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PROFILE

Senior Markets and Risk execution leader who turns regulatory, strategic and operating-model complexity into controlled, workable BAU. Brings over 20 years of experience across Front Office, In-Business Risk, Market Risk and Finance, leading complex change from strategy and investment decisions through mobilisation, business readiness, implementation, go-live and sustainable adoption.

Combines deep traded-risk credibility with COO-style execution discipline, senior stakeholder influence, regulatory engagement and a track record of restoring delivery control and delivering measurable outcomes. Recently completed an AI in Finance programme at a leading business school, covering strategic AI implementation, governance and investment ROI.

SELECTED ENTERPRISE IMPACT

• Strategy and investment: Secured Global Head of Markets and Chief Risk Officer approval to restart a $50m+ per annum FRTB IMA programme by framing standardised approach-only, phased IMA and broader IMA options, recommending the preferred path based on capital benefit, regulatory viability, cost and execution risk.
• Portfolio delivery and sustainable control: Delivered more than 20 Price Risk milestones on time and independently validated, several up to 18 months early, contributing materially to regulatory Price Risk rating upgrades in 2024 and 2025 while embedding controls into BAU.
• Control transformation and automation: Consolidated over 5,000 thresholds from approximately 15 legacy platforms into one surveillance solution, reduced non-standard-trade detection time from 30 days to one day and eliminated more than 100 hours of monthly COO reporting.
• Enterprise operating model: Designed and implemented a Board-approved Risk operating model for a major UK banking group, enabling compliant ring-fencing and creation of a London Branch Risk function across every major Risk discipline.
• Rapid intervention: Rescued a four-month-old Federal Reserve SA-CCR MRIA, aligned senior Managing Directors on a new operating model, controls and governance, remediated more than 500 counterparties and achieved closure in eight weeks.

SKILLS

• Markets / Risk COO Execution
• Strategic Execution and Portfolio Prioritisation
• Regulatory Remediation
• Target Operating Models and Organisational Design
• Business Readiness, Deployment and Go-Live
• Front Office Risk and Controls
• Capital / RWA Transformation
• Executive Governance and Stakeholder Alignment
• Process and Control Automation
• BAU Adoption and Benefits Realisation

CAREER HISTORY

October 2025 – August 2026
Global Investment Bank
Senior Director, FRTB Execution Lead, In-Business Risk

• Enterprise implementation leadership: Appointed Global Front Office FRTB Execution Lead, accountable for readiness. Aligned Front Office, Risk, Finance and Technology around ownership, milestones, decision pathways and dependencies, leading four direct reports and 10 PMO resources.
• Strategy and investment: Framed the choice between standardised approach-only, phased IMA and broader IMA options, producing the go/no-go case that secured Global Head of Markets and Chief Risk Officer approval for a programme restart worth more than $50m per annum.
• Operating model and business readiness: Embedded a five-area data-quality control framework into the target operating model, improving a key completeness measure from approximately 85% to 100% and reducing implementation and go-live risk.
• Executive governance: Represented Markets on the Global FRTB Steering Committee and US/non-US senior working groups, translating regulatory, capital, technology and execution trade-offs into decisions, priorities and clear accountability.

April 2021 – September 2025
Global Investment Bank – London, UK
Senior Director, Head of Price & Credit Risk Control – Cross Initiatives

• Regulatory remediation planning and execution: Formulated the 2021 and 2022 Price Risk remediation plans subsequently accepted by the regulator. Accountable for Markets-owned milestones across a $50m-per-annum Consent Order Programme, from funding and technology prioritisation through implementation and sustainable BAU adoption.
• Control transformation and automation: Rebuilt Large, Complex & Illiquid trade controls, consolidating more than 5,000 thresholds from approximately 15 legacy platforms into one surveillance solution. Embedded controls and BAU metrics into the bank's MCA platform, reducing non-standard-trade detection time from 30 days to one day and eliminating more than 100 hours of monthly COO reporting.
• PMO leadership, delivery and assurance: Assumed additional leadership of the Price Risk PMO in 2022, restoring programme control and delivery discipline. Led five direct reports and five PMO resources to deliver more than 20 independently validated milestones on time, several up to 18 months early, contributing to regulatory Price Risk rating upgrades in 2024 and 2025.
• Rapid intervention and senior alignment: Intervened in a four-month-old, significantly off-track Federal Reserve SA-CCR CEU MRIA. Aligned senior Managing Directors across Sales, Credit Risk, Finance and the Interpretive Office on a new operating model, control framework and voting governance, remediating more than 500 counterparties and achieving closure in eight weeks.
• AI strategy and value case: Developed the executive business case for a leading Markets AI use case, automating the sourcing of independent Commercial End User (CEU) evidence and applying supervised learning to assess whether derivatives supported commercial hedging. Targeted significant Sales capacity savings while increasing identification of counterparties eligible for removal of the 1.4x SA-CCR alpha multiplier.
• Executive influence: Shaped decision narratives for the Price Risk Steering Committee, chaired by the Global Heads of Markets and Market Risk, and for the bank's CEO and Global Chief Risk Officer, securing decisions on design, risk reduction and operating-model adoption.

October 2019 – April 2021
Global Investment Bank
Programme Lead – Capital Strategic Alignment

• Portfolio governance and investment discipline: Chaired the Process and Control Change Authority across a major portfolio, with authority to approve, reject, defer or require redesign based on strategic alignment, affordability, feasibility, dependencies and benefits.
• Capital transformation and value realisation: Led two of four global workstreams across the UK, Switzerland, New York and Pune on a CHF 15m+ per-annum programme. Made the target operating model executable across roles, processes, controls and governance, reducing manual adjustments by 30% by resolving root causes upstream.

April 2015 – December 2018
UK Retail and Commercial Banking Group
Risk Division Lead – Banking Reform; Programme Lead

• Enterprise Risk operating model: Designed and implemented a Board-approved Risk operating model for UK ring-fencing, creating the London Branch Risk function and redefining location, headcount, reporting lines, responsibilities, governance, systems and controls across every major Risk discipline.
• Business readiness and regulatory acceptance: Defined readiness and success criteria and led UAT, end-to-end testing, parallel runs, defect resolution and formal approvals. Authored the Risk operating model approved by CRO direct reports, the CRO and Board for inclusion in the bank's PRA/FCA submission.
• Cross-functional delivery and investment: Led five direct reports and dozens of matrix contributors across Front Office, Risk, Finance, Operations, Technology, Legal and Compliance. Secured £1.5m investment for a Cross-Bank Customer View through a regulator-backed business case.

June 2008 – March 2015
Corporate & Investment Banking
Head of Equities Market Risk & Product Control

• Risk and transformation leadership: Led 10 Market Risk professionals and 10 change resources through the financial crisis, maintaining control of risk appetite, limits, P&L and valuations while delivering the transformation agenda, including a controlled migration from Sophis to Murex.
• Capital outcome: Received the Risk Division Outstanding Achievement Award in 2013 for developing a VaR methodology enhancement that reduced Pillar 1 market-risk capital by 50%.

2001 – 2008
International Banking / Treasury Services
Vice President – Equity Derivatives & Short-Term Markets Market Risk

1999 – 2001
Corporate Banking
Associate Financial Analyst

1997 – 1999
International Investment Banking
Management Rotation Programme

EDUCATION

University: BSc (Hons) Financial Economics – 2:1

Business School: Postgraduate Award in Business Administration – Merit

Business School: Executive Management Programme

Business School: AI in Finance

References Available Upon Request

If you are interested in this candidate, please contact Charlie Watson via email cwatson@cerfinancial.co.uk or call on 0207 626 6065.
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