Christopher Yardin Email & Phone Number

Australia

Senior Project Manager for ANSTO's Governance, Risk, and Compliance Transformation project

Sydney, Australia

Following multiple M&A transactions of International Asset Managers, I played a core role in the mobilisation and enablement of Perpertual Limited's newly formed International Asset Management division. This involved the successful acquisition of Trillium Asset Management (a pioneer in ESG investment management firm with a 40 year pedigree based in Boston, MA, USA), Barrow Hanley Global Investors (a leading value investment management firm based in Dallas, TX, USA), and establishment of new offices in Chicago, IL, USA, London, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Hong Kong, China.The work involved:- Supporting the M&A team in planning the M&A transaction, administering the due diligence process, and project managing Day 1 integration post the M&A transactions.- Project managing regulatory authorisations and change in control applications for the UK, Netherlands, and support the application submissions for the recent Pendal Group acquisition.- Project managing the deployment of a new Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform (Salesforce) integrated with a Sales Master Data Management platform (SalesPage) to support the new established US based asset management distribution sales and marketing team.- Implementing the core collaboration, communication, and technology infrastructure and support operations for all the international teams leveraging the new Microsoft 365 technologies deployed for the first time at Perpetual.In my initial 6 months at Perpetual, I was charged with re-establishing and running the Enterprise Portfolio Management Office as a result of organisation restructuring and the departure of all members of the PMO. Restablishing the team involved recruiting several new team members for all the positions within the team. The key achievements were lifting the standard of portfolio reporting to a strategic level and re-engineering the resource time tracking and costing processes with the Finance team.

Sydney, Australia

Program Management consulting for AGB Events' consulting engagement for the Dubai World Expo 2020. Supporting the Chief Events and Entertainment Officer in planning for the 6 month creative and artistic program with the central Al Wasl Plaza venue being the main venue of our plans. The work covered both the Front and Back of House operations, with the key being representing the newly formed department and supporting the engagement with other Expo 2020 departments on proposed plans and requirements.

Sydney, Australia

Led a major program to improve portfolio management, commercial reporting, business intelligence and decision making across all departments and divisions of UNSW. The program encompassed improved systems and processes for financial and risk management and embedding new cultural behaviours with a large number of management staff.

Sydney, Australia

Led the strategy and implementation of a portfolio and resource management framework across Macquarie Bank Corporate Operations Group, delivering a flexible and agile platform that transformed Governance and Commercial Management of IT resources.

Sydney, Australia

Portfolio Office Consultant for the RFP evaluation and selection resulting in the pilot implementation of Clarity PPM within the Banking and Financial Services (BFS) division of Macquarie Group. Working directly for the COO Product and Technology (BFS) and guiding the divisional portfolio managers of the changes to come.

Sydney

In this role I was accountable for developing a portfolio management solution to support a major business transformation Program. This encompassed overseeing 11 program workstreams and developing a strategic masterplan to improve program outcomes, working closely with the business and technology architecture teams.

Sydney, Australia

Client: ANZPortfolio Governance Consultant for ANZ Bank’s Technology PortfolioGovernance Team. Contributed to the future state governance model and phase 2enhancement of the Clarity PPM platform.Client: WestpacPMO Director responsible for governance of the largest capability program at Westpac Bank, a new $300M+ software platform that transformed Westpac’s capability in online banking. Led a team of 16 supporting a program team of over 500 staff and governed delivery of 11 workstreams.

Sydney, Australia

In this role I was accountable for pre-sales of Clarity PPM and Clarity Risk and Compliance (GRC) platforms in NSW, Queensland and ACT, working directly with Senior Portfolio and Program Leaders in many of Australia’s largest businesses

PMO Manager for Westpac’s Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Combating Terrorist Financing (CTF) compliance program. The scope included redeveloping financial management models, managing the PMO during the legislation phase and planning the business impact response.

Sydney, Australia

Developed a detailed, integrated program plan for the Westpac Corporate Relocation. The scope involved centralising 9 independent sites and data centres into a new Corporate Headquarters, and preparing the business for new way of working including paperless, modern workspaces.

Paris Area, France

Authored segments of the Paris 2012 Olympic Bid, providing expert support to French Officials. The bid was defined as the strongest by the IOC despite London winning.

Sydney, Australia

Portfolio capital expenditure planning and management for Singtel Optus Mobile Services

Athens, Greece

Modelling and Analysis Team Lead for the Event Services Group, Athens Olympic Games 2004 (Spectator and Security Services) managing operations planning, simulations and contingency planning for daily events.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Senior Consultant for the Telematics Engineering team serving transport industry clients in both the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. Specialised in development of Telematics capability road maps, functional systems architecture, data modelling, and real time transport information systems.

Sydney, Australia

Firstly as a Specialist in the Project Management and Special Tasks team responsible for; operational demand modelling and analysis for all Olympic Family and Customers, ticket sales segmentation analysis, maintenance of Venue and Functional and Area project delivery schedules.Secondly as the Decision Support Team - Operations Manager at the Sydney Olympic Park (SOP) Command Centre responsible for developing and managing real-time situation awareness and decision support for the Central Operations Team at SOP.