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London, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Melbourne, Australia

Specialising in Credit and Operational risk disciplines within financial servicesComplete review of delegated credit authorities within a major bankContracted for a mid tier bank based in Sydney - primarily working on actions arising from their APRA review and working towards risk maturity - successfully achieved Board acceptance of Risk Appetite for the Banking arm of the organisation and building maturity around the overal Risk Management Framework.Head of Risk Projects on a contract basis, coordinating and consolidating Risk Projects to align to objectives set through an Enforceable Undertaking served by the regulator (ASIC).Now assessing the potential to make a return move to the UK / Ireland and exploring opportunities there.

Sydney, Australia

Second Line Operational Risk Management for 680+ Westpac Retail Branches. Maintenance and execution of Operational Risk Management Framework for the Retail division including strategic risk input for associated projects. Primary point of contact for key stakeholders in the business and regular input into First Line activities and responsibilities.Indepth reporting and analysis for the Retail division and interface with Group Assurance to ensure business actions are completed on time and to requirement.Scenario Analysis and Risk Profiling for Retail Division in line with APRA requirements.Development of Conduct Risk measures and controls for the businessMatrix and stakeholder management at Executive and all levels of the business

Planned break to travel and undertake some personal projects.

Perth Wa

Completion of project to standardise processes and centralise Operations within WA. Management of all financial reporting and benefit phasing. Introduction of risk management framework including Corporate and Commercial business as well as Trade Services. Responsibility for Market, Operational and Credit Risk issues. Roll out of Health and Safety controls (OHS) across the operation. Work on internal business improvement procedures based on Lean / Six Sigma.Conflict resolution and stakeholder management

Perth Wa

Responsible for Network Enterprise Risk, building frameworks in line with Basel 2 'three lines of defence'. Adhering to ISO 31000 principles but aligning with Basel to enable measurement of Capital Adequacy. Incident Manager for all major incidents and key relationship manager across sales network. Risk advisor to Project Team delivering online application system using Agile project techniques.Oversight of NCCP rollout

Perth Wa

Urgent and strategic role to reshape unsecured credit portfolios. Satisfactory return to profitability within 12 months. Bank representative with ARCA forming the industry requirements for comprehensive reporting through reform of Privacy Legislation. Relationship Manager for Debt Sales, Veda and Dunn & Bradstreet. Member of Risk Managers Round Table. Upskilling of team of analysts converting to SAS.Rebuild of credit process from application and assessment criteria through to collectionsSuccessful National and International stakeholder management across all business lines

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Organisational change, migrating all business processes, systems and data onto core Group platform (using Prince 2 methodology). Interface with UK (Equifax, Experian) and Irish (ICB) Credit Reference Agencies to map credit data to conform with comprehensive reporting requirements. To facilitate this, system implementation of Transact solution to drive front end scoring engine.Role encompassed Head of Portfolio Risk, covering both Consumer and SME lending, E2E credit lifecycle management and management of fraud and operational risk.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General

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