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London, England, United Kingdom

Providing consultancy, advisory and business analysis expertise to International Investment Bank clients to ensure finance business requirements are met for technological change programme delivery initiatives.Key achievements● Led the delivery of Deutsche Bank’s Risk and P&L Platform (Risk Engine) and Job Error Remediation Project. ● Substantial progress made towards reducing end of day batch errors by 60%. (more than 100k per day), requiring significant system data analysis to establish root cause, impact and solution.● Worked with business stakeholders to define, analyse and deploy business change requests, utilising JIRA user stories.● Required significant coordination, engagement and collaboration between developers and the business end user to ensure requirements and deployment needs fully met.

Accountable for Cash funding and intra-day liquidity reporting for HSBC London’s ~400 nostro accounts in ~80 currencies, leading, motivating and providing active first-hand strategic direction to ~40 people in Kuala Lumpur and Manila. Onshore stakeholder management for Treasury Front Office across multiple markets and asset classes, requiring significant engagement with Business Managers to understand and consider Treasury business requirements and associated impact. Expertise spanning compliance and corporate governance regimes, policy frameworks and regulatory directives aimed at mitigating risk, preventing control failures and reducing costs in line with KPI’s. Key achievements● Set and implemented functional strategy and change delivery targets across three operational sites, driving and delivering both technology and automation improvements.● Led GB&M operational design, planning and delivery for cash flow forecasting and liquidity to create and imbed Ring-Fenced Bank requirements, following introduction of Banking Reform Act 2013 legislation. Required significant cross asset class and front office collaboration to ensure all cross business requirements were fully captured.● Led creation and introduction of GB&M EUR Brexit funding and liquidity readiness migration requirements, delivering Front Office-sponsored business go-live on-site in offshore locations and HSBC Paris. Embedded governance and oversight for new EUR funding and liquidity structure.● Delivered GBM sponsored expansion of intraday liquidity function, increasing data and analytics to meet ILAAP liquidity standards and regulatory requirements.● Realised $1.2m fixed cost savings through offshoring of markets production activity in line with wider TOM targets.● Reduced risk events by 40% in GB&M 2020 three-year strategic plan.● Significantly expanded the function, established 64 new accounts, 11 additional FTE’s, drove recruitment and go-live launch in Kuala Lumpur and Manila.

London, England, United Kingdom

Led a team of ~30 while assuming Run The Bank (RTB) accountability for cash management processes impacting commercial and investment accounts across multiple markets. Fostered, maintained and nurtured relationships with offshore functions in Kuala Lumpur and Manila while acting as Business Lead for real-time cash management Target Operating Model (TOM) implementation.Key achievements• Cut risk and control events by 30% following six-month secondment to Kuala Lumpur; enhanced offshore processes via high-impact managerial support, guidance and training.• Innovated and optimised operational support principles through extensive trips conducting workshops and on-site training.• Reduced operational losses by 40% by embedding state-of-the-art automated cash funding processes and principles.• Realised $1.2m fixed cost savings through offshoring of production activity of in line with wider TOM targets.• Created Intra-Day Liquidity Management function to meet BCBS248 and Basel III regulatory requirements.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Maximised profitability and minimised costs having monitored and funded Nostro accounts within target balances and deadlines.• Designed and implemented new Nostro agent bank activity charging process for internal GB&M $12M cost allocation.• Drove team performance improvements via appraisal, objective setting and training.