Revolut

Working in Group Financial Control function.

Senior Financial Controller

Lloyds Banking Group

Spearheaded Finance workstream of Project to integrate newly acquired SME into the wider Insurance business.

• Led review of existing finance model to investigate deficiencies and control gaps
• Coordinated working group to clean up legacy issues in the ledger and improve process ahead of first-time audit
• Managed integration actions across the wider bank including setting up Finance recharging across different functions

Finance Change Manager

The Adventure Is Real

Virtual hosted games provider and pivoted to B2B monthly virtual-socials-as-a-service product

Originally started life as a side-project in 2018 to create London's first immersive board game experience, and pivoted to a virtual business with the onset of the pandemic back in March 2020 - we decided to create a virtual experience to connect family and friends over Zoom and it all went from there.

Made the decision to shut down in November 2022, virtual experience demand had dropped off, the pains we were solving for remote teams weren't severe enough and the funding market was very challenging. Decided it would be for the best to wind up and to move on to bigger problems that I could solve.

Launched a range of new products in the virtual experience space and led product management for the team
• Agent Venture – Built trilogy of virtual games hosted in Zoom with a live actor: hosted over 12,500 users, achieved 220+ five-star reviews (out of 250), and all 3 games ranked in the Top 25 virtual escape rooms in the world (650+ globally)
• Agent Venture Teambuilding – Identified B2B opportunity and built corporate teambuilding offering
• CURSES! A Mayhemic Mystery – Designed a virtual hosted experience for teams of 12-30, with 3 live actors, real-time CGI overlays and voice modulation, video game integration with alternate reality game elements
• Social-as-a-Service – Launched a B2B monthly service to address pains with virtual socials in fully remote teams

Founder & CEO

Started The Adventure Is Real as a side-project back in 2018 to create London's first Immersive Board Game Experience. Launched in Hackney Wick end of 2019 and had to close at the start of the pandemic, which is when The Adventure Is Real morphed into the virtual experience provider it became best known for.

• Designed the concept and built an MVP, found a physical location and built out and iterated over three rounds of testing
• Brought to market and partnered with leading events platform and produced video trailer at start of 2020
• Started gaining momentum with average 3 bookings per week (sell-out capacity was 8) within one month of that, when the pandemic hit and had to go on indefinite hiatus

Creator (Side-project)

Nfq Advisory, Solutions, Outsourcing

Brought in as a project manager for NFQ's largest client.

• Led 3 projects for the non-ring-fenced branch of a high-street bank
• Co-ordinated a regulatory cross-functional project across 5 different teams with over 20 key deliverables to deadlines
• Gathered data on property usage, researched opportunities and presented to branch CEO to inform location strategy

Project Manager

Contract role where I was brought into the Governance and Controls team, originally to look after Intercompany Reconciliations and then was promoted to Interim team leader during a 9-month org restructure. Stayed on after that supporting FX partnering.

• Led a team of 5 during a transition period of 9 months during restructuring
• Optimised process workflows to produce 0.5 FTE of cost savings
• Reverse-engineered complex outputs from monthly reports and rebuilt to a simple review

Financial Control Manager

Barclays

Promoted to AVP and then invited to a role in Treasury in the Internal Large Exposure (ILE) Management Team.

• Owned allocation of intra-group funding exposure and worked with stakeholders across functional teams
• Saved 1 FTE costs through efficiency optimisations of workflows and redesigning approval processes
• Delivered successful renewal applications of regulatory waivers for 90 legal entities

AVP (Treasury, Hedge Accounting)

Graduated university and joined the Finance Graduate Scheme at Barclays, after successful completion I was invited back to work permanently at one of my rotations, Hedge Accounting.

• Produced hedge arrangements to protect the bank against £1bn P&L impacts
• Rebuilt daily risk and P&L model through multiple iterations to generate time savings of 6 hours per day
• Won 3 departmental awards for outstanding work

Analyst (Hedge Accounting, Finance Graduate)

Start-ups | Financial Services | Product | Operations | Finance

I am a Chartered Accountant with over 10 years experience in Financial Services, working in a range of roles over Finance and Treasury.

In 2020 I founded and the company, The Adventure Is Real, which ran the award-winning series of virtual games, Agent Venture. I spent 2.5 years working on The Adventure Is Real full-time, up until November 2022 I made the decision to shut down due to reduced demand.

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