barry eisenberg

Project Leader at Citibank N.A.

Bio Summary

Business transformation leader helping financial service companies manage complex strategic, technological, and regulatory-driven change initiatives across front to back-office functions through end-to-end project management, analysis and delivery capabilities. Ability to combine deep finance and industry experience with technological competence, including knowledge of blockchain/DLT, and strong program and project management expertise. Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional teams and successfully lead business transformation and technology development initiatives from scoping and definition to analysis and execution to post-implementation transition and support.

Employment History

Project Leader

Citibank N.A.

May 2021 - present

New York, NY, USA

Product Manager

AllianceBernstein

October 2017 - September 2020

Nashville, TN, USA

Professional Consultant

HSBC

February 2015 - August 2017

New York, NY, USA

Principal

Barclays

August 2012 - January 2015

New York, NY, USA

Vice President

Mubadala

October 2008 - August 2012

Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates

Senior Associate

Morgan Stanley

January 2004 - August 2007

New York, NY, USA

Associate

PwC

September 1999 - December 2003

Boston, MA, USA

Selected Project Experience

Project Description:

Led multiple project workstreams across two large programs of work: Standard Approach to Counterparty Credit Risk (SA-CCR) to ensure compliance with new Basel regulations for measuring counterparty credit risk for derivative contracts under the regulatory capital rule and to resolve existing regulatory gaps and issues impacting RWA; Price Risk to address enterprise-wide issues in price risk management across 1 & 2 LoD, and define strategic plan and book of work to improve price risk management and process and controls across Citi Markets’ business. Responsibilities include:  Develop and execute detailed project plans to meet milestones and CAP deadlines, manage delivery execution, conduct ongoing monitoring of progress across milestones, deliverables, risks/issues, etc., and provide regular status updates and escalations to SteerCo and other governance forums.  Oversee functional PM resources involved in day-day task execution and milestone delivery and administer and monitor project status at program level and coordinate across functional PMs to review and challenge plans, deliverables, change requests, resourcing and budget requirements.  Facilitate cross-program coordination and status reporting between individual work streams to ensure clear governance and communication processes are established for the project and aligned with overall program governance and communication plans.  Establish and lead formal working groups and partner with members and key stakeholders to escalate and resolve risks, issues and dependencies that may impact delivery of project milestones.

Industry: Financial Services

Topic(s): Project & Program Management

Project Description:

Oversaw a team of 5 resources responsible for managing corporate technology strategic projects and the on-going management of enterprise technology products. Key accomplishments included: Worked with leadership of business units across the firm (e.g., Equities and Fixed Income Portfolio Management teams, Institutional Research, Private Client, etc.) to understand key requirements and corporate technology needs and to design business-specific solutions, often working closely with technology vendors to develop and deliver solutions. Identified, prioritized and managed the delivery of multiple strategic technology projects as well as the development and implementation of new features and functionality for corporate technology products that required the management of product roadmaps, deployment of new product releases, and day-to-day product support across all client endpoints. Managed the design and development of Management reports using BI technologies (e.g., PowerBI) to report key enterprise technology product usage metrics for each Strategic Business Unit (SBU) and geographic region and delivering reports to the SBU Heads monthly. Built new product and project management frameworks to improve the team’s ability to oversee strategic technology projects and better manage AB’s portfolio of enterprise technology products critical to support the firm’s core businesses and operations, which consisted of: Formalizing project management policies and procedures that define requirements related to project governance structure, methodology (e.g., Agile vs Waterfall), project tracking, reporting and artifacts. Standardizing key project artifacts including charters, plans, trackers, RAID logs, RACI matrices, status reports, milestone closure documents and governance meeting forms. Designing the information architecture to automate project management workflows and significantly improve project tracking, deliverables and Management reporting.

Industry: Financial Services

Topic(s): Product Management

Education

Master's in Finance

Baruch College

2008

Bachelor's in Managerial Economics

Union College

1999

Language Skills

French English

Change & Implementation,

Transformation Management Office,

Digital Strategy,

Digital Transformation,

Operational Due Diligence,

Target Search,

Valuation,

Product Development,

Product Management,

Information Technology

technology transformations,

IT PMO,

IT Strategy,

IT Transformation

Industry Experience

Financial Services

Asset Management,

Transactions Banking

Principal Investors

Private Equity,

Sovereign Wealth Fund