Martins has over fifteen (15) years experience providing advisory services to our clients in financial services, Government and telecommunications industries. He has responsibility for managing IT projects/engagements for our varied clients in the financial services and telecommunication industries across Ghana, Senegal, The Gambia and Nigeria.
Representative Experience
Martins has been involved in providing project management, system assessment and design, project implementation, data assurance, revenue assurance, project risk management, IT due diligence and business process review services to our varied clients especially in the financial services and telecommunications industries. Martins currently serves as the quality assurance manager for an ongoing major system implementation project in the financial services industry.
Martins has extensive project management experience and has managed several medium to large engagements with local and multinational teams. His experience includes, but not limited to:
üLeading a team of Advisors to perform pre and post implementation project assurance services on the upgrade of the Finacle banking application of a Nigerian Bank. During the pre-implementation phase, he was involved in the review of implementation strategy, benchmarking of the change management process against good practice, assessment of e-channel integration strategy, review of failsafe measures and data migration. During the post implementation phase, he developed and implemented procedures to ascertain the completeness and accuracy of migrated data.
üServing as Project Manager for the implementation of Fintrak IFRS application in a Flexcube environment. The engagement entailed IFRS solution build, testing and deployment. As Project Manager, Martins was responsible for solution delivery spanning:
- Requirement gathering to facilitate selection of an optimal IFRS reporting solution;
- Evaluation and selection of an IFRS solution
- Ensuring alignment of infrastructure specification to system requirement;
- Quality assurance over data extraction, transformation and loading;
- Development of workarounds for core and subsidiary processing applications;
- Facilitating monthly status presentation to the project steering committee (PSC);
- Articulation of test phase entry and exit criteria;
- Development of performance testing, UAT and regression testing strategy and procedures; and
- Articulation and invoking of Go-Live plan
üMartins has been involved in various infrastructure stack reviews for clients in the Banking and Telecommunication sectors, including:
- Oracle RAC cluster environment
- IBM AIX server architecture and deployment
- TIA 942 (standards for data centres) gap analysis of a new multi million dollar data centre infrastructure
- Storage solutions (SAN, DAS, NAS)
- MS Windows Servers
- Power solutions (e.g. Trinergy UPS)
- Fire monitoring systems
- Environmental monitoring solutions
üHe was the manager on the systems and processes work stream of the successful implementation of IFRS reporting application for one of the leading banks in Nigeria. The Bank required KPMG to perform a gap analysis of its existing reporting framework, design an optimum reporting framework which complies with IFRS requirements. Martins performed detailed reviews of the software agreement and application vendor SLA to ensure optimal value to client. He was also responsible for project management activities on the following, amongst others:
- Application deployment and integration
- Infrastructure specification and deployment
- Data extraction, transformation and loading
- Workarounds for main and subsidiary processing applications
- Development of test strategy
- Articulation of test entry and exit criteria
- Development of performance testing, UAT and regression testing procedures
- Test reporting
- Articulation and invoking of Go-Live plan
Martins was also responsible for facilitating project steering committee (PSC) meetings throughout the project life cycle. He served as a manager in providing IFRS assessment and design engagement to the following organizations:
- A leading bank in Nigeria;
- A major player in the Aviation industry;
- A foremost aviation handling company; and
- A capital market regulator
The engagements involved performing a gap analysis of their existing reporting infrastructure and design of an optimum reporting structure which complies with IFRS requirements
