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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Led the market entry of early-stage startup Facctum into the region, building awareness as a key innovator in the competitive Financial Crime Compliance arena.Established strategic partnerships; evolved the Go-To-Market plan and introduced multiple product and company improvements.

Sydney, Australia

• Day-to-day management of flagship client. Trusted advisor of strategic direction, design, and methodologies at all levels from CDO/EGM to engineers, identified growth opportunities and drove product adoption..
• Initiatives: Data Lifecycle Management (ingestion, enrichment, and egress; data quality; data lineage; metadata management); data products; data cataloguing; cloud transformation; master data management; Lambda.
• Domains: Chief Data Office; Balance Sheet Management; Risk; Financial crime (sanctions, AML, and fraud); Real-time processing; Customer identity management; Customer collections; Customer retention.

Sydney, Australia

• Delivered three organisationally critical transformation programs ($20m-50m+):
• Automotive Flex Commission Reform: Led the end-to-end transformational response ($20m 18mth project, 250+ team) of Australia’s largest Auto-finance lender ($400m profit per year, 600 staff) to regulator imposed.
• Banking Code of Practice: Rescued troubled regulatory project and managed significant implementation and subsequent customer remediation activities.
• Major Platform Migration: Supported the Go Live phase and key dependencies of $50m program to migrate equipment finance back-book to strategic platform.Extra-curricular: Developed and deployed Project Management.

Sydney, Australia

Short-term specialist hire to manage proof-of-concept evaluation of competing Enterprise Data Management (EDM) vendor solutions at Excelian's most important customer (Australia's largest bank). Ran executive workshops, managed vendors and stakeholders, undertook outsourcing assurance & cost review, verified implementation plan and oversaw detailed.

Sydney, Australia

• Led the end-to-end Technology capability to many of NAB's Markets businesses (FICC and Debt Markets) and also Treasury. Focussed on quant and other front-office/risk requirements.Role encompassed cross functional team.
• XVA (CVA and other derivatives) - owned service and delivered significant upgrade
• Delivering SA-CCR regulatory compliance
• Collateral Management - owned including delivering EMIR Non-Centrally Cleared Counterparty regulatory compliance and major system upgrade
• Trader surveillance/mandate regulatory compliance - owned capability for 1 yr
• Credit (PFE) Exposure for Treasury & FICC exotics - designed, delivered owned custom built extendable capability

Sydney Area, Australia

Re-architected and led development of middleware and reporting systems for the QBE Group Asset Management division ($100bn+ FUM).

Sydney Area, Australia

Build of new commercial product to permit insurance companies to value and manage their Solvency/Market Risk (VaR and Economic Capital) via a complex, modular UI. Role encompassed technical project management, product ownership, technical lead, data modelling, systems architecture, UX design, team leadership. Contributed to simplify and generalise complex.

Sydney Area, Australia

UX development of new platform to enable Equity Derivative sales traders within Macquarie Securities Group (formerly EMG) to trade and manage more business. Successful business disrupted by financial crisis.

Sydney Area, Australia

Developed pricing and STP solutions for Quant Research, primarily focussed on Exotic Equity Derivatives.

Sydney Area, Australia

Short term 'skunk works' build of new platform for valuation and recording of all Fixed Income Currency & Commodity (FICC) trades globally.

Sydney, Australia

Developed unit pricing & holdings reconciliation capabilities between pControl, internal datawarehouse and legacy systems as part of BNP Paribas Security Services (custodian) $100m+ transformation programme.

Sydney, Australia

Full stack/lifecycle development of Origin's primary Energy Risk Management (hedging and market analysis) systems. Designed, delivered & managed short term risk model and the end-to-end Hedge Accounting (IAS39/IFRS39) solution to facilitate optimum P&L impact of IFRS compliance to the trading portfolio.

London, United Kingdom

Remediated design and late delivery of Global Credit Risk Reporting to Deutsche Bank; Delivered and supported Equity Research for Dresdner Kleinwort Benson; project managed digitisation project at Nikko Principal Investments amongst other achievements.

London, United Kingdom

CWB was a technology firm specialising in delivering IT solutions to the biggest Financial Institutions to enable them to measure and manage exposures and risk. CWB was sold to Thales to become Thales Information Systems Finance. Please see my Thales entry and other entries of this time for detail.

London, United Kingdom

Co-lead developer of greenfield Credit Risk reporting platform for Global Credit management

London, United Kingdom

Bespoke application development & support of front & middle-office applications.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

14 month paid internship as part of degree. Led testing as system/UAT proxy tester, triaged change and produced all user training materials for Britannic's largest ever project. This massive transformation touched every facet of customer facing and branch operations, impacting 2000+ sales representatives and 200 branches across the UK.