Matthew Thomas Email & Phone Number

Marlborough, Gb

London Area, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Role Responsibilities: • Business Partner to the Head of Private Credit providing commercially astute insight and analysis to support the running and growth of the business.• Collaborate with senior management on Liquidity Management, Bad Debt Provisioning and business strategy.• External regulatory, statutory and fiscal reporting.• Management of external audits across multiple entities and complex structures.• Leadership and development of Product Control and FP&A teams.• Financial Modelling• Working with technology to drive automation, process reengineering and enhanced control frameworks.• Develop appropriate models to support pricing and new product approval.• Supporting the FD and Head of Private Credit with Ad Hoc projects to enhance value creation within Triple Point.Achievements include:• Restructured the team to better serve the needs of a rapidly changing/expanding business.• Successful audits across all entities, strong working relationship with external auditors.• Worked with consultants and system vendors to select a suitable operating system, designed the data work stream and I am a core member of the steering committee and SME implementation teams.• Implemented cash flow models to more efficiently manage liquidity across the business.• Built returns models to enable more informed strategic decision making.• Worked with the debt capital markets team to structure and put in place RCF facilities in our structures to assist in pipeline management.• Design and implementation of enhanced controls and Balance Sheet substantiation.• Rebuild and redesign of monthly board management information.

London, England, United Kingdom

Financial Controller at Triple Point supporting Leasing & Lending and Group Finance

Role Responsibilities: • MI design and production across the business on all required lens including client, geography and product.• Ownership and development of the MI system.• Direct line management of a team of 4, wider leadership across finance team of c20.• Mentor to 2 individuals in the front office.• All Group function reporting requirements.• Strategic modelling.• Cost management.• Legal entity re-structures.• Business valuations.Achievements Included:• Built a high performing team. Involved transitioning a contractor to a permanent position, assisting predecessor to transition to a new role opportunity, managing underperformance and recruiting highly motivated, skilled finance professionals.• Established strong working relationships with European branch network, US office and Head office in Bahrain.• Procured and developed an MI system to enable best in class management information across the Group which is being rolled out across the institution globally. • Using the system as a platform, implemented sophisticated, client level, budgeting and forecasting, monthly reporting, cost reporting, support for financial control and financial statements, input into regulatory returns including ICAAP.• Supported the business in detailed strategy development. • Our customer service levels recognised across the organisation as extremely high with regular feedback from senior stakeholders in this regard.• French Subsidiary set up and valuation modelling for Brexit contingency implementation. Presentation and interaction with external advisors and French regulator.

London, United Kingdom

• Provision of meaningful analysis to the IB Executive through the delivery of timely and accurate reporting and analysis through product, client and geographical lenses. Partner the Executive to ensure understanding of the IB division performance drivers and aid strategic decision making.• Responsible for providing subject matter expert support to the International Banking Executives on funding costs; through value-added analysis and challenge.• Implementation of and responsibility for divisional treasury allocation model and supporting analysis; for internal MI purposes, business reviews and IMS briefings.• Support financial modelling as part of group wide strategic review.• Funding cost budgeting and forecasting.• Supported implementation of divisional funding policies in MI and wider policy education.• Supported divisional liability strategy through balance sheet, margin and liquidity analysis.• Proven ability to develop trusted relationships across products, functions, divisions and regions as well as with group stakeholders through excellent communication and collaboration.• Responsible for preparing divisional monthly rolling forecast and briefing notes for executives.• Co-ordination and preparation of quarterly business review deck and associated back-up; to support divisional executives in presenting divisional performance to group executives.• Experience of root cause analysis and end to end process review as part of ‘Lean’ review.• Lead a team of 9, providing direction, coaching, training and support to develop them as future leaders. This included through a series of restructures and an unsettling environment.

London, United Kingdom

• Strong focus on the development of the team and leading them through a turbulent period of restructures and uncertainty.• Implementation of weekly/monthly management information for Executive and direct reports. Supporting a range of businesses, geographies and client groups.• Responsible for guiding and influencing key decision makers to ensure they target the financial parameters key to achieving RBS strategic goals.• Experience of financial modelling, strategic planning, budgeting and forecasting; covering revenue, costs balance sheet, capital and headcount.• Responsible for liaising with financial and product controllers to perform value added analysis and drive the resolution of data quality issues.• Management of extensive data interrogation exercises to generate full client breakdowns of income and balance sheet.• Influenced the development of client MI systems.• Proven ability to develop strong working relationships with key business customers, built on delivery of information and analysis to a very high standard.• Synergy cost saving modelling and tracking

London, United Kingdom

• Building and managing a team of 4 people.• Weekly and Monthly exposure and financial performance tracking reporting.• Preparation of financial slides for monthly steering and management meetings.• Commentaries on all aspects of financial performance.• Co-ordinating the Non-Core Markets Forecasting processes and summarising results.• Managing the MI requirements of Non-Core Markets of interested parties.• Dealing with ad hoc information requests from RBS and Non-Core Executives.• Working closely with Product Control on the back-to-front understanding and trail of financial information.• Managing the working relationship with Divisional Decision Support team for Non-Core Division.

London, United Kingdom

• GBM Executive management information. Direct support to the FD and investment bank executive.• Budgeting and forecasting• Project Management• Business plans and investment appraisals• Strategic business initiatives• Investor Day presentations and information packs

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Ba (Hons) Financial Services, 2.2

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