Dražen Jarak

Portfolio Management / Financial Controlling

Management of global IT project portfolio. Responsible for long term and annual planning of the portfolio and tracking of financial targets respective to projects and portfolio. Reporting of actuals/budget and analysis/forecast and initiation of portfolio managing measures.
Tracking and active steering of IT capitalization and management of IT assets. Lead for global training on portfolio and capitalization topics.

Financial Controlling: Financial management for global 500+ FTE organization. Lead for financial analysis and forecast. Financial target setting and tracking for departments. Responsible for planning of hiring and implementation of corrective measures to ensure achievement of financial target. Tracking of balanced scorecard targets and KPI's and ensuring achievement of objectives.

10.2002 – 11.2008 Winterthur Insurance, Winterthur, Switzerland

Executive Assistant to the CIO
Support of the Chief Information Technology Officer in IT strategic and operational matters. Improvement of the IT governance process and framework and support of the strategic and operational IT projects.
Lead or participation in the following selection of projects:
Project portfolio management and coordination of resources
IT governance definition, current state analysis and desired state definition
IT scorecard and IT dashboard definition and implementation

Team Leader, Private Lines
Management of a team consisting of developers and business analysts. Responsible for business and IT development and project work, Liaison and co-ordination with other application and infrastructure teams.

Project coordinator: Lean Sigma Pilot Project
Coordination of external resources, project planning, reporting to the CFO, coordination of German and Swiss work streams.
Senior analyst, project coordinator: OKPI Non Life Measurement. Setting up and coordination of the feasibility study for the measurement of the "Operational Key Performance Indices" for 5 different market units.

Project manager, application owner: CarWeb services (Internet insurance portal)
Project lead "Web Application Services".
Responsible for change requests, production and rollout of SST services (Server Smalltalk).
SOX compliance responsibility. Business and IT requirements coordinator.

IT product manager
Household and Private Insurances, planning and coordination of business requirements and change requests.
IT-responsibility, first contact for business requests, product changes and releases for the household insurance.
Application Manager: KIS (Customer Information System) responsible for SOX compliance, business requests and release planning


10.2000 – 01.2002 Paradata Systems Inc., Whistler, Canada
Executive Manager Europe
Setup Zurich office, legal requirements, operations Product Manager Internet credit card payments
Definition of product requirements, coordination of product development for Europe. Planning of IT resources and requirements.

Account manager
European customers (RBS UK, TeleCash Deutschland, SHB Sweden, Telekurs Switzerland)


03.2000 - 07.2000 Payserv (Telekurs AG), Zurich, Switzerland
IT Project manager
Credit Card processing, e-Payments, Internet transactions, SET, SSL, 3DSecure, Server valet, Payment gateways
Architect
Failsafe infrastructure for the CA (Certificate Authority) Server and the Payment gateway


10.1999 - 03.2000 Bayerische Landesbank, Munich, Germany
Consultant
Implementation, Customizing Risk Management Systems


IT Skills
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Payment gateways, CA (Certificate authority) Infrastructure and software
Payment processing software
Smalltalk, Java, C++, DB2, MQ-Series, XML, HTML
Access, MS Project, Visio, Word
Windows, Mac, UNIX und Host knowledge

Language Skills
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German, Croatian native speaker
English excellent skills
French very good skills
Italian medium skills