Bradley Mclean Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

I have successfully implemented BlackLine Account Reconciliations, as SSP Project Manager and Implementation Lead. I continue to be BlackLine Continuous Improvement Lead to maximise use and benefits provided by platform. I am the Change Manager for all system driven improvements for P2P. OTC and R2R through the BPO service provider. I continue as Transformation Manager for all initiatives and proposals for Transactional Finance.

London, United Kingdom

As the Business Process Owner (BPO) of the Financial Reconciliations, I engage with the all the finance teams in the regional Sales and Distribution companies; and the European Financing companies across the group. My team and I support the change and enhancement needs of the business areas relating to Payables, Receivables, Inventory, Fixed Assets; and the Leasing and Service of rental assets. I am the leasing business partner and work closely with the Leasing Business Process Owner in understanding, and defining the accounting structure for new products or processes.My core responsibilities include:• Being involved in business case and kickoff meetings to define requirements which will drive or impact existing accounting, or where new accounting process flows need to be created• Ensuring that where any existing defect or enhancement process is being addressed on what impacts this will have on financial accounting, and mitigating by testing as part of the change process• Validating functional test plans and scenarios tests on change processes• Completing testing requirements for change processes• Outlining governance process to ensure this meets any regulatory or compliance requirement• Defining policy of some processes to certify this is aligned to Group Finance Policy• Running monthly business process meetings with the individual finance process owners across the group• Involvement of updating or detailing end-to-end process mapping

London, United Kingdom

I am the Reconciliations Manager defining Operational Infrastructure and group standards for General Ledger reconciliations. I work alongside Shared Service Centres based in EMEA, ensuring there is a defined reconciliation delivery process which meets Group Audit as well as local Audit requirement.• Oversee the Group Reconciliation Reporting through in house built tools which can consolidate by numerous parameters e.g. location, region, category, sub-ledger• Outline a Best Practise standard and document requirements• Deploy and implement best practise model for all balance sheet account across all 40 Operating companies• Gathering, understanding and documenting all reconciliation requirements and centrally held for support and reference• Work alongside the Accounting Process Manager to ensure that adequate system or manual controls are built into the upstream process therefore reducing reconciling exceptions• Define, outline, and review Operational Reporting requirements to ensure that they provide all the data output details• Create efficiency gains with detailed business case defining optimal/target operating model , benefit analysis with financial cost differences, and implementation of changes

London, United Kingdom

• Working with business areas to bring existing and new business reconciliation processes onto the strategic platform and into a centralised model •Integration of processes and projects into the group change development programme •Review of reconciliation programme process flows ensuring best practice and improvements are delivered•Business review and recommendations of Control and Governance framework requirements to ensure high turnover of STP process•Understand business requirements and translate into the configuration requirements of static data, and dashboards within reconciliation tool•Working with upstream architecture design areas to ensure the required information is available within the feeds which are made available to the reconciliations platform•Working with client area to ensure that the desired match rules will deliver the required matching rates and reduce manual process•Identify and evaluate alternative solutions that may be fit for purpose in delivering successful business outcomes•Outline known Risks and Issues in order to define required mitigation actions at project definition, and any ongoing issue management through project lifecycle•Defining the process BAU structure and support model to deliver an end-to-end solution•Review and due diligence checking through Peer reviews to ensure the required business requirements and potential solutions are fit for purpose with the Group’s strategic direction and are considered achievable within the proposed timescales and known regulatory and legal environment•Rebuilt the programme engagement model where business areas engage with the programme to ensure their requirements are documented and defined.

London, United Kingdom

•Strategic Analysis of firm wide requirements and processes in order to build detailed governing standards to ensure alignment of group reconciliation process•Building out the existing policy documentation to ensure group minimum standards are clear and achievable, while maintaining control and risk awareness•Identify and implement appropriate information gathering techniques to deliver business requirements. •Analyse problems and opportunities relating to the area under investigation. •Facilitate the identification and definition of requirements on behalf of the Accountable Executive with key business Stakeholders. •Analysed the impacts of existing projects and initiatives from proposed process changes and made recommendations for the future defined state of the processes and platform.•Ensuring policy documentation fulfils SOX and General Ledger Integrity requirements through balance substantiation and process documentation•Cross divisional business stakeholder engagement to ensure all generic integration requirements acrossproducts to promote process due diligence across control processes•Key Stakeholder engagement with functional areas: Risk, Audit, Fraud•Performed stakeholder management with business areas, steering groups and programme delivery management

London, United Kingdom

•Managed 4 FTE and the EMEA exchange and external broker reconciliations for Listed Derivatives products.•Managed the offshoring and outsourcing of daily T+1 business as usual reconciliation process from London to Mumbai including training schedules, transition documents and signoff procedures.•Retained oversight control of offshored processes, including remote people management. •Was Process Team manager on the Project Team for the business requirements including gathering requirements, testing and implementation of Smartstream TLM Premium for an automated ETD Reconciliation solution.•Acted as an escalation point for the business on any aged or urgent issues including Funding, Reconciliation and Margin issues.•Reviewed existing processes and procedures, and implemented STP and Control solutions where necessary and/or possible.•Ensured that the teams regulatory requirements were being met and adhered to segregation requirements.•Maintained daily/weekly KRI/KPI MIS pack for Senior management/FSA, and present to senior management where required to do so. •Reviewed the existing reconciliations process and identified issues within the trade lifecycle which causes regular concerns, and worked with both the clearing management and internal technology to improve STP flows and minimise breaks and improve service quality. •Reviewed posting structures via the General Ledger Control process, to ensure and validate the correct information between Operations, Product Control, and Financial Control.•Was a member of the Graduate Recruitement programme and participated as an interviewer and observer for individual and group tasks

•Migrated and transitioned reconciliation process whilst onshore in Mumbai, managing transitiondocumentation, training requirements and signoff procedures.•Worked on Project team to implement Smartstream TLM for Cash Reconciliation Platform. This included gathering requirements, updating Business requirement documents and testing documentation•Control and oversight of Cash, Stock, and Prime Brokerage reconciliation offshored process, including remote people management.•Build reporting requirements for the EMEA Operations which will be used for setting the global standard as London•Product driven exercises to review operations signoff on new products, new business, structured products for Operations Risk•Liaised with Audit to ensure Operations had correct Managerial and Key Controls in place for quarterly SOX signoff•Worked alongside SOX Audit team to validate all Key Control, and Management controls for the Operations Control space were in place and correctly associated within SOXA system.•Lead associate on an Operations Control lead project, which reviewed the operational function Ledger Control reconciliation, ensuring standards were being maintained. This process allowed me to go through the operations processes and underlying ledger posting•Internal Operations Ledger Control reviews to ensure verification requirements are met for balance sheet submission•Built procedures and policies for Operations Write-off account.

•I manage the firms Cash Nostro reconciliations process and 3 FTE•Ensured all breaks were being properly reviewed by Operational owners, and correctly reported in KRI/KPI documents•Investigated chased all unallocated breaks on the Nostro accounts.•Worked alongside Treasury to ensure that Nostro accounts were being correctly funded, and where necessary Treasury were aware of any funding adjustements (Return of Funds)•Maintained relationships with agent banks to ensure all relevant informations was being shared.•Authorised investigative SWIFT messages to external counterparties for further details, or return instructions.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

•Supervising 4 people•Maintaining interbank client relationships ensuring timely settlement of Cash and Tom/Next Trades•Constant communication with Trade Assistants mitigating settlement risk•Escalation of Unconfirmed/Unbooked outstanding trades

Sydney, Australia

•Daily FX Nostro reconciliation and allocation of breaks•Investigation of unassigned items•Input and verification of SWIFT messages to Agent Banks, and Intermediary banks for further details.•Analysis of settlement break issues•Daily contact with settlements team for unconfirmed trades