Thomas Clarke

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Head of Payment Risk and Control @ Credit Suisse
London, GB
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London, England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
About Thomas Clarke

• Proven business leader with 25 years’ experience delivering enterprise transformation, organisational change, and operating model innovation; especially following enhanced regulatory scrutiny.• Specialist in front to back execution of restructuring that has resulted in tangible improvements in the level of profitability, control, and efficiency of the businesses involved. Projects include developing the Credit Suisse payments risk appetite and operating model, delivering the Barclays service framework, architecting the financial productivity model in Barclays International and the profitability model at Orange, establishing the CIB Chief Controls Office and rolling out the process led RCSA across Barclays.• Track record of delivering effective cross cultural service frameworks that meet changing Regulatory expectations and deliver enhanced control.• Trusted process innovator who has designed and delivered a series of foundational operating model changes that ensured Barclays and Orange met the current and future challenges of global banking and telephony respectively.• Expert in building financial models, establishing the operating cost, setting the productivity targets of operational processes, and establishing the current and future profitability assessment of business lines/ and products.• Significant experience in financial planning, budgeting and profitability analysis gained through design and execution of the service consumption program at Barclays and as leader of Business Profitability at Orange• Proven risk manager with experience in the design, implementation, and monitoring of Operational Risk structures. Designed and delivered the Payments Risk and Control Framework at Credit Suisse, Established the IB Chief Controls Office, designed the process led RCSA and completed a comprehensive testing programme of unauthorized trading controls across the Investment Bank at Barclays• Thought leader who leads by example and fosters partnerships with providers and internal customers to deliver service excellence supported by effective measurement and reporting.• Team builder with excellent leadership capabilities and strong executive level communication skills delivering operational excellence through innovation and continuous improvement.• Strategic thinker with a clear vision to lead operational functions as client obsessed, competitive and controlled businesses founded on strong diverse people and leveraging structured data as key foundational pillar of success.

Thomas Clarke's Current Company Details
Credit Suisse

Credit Suisse

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Head of Payment Risk and Control
London, GB
Employees:
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Thomas Clarke Work Experience Details
  • Credit Suisse
    Head Of Payment Risk And Control
    Credit Suisse
    London, Gb
  • Credit Suisse
    Head Of Payment Risk & Control
    Credit Suisse Sep 2022 - Present
    London, England, United Kingdom
    • Developed a CS wide approach to Payments Risk assessment, including agreeing an overall quantitative and qualitative Risk appetite statement, five tolerance statements and a KRI framework to measure ongoing performance.• Developed the control framework for Credit Suisse payments, establishing guidelines to support effective and accurate Inherent and Residual risk assessments through the complete and accurate assessment of the Control landscape against 33 Payment Control standards.• Completed residual risk analysis (weighted and non-weighted) to help businesses identify critical control weaknesses and target risk reduction across CS.• Designed Payments service operating model including creation of Large Payment Control service supported by defined SLAs and RACI.• Engagement lead for Payments (1st Line of Defence) towards Non-Financial Risk (2nd Line of Defence), Accountable for all Non-Financial Risk reporting for Payments.
  • Barclays Corporate & Investment Bank
    Director Barclays International Services Office
    Barclays Corporate & Investment Bank Aug 2016 - May 2022
    London
    • Designed and delivered the cross Barclays Service Consumption Model – which according to the CIB COO (H1-21 results message) ‘enables more efficient management of fluctuations in business demand’; ‘brings a more commercial approach, with greater flexibility and transparency to our CIB partners’ and enables the Business ‘to better manage costs and anticipate client demand – and us to better manage capacity’.• Created a new purchasing process and supplier model for 3rd Party Resource Augmentation, unlocking flexible capacity management options for operations leaders in the face of demand volatility.• Strategic lead for the innovation and implementation of the Barclays Service framework following Structural Reform. Established the overall operating model by collaborating across BI businesses and Service company leadership.• Led the alignment of all Service SLAs to BI business demand statements, involving complex negotiation between 6 Business units, 4 regions and 40+ service providers, with over 70% of SLAs being uplifted.• Execution accountability for the delivery of the European service model post Brexit. Agreed policy and process design with Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) and European Central Bank (ECB).• Delivery owner of Path to Great Services (PTGS) project to ensure effective and optimised control environment for BI for Operational Continuity In Recovery (OCIR) and Senior Management Regime, simplified the service catalogue by 25%.• Service performance manager for both Lending and Wholesale onboarding functions. Delivering innovative reports to enable strategic decision making and simplify stakeholder engagement. Project management of Busting Bureaucracy initiative that reduced onboarding times and improved customer satisfaction.
  • Barclays Corporate & Investment Bank
    Enterprise Risk And Control Frameworks, Chief Controls Office
    Barclays Corporate & Investment Bank Mar 2013 - Jul 2016
    London, United Kingdom
    • Architect of the IB Controls Office; Senior global programme lead in delivering the new Enterprise Risk Management Framework in the 1st Line across Barclays CIB• CIB Business interface for rollout of the unified Group Risk Tool (ORAC)• Designed the IB Process Taxonomy setting the data foundation for effective risk and control in the IB• Operational program lead for the first process led RCSA across the Investment bank• Leader of the design and implementation of the 2015 & 16 RCSAs including design and completion of new material risk identification process• Consistency lead for the Investment Banks Policy, Risk and Control data framework• Facilitated inherent and residual risk reviews with senior Business leads• Developed the key controls library and coordinated control assessments across Bus and functions• Completed review of Controls library suitability with all Lines of Defence• Executive program lead for E2E testing programme for Unauthorised Trading programme (2014) which tested c350 controls across 57 Risk Entities
  • Barclays Corporate & Investment Bank
    Location Strategy Programme Lead
    Barclays Corporate & Investment Bank Feb 2012 - Feb 2013
    London
    • Strategic owner of Barclays Location strategy programme savings targets through scenario analysis and modelling to optimising resource placement• Head of project tracking for location optimisation programme• Led concentration risk review of Barclays Group for CEO
  • Barclays Wealth
    Head Of Operations Data Insights And Business Intelligence
    Barclays Wealth Apr 2010 - Mar 2012
    • Head of MI and BI for Wealth Operations and Barclays Shared Services• Developed standardised data model and data structures, delivered effective data warehouse to optimise data delivery• Programme lead for execution of Data Model and Data Warehouse
  • Vialtus
    Transformation Director
    Vialtus Sep 2009 - Feb 2010
    Transformation and Integration of Vialtus to Daisy plcSupply chain managementCarrier relations for Vialtus (C&W, Tiscali, Global Crossing)Supplier Inventory mangement
  • Orange Business Services
    Head Of Business Profitability And Analysis
    Orange Business Services Nov 2007 - Sep 2009
  • Equant
    Head Of International P&L Production
    Equant Jan 2004 - Nov 2007
  • Equant
    Head Of Broadband Product Management
    Equant 2002 - 2004
  • Orange Business Services
    Product Manager
    Orange Business Services Aug 1998 - 2002
    Product Manager of Frame Relay, ATM, Ethernet and other Broadband Products. Also product Managed X25 and ISDN DBU
  • France Telecom  / Orange Business Services
    Head Of Business Profitability And Analysis
    France Telecom / Orange Business Services Nov 2007 - Sep 2009
  • Texaco
    Gas Trading Analyst
    Texaco 1995 - 1998

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Thomas Clarke attended University Of Leeds, Sevenoaks School.

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Thomas Clarke's colleagues are Tetyana Motorya, Ola Zeaiter, Clara Eggart, Rich Kirk, Monika Suś, Gunjan Srivastava, Susan Menne Barnaby.

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