Christian Hadley Email & Phone Number

Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Managed a large and complex cost base of $310m & 1,150 FTE for NAB’s Chief Risk Officer and NAB’s Chief Legal Council whilst also providing financial support and leadership to their leadership teams.• Championed productivity and business reorganisation initiatives with significant cost savings of over $16m.• Managed the annual financial and FTE plan/budget - delivering significant cost and FTE reductions.• Financial scenario modelling, analysis and forecasting at a business unit level. • Led an on/offshore team to produce periodical financial reporting for key stakeholders.• Reviewed and challenged project business cases in order to proved financial sign off.• Sat on 2 boards (for NAB subsidiaries), providing finance leadership and advise to directors.• Preparation and presentation of; Board Packs. Annual Statutory accounts for board review and sign off.

Melbourne, Australia

Led a finance stream that successfully demerged Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire Bank (CYBG) from NAB.• Led a finance stream for the demerger of Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire Bank (CYBG).• Managed a team to provide assurance over the CYBG Prospectus and Scheme Booklets. • Developed and executed Transitional Servicing Agreements (TSA) between NAB & CYBG.• Co-ordinated the settlement of all open positions between NAB & CYBG.

Melbourne, Australia

Developed and led the external reporting assurance program over the NAB’s Prudential Regulatory Reporting and control environment. • People Leader for 2 direct reports and 9 indirect reports.• Instigated and drove the in housing of assurance activities, from Ernst & Young – saving $2m p.a.• Managed the assurance program over the Remuneration note within the Annual Financial Report (AFR)• Championed change management initiates for Group Finance.• Drove Kaizen @ NAB - Group Finance - One way same way initiatives.• Managed the offshore external reporting assurance team and plan.• Risk Management lead for Group Finance - Risk Assessed/Challenged all change initiatives impacting Group Finance including sitting on Project Advisory Boards.• Group Finance cost centre manager for $20m spend and 50 FTE.• NAB CFO Award – Successfully implementation and delivery of the APS310 assurance program.

• Defined the regulatory business requirements against pre-prescribed accounting re-org posting methodology.• Managed and facilitated working groups with heads of departments to drive out the impact of the prescribed changes for the risk & regulatory reporting business areas – market risk, credit risk & Bank of England.• Initiated and maintained contact with all key risk & regulatory stakeholders around the proposed changes to credit risk, market risk & Bank of England.• Maintained and closed out in flight business change within the risk & regulatory space including the facilitation of testing to sign off change.• Liaised with IT and department heads to facilitate delivery of inflight programmes.• Delivered change resulting in resource time-savings at month end.

• Defined & delivered the current, interim, & target state system source data requirements (functional & non functional) for the Regulatory Reporting department; incorporating FSA (UK Regulator - credit risk ,market risk, operational risk), SARB (South African Regulator) & BoE (Bank of England) requirements for the International and South African entities. • Management of International and SA Workshops to drive data gathering and to promote the benefits of the programme to the Risk & Regulatory stakeholders• Documentation of process and data flows through the risk & regulatory systems and how these can be sourced within the target state. • Business requirements documentation (BRD) to support the current, interim & target state analysis in order to move the programme into the design and development phase.• Cross finance (statutory, product control & regulatory) analysis to determine & rationalise like data requirements and how these can be ‘golden sourced’ within the new SAP ledger environment.• Managed weekly working groups with key stakeholders - from programme initiation to documentation sign off. • Facilitated the change control process for any additional regulatory requirements post BRD sign off• Development of interim and target state architecture and operating model for the new SAP reporting environment (including the various data and publishing stores).• Project planning for the risk & regulatory work stream, to further incorporate into the overall Global Finance Transformation Programme.

• Quarterly release (GRDW enhancements) – coordination of the Basel/APS roll out programme including liaising with technology, testing functions, upstream and downstream customers.• Business conduit between upstream front office source and downstream customers – including prioritisation of business requirements within the GRDW work space.• Weekly presentations to senior credit risk managers meeting – including walk-through of business requirements impacting the risk & treasury worlds.• Management of non Basel programmes (those not aligned to a quarterly release) – including system migrations, treasury & other non Basel programmes impacting GRDW.• Produce feasibility reports to drive business requirement documentation that involves all levels of the RBS business from senior management to BAU.

• Performed feasibility studies, business requirement analysis, impact / gap analysis and scenario planning to drive the migration of numerous tasks associated to RBS UK’s Pillar 1 regulatory reporting function.• Project planning to enable the delivery of quality business solutions within agreed timescales and budget• Developed hypothesis to address project requirements, outlining solutions to drive change to the business issues identified.• Development and roll-out of training plans• Managing relationships with key stakeholders and senior management throughout various Risk, Regulatory & Statutory business areas• Chaired meetings and workshops to facilitate project delivery• Presentations to Senior Management on the results of analysis performed• Preparation and delivery of business specifications (detailing scope, budgets, dependencies, assumptions, delivery approach, etc.)

London, United Kingdom

• Preparation of Continuous Improvement (CI) & Strategic Control Management (SCM) documentation required to gain project approval.• Project test planning and test analysis i.e. impact analysis.• Post implementation review and enhancement.• Liaison with IT, SCM and the end users throughout the duration of each project.• Improvement and automation of internal processes.• Liaison with Front Office and business relationship managers to identify and drive capital reductions for CSi.• Regulatory BAU backup for daily/monthly Capital Adequacy (CAD) reporting. Performed to gain the experience necessary to understand and improve the current processes (also when short staffed).• Regulatory CAD monthly derivatives reconciliation and analysis – Financial Control to Regulatory Systems.• Excellent understanding of EBK, BIS & FSA regulatory rules (including work on Basel II implementation)• Sound Product Knowledge• Building excel macros to automate various manual tasks especially around the Large Exposures, Balance Sheet & CAD functions.

• Preparation of Continuous Improvement (CI) & Strategic Control Management (SCM) documentation required to gain project approval.• Project test planning and test analysis i.e. impact analysis.• Post implementation review and enhancement.• Liaison with IT, SCM and the end users throughout the duration of each project.• Improvement and automation of internal processes.• Liaison with Front Office and business relationship managers to identify and drive capital reductions for CSi.• Regulatory BAU backup for daily/monthly Capital Adequacy (CAD) reporting. Performed to gain the experience necessary to understand and improve the current processes (also when short staffed).• Regulatory CAD monthly derivatives reconciliation and analysis – Financial Control to Regulatory Systems.• Excellent understanding of EBK, BIS & FSA regulatory rules (including work on Basel II implementation)• Sound Product Knowledge• Building excel macros to automate various manual tasks especially around the Large Exposures, Balance Sheet & CAD functions.

• Six direct reports (4 Assistant Accountants & 2 Accounts Payable)• Full HR responsibility for all direct reports• Review and sign off, of all direct reports work• Accounts Payable supervisor • Ownership of monthly, quarterly & year end reporting• Delegation & compilation of all US Reporting Packs• Post close US contact in Australia for all queries• Hyperion financial system administrator and maintenance co-ordinator• Department Compliance Administrator (inc SOX)• External Audit contact - PricewaterhouseCoopers

• US GAAP Reporting• FX dealings (hedge contracts)• Staff supervision• Preparation of monthly financial statements for HQ• Ownership of the quarter & month end close process• Post close & ad-hoc reporting to HQ• Variance, inventory & cost analysis for HQ• System Implementation (Oracle Financials) • Product costing under transfer pricing agreements• Full balance sheet reconciliation • Compliance reporting (BAS, FBT etc)• Understanding of Six Sigma methodology• Assist the Budgeting to HQ • General Ledger & system maintenance

• Monthly Trial Balance Reconciliations• Monthly, Quarterly & Annual Financial Reporting• Annual Statutory Accounts• Maintenance of Internal Debtors Ledger• Maintenance of Fixed Assets Ledger• Accounts Payable Supervisor• Compliance (TAX, BAS, FBT etc)• Foreign Exchange Payments & Receipts

• Company & Trusts Statutory Accounts• Individual Income Tax Returns• Preparation of Clients BAS• Maintenance of Superannuation Funds• General Audit• Financial Planning• Maintenance of Internal Computer Systems• Client Interview & Consulting

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