Desalyn Bowyer

Experienced APAC PMO Manager with 10+ years of experience overseeing a $100M portfolio and leading a team to deliver world-class project management office services. Implemented Trello to improve workflow, resulting in a 20% increase in project efficiency in just 6 months. Developed and maintained governance processes, resulting in a 30% reduction in project costs in 1 year.

Desalyn is an expert in Project Management Office Set up and Governance Reporting to support projects.

She has worked across a range of industries, including Financial Services, Insurance and Legal. A project consultant with experience working on high-profile, strategic, and regulatory programs with significant IT and business deliverables with a transformative impact. Desalyn is motivated, committed and results-orientated with extensive experience in end-to-end program coordination as well as setting up PMO’s from inception.

• Established an ongoing training and engagement program ‘Community of Practice’. This community was set up to elevate the overall project skill sets of the entire program.
• Delivered a strategy approach for CFO Office (FWD) that outlined pillars for work by which an umbrella PMO could be established.
• Established a revised process for the submission of project materials between Hong Kong and Japan to the Regional Strategic PMO. This revised process ensured quality measures were put in place prior to review by APAC and Global counterparts. The Quality Checklist was established and used as quick guide for the region.
• Establishment of Project Management Office within the Conduct business unit.
• Reduction in overall spend by $22m for FY19 to allow for strategic projects to be funded within consumer bank.
• Creation of Insights for single point of view for all financials for major regulatory program of work.
• Established and embedded a sound reporting process; enhanced the quality of reporting inputs including control registers, reporting guidelines and increased alignment to the enterprise project methodology, Project managed the redesign of the Program SharePoint site to standardize content, enhance security, and make the site more user-friendly, driving the documentation and continuous improvement of all PMO processes.
• Identified underspend that was not utilized from the previous financial year. Initiated activities to ensure the un-spent funds were rolled over into the allocated funding for the current financial year. Program was currently restricted with funding and this ensured that some deliverables would be part of the ongoing scope for the next financial year in which the program remained compliant with the regulators.
• Established governance reporting that was standardized for executive level reports. Time sheet charge back was established to ensure the business units had full transparency of the work that was completed. Created dynamic dashboard reporting to be used with executive level reports.