableau, JBoss Drools, IBM BPM, Salesforce, Bitbucket, Stash, Artifactory, TeamCity, Cucumber
Paradigms
Change Management, Agile Project Management, Agile Product Management, Agile Leadership, Kanban, Waterfall Delivery, Requirements Analysis, Organizational Change Management (OCM), Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), Microservices, Scrum, Database Design, Agile
Platforms
Nexus, Oracle, Docker
Other
Project Management, Business Requirements, Functional Requirements, Credit Risk, Remote Team Leadership, Backlog Management, Feature Backlog Prioritization, Scrum Coaching, Feature Prioritization, Dashboards, Product Management, Automation, Regulatory Compliance, Product Owner, Business Analysis, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), IT Project Management, Program Management, Evidence-based Management, Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS), Technical Requirements, Stakeholder Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Interviewing, Product Vision, Product Roadmaps, Milestones, User Experience (UX), IT Product Management, Digital Asset Management, Objectives & Key Results (OKRs), Remote Work, Project Consultancy, Business Consulting, Investments & Risk Management, Risk, BCBS 239, Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Project Discovery, Vendor Selection, Business Process Automation, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Business Process Modeling, Reconciliation, Data Feeds, Technical Project Management, Technical Program Management, Technical Product Management, Discovery, Facilitation, Discovery Workshops, Agile Program Management, APIs, Process Design, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), User Stories, Feature Roadmaps, Data Management, Reporting, MIS Reporting, Team Leadership, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Requirements & Specifications, Product Requirements Documentation (PRD), Request for Proposal (RFP), IT Program Management, Agile Coaching, Machine Learning, Risk Modeling, Java, JSON, Technical Hiring, Clarity PPM, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Angular, RESTful Microservices, Earned Value Management (EVM), Market Risk, GraphQL, MiFid I & II, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), IBM Blueworks Live, Business Rules, Vendor Management, Fund of Funds, Hedge Funds, Mutual Funds, Alternative Investments, Business Architecture, Solution Architecture, Regulatory Analysis, Regulatory Reporting, Scrum Master, RiskMetrics, Wealth Management, REST APIs, Consulting, Training, Risk Management, Kubernetes, Data Modeling, Agile at Scale, Release Management, AngularJS, Spring, Spring Boot, ServiceNow, Agile Product Delivery, Gherkin, Python, Software Release Management, Professional Agile Leadership (PAL), Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT)
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