Leon Vrontamitis Email & Phone Number

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, Australia

• Built up my knowledge of remuneration concepts and practices from a low base to a level from which it would be possible to perform a review of remuneration practices across industry.• Leading member of a small team which completed and published a review of ‘Remuneration practices at large financial institutions’ - April 2018. • The review examined whether remuneration practices in 12 regulated institutions were meeting the objectives of APRA’s prudential framework.• Provided verbal feedback on entity-specific findings to the Chair of Remuneration Committees of each of the 12 entities.

Sydney, Australia

• Performing onsite reviews of regulated entities’ operational risk management approaches and assessing them against best practices.• Communicating review findings to senior management and the board verbally and in writing.• Significant role in developing new guidance for APRA supervision teams for assessing regulated entities’ operational risk management practices.

Sydney, Australia

• Assessing clients’ needs and financial circumstances and then finding them a competitive loan product from a panel of lenders.• Detailed research of lenders’ credit policies and loan servicing criteria.• Structuring and processing the loan, including dealing with queries from lenders’ credit departments.• Running a business, including key activities relating to marketing, compliance & financial control.• Built up a client base from scratch.• Obtained Accredited Mortgage Broker status from 25 lenders.

Sydney And London

Head of Group Internal Audit, Australia & New Zealand, UBS June 2008 - July 2013Senior Auditor, UBS Sydney Feb 2004 – June 2008Senior Auditor, UBS London June 1999 – Feb 2004• Accountable for achieving Group Internal Audit’s (GIA) key objective of evaluating and improving the effectiveness of risk management, control and governance processes.• Responsible for auditing UBS’ investment banking, wealth management and asset management businesses on a front-to-back basis. For example: sales & trading of equity, fixed income and interest rate products, compliance, legal, operations, financial control, market risk control, credit risk control, operational risk control, cash management, payments, corporate finance, equity and debt capital markets.• Representing GIA on the Operating Committee and the Risk & Governance Committee.• Representing GIA when dealing with regulators and external auditors.• Supervising a team of five, including coaching, development and performance evaluation.• Developing and maintaining relationships with all department heads in order to be aware of key changes to the risk profile of the business.• Spent 5 years in the London office and 9 years in the Sydney office and also performed audits in Paris, Zurich, and Moscow.

London

• Performing external audits on a wide variety of clients in the manufacturing, leisure, oil and media sectors before specialising in financial services.• Client relationship management.• Supervision of audit team to achieve deliverables.

Bsc Honours Economics, Economics

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