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Glasgow, Gb

• Responsible for control/oversight of all operational and financial transactions in the live production environment and the associated daily deal reporting across UK and French legal entities.• Development of control and reporting process covering CASS 6, CASS 7, and Transaction reporting including reporting to firms’ senior management on CASS control breaches and completion and validation of FCA regulatory reporting• Development and implementation of cash and asset ledgers as the firm key books and records• Developed operational control procedures and underlying tasks process that removed key bottle necks in the production process creating a seamless process with a reduction in the manual steps.• Reengineered the underlying Operations process removing pressure on the team in periods of high volume and resource demand.• Created functional team responsible for key daily, weekly and month end controls and activities, freeing up specialist resources for more senior activities.• Developed stakeholder and senior management reporting process, ensuring key risk items reported to the appropriate group.• Worked with key individuals within the firm to analyse business requirements and to formalise process maps and business requirements documentation in support of system improvements.• Project Management, including developed and execution of test scripts related to the delivery of platform build. • Project reporting on key build progress, defects and build across the wider project.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Analysed and documented existing accounting, control and reporting requirements in support of formalised business requirements documentation (BRD) • Production and approval of formal BRD documentation • Engage with 3rd party Software provider to agree business specification documents in line with BRD • Developed and execution of Finance related test scripts related to the delivery of platform build. • Project reporting within Finance on key build progress and testing.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Engagement with external clients through delivery of internal testing and validation of migration related activities• Development and delivery of business line facing structure across all teams, enabling more effective client focus and development of staff roles• Development and introduction of a standard reconciliation break clearance policy across all Operational teams, including internal reporting and escalation at key points• Introduction of detailed task and process delivery reporting across all teams, enabling early sight of pressure points and issues• Established the concept of overall client platform Financial Control and underlying control and integrity principles

Glasgow, United Kingdom

• Worked with key individuals within Barclays Finance to analyse business requirements and to formalise process maps and business requirements documentation utilising lean management techniques • Engage with 3rd party Software provider to develop business requirements into final specification documents in support of CASS compliant platform build.• Developed and executed Finance related test scripts related to the delivery of platform build• Documentation of all build defects and liaised with 3rd party provider re appropriate build solutions or workarounds• Developed and executed all Finance related test scripts relevant to the migration of circa 300k clients from external (BoNY) platform and internal platform.• Responsible for financial control/oversight of all trading activities and financial reporting in the live production environment• Responsible for quantifying any client/reporting process/systems defects and underlying client remediation and finance reporting impact• Documented all control and process procedures to support transition into BAU covering all elements of Financial reporting and bank of England reporting

Glasgow

2012-2015Management of a global team responsible for the validation and monthly reporting of the Organisations balance sheet exposures and provisions.2008-2012Management of a team responsible for the production of statutory accounts for circa 600 legal entities across 24 GAAPs

Greenock, Scotland

Management of the European finance team with responsibility for monthly and statutory reporting of the European entities

Glasgow

Management and statutory reporting for Yorkshire Bank Group

Education record

Bachelor'S Degree

Education record