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Horsham, England, United Kingdom

🔹 Establishing and restructuring a new Trade Operations team for functions recently transitioned out of London.🔹 Day to day oversight of trade confirmation and settlement for FX, Unit Trusts, Equities and Fixed Income products🔹 Driving forward BAU improvements through process innovation, data analysis, Excel VBA and increasingly AI solutions.🔹 Recent achievements include significant year on year reductions in failing trades and market claims🔹 Maximising Blackrock/Aladdin efficiency through dashboard improvements and bespoke user designed tools (UDT’s)🔹 Delivering business change such as CSDR regulations, flexible working, Aladdin settlements monitor and global follow the sun process models.

London, England, United Kingdom

🔹Supporting the creation of a new Broker Oversight team following a major business restructure.🔹Transforming the team process model to cover a wider business remit across both derivative and traditional investment products.🔹Establishing objective KPI measures and feedback structures to measure broker capability and service levels.🔹Collaborating with operational teams and our broker community to build stronger work practices and improve operational efficiency

London, United Kingdom

🔹Solutioning and coordinating global paperless/remote working initiatives 🔹User testing and process improvements for the implementation of Aladdin🔹Re-engineering the business CFD Derivatives reconciliation process model🔹Robotic automation (via Blue Prism) of macros and manual tasks🔹Supporting staff through the business transformation and relocation process🔹Driving improvements through procedure, macro and behaviour changes🔹Challenging and adapting processes to ensure efficiency and scalability🔹Simplifying tasks and procedures to mitigate risk and reduce training times🔹Collaboration with all business touch points to overcome BAU challenges🔹Event control and oversight for international corporate actions in Aladdin

East Grinstead

🔹Business analysis and development for small businesses🔹Creating simple reporting dashboards to show sales trends and targets🔹Consolidating accounting data from multiple sources into a common format🔹Re-engineering old manual processes by introducing macros and automation🔹Website design, implementation and SEO strategy🔹Overall management of company accounts and finances.

London, United Kingdom

Across all LGIM roles:🔹Managing teams of 4-40 staff across a wide range of business functions🔹Collaboration with other department heads to deliver positive change🔹Attending external working groups and market initiatives for LGIM🔹Engaging with service providers to review and optimise performance🔹Representing my team in service level, risk and planning meetings🔹Review of department budgets, including salary and bonus reviews🔹Providing positive leadership and motivation to exceed service expectations🔹Driving a culture of ownership, service excellence and continual improvement 🔹Supporting and developing the strengths and skills of all staff members🔹Project testing and delivery: SWIFT GETC, CTM and repo processing🔹Process re-engineering to improve quality, reduce cost, time and risk🔹Regular Excel VBA macro development for wider business challenges🔹Actively advocating cross department cooperation and problem solving 🔹Challenging established procedures, understanding and behaviours🔹Incorporating market and regulatory changes into the teams🔹Support and integration of new products and business initiatives🔹Adapting performance measures to be simple, clear and unambiguous🔹Evolving department service targets, risk maps and procedures

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Across all FPAM roles:🔹Coordinating the clearance of a 4-year dividend claims backlog🔹Automation of a paper based dividend accounting process🔹Developing spreadsheet solutions for front and back office business areas🔹Daily income and taxation set up, processing and oversight

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom

Across all NatWest roles:🔹Establishing a new stock reconciliations department🔹Creation of a foreign stock reconciliation process and reporting🔹Direct communication with clients & branches for query resolution.🔹Supervision of small teams 🔹Daily income and reconciliation processing duties

Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom

Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom

Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom