Name: STEPHEN CLARKE Tel/Mobile: (M): +44 7947 861604Email: steve.clarke@sjc-UK.comLinkedin: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/stephenclarke PROFILE A senior project manager where change and delivery within highly regulated environments are essential components. My capability summed up: Each of my primary employers have re-appointed me as a contractor and trusted advisor to solve business and system process problems. I support the design and definition of a technical blue print but also ensure it translates into an effective and compliant integrated system in terms of infrastructure, application and user process. Sought: Challenging projects with high relevance to business process re-engineering, residing responsibility within a portfolio of projects environment where my consultative capabilities and background in software and systems development can be utilised in order to facilitate the successful delivery of programmes.

KEY KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & CAREER HIGHLIGHTED EXPERTISE:

Project Leadership: Transformation and migration of legacy systems and business processes to meet new global reporting, regulatory or operational requirements. Inclusive of: Trading and Operations processing platforms including both bespoke packages and leading market vendors such as

Wallstreet, Calypso, ITAS and Bloomberg. Finance, Risk and Regulatory systems covering General and Sub ledgers, Management Information, Business Intelligence

and Data Warehousing for example SAP, FRS, Oracle, Informatica and Hyperion. Stakeholder/Vendor Management: strong relationship management including CxO level; Vendor selection and

administration via RFI, RFP, SoW and SLA including FRS, Big4, Blackrock. Turnaround: Achieving financial cost and operational efficiency improvements. Technology & Regulation Implementation: Designed built and implemented systems and inter-related business operating

models. Such systems have been focused on adhering to regulatory, compliance and risk requirements whilst ensuring operational effectiveness for the end user.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE :

Employer: GFT Group Position: Senior Consultant Apr 2015 – PresentA senior consultant working as project manager, project trouble-shooter and senior representative for GFT on BCBS239 Compliance programme at Deutsche Bank.

Employer: Royal Bank of Scotland Position: IT Projects – Information Delivery Jan 2013 – Feb 2014

Key Achievements:Leadership: Headed team for the COREP project, replacing the appointed Big4 advisory partner. Handover and build of replacement technology and test team achieved within 6 weeks of appointment. Turnaround – Project over spend: Negotiations included diverting FiRST hardware from Oracle Managed Cloud Services (OMCS) to COREP as a fixed price delivery within remaining timeline with backfill to FiRST at later date. Solution enabled £1m+ saving on the original £4m Capex forecast. This saving was re-directed to the Revex costs and effectively covered the over-run of spend.Technology & Regulation Implementation: Installed Harmonised Reporting Platform (HarRP) using core components: Oracle, Essbase and Informatica.

Employer: Bank of America Merrill Lynch Position: Finance Transformation – Change & Technology Sep 2012 – Jan 2013

Key Achievements:Leadership: Parachuted in to roadmap financial change across key and global initiatives related to consolidating F2B systems and processes for both traded and non-traded products, and replacement of Oracle Financials with SAP with view to help create an EMEA based Change Management Team. Turnaround: Fast tracked Caseware vendor selection for provision of IFRS reports and iXBRL feeds to UK regulator. Budget $0.5m. Completed within first month of the 6 month project.Technology & Regulation Implementation: Replacement of multiple EMEA based systems with single solution based on partnering vendor system: FRS with the in-house datawarehouse: RegGAE as the trusted source. Forecast budget $4.4m.

Employer: Deutsche Bank Position: Global Financial & Common Regulatory Reporting May 2012 – Jul 2012

Key Achievements:Leadership: Brought in to leverage programme momentum as an Interim lead. Assigned to a €6.5m programme to globally consolidate Capital Requirements Reporting. Turnaround – Operational efficiency: Re-structured team and management meetings to be far fewer and more disciplined; effectively gave team 70% of their time back for actual delivery of their assigned tasks.

CV: Stephen Clarke (References available upon request)

Employer: Bank of America Merrill Lynch Position: Finance Change & Technology Nov 2010 – Dec 2011

Key Achievements:Leadership: Built a team of 4 project managers, 1 Infrastructure manager and PMO. Matrix management of 100+ globally placed technicians (Hong Kong, Singapore, India, UK and USA).Turnaround – Budgetry Improvement: Forecast Technology Budget of $9m but delivered within projected timeline for $7mTechnology & Regulation Implementation: Migration of legacy EMEA & APAC General Ledger systems and processes from an integrated Banking platform called Global Banking System (GBS) onto Oracle Financials and downstream Regulatory, and MI and BI systems.

Employer: Royal Bank of Scotland Position: Group Treasury (GT), Global Banking Markets (GBM) May 2005 – Aug 2010 Multiple projects covering RBS Transformation, and Integration programmes including Ulster Bank and ABN AMRO.

Key Achievements:Leadership: Matrix managed teams of 30+ staff to deliver strategic upgrades to Currency Ledger, Payments, Ovation and Trade Obligation systems to migrate data to GBM’s new Single General Ledger. Mentored and supervised GT project leads to assist and resolve issues to turn their projects around.Turnaround – Operational Efficiency: Within 4 weeks of arrival had initiated and coordinated GT’s data migration from ABN AMRO to be delivered by GBM as a managed service. Achieved for a fixed fee of £2m via significantly downsizing GT programme team to matrix manage delivery. Successfully migrated €50bn of Group Treasury Assets and Liabilities consisting of Deposits, Loans, FX, Repos, Derivatives and Swaps onto centralised platform maintaining compliance and regulatory reporting controls. Technology & Regulation: Replaced EUDA tools with new strategic platforms for Interest Rate Risk Management and Securitisation that provided greater functionality, compliance, accuracy and control for both internal and external risk and regulatory reporting.

Employer: Deutsche Bank Position: Cross Business Technology & Operations (CBTO) Mar 1998 – Feb 2005 Multiple roles covering Systems, Project and Business Continuity Management (BCM), and Data Quality Assurance

Key Achievements:Leadership: Line management of both EMEA and APAC teams providing 24/7 support/maintenance and initiative change eg EMU and Y2K. BCM of CBTO UK entailing 16 Business areas and 332 staff, 80 applications and their underlying infrastructure. Turnaround – Process & Operational Improvement: UK’s BCM methods were taken on as European Best Practice ultimately leading to my role as European Lead in Business Continuity Management. Introduction of strategic IT datawarehouse: NARS, Wallet Cards, Remote Access and auto call-out vendor system: Communicator created increased accuracy of recovery procedures and supporting data quality to 95%+ and reductions in business recovery costs by >60%.Technology & Regulation: Global infrastructure upgrade: NT to XP and General Ledger transformation to SAP.

Employer: Hivedome Limited Position: Senior IT Business Consultant Nov 1985 – Mar 1998 IT Software solutions. Expertise and reputation within the global commodity trading & processing communities.

Key Achievements:Leadership & Design & Delivery: Managed multiple global client accounts across the UK, Europe, South Africa and Canada. Provided full consultancy service including: demonstrations and sales, business requirements gathering, technology design and build, project/system life cycle management (SDLC) from business conception through to delivery and warranty, and user training and facilities management.Technology & Regulation: Developed a Global, Integrated, Multi-company and Multi-currency Trading and Accounting system providing end-to-end business process tools for - International Trading covering Contract Creation, Position Management and Valuation. Hedging, Options, Futures and FX. Materials processing covering Grading, Stock Control and Factory Processes. Operations covering Contract Admin, Logistics and Product, Risk and Regulatory Control.

PROFESSIONAL, TECHNICAL & ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

BA Hons Business Management – Essex University (commenced 2008 and completed via part time and work sabbaticals)

3 A-Levels, 7 O-Levels Accountancy : 1yr Course at City of London Polytechnic SAP, Oracle Financial, Hyperion, Financial Reporting Standards FRS, IT Data Quality Assurance, MS Excel: Pivot tables/Macros MS Project, Prince 2 & Certified Scrum Master.

INTERESTS

Golf, TennisEntrepreneurial Interests: Property & Business related investments

CV: Stephen Clarke (References available upon request)