aidan fitzsimmons

risk consultant

About

A successful risk and compliance professional with extensive experience in the Financial Services Industry. I have a track record of exceeding objectives and delivering quality output, evidenced through career achievements and consistent top quartile performance. I have experience in customer service, operational leadership and skills in process design that supplement my ability to make sound compliance judgments, justified in a concise and effective manner. A specialist in the development and deployment of monitoring and assurance frameworks, policy advice and the application of robust oversight and challenge. I have strong core skills including the ability to communicate and influence upto executive level; with regulators and external bodies.

Country

united kingdom

City

wigan

Industry

financial services

Skill

risk management, compliance, conduct risk framework, process management, team management, process improvement, management, strategy, banking, financial risk, policy, portfolio management, enterprise risk management, operational risk, stakeholder management, credit risk, retail banking, operational risk management

Experience

risk consultant

nationwide building society

aml personal banking regulatory review lead

royal bank of scotland

2014-11 - 2015-6 · 8 mos

Personal Banking single point of contact for AML and Sanctions related Regulatory Reviews, including FCA s166 and audit generated activity. - Oversight of delivery against Regulatory commitments (including attestation) and remediation plans, including escalations and reporting to senior management and executives. - Contact point for Regulators and external bodies, facilitating onsite file reviews/assesments.

conduct risk implimentation manager

royal bank of scotland

2012-6 - 2013-6 · 1 yr 1 mo

Support a Bank wide program to develop and embed Conduct Risk management into the business, working alongside stakeholders in the UK, Americas and India. - Provide advisory support to the business in the implementation of Global Polices, including interpretation to set meaningful direction on business appetite decisions. - Development and execution of risk based oversight on Policy implimentation across 30 business areas, challenging compliance decisions to deliver customer centric solutions.

senior analyst, compliance advisory

royal bank of scotland

2010-3 - 2012-6 · 2 yrs 4 mos

* Providing Advisory support to businesses on Regulatory and Policy requirements * Leading improvements in the management of the Compliance. * Key support to Regulatory reviews, including information requests, file reviews and supporting staff through interviews.

rbs - various roles

royal bank of scotland

2002-6 - 2010-2 · 7 yrs 9 mos

* Aug '07 * Feb '10 * Operations Strategy Architecture and Change, Process Manager * Ownership of a portfolio of processes, Impact assessing change activity and driving implimentation * Planning and facilitation of workshop events, utilising tools and techniques to identify improvements, root cause and develop efficient and effective solutions. * Jun '02 * Jul 07 * Operations, Customer Advisor and Team Leader * Dealing with customers, managing resource to deliver targets and developing team capability.

2lod oversight manager, conduct advisory

royal bank of scotland

2013-6 - 2014-11 · 1 yr 6 mos

Responsible for development and execution of a risk based monitoring plan, utilising Regulatory intelligence, industry analysis and internal MI to ensure proportionality is aligned to Risk profile. - Lead for targeted assurance reviews involving business engagement, scoping, methodology design, MI analysis, process reviews, file sampling, factual accuracy statements and reporting - Continual enhancement of oversight strategies to align focus on outcomes and provide quality output and recomendations on remediatial actions to bring back within apetite. - People leadership and development responsabilities for a team of Senior Analysts.