About Maria
German
Basic
English
Native or bilingual
Experience
- ZalandoTechnical Project ManagerMarch 2022 - May 2026 (4 years and 2 months)Berlin, Germany• • Drive Finance Reporting transformation initiatives, achieving 70% on-time project delivery by aligning stakeholder priorities and managing competing demands across teams.• • Lead three streams (Business Analysts, Data Engineers, and Reporting Engineers), managing 11-13 FTEs.• • Ensure reporting solutions are matched with upstream finance systems and enterprise data sources, enabling consistent and reliable financial insights across 100% of reports.• • Establish structured planning, prioritization, and governance practices to proactively identify risks and resolve stakeholder conflicts, reducing escalations by 90%.• • Present delivery progress, architectural considerations, and strategic recommendations to senior leadership.• • Lead change initiatives to modernize and phase out legacy reporting processes.• • Define critical success factors and measurable KPIs to monitor program performance, driving a 10% improvement in stakeholder satisfaction.• • Advise cross-functional teams on best practices for digital transformation, resulting in a 20% increase in project efficiency within 6 months.• • Environment: JIRA, Confluence, AWS, ETL pipelines, MSTR, Agile (Scrum/Kanban), Miro, KPI/OKR frameworks.
- AfinitiProgram Manager / Portfolio Delivery Lead – AI SolutionsJuly 2020 - December 2021 (1 year and 5 months)• • Worked closely with service leads (architects) to deliver MVP capabilities in new verticals through iterative releases, accelerating time-to-market by 20%.• • Strengthened governance by standardizing JIRA and GIT workflows, improving project predictability and delivery efficiency across 3+ teams(8 FTEs).• • Facilitated executive-level triage discussions for strategic deployments and issue resolution, reducing critical incident resolution time.
- S&P GlobalBusiness Analyst – Enterprise Data & ESG InitiativesJuly 2018 - June 2020 (1 year and 11 months)• • Led multidisciplinary programs supporting enterprise data and ESG initiatives, delivering 8+ projects across multiple divisions.• • Expanded marketplace data delivery pipelines across divisions, reducing data duplication by 30% and improving operational efficiency.• • Provided product and technical support to client-facing teams, improving issue resolution time by 10% and enhancing stakeholder satisfaction.
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Education
- Software EngineeringFatima Jinnah Women's University2015Software Engineering
- Masters Project ManagementBahria University2018
Certifications
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM)Scrum.org2023
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)Scrum Alliance2023