Vijay Pattni

Senior Program and Portfolio Leader with 20+ years’ experience delivering enterprise technology, digital and business transformation and change across FTSE organisations and fintech scale-ups. Proven record directing portfolios exceeding £100M, embedding governance and financial discipline, and aligning strategic change to measurable business outcomes. Recognised for building high-performing teams, simplifying complex delivery landscapes, and enabling value realisation through collaboration, structured execution and creating value champions. Alignment and delivery to full SDLC via Agile and Waterfall best practice.

Industry exposure includes Financial Services, Fintech, Insurance, Consulting, Telecommunications, and Private-Equity-backed businesses (carve-out). Passionate about people-first leadership, pragmatic agility, and sustainable transformation.

Strategic Leadership: Portfolio & Program Management • Transformation Governance • Investment Prioritisation • Strategy-to-Execution Alignment • Operating Model Design • TSA

Delivery Excellence: SDLC Alignment • Enterprise Agile (SAFe, Scrum, Kanban) • PMO Build-Out & Maturity • Benefits Realisation • Owning change Delivery Frameworks and standards • Mixed Agile/Waterfall Execution • Offshoring • Vendor Management

Financial & Risk Management: £100M+ Opex/Capex Oversight • Budget Optimisation • Value & ROI Tracking • Risk, Issue & Dependency Management • Board-Level Reporting • Business Case mobilisation and alignment.

Stakeholder & People Leadership: C-Suite Engagement • Cross-Functional Collaboration • Building and Managing High Performing, Coaching, Mentoring • Performance & Capability Development • Leading Project Managers and Program Managers

Portfolio and Program Delivery: Annual Op Planning • Portfolio Planning • Owning Governance and Prioritisation • End to end Program Delivery • Delivery Planning • Risks and Dependencies Management • ExCo Reporting • Process Optimisation. RAID mitigation • Day 1 readiness • Post-separation execution.

Tools & Platforms: Jira • Smartsheets • Oracle • MS Office • GenAI for Financial Modelling • Clarit

BEng (Hons) in Software Engineering from City University, London. SAFe Agilist (5.0). Prince2 Practitioner. Prosci ADKAR.