Derek Skeen

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Chief Operating Officer - Sandon Capital @ Sandon Capital
sydney, new south wales, australia
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Australia
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About Derek Skeen

I am a senior financial services leader with a proven track record in driving transformation and enabling businesses to execute organic and inorganic business strategy regionally and globally across the asset management sector.I have extensive experience in managing global business activities, determining business strategy, transforming operations, optimising operating models and business processes, scaling businesses, determining business core functions, outsourcing and insourcing business activities, setting up and managing offshore support models, establishing and enabling new business capabilities, consolidating business activities onto a single global platform, executive vendor relationship management, budgeting, managing small and large teams regionally and globally across geographic locations.My open and transparent management style endears staff locally and globally to support business activity and enable successful execution of organic and inorganic business plans. Due to the global roles I have performed and locations I have worked in I am adept at managing across regions and cultures and I have delivered employee engagement and communication frameworks that significantly improved staff working environments and molded organisations towards a single culture. I have deep experience in managing organisational relationships at a division and corporate level to ensure delivery of corporate initiatives whilst still delivering business divisional needs. I have a proven track record in understanding operational, financial and reputational risks across a business and setting up organisational frameworks to manage these. Experience Summary:Leadership | Management | Strategy | Transformation | Optimisation | Enablement | Consolidation | Operating Model | Risk Management | Cost Management | Efficiency | Culture | Diversity | Business Management | Investment Management | Program Management | Project Management | Outsourcing | Offshoring | Insourcing | Scalability | Budgeting | Compliance | Vendor Management | Process Reviews | Executive | Globalisation | Regulatory Change | Investment Management

Derek Skeen's Current Company Details
Sandon Capital

Sandon Capital

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Chief Operating Officer - Sandon Capital
sydney, new south wales, australia
Employees:
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Derek Skeen Work Experience Details
  • Sandon Capital
    Chief Operating Officer | Strategy | Governance | Risk | Transformation
    Sandon Capital Dec 2021 - Present
    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
    As the Chief Operating Officer for Sandon Capital I am responsible for all the non investment decision making of the firms operations and its associated funds. Having worked in a large institutional business I have been able to create a fit for purpose model to support the business needs. This has seen me make enhancements to the business governance, risk and compliance frameworks, create and chair appropriate committees to manage these and review and enhance the end to end investment processes through process redesign and system implementations.
  • Macquarie Group
    Global Head Of Investment Operations - | Strategy | Transformation | Optimisation | Culture Champion
    Macquarie Group Nov 2020 - May 2021
    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
    Drove the continuous optimisation of the Macquarie platform to ensure the significant investment made in earlier years delivered scalable solutions that maximised business benefit. Led to the creation of programs to onboard our Vienna business, globalise our fixed income data and portfolio management capability, globalise our equity trading and created the implementation plan for the acquisition of Waddell & Reed.
  • Macquarie Group
    Global Head Of Investment Operations - | Strategy | Transformation | Optimisation | Culture Champion
    Macquarie Group Jul 2018 - Nov 2020
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
    As part of Macquarie's globalisation journey I relocated to the US to establish the global investment operations capability. In addition to that I became globally responsible for the management of moving the entire business onto our new operating platform. Whilst in the US I managed the implementation of our platform across that location, Australia, Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg as well as the onboarding of an acquisition we made. I created a 24 hour real time support model that was underpinned by three regions being Australia, India and the US that reported to me. Recognising the need to continue to support and invest in the platform created I established the Business Product Integration platform teams located in Australia, United State & India.
  • Macquarie Group
    Chief Operating Officer Apac Region - | Strategy | Leadership | Optimisation | Risk Management
    Macquarie Group Jun 2015 - Jul 2018
    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
    Acquisitions and organic growth led to different businesses on different platforms. As a result Macquarie performed a review and this resulted in the creation of a global platform strategy. As Chief Operating Officer I managed overall business activity across the Asia Pacific Region and drove business decisions and outcomes that were aligned to our determined core. I acted as Macquarie Asset Management Global COO representative to ensure global business alignment to corporate organisational policies and programs.
  • Macquarie Group
    Head Of Asset Administration - Division Director - | Consolidation | Scalability | Enablement
    Macquarie Group Jul 2009 - May 2015
    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
    Macquarie continued to consolidate businesses onto the platform created to support Macquarie Funds Group and grow organically and inorganically. The organisation began to leverage the platform across broader business activity leading to additional revenue and bespoke business opportunities. In addition to being responsible for middle, regulatory and back office functions I played a key enablement lead role in the organic growth of the organisation and held Board positions on Macquarie entities, represented business on bank wide working committees and industry based bodies such as Omgeo advisory board in Australia.
  • Macquarie Group
    Head Of Asset Administration - Associate Director - | Consolidation | Scalability | Enablement
    Macquarie Group Jul 2005 - Jun 2009
    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
    Macquarie's organic growth led to its expansion into global markets and having teams in different locations around the world. Investments were made to continue growth and enable scale. I was involved in the creation of the operating platform to support the middle and back office activities and had responsibility for middle and back office functions that supported business activity across Sydney, Hong Kong, London and New York locations.The operating platform created became the backbone of a new group formed being Macquarie Funds Group which consolidated all asset management activities that had become created across the organisation into one operating group.
  • Macquarie Group
    Custody Manager - | Industry Expertise | Efficiency | Cost Reducer | Enablement
    Macquarie Group Jul 1998 - Jun 2005
    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
    Macquarie began to organically grow its asset management capabilities domestically. As the organisation grew I identified synergies across the operations platform that enabled the merging of various support groups into one area. This increased efficiency and scale and reduced operating costs over the period.Managed the day to day activities of the custody business.
  • Macquarie Group
    Custody Officer - | Industry Expert | Efficiency | Cost Reducer | Enablement
    Macquarie Group Jul 1995 - Jun 1998
    Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
    Macquarie was in its infancy in the asset management space and was creating start up capabilities to support its ambitions. As part of that I identified and implemented numerous small projects that reduced costs and increased efficiencies around custody and middle office processes. Being in a start up stage I was able to develop a strong understanding of various securities and products used in the market place across all asset class sectors.

Derek Skeen Skills

Hedge Funds Equities Derivatives Capital Markets Fixed Income Financial Markets Alternative Investments Investment Banking Investments Asset Management Private Equity Portfolio Management Wealth Management Corporate Finance Risk Management Structured Products Options Valuation Financial Modeling Due Diligence Trading Trading Systems Bloomberg Financial Services Equity Derivatives Operations Management Global Custody Business Strategy Compliance Investment Management Securities Fx Options Investment Strategies

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