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I am a highly motivated certified chartered accountant (ACA) with Green Card, with over 13 years of finance experience in London, New York, and Hong Kong, leading operational transformation projects, financial statement audits, due diligence analysis, budgeting and forecasting activities, and other regulatory-driven engagements across a wide range of global financial institutions. I am a focused, detailed-oriented and determined individual who enjoys a challenge and always strives to produce the highest quality output. Currently I am working at PwC in New York as a Director in the Capital Markets Operations Transformation Practice where I work on finance transformations in the front and middle office.I have very strong global industry knowledge and technical accounting skills, including detailed experience in IFRS and US GAAP. I manage my workload autonomously and effectively, with proven ability to manage internal and external stakeholders, developing and maintaining a strong global network of professional relationships at both PwC and with clients at the senior management and executive level. I communicate innovative ideas articulately and with impact in written communications and when presenting to senior stakeholders at Management Committee, Board, Audit Committee, and Regulator meetings. Key experience includes:• Advising clients in conjunction with operational transformation, critically analyzing current business models and facilitating strategic decision-making to help capital markets institutions adapt to business and regulatory-driven change.• Leading multimillion-dollar ($5m-$20m) complex programs at global investment banks, with cross-functional teams in the first and second lines of defense, consistently demonstrating excellent project management capabilities.• Identification, and subsequent remediation of internal control weaknesses leading to regulatory breaches of a global bank, leading the Risk and Compliance transition workstream in the sale of a bank, and supporting the remediation of a front-office supervisory control framework at another global bank.• Leading buy-side due diligence projects, performing detailed financial and business analysis to determine target company valuations, including thorough reviews of financial models and critical assessments of key assumptions, contributing to the successful completion of deals in the $100m-$500m range.• Managing global budgeting processes for a $30m+ account, leading budget negotiations, performing variance analysis, and identifying efficiency improvements.