Ben Taylor

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Experienced Financial Services Transformation Leader @ Cambridge & Counties Bank
leicester, leicestershire, united kingdom
Ben Taylor's Location
Greater Northampton Area, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
About Ben Taylor

A business transformation professional with 10+ years experience of transformation work for commercial and retail financial institutions across the SME and bluechip sectors. As a Senior Leader with ExCo experience and previous SMF/SMCR responsibility I have worked across multiple B2B and B2C commercial lending products including Deposit Accounts, Loans, Asset Finance, Asset Based Lending and Invoice Financing. I have a proven ability to build close working relationships with the Senior Leadership Team/C-Suite and functional Heads Of. I am an experienced leader of business transformation, across the e2e lending journey, including the development and implementation of new systems, processes and organisational change within both FCA and PRA regulatory environments. Additionally I understand the complexity of communicating and managing projects globally having led and delivered change with teams in Asia, the US and Europe.Recent positions have included:- Programme Managed the solvent balance sheet wind down of a UK retail bank- Development of a “go-forward” strategy for a UK retail bank including where and how to compete, competitor analysis, product development and TOM- Implementation of new Asset Finance and Invoice Financing platforms including general ledger migration- Build out of a new digital lending journey including automated credit-decisioning engine- Development of a new Change Function; introducing appropriate governance in an FCA regulated environment and industry standard Agile roles and methodology

Ben Taylor's Current Company Details
Cambridge & Counties Bank

Cambridge & Counties Bank

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Experienced Financial Services Transformation Leader
leicester, leicestershire, united kingdom
Website:
ccbank.co.uk
Employees:
136
Ben Taylor Work Experience Details
  • Cambridge & Counties Bank
    Head Of Transformation
    Cambridge & Counties Bank Dec 2024 - Present
    Leicester, England, United Kingdom
  • Star Asset Finance
    Group Change Director
    Star Asset Finance Apr 2021 - Dec 2024
    - Built out the Change Management Function-Introduced Agile methodology and roles-Led procurement process to identify new Business Origination Platform- Implemented new Business Origination Platform- Development of new digital journey including ID&V, Open Banking, Auto-Credit Decisioning
  • Wyelands Bank
    Head Of Strategy Implementation
    Wyelands Bank Dec 2020 - Apr 2021
    London, England, United Kingdom
    - Development of new B2B lending strategy including "where and how to compete", Product and TOM- ExCo level role- Management of bank's Marketing function including PR and Crisis Comms
  • Wyelands Bank
    Programme Manager
    Wyelands Bank Apr 2020 - Dec 2020
    London, England, United Kingdom
    - Programme Managed Solvent Balance Sheet wind-down
  • Wyelands Bank
    Project Manager
    Wyelands Bank May 2019 - Mar 2020
    London, England, United Kingdom
    Programme Managed the implementation of a new Invoice Financing lending platform including general ledger migration.
  • Bibby Financial Services
    Senior Project Manager
    Bibby Financial Services Mar 2018 - Apr 2019
  • Ipsl (Intelligent Processing Solutions Limited)
    Senior Project Manager
    Ipsl (Intelligent Processing Solutions Limited) Jan 2017 - Feb 2018
    Project Managed the development and implementation of the new Digital Cheque Imaging programme for HSBC. Delivery of multiple functional components across business functions to highly aggressive timescales in a highly regulated environment.
  • Hsbc
    Contract Project Manager
    Hsbc May 2016 - Jan 2017
    Birmingham, United Kingdom
    Project Manager for business banking portal re-platforming and customer deposit account migration.
  • Bibby Financial Services
    Contract Project Manager
    Bibby Financial Services Oct 2014 - May 2016
    Banbury, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
    Senior Project Manager, reporting to the Head of Change.Project Managed the Securitisation of BFS' Trade Receivables portfolio. The £600m deal with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, HSBC and Lloyds Bank was publically rated at AA and Aa2 by Moody’s and DBRS respectively and was the first private sector securitisation of a UK asset based lender enabling a 50 percent increase in BFS lending to UK SMEs.
  • Aeb (International) Limited
    Freelance Project Manager
    Aeb (International) Limited Feb 2014 - Sep 2014
    Leamington Spa, United Kingdom
    Responsible for a Fulfillment Programme comprised of three projects to develop bespoke carrier management software for Federal Mogul including integration into three instances of SAP in three international distribution centres (Madrid, Verona and Johannesburg) and APIs with parcel carriers including TNT and FedEx.Undertook business analysis workshops with Federal Mogul fulfillment SMEs to identify and document AS-IS and TO-BE warehouse and back-office processes in addition to business functional and non-functional requirements. Defined and documented proposed system solution in customer workshop report.Planned, resourced and managed offshore software development effort and subsequent system integration, functional and user acceptance testing.Managed a diverse set of stakeholders including AEB Senior Management, Federal Mogul Programme Management, Offshore developers and global parcel carriers.Responsible for project communications including internal and external RAG reports and risk and issue management.
  • Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking
    Lead Project Manager
    Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking Jan 2013 - Feb 2014
    Banbury
    Responsible for a portfolio of complex business change and IT projects including the replacement of legacy payment solutions, procurement of a new cash allocation tool and the migration of payroll to SAP, at various stages of their lifecycles.Initiated the Commercial Finance Transformation Payments project. Defined the requirements for a new payment platform for LBCF, working with LBG architecture to scope and cost possible solutions. Prepared and presented the ‘art of the possible’ to LBCF exec and Transformation Programme board.Delivered new backoffice processes and payroll system changes to ensure that LBCF Recruitment Finance Division remained compliant with latest HMRC PAYE and employee pensions regulations.Led project planning workshops with project teams of 10+ including Business Analysts, SMEs, Developers, Test Leads and created and maintained MSP schedule, in accordance with LBG Change Delivery Methodology. Maintained RAIDS within LBG Change Management Toolkit.Managed a diverse set of stakeholders within a range of grades including Senior Managers and Directors from Cash and Collateral Management, Business Change, IT and Finance.Managed the creation of document deliverables including Business Requirements, Solution Designs, Test Plans and Deployment Plans. Represented projects at Programme Steering and Commercial Finance Exec. Reported project status, milestones and RAIDS to Programme Management, the Commercial Finance Executive Committee and Commercial Banking Change Management.
  • Aeb (International) Limited
    Project Manager
    Aeb (International) Limited May 2010 - Jan 2013
    Leamington Spa
    Responsible for the project management of the development and integration of software supply chain solutions including carrier management, freight simulation and export documentation for a customer base including market leaders in the consumer products, defence and manufacturing and electronics industries.Managed the development, delivery and integration into SAP of a customised export documentation and carrier management system for Honeywell, a Fortune 100 customer of AEB. Project managed the six month effort to develop the system with a delivery team based in Germany and support through value chain acceptance testing and the subsequent integration with major freight forwarders, Honeywell’s SAP system and the AEB data centre. Provided on-site implementation management as part of the deployment of Honeywell’s 'Common Processes and Systems' lean methodology at their distribution centre.Requirements gathering with customer and production of requirements specification document (functional/technical specification).Project planning and scheduling including negotiation of development resource. Management of project risks, issues and schedule and project activities including off shore development of supply chain systems.Managed delivery of solutions and systems including integration into customer's existing ERP systems and supply chain.Implementation support during "go-live" period at customer site and on-site training of solution end users.
  • Taylor & Francis Group
    Project Manager
    Taylor & Francis Group Nov 2007 - May 2010
    Milton Park, Abingdon
    Taylor & Francis' Project Manager of BMIS (Book's Management Information System), a business critical, deadline driven project to upgrade T&F's business intelligence capability. After identifying and documenting T&F's existing processes, systems and assets that supported organisational decision making, new data enquiry and reporting systems were developed and delivered resulting in management having faster, easier access to the right information at the right time.Implementation of BMIS subsequently enabled more informed organisational decision making and a seamless change of distribution centre and sales order processing system for the organisation. During implementation of BMIS, defined, created and delivered training content tailored to the needs of individual teams and company sites in the UK, US and Asia, enabling users of T&F's data enquiry and reporting systems to produce better quality data analytics for management interpretation. Led a cross functional steering committee composed of Finance, Business Systems, Supply Chain and Product Managers organised in recognition of the need for greater communication across functional teams. By rationalising and harmonising disparate processes and dataflows between systems the initiative resulted in increased “ownership” of business systems and processes. Recognised business benefits included reduction in the duplication of data in core business systems, increased data integrity and ultimately an increased realisation of order fulfilment. Led the project initiation and requirements gathering of Global BMIS, a project to define and deliver the systems and processes required to harmonise global profit centre reporting mechanisms and deliver the functionality of the existing T&F Books' reporting systems to the US and Asia. Created and delivered the Project Initiation Document and Scope Document and managed the business analysis effort with requirement's gathering workshops conducted in the UK, US and Asia.
  • Taylor & Francis Group
    Inventory Analyst
    Taylor & Francis Group Nov 2005 - Nov 2007
    Milton Park, Abingdon
    Analysed and maintained stock levels in UK and US distribution centres. Project team member on major supply chain projects including development of T&F's Inventory Management System (IMS), and the move of distribution centre from Cengage to Bookpoint.Project Managed the scheduling and logistics of the digitisation of T&F titles for Google's Google Books programme.Co-designed and organised bespoke training programme/seminars for Production department including presentations from third party suppliers and Google.Represented the Inventory Management team during the user and functional requirements gathering for the T&F Inventory Management System. Liaised between software developers and the Inventory Management team throughout the Inventory Management System design and build and organised and executed end user testing of finished application. Chaired weekly project team meetings for the T&F IMS (Inventory Management System) project, prepared and submitted project status reports to stakeholders.

Ben Taylor Skills

Project Management Change Management Requirements Gathering Prince2 Project Delivery Management Pmp Project Planning Software Project Management Business Intelligence Requirements Analysis Stakeholder Management Project Portfolio Management Leading Meetings Computer Software Training Agile Project Management Business Process Improvement Business Objects Prince2 Practioner Pmi Pmp Requirements Workshops Presentations Supply Chain Software Logistics Systems Inventory Management Inventory Analysis Publishing Academic Publishing Business Process Mapping Software Implementation Solution Implementation Carrier Management Supply Chain

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Ben Taylor works for Cambridge & Counties Bank

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Ben Taylor's current role is Experienced Financial Services Transformation Leader.

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Ben Taylor attended University Of Wales, Aberystwyth.

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Ben Taylor has skills like Project Management, Change Management, Requirements Gathering, Prince2, Project Delivery, Management, Pmp, Project Planning, Software Project Management, Business Intelligence, Requirements Analysis, Stakeholder Management.

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Ben Taylor's colleagues are Chris Knowles, Tom Senior, Komal Nayak, Kindi Bains Cemap, Alex Magee, Leon Elford, Marie Newitt.

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