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.

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.
• 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

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.
• 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

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

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.

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.

• 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

• 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