Managing Director at ANB Partners Ltd

At Granard Consulting, our story began with a passion for helping businesses succeed. Our founders saw a need for personalized, results-driven consulting services, and set out to create a company that would meet that need. Today, we continue to uphold that same passion and commitment to excellence.

We offer a variety of consulting services at Granard Consulting, delivering Permanent and Interim Management solutions, specialising in Financial Services, Asset & Investment Management, FinTech, Insurance, Industry & Commerce, and Consulting & Professional Services. Our team is made up of experts in each of these areas, and we work together to provide our clients with comprehensive solutions that meet their unique needs.

At Granard Consulting, we believe that collaboration is key to success. We work closely with our clients to understand their challenges and goals, and develop solutions that are tailored to their unique needs. Our approach is transparent, results-driven, and designed to help businesses thrive. Our mission is to change the hiring process by helping organisations think differently about talent. For over a decade, our professionalism, total commitment, and thorough approach has helped us exceed client expectations in this critical area and has resulted in many highly successful, long-term client partnerships.

Granard Consulting

Founder / Managing Director

Recruiting across Investment, Private, Wholesale, Corporate and Retail Banking, FinTech, Insurance, Asset Management, Private Equity, Hedge & Property Funds in the UK, US & Europe.

Programme, Project & Change Management, Business Analysis, Process Re-engineering, PMO, SME. Also looking at Interim BAU/SME roles within Finance, Risk and Regulatory business areas:

• Projects: BA, PM, PMO, Lean/BPM, Scrum Masters, Programme Manager/Directors etc.
• Quantitative: (Model Validation & Methodology, Market & Credit Risk, Programming/Developing (R, Matlab, SQL, C++, C#, VBA))
• Market Risk: (VaR, Stress VaR, CVaR, RNiV, IRC, Repo VaR, Full Reval, FRTB, Scenario Analysis, Time Series, FRTB, WWR)
• Treasury / Liquidity Risk & Modelling (ALM, IRR, LCR, NSFR, QRM etc.)
• Credit Risk: (LGD, EAD, PD, EPE, EEPE, EE, Counterparty (CCR), IMM, Wholesale, Traded, SAS)
• Regulatory/PRA/EBA/FINMA/MAS: Basel, MiFID, ICAAP, Liquidity, Stress Testing (FDSF, CCAR, BCBS, IFRS9, Solvency II)
• Enterprise Risk (Stress Testing, Controls, Risk Data & Infrastructure, Governance, Risk Appetite etc.)
• Legal: Lawyer, Counsel, Solicitor (Equity & Debt Capital Markets, Regulatory, Commercial, ISDA, Derivatives etc.) 
• Compliance, MLRO, AML/KYC, Money Laundering, Fraud
• Front Office OMS system implementations (ThinkFolio, Aladdin, Bloomberg AIM etc)
• Financial & Statutory Reporting/Control, Accounting Policy: (IFRS, IAS, GAAP)
• Product Manager & Developers
• Finance Systems implementation, migration, testing etc. (SAP, Oracle, Hyperion, TM1, Essbase, Access, SQL, Excel etc.)
• Management Accounting & Reporting, Planning, Forecasting, Analysis, MI, Costing, Financial Modelling
• Operational Risk, Audit, SOX, Governance, Internal Controls
• Products: Equities, Derivatives, Fixed Income, Credit, Commodities, Rates & FX/MM/Treasury etc.
• Data Analytics, Data Privacy, Cyber Security, GDPR, DPO etc.

ANB Limited

Advantage Resourcing Executive

ARIES (Advantage Resourcing Interim & Executive Search), Executive Search and Interim Management solutions, specialising in Financial Services, Industry & Commerce & Professional Services. We pride ourselves on being both function and client specialists with a commitment to delivering across the C-Suite and Executive Committee community.

Using a mix of Interim Management, Executive Search and Business Consulting services, we can help clients develop and deliver diverse leadership talent across a wide spectrum of their functions & regions. We help clients find and retain exceptional people, we have a balanced approach accompanied with our traditional methods we can offer innovative Executive Search and Interim Management solutions

We pride ourselves on our long term relationships, our mission is to change the hiring process by helping organisations think differently about talent. For over a decade, our professionalism and thorough approach has helped us exceed expectations; we’ll find you the talent you need to build and grow your business.

Relationships are at the heart of what we do and that starts with our own team; the communication, care and respect evident within our business and sets the tone for the relationships we look to build with clients and candidates. Our vision, mission and values bind us together and drive us to out-perform the competition and produce better outcomes for our clients.

Areas of expertise

Functions:
• Board & Leadership
• Finance, Regulatory, Risk & Compliance
• Legal
• Operations
• Strategy, Change & Transformation
• Project & Programme Management
• Technology
• Supply Chain & Procurement

Industries:
• Financial Services
• Industry & Commerce
• Consulting & Professional Services

Advantage Resourcing UK

Managing Partner

January 2012 - December 2018 – Director – Senior & Executive hires (Projects, Change Management & Senior Interim & Permanent BAU)

Senior Interim Finance & Change Management across Investment, Private, Wholesale, Corporate and Retail Banking, Asset Management, Private Equity, Hedge & Property Funds in London. 

Programme, Project & Change Management, Business Analysis, Process Re-engineering, PMO, SME across banking projects. Also looking at Senior Interim BAU/SME roles within Finance, Risk and Regulatory business areas:

•	Projects: BA, PM, PMO, Lean/BPM, Scrum Masters, Programme Manager/Directors etc.
•	Quantitative
•      Market Risk
•	Treasury / Liquidity Risk & Modelling 
•	Credit Risk
•	Regulatory/PRA/EBA/FINMA/MAS:
•      Enterprise Risk
•	Front Office OMS system implementations
•	Product Manager & Developers
•	Real Estate & Fund Finance
•	Finance Systems implementation, migration, testing etc. 
•	Management Accounting
•	Financial & Statutory Reporting/Control, Accounting Policy
•	Operational Risk, Audit, SOX, Governance, Internal Controls 
•	Product Knowledge: Equities, Derivatives, Fixed Income, Credit, Commodities, Rates & FX/MM/Treasury etc. 
•	Enterprise, Business & Solution Architects. 
•	Data Analytics, Data Privacy, Cyber Security, GDPR, DPO etc.

Director

January 2007 - December 2011 – Director (Finance, Risk, Regulatory, Products & Change)
March 2006 to December 2006 – Executive Consultant (Finance, Risk, Regulatory - Temp & Perm)
September 2005 to March 2006 – Managing Consultant (Finance, Risk, Regulatory - Temp & Perm)
September 2004 to September 2005 – Senior Consultant (Finance, Risk, Regulatory - Temp & Perm)

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