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| Desired Industry: Banking/Mortgage |
SpiderID: 21121 |
| Desired Job Location: New York, New York |
Date Posted: 5/27/2008 |
| Type of Position: Full-Time Permanent |
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U.S. Work Authorization: Yes |
| Job Level: Executive (President, VP, CEO) |
Willing to Travel: Yes, 25-50% |
| Highest Degree Attained: MBA |
Willing to Relocate: Yes |
Objective:
I am currently VP and Head of Operational and Enterprise Risk Management for a major financial services company. I have global responsibilities for over nine businesses in eight different countries. Responsible for developing and implementing operational and enterprise risk management programs, and developing suitable governance framework as well for the retail banking and financial services group of companies. My responsibilities also include implementation of Basel II requirements for our retail banks, as well as SOX requirements for US reporting.
I am an MBA graduate with senior management experience within the Big Four Consulting (Ernst & Young) in developing ERM for clients, and having held positions as Senior VP Risk and Compliance (Citigroup) and Director of Global Risk Management (energy company). I have had responsibility for developing ERM for many clients across varied industry sector, and also working in industry in developing and integrating ERM as employee within major organizations. Also, my experience involves managing audit and compliance, operational, strategic, insurance, financial and investment risk management, and reporting on trading and credit risks. I have provided oversight on related risk positions, policies and limits across trading operations. My past responsibilities also involved managing the insurance department, and developing initiatives for insurance optimization and insurance risk financing.
I bring to you a practical, international and distinct experience in operational and enterprise risk management from Europe and the USA. I believe that the exceptional senior risk management executive must be more than operationally competent. He must, also, possess the vision and ability to identify, articulate, and implement strategies and programs that will ensure success of business objectives, generate near-term profitability, and ensure long-term growth.
Throughout my international career, I have leveraged my leadership, management, planning, implementation, and financial skills to assess and quantify operational, financial, and investment risks to gain strategic advantages for my employers. As my rιsumι demonstrates:
Design and develop operational risk management strategy, and implement the components of operational risk management program for banking, financial services, and other business sectors. Responsible for international portfolio of banking and financial services companies.
Undertook Enterprise Risk Assessments, implemented ERM frameworks, and developed Enterprise Risk effective corporate governance around ERM and Sarbanes-Oxley projects as Senior Manager, Risk Management Services at Ernst & Young.
Achieved 35% cost savings through leadership of Enterprise Risk management (ERM) initiative, integrating and optimizing risks in operational processes, finance, investments, and M&As as Director, Global Risk Management at Cinergy Corp. Received corporate recognition for achievements in 2002.
Managing internal audit and compliance requirements, in both consulting and in industry. My industry experience includes major financial services company.
Introduction of Basel II necessitated the drive to quantify operational risks (through loss date collection and analysis, loss simulation, operational risk scorecards, etc) in order to estimate operational risk capital requirements. My work involved diagnosis, design and implementation, as well as moving into the aspects of quantify operational risks for calculating economic cost of risk.
Extensive international experience in business unit performance analysis, investment analysis, M&A and due diligence, financial planning and developing 5-year rolling budget planning and business unit financial analysis, financial decision analysis and financial modeling (@Risk, Crystal ball, etc), project financing, risk financing, M&A, investment decision optimization (ROV, RAROC, etc).
Responsibility for corporate-wide financial optimization (for specific cost areas) and making presentations to corporate board and external brokers, project financing, and financial management experience.
Captured more than $10,000,000 in operational efficiencies by reengineering business processes for UniPoly as Senior Strategic Risk Consultant at Willis Group. Achievement profiled by client in the Wall Street Journal (1999).
My success is due, in part, to my ability to communicate effectively and develop productive relationships with diverse groups of people, including Boards of Directors, investors, and the financial community.
As I have the potential to excel in this position, I will appreciate an opportunity to discuss my contributions and how I may immediately contribute to your organization.
Experience:
Designed and implemented an Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), developed operational risk self-assessment process, implemented support infrastructure for risk identification to management, and developed business risk metrics and investment risk analysis.
Enterprise-wide Risk Management: Led the ERM initiative in reviewing company-wide need for integrating effective risk management into every activity, performance measurement and business planning decisions. He collaborated with, and provided ERM implementation strategies to, partner companies across industry sectors.
Operational Risk Self-Assessment: Develop operational risk self-assessment process (for departments and business units) and implement support infrastructure for risk identification, analysis, mitigation and monitor.
Adopting Common Risk Management Tools: Introduced a standard approach with which to consistently assess business risks and evaluate projects and investment options across Cinergys business units.
Internal Audit: Responsible for managing the internal audit process (which have been outsourced to external consultants), and integrate this with corporate risk management and corporate performance drivers.
Project Management Office and Project Risk Management Initiatives: Responsible for developing the program management office (PMO), which oversees all projects resulting from corporate audit work. Also responsible for developing and implementing the PMO concepts within the business units and corporate center
Business Strategic Planning: Responsible for developing departmental 5-year rolling strategic plans. Also, he participated in developing company-wide 5-year strategic plans for departments and business units, and was directly responsible for ensuring that risk management is integrated in strategy, objectives and decision-making.
Value-Based Investment Metrics: Developed and implemented an effective, structured, and systematic process of identifying, evaluating and quantifying the various investment options.
Developing the Real-Options Valuation Concepts: Introduced and developed Real Options Valuation (ROV) concepts within Cinergy's business units. He has presented at conferences (adoption of ROV in investment strategy, Arizona 2001) and business schools (Ohio State University, and the Kelly Business School, Indiana University) on the adoption of ROV in strategic planning and investment optimization.
Developed and deployed consulting tools including operational risk self-assessment, strategic risk profiling techniques, business risk dependency modeling, and IT-based performance and productivity management systems.
Strategic Risk Consulting for PepsiCo (USA), State of Jersey (UK), and BTR (now Invensys).
Risk analysis on Supply Chain, & Process Re-Design for Financial Times (FTI & FTEP), BBC, and UniPoly.
Operational Risk Self-Assessment and Performance Improvements: Invensys, Siemens, GEC and ICI.
Commercial Due Diligence in M&A for United Distillers (Ireland) and UniPoly (Holland).
Change Management & Communications Strategy development and implementation for UniPoly and BTR
Balanced Scorecard System for managing key business performance indicators: Willis Group, Richard Oliver.
Led project managers and finance consultants in arranging project financing of investment project/deals through the private-public partnership arrangement in the provision of capital assets. Responsibilities included:
Negotiating and arranging investment/project financing deals, including business/performance review.
Managing the investment/project procurement process, including contract and performance review.
Project financial analysis and investment appraisal (including financial modeling and cash flow simulations)
Analyzed and developed financial model (in Excel and other in-house tools).
Contract negotiations and coordinating input from specialist advisers.
Led business initiative for customer focus, effective implementation of corporate strategy and realization of business objectives.
Business Planning & Performance Metrics, Competitive Benchmarking and Key Business drivers.
Business Change Management and Business Improvement Initiatives using the Balanced Scorecard and European Business Excellence Model concepts.
Business & Strategic Analysis, Strategic Planning, Business Development, Operational Analysis and Review, including revenue forecast (of financial results).
Project Management (financial appraisal and monitoring of contracts), Value Management and Investment Risk Analysis.
Education:
EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS
* MBA, Warwick Business School, UK, 1996
* Professional/Chartered Engineer (CEng), Engineering Council, UK, MICE
* MEng (Master of Engineering) University of Leeds, UK, 1990 - Worked full-time as engineer to defray education expenses.
* BS Equivalent, Sacred Heart College, Cameroon, 1986
Affiliations:
Affiliations.
* Association for Project Management, UK, Member;
* Project Management Institute, U.S., Member
* Institute of Internal Auditors, U.S., Member
Community Involvement:
* Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, Member of the Breakfast & Leadership Forum.
* Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, Lead Examiner of the Small Business of the Year Awards.
* Advisors Helping Agencies, (A-HA!), Cincinnati, OH. Lead adviser to non-profit organizations.
* Mutual Benefit Credit Union, Cincinnati - Former member of Policy Review & Revision Committee.
* AFRICAIDS, London - Director. Established non-profit HIV/AIDS organization providing: counseling for patients & relatives; education to schools; free condoms and medical information. Manage the finances, marketing, PR & fund-raising.
Skills:
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
FINANCIAL ANALYSIS
Knowledge of market and corporate financial analysis and using software packages to undertake company valuation;
Conducted investment appraisals for national and international clients, including business disposal strategies;
Strategic analysis, involving market research and preparing/analyzing company and market profiles;
RISK MANAGEMENT
Commercial due diligence: analyzing and investigating markets and corporate risks in M&A and business floatation deals;
Strategic Risk Management: identifying strategic risks issues which affect the attainment of corporate strategic objectives;
Process Risk Assessment: developed procedures for analyzing business processes and designing enhanced risk management solutions for integrating risk management in business activities/processes.
PROJECT FINANCING
Co-ordinating the private-public sector engagement in providing capital projects and arranging project financing for infrastructure projects;
Responsible for all aspects of the project financing transactions, including risk management, financial structuring, financial modeling;
Managed the procurement process, contract documentation and risk distribution, financial appraisal, negotiations and documentation.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Experienced and professionally qualified in project/program management;
Managed projects with overall line of business responsibility, ensuring that the best business decisions are made;
Experienced in partnering; working closely with clients and proposing initiatives aimed at enhancing value and supporting their business objectives;
COMPUTER EXPERIENCE:
Statistics (Splus, SPSS, SAS, Excel, Minitab);
Project Management Programs (PMW, MS Project, Sure Track, Primavera P3);
Risk Management (@Risk; Predict, Monte Carlo Analysis, Crystal Ball, Risk Dependency Modeling RAT, Risk Profiling Technique;;
Business Contingency Planning Software;
Business Optimization (Lindo, DEA);
Spreadsheet (Lotus, Quattro Pro & Excel);
Presentation Packages (PowerPoint, Page Maker);
Word Processing Packages (MS Office, Word & WordPerfect).
Additional Information:
COMMENDATIONS:
- 2001 Cinergy Corp (USA): Recognition for outstanding accomplishments, leadership, hard work and ability to implement positive change.
- 1999 Willis Group (UK): Recognition for delivering value-added solutions and helping to transform organizations in consulting.
- 1997: CDG International (UK): Recognition for developing and introducing effective organizational initiatives, and project management.
Community Involvement:
* Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, Member of the Breakfast & Leadership Forum.
* Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, Lead Examiner of the Small Business of the Year Awards.
* Advisors Helping Agencies, (A-HA!), Cincinnati, OH. Lead adviser to non-profit organizations.
* Mutual Benefit Credit Union, Cincinnati - Former member of Policy Review & Revision Committee.
* AFRICAIDS, London - Director. Established non-profit HIV/AIDS organization providing: counseling for patients & relatives; education to schools; free condoms and medical information. Manage the finances, marketing, PR & fund-raising.
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
* Adoption of ROV in Investment Strategy, Arizona 2001. The Adoption of ROV in Strategic Planning and Investment Optimization, Ohio State University, and Kelly Business School, Indiana University, 2002.
* Development and Integration of Real Options Valuation concepts, at the IQPC Conference, Arizona, 2001.
* e-Risk Management, at Marcus Evans Conference, May 2002, New York
* AABE Energy Conference, July 2002, Cincinnati
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| City: Linfield |
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| State: Pennsylvania |
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| Zip: 19468-3515 |
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