Ben Eason

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Managing Director - Head of Legal Change and Innovation at HSBC @ HSBC
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Hook, England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
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About Ben Eason

I am a people focused enthusiastic individual with a strong track record of execution backed up with over 15 years of Banking and Financial Services experience. Always trusted and always sought out by those around me my reputation hinges on doing the right thing at all times. My experience has primarily been in Investment Banking through FX & Commodities, but as a seasoned COO and Business Manager managing budgets of over £100 million and 1200 people, strategic thinking and Commercial understand has been the cornerstone of my job for the last few years. At Barclays I currently run Strategy and Governance for Operations within the Chief of Staff Office overseeing financials for a group of c30k individuals and a budget of £1.6bn. In addition I run Colleague Engagement for that group too as well as being Co - Chief Operating Officer for our award winning diversity Network EMBRACE.

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HSBC

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Managing Director - Head of Legal Change and Innovation at HSBC
Ben Eason Work Experience Details
  • Hsbc
    Head Of Legal Change And Innovation
    Hsbc Nov 2022 - Present
    London, Gb
  • Barclays
    Director - Head Of Legal Change
    Barclays Jan 2016 - Present
    London, Gb
    Lead cross function change including Regulatory change across the IB stack, Cost & Commercial changes implementing Legal applications such as Matter Management, e-Billing, time recording tools and associated MI.Running a team of 25-35 change professionals across geographies and leading Change for the function providing regular and periodic updates that reports direct to the Legal Executive Committee.Included a 6 month secondment in 2018 to run the Legal function Global Contract Services in the Investment bank section. Looking after 100+ lawyers, paralegals & change staff focused on the process improvement, technology roadmap and cultural shift of a global department with teams in London, New York, Frankfurt, Japan & Singapore. Business facing and client facing responsibilities and contributing to the firms strategic goals.
  • Barclays
    Director - Operations Business Management
    Barclays Jan 2012 - Present
    London, Gb
    I have worked across different business units, but focused my efforts over the 2012-2013 in FICC Operations managing budgets of around £86m and 1000 employees. In 2014 I expanded that remit across Shared Service functions within IB and Wealth Operations (Post trade functions) managing a budget of over £100m and over 1200 employees. Most recently moving to an Enterprise-wide Business Management providing governance and oversight to a £1.6bn budget and c30,000 employees.I also manage Colleague Engagement across that population and am currently Co-Chief Operating Officer across the EMBRACE multi-cultural network, which is an award winning diversity network across Barclays.
  • Barclays
    Managing Director - Head Of Legal Transformation
    Barclays Jan 2019 - Nov 2022
    London, Gb
    Running the strategic transformation agenda of the Legal department. Focused on Technology changes, innovation (POC's and visionary change as well as BAU).In addition to innovation, lead the programme elements of the department such as location strategy, target operating model changes and work with our executive committee to ensure the delivery and execution of the strategy too.Running a direct team of 40+Change professionals from Analyst to Director level and indirectly running teams of 150+ developers through our technology and vendor teams/partners.
  • Barclays Investment Bank
    Director - Fx & Commodities Post Trade Services
    Barclays Investment Bank Feb 2009 - Jan 2012
    New York, Ny, Us
    Led the European FX Cash Middle and Back-Office, followed by the Global FX Post Trade Services group and subsequently European Commodities too (for 1 year). During this time we managed through Eurozone crisis, disruptions in the Middle-East and the on-going integration of Lehmans. During this time we saw the Barclays FX business grow to be a top 3 firm from 11th in terms of volume and managed consistently well during this huge growth period.I took on extra responsibility across Commodities Post Trade too and directly managed a team of around 250 across FX and Commodities.
  • Barclays Investment Bank
    Vice President - Change Management / Re-Engineering
    Barclays Investment Bank Jul 2007 - Feb 2009
    New York, Ny, Us
    I joined Barclays in the summer of 2007 to work on the execution of Operations Mergers, but due to the nature of the market I managed Operations exposures through Credit Crisis scenarios, ran various streams of the Lehmans integration including PMO across the IB.
  • Jpmorgan Chase & Co.
    Vice President
    Jpmorgan Chase & Co. Sep 1999 - Jul 2007
    New York, Ny, Us
    Starting as a temporary resource I worked my way through 7 promotions in 7 years and became Vice President in January 2006. I worked in Fund Accounting groups, Derivative Processing groups, FX Operations groups, moved into a central consultancy group called EMEA Consulting (internal)Through the consulting group I worked in the PMO for the JPMorgan & Chase Manhattan Bank merger and subsequently took ownership of various streams in the JPMorgan and Bank One merger. I was then seconded onto a regulatory response programme for the Bournemouth site as whole which was successful.Based on my experience in the merger space I was approached by Barclays.

Ben Eason Skills

Banking Financial Services Fx Options Risk Management Commodity Business Analysis Economics Econometrics Portfolio Management Financial Analysis Business Management Colleague Engagement

Ben Eason Education Details

  • Nottingham Trent University
    Nottingham Trent University
    Economics

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