Services: Consulting

Paul has worked on a variety of consultancy arrangements his 30 year career covering a wide range of disciplines:

  • Strategic reviews
  • Change Mgmt
  • Vendor selection, negotiation and implementation.
  • Outsourcing and offshoring across areas of Investment Management
  • Operating Model design and implementation,
  • Regulatory change
  • Technology change
  • Client-driven changes,
April 2023 onwards

True Potential 

  • Programme Management
2022 to 2023

JO Hambro Capital Mgmt

  • Programme Manager for outsourcing covering
  • Middle Office,
  • Transfer Agency,
  • Custody,
  • Fund Accounting
  • Depository
2019 to 2021 Vanguard

Vanguard Asset Mgmt

  • EBA Outsourcing Guidelines
  • Centralised Securities Depository Regulation (CSDR)
  • BREXIT remediation
  • Liquidity Management
  • Opened a new Italian office in Milan.
  • MiFID II Transaction Reporting Remediation
  • EMIR Reporting remediation
  • GDPR Phase 2 project
  • Compliance Process Enhancements
2018 to 2019

Insight Investments

  • MiFID-II “Day-2” Project
  • Lloyds Bank Ring Fencing
  • Securities Financing Transaction Regulation:
  • BREXIT planning
  • Collateral Efficiency
  • LIBOR Replacement impact
2016 to 2018

BMO-GAM

  • MiFID-II
  • BREXIT planning
2015 to 2016

UBS Asset Mgmt

  • Transfer Agency Migration
2014 to 2015

British Rail Pension Scheme

  • Implement a new in-house dealing capability for RPMI
  • Restructure the Cash Management operation 
  • Restructure the underlying Pooled Funds within the Pension Scheme
  • Development of a Unit Register system
  • Selection of new Trading, Risk Management, Performance measurement and Client Reporting systems for the pension schedule investment function.
2012 to 2014

Threadneedle Asset Mgmt

  • Fund Accounting, Custody and Depositary migration.
  • Implementation of Front Office DataMart
  • Test Manager for a Fund Accounting, Custody and Depositary migration
  • Consultant on an Operating Model Strategic Review covering the following areas
2012

First Rate FX

  • Defined a long term operating model.
2011

Lloyds Banking Group

  • ‘Lift out’ of the Investment and Fund Accounting functions to a 3rd party provider.
2010 to 2011

Royal Bank of Scotland

  • Implementation of a global General Ledger system
2009 to 2010

Financial Conduct Authority

  • Implemented new Liquidity Reporting Regime
2009 Confidential Investment Manager
  • Product design of a new pool vehicle
2008 to 2009

Hermes Asset Mgmt.

  • Launched Dublin domiciled UCITS fund and Irish Unit Trust
  • Converted the structure of the Pension Scheme from a notional pooled basis into a segregated basis
  • Transitioned the Custodian of pension schemes to new provider.
  • Due diligence phase of a project to outsource Hermes’ back office function to external provider.
  • Implement a new Client Reporting  system / function
2007

BP

  • Interim IT Development Manager
2006 to 2007

CMC Markets

  • IT Development Manager responsible for CRM, Client Maintenance and Payments
2004 to 2006

Mutual Fund Technologies

  • Responsibility for managing client consultancy
1998 to 2004

Mellon European Fund Services

  • IT Development Manager covering unitised and pooled funds
1994 to 1998

Newton Investment Mgt

  • Project Manager
1998 to 1994

Coutts and Co.

  • Business Analysis