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• Basel Reporting Measurement and Validation lead, London, UK (Director)Post implementation of Target Operating model within Basel Measurement and reporting team, led the Measurement and validation function across all.
• Managed the production of RWA and leverage across Investment Banking and Private Banking platforms, across all regions (c100 staff). Harmonised the process across regions and completed multiple FED exams and a PRA S166.
• Primary Business Sponsor of the RRP programme (Recovery and Resolution) involving all RWA, leverage and Balance Sheet projections and Spot reporting. Delivered strategic solution in 2022.
• Led the Strategic change team up until 2020, defined and implemented roles and responsibilities
• Primary stakeholder relationship owner for all upstream providers including Risk. Formalised all service agreements within an SLA framework.
• Primary Data officer within the Capital function. Completed the implementation of the BCBS239 data governance principles within the BAU process

• Basel Reporting, Investment Bank Production lead, London, UK (Director) Global lead of Investment Bank RWA and leverage production process, across all regulators
• Managed calculation and reporting of Credit Risk RWA for Global Investment Banking business (~100bn$ total RWA) under Swiss FINMA Basel III Rules, US FED BASEL III rules for the IHC entities, and EBA rules for the PRA.
• Responsible for MIS reporting of Credit Suisse Group RWA and LVE (Basel III) by MIS / line of business.
• Defined and managed central controls function for all regulators, including SOX compliance, BCBS 239 attribute level controls, Operational Risk framework and managing internal and external audit.
• Sponsor and lead for implementing Basel IV changes, including methodology and implementation.
• Defined and implemented Target operating model organisational change within the Basel Reporting team.

• Global leverage and regulatory change lead for the Investment Bank (Director)Lead of the Group BCBS leverage and regulatory change teams. Team of 35 across Pune, London, and New York.
• Partnered with business to manage to aggressive targets under new leverage framework, addressing significant control issues associated with implementation.
• Developed and implemented a strategic architecture to support new Leverage requirements.
• Regulatory change and impact lead for Basel Measurement and reporting group, including being accountable for all changes impacting finance with regards to credit risk. The development of a SACCR solution being a key.
• This included completing the external regulatory QIS requests, educating the business, designing strategic solutions, and collaborating with external advocacy team.
• Finance lead on BCBS 239 initiatives (Risk vs. finance reconciliations, data lineage and data modelling)

• Risk and Finance Impact Division (Director)
• Risk and Finance capital reporting teams merged to form RFDAR (Risk and Finance data and reporting). Within RFDAR and I set up the Impact and scenario team, the objective being to centralise impact assessments across.

• UK Regulatory Capital and Liquidity Reporting (Director)
• Team of 40 split between India (18) and London (22)
• Managed preparation and submission of all external FSA returns from both a capital and liquidity perspective.
• Managed the implementation of revised liquidity guidance from the FSA as a result of SLRP.
• Managed Global risk feeds and provide handoff to Group capital reporting team
• Prepared MIS to be reviewed with stakeholders. Developed enhanced management reporting.

• Promoted to Director and become LEC for the Group’s most complex entity. Additional responsibilities included:
• Successfully deployed reporting and production team of 18 to Pune, India.
• Assisted in the CS group IFRS restatement exercise.
• Managed Bank of England reporting.
• Responsible for management and development of the UK Bank levy process

• Financial controller Credit Suisse International (VP)Rotated to financial control, managing the reporting team (headcount: 16) for the main Credit Suisse Derivative entity. Balance Sheet size circa $200bn..
• Prepared monthly US GAAP information for consolidation in CS group accounts and managed the preparation of IFRS interim and statutory accounts. Inclusive of fair value disclosures, intercompany break remediation, new.

• Product Control (VP)Managed multiple areas and completed several rotations including Cash products, Index Arbitrage, Prime Services (PC and MO). Promotion to AVP and VP was achieved in 2001 and 2004 respectively..
• Set up Prime Services MO function and completed historic Primeswap Life to date reconciliation
• Chaired both Structured and Flow weekly FOBO’s
• Aided in implementation of the Imagine Risk Management tool, to remove Caps on the business, and set up and chaired both Structured and Flow weekly FOBO’s

Assistant Manager, PWC

Professional Qualification - Chartered Accountancy, Accounting, First Time Passes

Bachelor'S Degree, Business, Economics And Accounting