About Paul
A Big-4 trained professional with c.15 years’ management consulting & business transformation experience, primarily within the Financial Services & Energy sectors. I have a track record of delivering strategic operational, technology and regulatory transformation initiatives. I have also delivered a range of customer-focused digital product/service offerings e.g. SaaS. I have a passion for strategic problem solving, and an ability to deploy an analytical framework-based approach to problems. This has had recognised results with my clients, including major organisaitons such as BNP Paribas, Santander, Danske Bank and Shell. I thrive in challenging, senior stakeholder environments, and I understand how to bridge the gap in cross-functional initiatives and drive towards target business outcomes.
English
Native or bilingual
Can work on-site
London (up to 50km)
Experience
- European Retail BankAcceleration of a Group-wide Strategic Transformation Programme – Engagement LeadCONSULTING AND AUDITSAugust 2024 - January 2025 (5 months)Copenhagen, DenmarkHands-on leader of a senior consulting team commissioned to rapidly stabilise and accelerate specific workstreams of an ambitious transformation programme aimed at reshaping our client’s entire personal banking business. I oversaw:-Establishment of a transformation execution framework & methodology that ‘bridged the gap’ between strategy and executable plans. This was also used to assess workstream maturity and identify acceleration areas. This became a standard for the broader organisation.-Maturation of work-stream plans including re-baselined charters, clarification & simplification of OKRs, alignment of approved initiatives to OKRs, re-baselined roadmaps & detailed milestone plans, and enhanced risk & control frameworks.-Optimisation of existing PMO & Agile frameworks to enhance governance, discipline, accountability and decision making across all workstreams.-Training and capability development of internal teams in-line with methodology.By project close: c.75% of in-focus workstreams rated as ‘high maturity’; 6 internal staff members fully trained on new methodology ensuring sustainable change.
- Luxembourg Based Investment Management CompanyImplementation of a Global SaaS based CLM System – Engagement LeadCONSULTING AND AUDITSMarch 2022 - May 2024 (2 years and 2 months)Luxembourg, LuxembourgHands-on leader of a consulting team delivering a global Client Lifecycle Management (CLM) and Screening System transformation programme. I oversaw:-Programme set-up, governance & change management.-Full operating model design & requirements workstream (people, process, policy, technology, data).-Optimisation and digitisation of the client risk assessment model.-Integration stream (external providers & internal systems).-Requirements for a strategic reporting capability.-Migration of production data into target systems.The SaaS platform was live within 6 months and approx. 40% of production data was migrated within 9 months.
- European Universal BankDigital Transformation of a Financial Crime Policy & Control Framework – Engagement LeadDIGITAL AND ITJune 2020 - January 2022 (1 year and 7 months)London, United KingdomLed a multi-year programme with the bold mission of transforming our client's legacy financial crime policy & control framework into a new digital solution. My team's remit included:• Working with a senior client team to scope, internally pitch, and gain buy-in to the approach.• Programme set-up, governance & reporting.• Digitisation, normalisation & harmonisation of legacy paper-based Financial Crime policy / control requirements.• Regulatory benchmarking, gap analysis and remedial advice.• Cross-regional engagement with challenging senior compliance stakeholders.• User experience & journey mapping for a global user interface.• Training, communications & adoption.• Integration with downstream operational CLM systems. The MVP digital policy solution was live within 3 months and integrated with operational systems within 6 months. A 55% standardisation / efficiency in policy requirements was achieved in year 1 .
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Education
- MEngUniversity of SouthamptonMEng
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