Nathan Kemp ACMA, CGMA

Experienced Financial Services Accountant

• Took the opportunity to experience South East Asia and become PADI Advanced Open Water qualified.

• Coordinated the offshoring of the Commercial and Corporate Business Intelligence function including developing and delivering the training to the new team offshore. Requested to become Interim Team Leader and be the only support post transition until full embedded. • Worked with Customers, Business Partners (BPs) and Senior Business Intelligence (BI) Managers to identify opportunities for P&L improvement through the production of analysis and insight to support the online proposition re-pricing, generating the bank £12m per annum. • Provided robust analytical support and commercial insight to the business for a) Electronic Banking, Money Transmission, International Payments and Transactional FX (c. £300m annual income) b) Real Estate Business (c. £15bn assets & £0.5bn income) and c) Corporate and Commercial Business (c. £30bn assets & £1.5bn income). • Responsible for running qualitative scenario analysis for regulatory stress testing across the product set and customer segments. • Worked with Product Managers and BPs to provide a specifications, UAT and delivery of a new Payments planning model (Hyperion). The model is now successfully used for c. £250m annual budgets. • Proactively engaged and influenced BPs through identification and development of actionable business insights on a monthly basis, ultimately helping to drive commercial decisions. • Managed complex and high value change control requests. Most recently delivered a successful change control for £250m annual income and a £5.6bn balance sheet, within pressured timelines, to deliver operating model changes to move to the Bank’s future structure. • Identified an accounting and reporting error with an impact of £3m that I followed to root cause and lead to resolution whilst coordinating colleagues across Product, Financial Control and Technology.

• Quickly built strong rapport, with influential stakeholders, as a business partner across Divisions and CBD change functions, managing these to facilitate approvals and conduce a speedy governance process. • Division wide responsibility for challenge and quality assurance of business cases for board stakeholders, including full financial analysis, project appraisal and aid portfolio prioritisation. • Designed, implemented and embedded the divisional change resource management process. This process aligned with the function’s strategy of supporting cost reduction trough more effective resource utilisation. • Ensured the delivery of monthly divisional reporting on the CBD Investment portfolio (c. £175m) for executive audiences. • Drove continuous improvement through design, development and implementation of a tool to help senior programme managers financially forecast and understand resource cost for business planning and derive accurate business case costs. • Delivered Masterclasses on business case governance and financial management to c. 120 programme and project managers across the CBD change community ensuring capability building and knowledge transfer.

Change Analyst • Managed the Design phase technology workstream of a cross divisional cost reduction initiative which presented options to deliver a potential £3m annual benefit. • Facilitated workshops to produce current and target operating models, business requirements, accelerating the plan of record by two months. • Managed the financials and budgeting for the ‘Define’ stage of a project culminating in a business case. • Produced communications for the very sensitive issue of offshoring for consultations with Unite and impacted staff whilst creating and managing relationships with HR to ensure due process was followed. • Created, implemented and ran a proof of concept pilot to test offshore capability. • Coordinated eight offshore colleagues across 6 different projects. Responsible for all reporting and for hosting the offshore colleagues for the duration of their stay in the UK. • Responsible for producing a CBD function’s cost reduction proposals. After being presented and approved at Executive level, I completed further analysis to verify cost benefit analysis, timelines and viability. Strategy Manager • Analysed and summarised analyst reports to redistribute to senior executives. Produced summaries comparing strategic direction across qualitative and quantitative measures for the Divisional Board Report. • Produced a summary of in-depth market analysis on regulatory events for the Financial Institutions sector, such as EBA Stress Tests and ICB ringfencing, for inclusion in the CBD Board Report. • Produced Divisional narrative for the H1 2011 results communication for the investor community and the internal financial announcement for the Divisional Chief Executive, tailoring the messages to the appropriate audiences. Project Analyst • Worked with Head of Strategy and Change to develop improvements to credit documentation processes. Recommendations were progressed and I was requested to be part of the delivery team.