Senior Director within the Deloitte FIG Corporate Finance team focusing primarily on Bank Strategic Advisory- Strategic analysis & advisory - M&A & Corporate Finance- Collaborating with the wider Deloitte Financial Services franchise across Financial Advisory, Consulting & Risk Advisory- Internal and external content on the banking sector

Responsibilities:- Spent 10 years as a bank equity research analyst covering UK & Irish banking sectors primarily, latter 4 years leading UK, Irish and Dutch bank coverage- Financial analysis & forecasting of listed & unlisted banks within European Banking market- Primary coverage: Barclays, Lloyds Banking Group, RBS, HSBC, Standard Chartered, Virgin Money, CYBG, Bank of Ireland, AIB Group, permanent tsb. Also covered Dutch sector (ING, ABN AMRO). On an interim basis also covered Spain (BBVA, Santander) and Nordics (DNB, Danske).- Corporate relationships: regularly met with senior management of banks under coverage as well as industry bodies. Presented at external & DB-hosted conferences in UK & abroad.- Ranking: part of top 3 rated European Banks team in Institutional Investor for 7 years (2011-18). Individually ranked 4th pan-European banks analyst by corporates in the 2016 European Extel Survey.

Internship within Global Markets division of Deutsche Bank (now Corporate Banking & Securities). 3 rotations across Equity sales, Prime Brokerage, Equity Research (Telecoms sector).