Sara Stephens

• Led and delivered Strategic Scenario Framework effort for $200 million, four-year regulatory (CCAR stress testing) transformation
• Defined credible production-ready roadmap and enacted a rapid remediation plan for identified risks in order to successful deliver the product into production
• Established an automated QA testing pack that covers 100% of functional requirements and improved unit test coverage from 0% to 70%
• Reduced QA UAT lead time from 14 days to 20 minutes saving ~$35K annually and decreasing time to market
• Built a small and highly effective globally distributed team of five developers and testers
• Managed the requirements and integration of three external back office and front office global teams
• Assisted developers in the design and architecture of the framework
• Defined and implemented product branding

• Recruited to lead firm’s North America consolidation effort of three intraday rates risk solutions
• Improved client relationships and trust through standardising communication channels, transparency and defining project management roles between client and Poland development team. This led to a 50% reduction in support noise allowing developers to focus on implementation
• Helped save $1 million by discontinuing non-essential development work; managed Poland team to re-align effort and resources to critical projects
• Led internal review of three NY Macro IT teams, which led to senior management gaining valuable insight into the internal operations and issues facing the teams

• Founder of service-based micro business realizing £45K revenue year on year
• Hired and managed team of five junior staff
• Grew business from B to C to incorporate B to B
• Designed and implemented SaaS e-commerce IT platform
• Defined branding and marketing strategy
• Driving business change through cost-analysis
• Created and nurtured a high service culture that led to #1 ranking on Trip Advisor three years running

• Simplified existing architectural landscape and minimised IT footprint of the Macro technology stack aspart of an aggressive TCO effort to reduce IT costs  and deliver ~10M CHF saving annually 
• Built and bootstrapped a team of twelve development resources to adopt strategic technologies 

• C# software engineer delivering for multiple financial IT projects in the front office risk management space

1st Class Honours

Internal Credit Suisse Course

Internal Credit Suisse Course