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London, England, GB

London, England, GB

• Consumer focused company creating technology to help bring people together in real life
• UK incorporated with teams located across Europe
• Lead strategic decision making

London, England, GB

• Mission: Maintain the Bank’s license to operate and create opportunities for revenue growth/preservation and cost avoidance/efficiencies
• Led front-to-back analysis and delivery teams responsible for MiFID2, Dodd-Frank (Volcker), EMIR clearing, PRIIPs, EU Benchmarks, Large Trader Report
• Ran Customer Standards initiative including policy, procedure and control framework enhancements for various regulatory attestations
• Led change agenda across all RBS franchises (Ulster, Coutts, etc) where NatWest Markets was the most impacted division

Gogarburn, GB

• Led the bank-wide strategic program response to Volcker across RBS franchises
• Worked with departmental heads, front-to-back, to develop the bank’s approach; chaired relevant management committees.
• Promoted to Head of Regulatory Change

Gogarburn, GB

• Led investment and BAU activities across all global locations,
• Responsible for 30+ applications with functionality including scenario modelling, trade booking, risk, and publishing to exchanges
• Unified structured notes and structuring IT under one management structure, tying together disparate business and technical approaches into a single global solution
• Drove projects across multiple issuance programmes, including legacy programmes/SPV
• Spearheaded initiatives for key business issues across notes such as own credit, issuance models, hedging, term funding, p/l attribution, risk
• Decommissioned majority of systems; simplifying the technology footprint and associated resource and infrastructure costs

Gogarburn, GB

• Led global, strategic initiative addressing Emerging Market’s notes business, including trading booking, term funding, own credit, dynamic hedging, and risk management
• Develop new booking models (QCDS, Notes, TRS) and led resulting trade migrations
• Continued to own emerging markets global front office risk platform.

Gogarburn, GB

• Mission: Single Face to the Market; Single View of Risk
• Lead front-to-back integration for ABN AMRO and RBS emerging markets trading businesses across all subsidiaries and branches in APAC (Hong Kong, Singapore, China, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, India)
• Drove business engagement with regulators within in each jurisdiction
• Created plans and implemented large scale trade migrations
• Provided a single face to clients within the region, ensuring minimal client impact resulting from the required trade novations

Gogarburn, GB

• Mission: Single Face to the Market; Single View of Risk
• Led APAC Flow and Structured rates integration for ABN AMRO and RBS
• Proposed operating models including interim booking models/processes, risk management, interdependencies with local country initiatives and regulations
• Both Japan bank branches and RBS Securities Japan, first to be fully integrated.

Gogarburn, GB

• Ran business analysis for Hong Kong/Tokyo exotics desks – daily BAU issues.
• Participated in new product approval processes and project rollout of products – such as JGB options
• Localised new London sales/trading platform for interest rate derivatives in Japan
• Unified APAC interest rate derivatives infrastructure

San Francisco, California, US

• Project – Large US hedge fund bought a large stake in a Japanese bank with the intention of modernizing operations to achieve overall revenue and cost objectives
• Conducted business in Japanese and English.

• Joined a start-up company in Tokyo and helped grow the business through product innovation. Successful majority stake sale to SoftBank Japan.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Economics, Asian Studies

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