Maria Zenchenko

A data professional, ACCA-certified, with experience across finance, data analytics, and project management, particularly in implementing data governance frameworks to meet regulatory requirements. Experienced in financial resource management, data quality and reporting. Proficient in 4 languages, tailored communication for diverse audiences to ensure effective collaboration and stakeholder engagement.

1. Career History

SMBC (EMEA Data Office)                                                                                                                                             Dec 2023 – Aug 2024

Data Governance Business Analyst (AML Transaction Monitoring) 

• Drove consensus on data governance by design and priorities while addressing key issues, ensuring stakeholder buy-in by leading the bi-weekly working groups (~7 people), using PowerPoint presentations
• Resolved data quality issues, leading to informed decision-making and process improvement for the programme.
• Liaised with a range of business and IT stakeholders to reconcile and align data and identify and prioritise 80 Data Elements (DEs), then catalogued and implemented in a Strategic Data Management tool (Collibra).
• Pioneered ingestion of technical lineage within Collibra to ensure compliance with BCBS239.
• Advocated for data team’s strategy and achievements to the wider department (~200 audience) in an auditorium.
• Complied with audit request by delivering lineage creation (from Datawarehouse) in JIRA in an agile environment.
• Streamlined project risk management by logging risks and assumptions, enabling management to address critical issues and dependencies.

Trooli (PMO)                                                                                                                                                                 Oct 2023 – Nov 2023 

Sales Data analyst 

• Developed into a newly created position, handling uncertainty and lack of structure.
• Led the full implementation of a new system (Monday.com) by learning solo and training colleagues for immediate testing and within 1 week. Documented the process leading to improved reporting for management.
• Delivered Key performance indicators (KPI’s) for the sales team to investors, reconciling from 5+ sources by collaborating with 3 departments in a two-day frame.
• Improved sales commissions review process and eliminated errors with controls in place for end-of-month sales commissions calculations in Excel.

NOMURA (Finance)     

                                                                                                                                                                                            Sep 2012 – Apr 2015

Financial Resource Management Associate

• Identified and escalated risks and concerns to global PMO to enable timely resolutions and mitigating potential disruptions to the delivery of a Basel 3 global regulatory project.
• Conducted and visualised financial resources analysis (liquidity) with sensitivity analysis to create reports for senior management for compliance and optimal resource reallocation. 
• ICAAP – facilitated data manipulation and cleansing and basic modelling for regulatory requirements compliance.

Finance Graduate:                                                                                                                                                                         

                                                                                                                                                                                           Sep 2010 – Sep 2012

Corporate Reporting Financial Reporting: Monthly and quarterly Bank of England regulatory reporting and internal reporting for financial statements, using financial systems. 

Treasury Planning and Analysis: Produced and delivered global liquidity dashboards for 4 regions for Tokyo Head office and regulatory reporting to the FSA (liquidity limits compliance and avoiding breach fines). Repurposed dashboards for senior management.

                                                                                                                                                                                           Jun 2008 – Aug 2009

Finance Placement Student: Reconciliations to Bloomberg and accounting systems to deliver daily P&L reports to 3 trading desks; produced daily trading market results snapshot through liaising across finance, quantitative analysts and the front office.  Online training on derivatives

1. Additional Experience

English Language Coach - Freelancer                                                                                                                           Aug 2015 – present

1. TESOL qualified, university of Arizona online course

• Coached clients to pass exams, succeed in interviews, improve career opportunities and boost confidence.
• Enhanced quality and content of the sessions by integrating AI
• Facilitated communication between clients through translation.
• Launched 3 x Udemy courses  with 4k+ students with an average rating of 4.5.

Management Consultant - | Performance Test Executives – part time                                                              Feb 2021 – Oct 2021

• Guided a growing engineering business for more efficient business execution aligned with the business strategy.

1. Legal assistant –   Sheila Garcia – real estate lawyer                                                                                               Oct 2019 – Feb 2020

Coordinated legal work ensuring timely daily deals execution. Brought in 2 French speaking clients

1. Education
2. Bayes Business School (AMBA, AACSB, EQUIS) – BSc (Hons) Business studies                                                         

• 1st Class - A top 10% 3-year average; Beta Gamma Sigma membership, elected student representative. 
• Statistics, Financial analysis, Corporate Finance, Marketing, French for Business.

ACCA - Accounting and Finance                                                                                                                                  May 2011 – Aug 2013

• All exams passed on first attempt within 2 years.
• Financial management, financial & management accounting.

1. Professional Certificates

• IBM (via Coursera) Data Analyst Professional Certificate                                                                                     Mar 2023 

Data Analytics, Python for Data Science, Databases and SQL for Data, Python; Course Project: Identifying emerging trends in the IT industry.

• Google (via Coursera) Data Analytics Professional Certificate – (5/8 modules)

Preparing, Processing and Analysing data to answer business questions.

• Alteryx                                                                                                                                                                          Nov 2024

Cleaning, preparing, blending, parsing, transforming, and analysing data; 

• Data Management   (CMPD)                                                                                                                                        Dec 2024

1. Data Governance, Data Quality, Metadata Management, Master & Reference Data Management, Data warehousing and Data Security