Christopher Armstrong Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Author of The First Miners - Dream WarriorsAvailable from Amazon / Kindle

Singapore

• Control of the Project Management Office function for Asia Finance Change, with particular emphasis on project budgeting (cGBP20m) and accounting, progress reporting (including at Board level) and risk, issues and cross programme / cross country dependency management.• Driving Finance Target Operating Model developments in Asia Operations and Finance, utilizing LEAN techniques, including solution thought leadership and location change execution, • Leading regional LEAN initiatives in APAC Finance, focused on end to end, Front Office to Back Office, change management. Delivered hard benefit cost reduction and soft skills transfer of continuous improvement capability to the Line• Delivery leadership for the Asia component of a global Product Control daily P&L and IPV tooling for Asia, including developments to meet latest Volcker requirements• Delivery responsibility for data quality continuous improvement for Asia Finance engaging all data sources and data suppliers to drive sustained end to end change• Delivery responsibility for liquidity and capital projects in Asia to meet local and Group level internal and external reporting requirements, including the implementation of a shared service solution based in India.• Delivery of front to back projects in Asia focused on the Finance component of the initiatives, with end to end delivery responsibility from concept to implementation• Delivery responsibility of a project to implement a Group Consolidation reporting tool into Asia. Leadership in Asia of the strategic systems Oracle development that aims to increase data sharing across Finance, Operations and Risk, including the establishment of a shared data warehouse, accounting systems and business intelligence tool set.• Responsible for budget of the above and a team of c60 change / IT colleagues.

South Korea

• Management of the business, which is focused on Project Management, solution design and current state health checks in relation to Enterprise Warehouse applications and finance systems, in Financial Services organizations.• Key assignment was in an Asian based Bank providing finance datawarehousing implementation project management

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for supporting the sales function in the financial services vertical. The role focused on working closely with the business leaders of the largest banks and insurance organisations. Responsible for identifying the business issues and opportunities in the area of data management, datawarehousing and business intelligence across the client portfolio. From this understanding of the business opportunities arises the business investment case for new or wider application of the Teradata solution offerings.

• Execution of over 100 finance system implementations in 27 separate countries. Implementations include general ledger, accounts payable, asset management, T&E, reporting tools, funds transfer pricing engines and the introduction of leading edge, Oracle based, business intelligence capability. Chair of governance processes.• Leadership of the Banks India based Finance Shared Service operation of 500 colleagues providing an accounting and reporting service to over 30 countries• Leadership of the Group-wide Finance reengineering programme• Conversion of the Basel 2 reporting solution into BaU operation• Thought leadership of the development of risk weighted and economical capital applications across the Bank• Responsible for the day to day management of the Group’s financial systems• Leadership of the integration of finance systems for M&A• Responsible for the functional vendor management of Oracle and FERMAT applications.

• Implementation of a single instance, Group-wide financial ERP using Oracle Financials and Hyperion Reporting, delivering a return on investment due to lower total cost of ownership. Other implementations include an ABC application, Groupwide business intelligence tool, a group consolidation system, Groupwide budgeting tool • Implementation of regulatory reporting solutions for Bank of England and Basel 2• Leadership of the finance integration activity for all M&A • Management of the Group's end to end Finance Systems • Leadership of the AP operation• Established a strong track record for high paced delivery to time and against tight budgets.• Leadership of the Group consolidation process• Responsible for Payroll operations for the Bank• Led two structured cost reduction initiatives for the Bank, reporting to the CEO and CFO respectively• Led the integration of the finance functions of Halifax and BoS on merger of these two businesses

• Undertook assignments relating to structured cost reduction, finance function effectiveness, business process reengineering, organizational transformation, benchmarking and ERP implementation.• Assignments were successfully completed in Retail Financial Services, Commodity Trading, Insurance, Manufacturing and Education business sectors. Worked with all but one of the high street UK banks on various assignments.• Delivered consistently high value added to clients, achieved consistent sell on work. Assignments I led were characterized by being highly structured, benefits driven and focused on robust stakeholder management. Built a strong track record of delivery.• Led assignment teams of up to 20 joint consultant / client colleagues.• Had profit responsibility for assignments in my final two years at PWC and achieved consistently high chargeability throughout. • Promoted three times

London, United Kingdom

Area Head of Finance, with day to day operational responsibility for:• AR / AP and procurement processes• Financial and management accounting• Budgeting and forecasting • Investment appraisal• Leadership of the strategic and business planning process• Management of a team of 40• Group level budget setting and forecasting of business performance• Standard monthly reporting and exception analysis• Specific analysis in support of the development of the business• Project Management of a Group-wide management reporting system.