Fraser Simpson Email & Phone Number

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Control, Statutory & Regulatory Lab - Finance Value Stream - Group TransformationLeading Agile Product Development Team with responsibility for managing the product backlog through to deliveryStatutory Reporting, Regulatory Reporting, Financial Control, Process Re-engineering, Cost Management

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Business start-up programme. Financing, legal and planning, programme management, budgeting, tendering & third party oversight, marketing, operations and financial control

Edinburgh/Dublin/Hong Kong

- Responsible for leading and delivering the change portfolio for Finance Operations – prioritisation, delivery, risk management, business impact, testing, resource management and capability, and project cost control. Link IT/Change teams and the business. Oversight, influencing and challenge of support from major third party vendors - with 3rd Party.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Business Lead, ‘Future Finance Programme’o Business lead for Finance strategic change portfolio. Control and oversight of the core 3rd Party (IBM) deliverables to the programme. Delivering significant Target Operating.
• Head of Systems & Data Management, Finance Shared Service Centre (“FSSC”)o Responsibility for finance systems development, and sponsorship of new projects. Maintenance and governance over the systems control.
• Head of Financial Management, FSSCo Led the Purchase to Pay teams, covering E2E process for Purchasing Support through to Accounts Payable; and the Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting teams and the Finance Business.
• Head of Service Management, FSSCo Established the Relationship Management function for the FSSC division of 250FTE (including Service Level Agreements for all Finance activities, and related KPIs)o Remained the.
• Finance Transformation Manager, UK Insuranceo Responsibility for the UK Finance project team – overseeing successful Finance support for all Corporate projects, including set-up of a new shared service centre for Finance

Edinburgh/London, United Kingdom

• Seconded to Standard Life as lead consultant to the Implementation Programme for the Demutualisation and IPO
• Internal Control reviews, process re-engineering, and development of BI/dashboards/scorecards, oversight and control arrangements of outsourced services providerso Clients including Barclays Retail Bank, Prudential.
• Led KPMG projects: conduct risk regulatory investigations in areas such as safeguarding customers’ assets, dealing allocation breaches, timely execution reviews, and the mis-selling of bonds and mortgage endowmentso.
• Seconded to National Australia Group Legal & Compliance team
• Corporate Transaction Support/Due Diligence - Business Integration, 90 Day Plans, Reporting Accountant, mergers and listed debt issues

Edinburgh/Glasgow/London, United Kingdom

• Senior Manager, Financial Sector Audit (Retail Banks, Life Insurers, Investment Managers, Investment Funds)o External audit clients (statutory and regulatory reporting) including Clydesdale Bank plc, AEGON UK plc.

Chartered Accountant

Bachelor Of Commerce (Bcom), Accounting And Business Management, Honours

Financial Reporting, Auditing & Controls, Taxation, Economics, Corporate Strategy, Investment Analysis, Commercial Law, Business.