Serene Mahaffy, Pcc Email & Phone Number

Singapore

Singapore

Corporate Trainer and Facilitator for Leadership and Talent Development programmes, and Management and Graduate Associate programmes, in large multinationals, local companies, educational institutions and startups, responsible for design and delivery of course curriculum, providing support to participants and tracking course progress. Clients include Development Bank of Singapore, Credit Suisse, Standard Chartered Bank, Barclays, UBS, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Temasek Holdings, Yale NUS College, AXA, Bloomberg, Mattel and Gojek.Training topics include Accounting, Economics, Financial Mathematics, Global Markets, Financial Services, Risk Management, Project Management (including Agile), Managing Change, Life Cycle of a Client, Communication Skills, Coaching Skills, Influencing Skills, Emotional Intelligence, Feedback Skills, Networking Skills, Gender Diversity, Work Life Balance, Cultural Awareness, Organisational Awareness, Executive Presence, Personal Branding, Business Etiquette, Interview Skills and Meeting Skills.Certified Executive Coach working with executives, professionals and business owners from the financial services, professional services, technology, media and real estate sectors, and of diverse nationalities and cultures like American, British, Chinese, Indonesian, Indian, Japanese, Malaysian, New Zealanders, Romanian, Singaporean and South African.

Singapore

Organisation Solutions is a global consultancy helping companies grow and manage the many challenges of growth. Our unique set of capabilities and tools help grow organisations, teams, and leaders. We started in 2000 by providing highly bespoke organisation development and change management services around growth. Today our 60 consultants on 6 Continents support the world’s leading and most innovative companies with leadership services that help leaders and their teams scale for growth.

Singapore

I am an accredited Associate Executive Coach of Kipling Partners, one of the leading executive coaching practices in the Asia Pacific region. Kipling Partners specialises in executive, team and group coaching to develop leadership potential, accelerate performance and improve wellbeing for organisations, teams and individuals.

Singapore

I am an Associate Corporate Trainer and Facilitator for Alpha Development, delivering training for Leadership and Talent Development programmes, and Management and Graduate Associate programmes in large multinationals, local companies and universities. Clients include Goldman Sachs, Standard Chartered Bank, Development Bank of Singapore, Credit Suisse, JP Morgan Chase, Temasek Holdings and Yale NUS College.Training topics include Economics, Banking and Financial Services, Risk Management, Project Management, Managing Change, Life Cycle of a Client, Communication Skills, Influencing Skills, Emotional Intelligence, Feedback Skills, Networking Skills, Cultural Awareness, Organisational Awareness, Executive Presence, Personal Branding, Business Etiquette, Interview Skills and Meeting Skills.

Singapore

Responsible for developing a framework for testing of Front Office system changes and migrations.Purpose of the Framework:- allows FO changes to be made in a more efficient, controlled and timely manner; reduces risk of issues post go-live;- establishes best-practice to be followed in testing;- achieves better planning and resourcing of testing; improves turnaround times;- provides better communication with stakeholders by introducing set templates for key milestones;- achieves consistency in testing performed across business lines and FO systems; and,- implements a standard set of Market Risk Management requirements for UAT entry and exit criteria

Singapore

Team lead of the Market Risk Change Singapore team resourced on various regulatory and business driven project streams including developing the strategic risk architecture and providing business support to Front Office requirementsResponsible for managing team resources on a pooled basis to achieve working synergies, provide adequate cover and attain balanced workloads across the different project streams and prioritiesOversee the prioritisation process over the team’s portfolio of work and liaise closely with senior project sponsors from Market Risk Management, Methodology and Reporting teams to resolve conflicting project priorities and to identify possible project synergiesUndertake effective stakeholder management by providing timely updates on project statuses, risks and issues and maintain strong client relationships with senior management from Market Risk, FO IT and Risk IT teams to escalate and resolve project issues efficientlySubject matter expert with strong cross-system and processes knowledge from vast hands-on experience across key market risk systems, providing consultant advice and customized solutions to global team and clients on planned and adhoc requests

Singapore

Business Analyst for Core System projects involving scope and scale changes to the MARS risk system, responsible for preparing business requirements and test plans, reviewing functional specifications, performing UAT, raising issues identified and working with IT for resolution and presenting findings for sign-offBusiness Analyst for Business Support projects involving scope changes to support continual business growth (e.g. new products or locations, FO infrastructure improvements etc), responsible for communicating Market Risk’s testing requirements, performing UAT as per best practices, attaining sign-off from risk owners and communicating the go-live impact to the Risk Reporting team

London, United Kingdom

Team lead of the Global Risk Managers’ Application Transfer project team tasked with enhancing and migrating VB-based analysis and reporting tools to the Singapore risk reporting team, to achieve better efficiency and consistency across different business areas and tighter controls around tool maintenance and supportProject manager responsible for managing stakeholders’ expectations by delivering projects on target, providing timely status updates and maintaining the project plan against agreed priorities. Also responsible for managing the performance of the regional Singapore team. Achieved migration of 17.5% of 195 reports in the first six months

London And Singapore

Primary risk reporting role for the Global Rates business across regions, responsible for the efficient, timely, accurate and complete delivery of market risk information, limit performance and management information on business processes to risk managers and senior managementsBusiness analyst in the successful migration of the daily time-series validation process, analysis and reports for the Global Rates business from London to Singapore, responsible for establishing appropriate documentation, training and cover for all stages of migration

London, United Kingdom

Undertook the primary financial controller role for the Futures and Derivatives Counterparty Risk Management (DCRM) business, including Balance Sheet analytical review and netting, Maturity analysis, Inter-company reconciliations, Reserves reconciliations and reconciliations to Group SAPUndertook the regulatory reporting role for the Futures and DCRM business, including Weighted-Risk-Assets calculations and reporting, Large Exposures reporting (for Futures) and Capital Adequacy reporting (for DCRM)

Singapore

Institute appointed tutor for the Accounting module of the ACA Professional Stage exams, responsible for delivering the course curriculum, providing student support and tracking student progress via mock assessmentsIndependently prepared teaching materials and mock assessments to facilitate recap of key examinable areas by students

London, United Kingdom

Undertook team leader and reviewer role to achieve completeness and accuracy of work in relation to engagement objectives and in compliance with quality standards and risk management procedures (clients include Royal & Sun Alliance, Swiss Re and Legg Mason)Developed effective client relationships by managing clients’ expectations via continual communication of engagement progress and timely resolution of issues

Bacc, Accountancy, Honors

Strathclyde Business School

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