Financial Services Business Intelligence/Risk/Reg

Ahtaf Akram

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A delivery focused professional with 15 years experience across a wide range of industry sectors, predominantly within financial services, specialising in business intelligence, MI design and development, process re-engineering and LEAN Principle application. Excellent track record of delivering business change within regulatory environments, operational risk, finance and management reporting and interpersonal skills to C level. Career Summary

Aug 23 – May 24 FCA

Change Directorate Operations - Senior Operations Analyst Financial Services

• Working with colleagues in other areas of the Ops Function to develop and continuously improving the services and processes delivered to ensure that the services meet the needs of the Change Directorate and its employees. This will include ownership of the relevant operational processes.

• Fulfil the change supply planning and provide performance MI reporting, through collaborative working with front line FCA Delivery Team, HR, Change Community of Practice and the SLT to create and maintain the directorate’s people strategy to deliver both the capacity and capabilities required.

• Work directly with the Change Director and Senior Leadership team on workforce initiatives including resourcing, retention, and engagement initiatives.

• Establishing and delivering services to support proactive and dynamic pipeline management, including recruitment and selection, resource forecasting and allocation, on-boarding and induction, foreseeing and preparing for future resource demand.

• Identify resource channels across London, Leeds and other regional locations and run recruitment campaigns to enable the Change Directorate People Strategy.

• Supporting the planning and implementation of strategic initiatives and cross divisional improvements to build staff engagement and motivation.

• Exposure to the heart of the FCA’s ongoing transformational change, including ongoing prioritisation and resourcing interventions.

• Work to align and focus our change effort, aligning our people to the work that will provide the best return and/or is the most important to the organisation.

• Ability to shape and drive the strategic and operational workforce plans for the division. Aug 22 – Aug 23 FCA

Portfolio Management Unit - Portfolio Manager

Financial Services

• Identify, create and document a single view of the new change demand initiatives across the FCA in order to allow the PMU which manages the portfolio of changes, projects and programmes that the FCA needs to deliver to meet its strategic business objectives, mature its capabilities and enable it to achieve real outcomes for consumers and markets.

• Manage the process of regularly evaluating benefits, stage gate reviews, achievements and risks against expected spend to facilitate financial draw-down review and approvals from the appropriate committees (e.g. EFDC).

• Set up and manage proposals for the pipeline of new changes, including engaging with delivery staff and stakeholders to understand planning, activity, benefits, risks and resource considerations.

• Undertake or facilitate resource capacity assessments, in conjunction with delivery stakeholders, to determine the feasibility of each change and enable it to be planned and prioritised.

• Contribute to planned and ad/hoc communication between the divisional leadership teams, divisional change leads, operations managers, BTS Divisional Services teams, Strategy and Finance – to ensure a joined-up approach to prioritisation and planning – leveraging the single portfolio view of FCA changes.

• Contribute to the preparation of ExCo and Executive Finance and Delivery Committee (EFDC) materials to enable planning, prioritisation and management steer over the change portfolio.

• Gather and develop insights from Clarizen (FCA planning management tool) and Tableau to feed into ExCo and EFDC MI on key progress, decision and blocker updates including Stage Gate Reviews and benefits and outcomes tracking ensuring that changes are governed in line with FCA’s Change Delivery Handbook.

• Monitor top projects, programmes, work packages and divisional level changes for reporting/escalation purposes.

• Contribute to the design and implementation of updated and improved change and project management processes, and requirements for tooling.

• Facilitate wider discussions between different FCA divisions, such as Strategy and Technology, to help ensure that changes align with FCA statutory objectives and strategic priorities. Ahtaf Akram

Mar 22 – July 22 J.P. Morgan

CIB Operations Controls Governance - Operational Risk Financial Services

• Co-ordinating and preparing for monthly Operational risk and control management meetings attended by Operations executives. This formal governance support included the creation of agendas, meeting packs, briefing notes and action plans to a high standard.

• Direct interaction with the organisation’s senior Operational executives and have exposure to Operations, control and regulatory priorities which involved working across Operations product lines and in close partnership with key partners such as Product, Technology, 2nd Line of Defence and firm-wide governance teams.

• Conduct investigations into Operational queries raised, e.g. material Operational Risk Events; securing and reviewing updates from senior stakeholders. Business and data analysis will sometimes be required on Operational events or Issues / Action Plans.

• Ensure Operational Executives are fully briefed with high quality briefing notes in advance of governance forums with access to all supporting documentation.

• Supporting Operational risk projects that look to simplify the risk and controls landscape and streamline reporting processes.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with Operations, Business, Compliance and Audit functions

• Proactively identify and execute on opportunities to improve visualisation and automation of reporting leveraging digital tooling.

• Evidence adherence to SMCR oversight requirements, maintain key regulatory documentation and provide submissions to the regulators as required.

May 21 – Mar 22 DHSC

Data Migration Manager/Data Tracking & Reporting Lead – Covid 19 Test & Trace HEI

Civil Service

• Data Analysis including dealing with large and complex data sets, with a keen attention to detail.

• Present findings and analysis to very senior stakeholders and to attend meetings with wider government bodies as a representative of T&T Commercial. Managing and maintaining these relationships alongside providing fair challenge/solutions to data requests.

• Dealing with urgent and difficult data queries, analytical reasoning and excellent problem solving ability in complex ambiguous situations delivered to tight timescales; Responding to requests such as Senior Leadership Team requests, senior ministerial requests and other government departments.

• Collaborating with internal officers and external partners to prioritise development of reporting processes and workflows needed for data management in order to implement improvement initiatives and play a major role in identifying, cleaning, and assuring data quality.

• Developing the analytics functionality into the team through a step-change between systems and offline reporting; Migrating the commercial pipeline data onto a new software related reporting tool as it is rolled out, requiring the development of both internal and external reporting.

• Defining and documenting process changes required, as well as underlying controls to ensure process changes are adhered to once the solution is operational, performance management transformation portfolio to focus work efforts on value-add activity and through embracing the latest technologies to drive business performance.

• Owns and maintains the use case master tracker of HEI data (Institution details e.g. address, SRO contact details, testing site addresses, site contacts, site IDs, etc)

• Liaison across use case to ensure this remains the single source of truth for HEI data, support production of operational and MI reporting.

Ahtaf Akram

Sep 19 – Mar 20 Aon

Risk & Compliance Manager - SMCR Implementation

Financial Services

• Build and maintain an effective relationship with Leaders, Senior Managers, Functional SMEs and line management community to ensure compliant operation of SM&CR.

• Oversee the collation & ongoing maintenance of the Entity, Solution Line or Function’s Certified population

• Ensure that local SM&CR control points are correctly adhered to e.g. ensure role profile & SoRs are fit for purpose and that SoRs / MRMs achieve full entity coverage.

• Liaise with Risk & Compliance, HR & Entity, Solution Line or Function in relation to SM&CR related issues & escalations e.g. F&P issues.

• Identifying compliance training resources and tools available centrally to support country/business compliance programs training and research needs.

• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Aon, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

• Facilitate the escalation processes in accordance with enterprise risk management policy for potential losses, risks and breaches of appetite, the maintenance of a local log, assisting the business in conducting root-cause analysis and monitoring and challenging progress against remedial action plans (including control enhancements).

• Maintaining a close working relationship with the Head of Enterprise Risk Management and the rest of the Chief Risk Office team, drawing upon their support when needed and providing information and feedback on the efficacy of the risk framework, process and reporting when requested.

• Provide support to key projects and/or initiatives to ensure that the appropriate risk materiality assessment is completed and provide challenge to the business to ensure adequate risk management is taking place and that escalation is timely.

• Coordinating and providing effective, timely and succinct reporting to Division’s senior management team and to the Central Risk Team on the risk profile of the Division/business units, including risk appetite and management action. Mar 19 – Sep 19 Daiwa

Operational Risk – Front Office Controls, SMCR & Capital Modelling Financial Services

• Define and provide Daiwa Business Units and Support Functions with a clear and consistent OR framework and supporting policies for monitoring, evaluating and responding to Operational Risks.

• To ensure the Business unit has sufficient guidance and support for the embedding and effective operation of the OR framework so that the BU/SF have a consistent approach to risk management practice across the firm.

• To drive and support the enhancement/embedding of the Front Office risk and control framework, both regionally and globally.

• Operate the risk incident management process for Fixed Income, Equities and Multi Asset teams, ensuring incidents are raised as appropriate, investigated, remediated, communicated and closed when actions are agreed or resolved.

• Collaborate directly with the BU/SF 1LoD Risk and Control Managers providing comprehensive knowledge of the operational risk & control framework design and application across the organisation.

• Organise and manage the delivery of RCSA with timely output and recording of control weaknesses, addressing actions and related BU/SF attestations.

• Review and analysis of operational risk issues and loss event data to provide an opinion on lessons learnt and the control environment for the ORC and management.

• Provide advice, guidance and training to both first and second line of defence colleagues on Operational Risk framework tools and methodologies, particularly in respect of scenario analysis and capital planning.

• Drive S166 review into calculating economic capital for all portfolios and update regulatory reports dynamically to ensure ongoing accuracy and compliance.

• Ensure continued S166 review for enhancement and embedding of Structured Scenario Assessments for both Capital and risk management purposes.

• Support successful completion of the Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process (ICAAP).

• Work with senior business heads and supporting business managers to ensure that all front office and support areas comply with SMR requirements, in particular all requirements that relate to first line of defence principles.

• Oversee and administer the following SMCR related process - Responsibility Map, job description (formulation, completion and maintenance), Responsibility Matrix, Delegation Matrix and staff certification. Ahtaf Akram

Oct 17 – Jan 19 Barclays

Operational Risk & Control Monitoring Framework Project Manager Financial Services

• Redrafting current procedures and operating framework to reflect the new Business (PBOS – Private Banking & Overseas Services) and identify in either the documentation or in how they are implemented.

• Leading Structural Reform engagements with Financial Services clients, which includes providing SME input and advice on areas such as Legal Entity Change Programmes, Capital, Liquidity, Risk Management, Booking Model Analysis and Target Model Design Optimisation.

• Supporting line management in discharging their responsibilities to comply with applicable regulations (e.g. by reviewing new products/activities for compliance implications, identifying potential rule breaches, enforcing changes to relevant manuals to reflect regulatory requirements, monitoring the businesses for adherence to the regulations and providing input to audit and training programmes).

• Assisting with development of Risk Assessments, Monitoring Monthly, and Quarterly Summaries and the development and enhancement of the Compliance Assurance Methodologies and Standards for auditing, testing, control monitoring, and reporting.

• Providing leadership and direction for the assurance over the operational risk and control environment including enabling risk management best practice and embedding this into key functions within assigned business lines.

• Leading risk assessments (RCSA) in the 1st line and driving actions to address the root causes that persistently lead to operational risk losses by challenging both historical and proposed practices.

• Executing thematic risk assessments, including risk identification, inherent risk assessment and control evaluation.

• Transition the RCSA Processes for the PB&OS Product Areas, manage CMRA/Conduct Risk issues and Actions.

• Transition and develop where necessary 1LoD Oversight /Testing for FX Dealing, Direct Access, Private Assets, Structured Products, Portfolio Management Businesses and Best Execution for Private Banking & Overseas Services.

• Provide advice on conduct risk and control matters to stakeholders across all three lines of defence.

• Supporting stakeholders in determining necessary control remediation identified through thematic risk assessments.

• Keeping abreast of regulatory changes, new regulations and internal policy changes in order to further identify new key risk areas.

• Assist in the development of MI/KRI reporting consistent with the requirements of multiple Senior Management Meetings (i.e. Risk Forum, Risk Events MI, Lessons Learned, Conduct MI). Apr 16 – Dec 16 Deutsche Bank

SMCR Project Manager

Financial Services

• Provided compliance and risk guidance as part of the Senior Manager Regime Programme (SMR) within Global Transaction Banking and aimed at strengthening the accountability of bank senior management and to raise standards of individual conduct.

• Managed the development and delivery of sustainable solutions relating to conduct & accountability through robust tools, systems and frameworks.

• Worked directly with audit and FCA to interpret and ensure adoption of SMR guidelines throughout the business via regular meetings with business heads, compiling communications, tracking and monitoring of compliance and follow through.

• Maintain current versions of Statement of Responsibilities (SoRs) and Management Responsibilities Maps (MRMs) for Senior Managers Regime.

• Worked with key SMEs in HR, Compliance and Risk to develop the organisation’s response to the Regulatory requirements.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders, with significant exposure to various senior leaders from across the organization.

• Provide advisory, monitoring and support service to enable senior managers to fulfill their responsibilities under the Senior Management Regime.

• Establish, coordinate and produce information packs and reporting via dashboards, highlighting areas of risk and non-compliance to evidence adherence to the SMR and associated conduct rules.

• Further linkage and understanding of the impact of Conduct & Accountability on the wider regulatory environment, in particular Structural Reform.

Ahtaf Akram

Apr 15 – Jan 16 Deutsche Bank

Non-Financial Risk (NFR) Reporting Project Manager/CB&S Operational Risk Management

Financial Services

• Provided reporting project management services to Non-Financial Risk within Corporate Banking and Securities

(CB&S) Operational Risk. This is a key role, working closely with the Controls and Conduct Group (CCG) Management, Front Office, Supervision, Compliance and Control and Infrastructure teams.

• Assisting the Head of Operational Risk in evaluating and resolving risk incidents across the business, capturing root cause analysis, planning operational and conduct risk frameworks for future risk mitigation provision.

• Involvement in the continued roll-out of RCSA process across the firm globally and the provision of Operational Risk guidance and leadership on a range of business projects, ensuring Operational Risk frameworks are in place.

• Establishing, enhancing and embedding an effective ORM framework and monitoring the implementation within areas of responsibility.

• Support CCG Management in defining the Non-Financial Risk reporting and tooling strategy around Three Lines of Defence model (1st, 2nd and 3rd LoD), benefits and business case for Controls & Conduct Group (CCG).

• Co-ordination of the new products approval process and delivering governance around introduction of new products within infrastructure areas.

• Work with users and technology to design user interface for all key user groups.

• Work with control owners and other stakeholders to determine best means of presenting non-financial risk and control information - Driving the definition, design and delivery of the required reports.

• Engage sponsors and stakeholders to collect priorities, requirements, data sources.

• Established SteerCo and Working Group governance forums.

• Manage delivery and testing of tooling provided by Technology partners.

• Create and execute communication and implementation plan.

• Conduct Post-Implementation review of project deliveries, reports and tooling, surface and resolve implementation issues.

• Maintain requested enhancement log and review in appropriate governance bodies.

• Delivering Risk Reporting MI and tools, especially for Supervision and Operational Risk – Metrics and Reporting. Feb 14 – Feb 15 HSBC

Senior Business Intelligence Analyst – Finance Transformation Programme Financial Services

• Provided LEAN methodology and Business Intelligence services for Global Business Intelligence within Market Operations.

• Provided a comprehensive improvement of MI reporting suite, moving to Qlikview using LEAN methodology, to a number of key consumers covering Operations, Front Office and external regulators across all of the Global Markets sites.

• Working with the business to identify future MI requirements, designing new BAU processes to support, leveraging strategic architecture where possible and integration into the GSC.

• Identified the current landscape across people, process and technology, carried out a gap analysis, requirements gathering and defined a new target operating model for reporting, complete with end to end process flows, training, and technology to support.

• Delivered reporting migrations of remaining BAU processes in London, identifying appropriate processes within the business line and managing the transition into the central team within the GSC.

• Relationship Management - Owning key senior management relationships, being the principal partner for MI and data related queries and development. Ensuring stakeholders are informed, engaged and aware, act as escalation point for the BAU process.

• Feed into strategic transformation programme as the GBI SME and ensure alignment of new process designs for reporting across all back office operations.

• Managing the offshore team in Kuala Lumpur to ensure SLA's and PLA's are met.

• Direct liaison with Operations MANCOM members, Global and Regional Operations Leads and Control Managers, BRCM - Operations Risk and Control, Operational Risk and Internal Control, Compliance, Internal Audit, External Regulators, Product Control, Production teams in Global Service Centres. Ahtaf Akram

Mar 12 – Sep 12 Renaissance Capital Financial Services Global Reporting Manager

• Assess the current operational and MI landscape, highlighting areas of improvement within process, data quality and efficiency within the global financial reporting and financial control lines.

• Undertaking financial analysis and research to support new business initiatives and resource allocation decisions.

• Partnering with business managers to ensure relevant, informative MI and financial analysis is provided as required.

• Produce timely and relevant financial reporting to the board.

• External statutory guidance and review to support the reporting process for results announcements and annual reports.

• Prepare ad hoc financial analysis for senior management.

• Ensuring adherence to governance of process.

Sep 11 – Feb 12 Deutsche Bank

GCT Management Reporting and Accounting

Financial Services

• Co-ordination, monitoring and enforcement of global P&L submission deadlines.

• Produce and report consolidated global GCT daily Flash and Actual P&L using Cognos.

• Provision of Flash to Actual difference explanations to GCT Senior Management and FDs.

• Production, review and analysis of foreign currency exposure including sell off responsibilities and SAP journals to allocate book ccy and LFC between profit centres.

• Production, review and analysis of Transfer Pricing information.

• Investigation and provision of commentary on daily Buy and Hold VAR outliers.

• Involvement in various working groups relating to MAFA, book hierarchy, GCT MIS dbs rewrite, FED risk based P&L reporting, DART hierarchy clean up, Transfer Pricing reporting initiatives. Aug 10 – Jul 11 Deutsche Bank

Senior Analyst – Emerging Markets Debt Analytics

Financial Services

• Work with the head of EM Debt Analytics to define a ‘book of work’ that provides key stakeholders with timely information covering revenues, costs and balance sheet data.

• Production and enhancement of the MI reporting, providing commentary, profiling and forecasting for the Emerging Markets, Credit Derivatives and Bond market drivers with an emphasis on credit products (Corporate bonds and CDS) for MENA, LATAM and EMEA.

• Producing quantitative and qualitative reports to support strategic and business planning process.

• Provide analysis of GCT VBM performance summaries and quarterly analysis (KPIs).

• Define MIS reporting requirements for the transition from business objects to Qlikview.

• Overall responsibility for the off shoring of reporting to Chennai. Nov 09 – Aug 10

Aug 07 – Jan 09

Technical Analyst – Global Banking & Markets

Pipeline Manager – Transaction Banking

RBS

ABN AMRO/RBS

Feb 07 – Mar 07 Finance Analyst – Finance and Operations Standard & Poor’s Nov 06 – Feb 07 SEO Accountant/Analyst DfES

Aug 06 – Oct 06 Assistant Accountant/Analyst Transport for London Apr 04 – Jul 06 Eurasia Resource Co-Coordinator/Analyst BBC World Services Sep 03 – Mar 04 Assistant Accountant Sthree

Aug 03 – Sep 03 Assistant Accountant Hemscott Group Limited Oct 02 – Mar 03 Finance Officer/Accounts Assistant Cambridge Education Associates Education and Qualifications

• Prince2 Registered Practitioner

• 1998 – 2002 London Guildhall University

• BA (Hons) Accounting with Accounting Systems

Computer Literacy

SIMS, SAP, Sage 50, Sage 100, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Visio, MS PowerPoint, Access, Hyperion, Qlikview, Bloomberg, FCA Connect, Corporater, Tableau, Clarizen

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