Jon Silk Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Galleon Services offer consultancy and contract services covering banking/treasury/investment management/capital markets operations as well as adhoc business analysis services across various sectors.

United Kingdom

Explore opportunity and viability of RFI by UK EIC on Digital Exclusion in UK on behalf of NZ Advisory Services company looking at opportunities to transfer learnings from NZ Digital Exclusion remediation projects.

Zurich

• Re-hired as external contractor as lead Business Analyst for UMR Initial Margin and CSDR projects to bring experience and understanding of the regulations and the Zurich Insurance Treasury & Investment Management processes to drive forward the implementation and documentation of the Initial Margin requirements.• Produced documentation covering Business Requirements, Target Operation Model and Testplans.• Identified compliance challenges within the implementation of the regulations and proposed solutions.• Led and co-ordinated testing of solutions across multiple Zurich Insurance Group entities and locations.• Primary project support for Legal Teams managing outreach and co-ordination with multiple trading counterparties including the completion of ISDA agreements, custodian documentation and Eligible Collateral Schedules

Rochester, England, United Kingdom

Supporting the U.K. response to the COVID 19 pandemic through providing testing capacity.

United Kingdom

Fixed term contract to lead the selection and delivery of a custodian agent for Segregated Initial Margin UMR rules producing RFI and RFP Support the selection of IM (SIMM) calculation tool through the RFI and RFI production and review.

Barcelona/London

To provide support and advive to Treasury Operations management on BAU matters, issue resolution and improvements. This will include representing the Head of Treasury Operations as necessary in his absence and assist in the handover to new Head of Treasury Operations.A primary focus is on supporting the development of an operations Initial Margin solution for the Zurich Insurance Group of companies for the Phase 5 implementation.

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Lead and stabilise a multinational team of staff based in Barcelona to ensure greater level of understanding of the business needs of an international treasury operation. IAA Treasury Operations ServiZurich supports Zurich Treasury Services (ZTS) in Dublin in providing treasury services across the Zurich Insurance Group globally, supporting 19 different group companies and offering 28 different treasury product solutions, • Developed and implemented a plan to re-organised the single team into 3 defined teams (Transaction Processing, Controls & Process Improvements) to ensure greater focus on daily tasks to reduce error rate, segregation of duties in line market standards, and process improvement team to ensure delivery of change management.• Significant improvement in loss management in both reduction of loss events and in reducing the total outcome value.• Resolved all outstanding audit issues within the agreed timeframe delivering an improved relationship with Audit Department and positive profile to senior management.• Ensured the successful deployment of changes to meet the EMIR RTS 2 requirements avoiding potential reporting issues and fines.

London

• Re-aligned & removed redundant tasks to improve efficiency and controls to deliver a headcount saving.• Developed & tested SCV file for FSCS reporting, delivered system testing & UAT, documented process & implemented ahead of deadline.• Led EMIR BAU management & development of EMIR reporting & identification of EMIR Clearing Solution, implemented to tight regulatory deadline enabled continuation of trading of Interest Rate Swaps in compliant environment.• Completed gap analysis of multiple group wide control standards, implemented changes & allocated responsibilities across departments & evidenced controls

London, United Kingdom

• Managed System Security & Data Administration team ensured the new control environment implemented & followed• Introduced 6 monthly System User Reviews, managed & completed Group driven annual Logical Access Management review of Applications & updated all procedures ensuring compliance with Bank's policy, closed by Internal & External audit issues outstanding for over 2 years

Following the closure of Landesbank Berlin AG, London Branch, I travelled to New Zealand and toured both North and South Island.

London

• Introduced Sungard intelliMATCH for system-to-system, reduced reconciliation systems from 3 to 1 with greater coverage of products & attributes with a significant reduction in daily reconciliation completion deadline by 3hrs per day including writing of Requirements Documentation, review of functional specification, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) & User sign-off covering products Foreign Exchange, Money Markets, Derivatives, Securities & Futures• Managed client on-boarding & KYC processes ensuring, along with Compliance Department, FSA audit of AML/KYC processes & records passed successfully and all customer issues included, CASS matters addressed satisfactorily

London, United Kingdom

• Managed 8 staff & allocated tasks, trained, developed, appraised & recruited all Operations Control projects • Introduced DTCC DerivServ as the bank’s electronic confirmations system for Credit Derivatives, implemented IntelliMATCH as the bank’s Stock reconciliation system, introduced electronic archiving to manage disaster recovery risk (Content Manager)

London, United Kingdom

• Conceived & implemented new IT system to manage Bank’s controls in respect of anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) regulatory requirements, including new processes and supporting documentation • Implemented client reference data interface between London & Berlin for electronic transfer of all new & updated customer data reduced input points from 4 to 1 with associated reduction of resources saving at least 50% of time on client input checking

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

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