Ashley Brown Email & Phone Number

Sydney, NSW, AU

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Responsible for advising Finance division in the identification and management of non-financial risk (operational, regulatory and compliance risks) in line with the Risk Appetite Statement, policies and regulatory obligations.Executive level adviser to all Finance Functions (Advice, Control, Procurement, Reporting, and Tax)

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Secondment role to undertake risk and controls assessments on Technology, Data Management and Financial Crime for the Global Markets business within CBAs Institutional Bank

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Line 1 risk role with accountability to co-ordinate and embed the CBA Group’s Operational Risk framework for the Financial Services Group Treasury business.
• Subject matter expert with non-financial risks - accounting, data management, cyber, technology, third parties
• Evaluate IT system, people or process change initiatives for the possible delivered risks for the business
• Advisory with management of incidents, root cause analysis, issues management and NFRC papers
• Advisory to the business with control design, delivery of control testing and assurance
• Annualised policy maintenance and review, impact analysis of new policy proposals from the Group

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Contract project role to support data assurance requirements of the annual external audit of Pillar 3 Liquidity Disclosure
• Designed and delivered a new data quality assurance template to consolidate c.150 critical data element (CDEs) requirements across distinct functional areas of Credit, Liquidity Risk and Economic and Financial.
• Presenting business concepts in a non-technical way to the external auditor to enhance understanding, shaping written responses succinctly and to a standard to satisfy requests and close out actions

Sydney, Australia

• Contract project role as Finance BA to shape and deliver data quality assurance, regulatory report testing with external auditor engagement, new Economics & Financial Statistics reporting (APRA 701-748) for the ABS &.
• Represented as agile stream lead, managing the hiring, on-boarding, and coaching of short-term contract staff performing business analysis to ensure optimum induction and confidence in performance and outputs
• Managed all team planning, prioritisation, and maintenance of cadence to ensure successful delivery, to agile project management schedules
• Designed presentation packs to document the approach to data quality assurance, outcome and provide artefacts for external auditor
• Designed and modelled in excel new ARF721 repurchase agreement and securities lending report to aid understanding of the business activity and allow for robust challenge process over accuracy
• Technology insights via creation of a semi-automated data quality testing model, operationalising the process, organising governance and SOP documentation and delivery into the finance BAU team

London, United Kingdom

• Development of enhanced liquidity risk monitoring tools in the build out of a ‘start-up’ full-service Investment Bank, focused on emerging markets. Managing a small team responsible for the controls & compliance with.
• Created a risk monitoring report for governance of new repo trading desk to board limits.
• Modelling full bank liquidity stress arising from derivative collateral asymmetry, credit downgrade, secured funding. Explaining contingent liquidity charges to trading and sales desks in non-technical terms
• Discovered emerging liquidity risk arising from the hiring of a new equities’ derivatives trader, mitigated by implementing a new controls
• Product owner and change SME for prudential regulation - Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR), Net Stable Funding Ratio (NSFR), additional monitoring metrics (AMMs), asset encumbrance reporting

London, United Kingdom

• Reporting to the Group Chief Risk Officer, managing a small team building out a new risk function, development of new frameworks to manage liquidity risk and adhere to new prudential regulations
• Co-designed a liquidity stress testing model, applying both quantitative and behavioural principles for 12 legal entities across EMEA, APAC and Americas
• Co-architect in developing a liquidity risk curve, used to assess the liquidity requirements for the Group and to comply with the Board’s risk appetite
• Succeeded to get the buy in of the regional commercial management teams to accept new liquidity charges, success allowed the GCFO to re-charge the Group’s liquidity capital
• Addressed cultural barriers with the introduction of a globally participated weekly risk and funding call

City Of London, England, United Kingdom

• Servicing clients interbank cash placement requirements
• Created a tool to model Banks fulfilment of central bank reserve requirements to forecast spread pressures in the overnight depo market vs the swap market

City Of London, England, United Kingdom

• Trading floor roles supporting Fixed Income Trading and dealing role on Group Treasury desk
• Funding the European HQ in London and all nostro vostro EUR, DKK, SKK, CZK, PLN, HUF, NOK with execution of CP, CD, FX Swap, Loan & Depo. Interest rate risk management with overnight index swaps
• Management of ~US$25bn (EUR & USD) client money book
• Margin call valuation under ISDA CSA, GMRA and OSLA agreements, management (repo/reverse repo) of a ~US$30bn Euro government bond collateral book settling against MDBs, SWFs and Pension Funds
• Changed an inefficient process to manage ~$US25bn overnight tri-party trading saving ~10% FTE

City Of London, England, United Kingdom

• Desk assistant, supporting Front Office Collateral Trading Desk
• Project role acting as margining product owner, providing business requirements to quant team developer, and working with legal team to define margin call contractual parameters. Successful creation of margin call.

City Of London, England, United Kingdom

• Senior dealer, retail client equities trade execution on the London Stock Exchange
• Price negotiation with market makers on smaller capitalised stocks

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

• Internship at a full service stockbroker, rotation role gaining exposure to settlement, accounting, investment management and stock trading

Economics

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