Keelan Singh

Experience

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  London Borough of Tower Hamlets

  Sept 2003 - Dec 2005

  Project Manager

  With graduate scheme opportunities scarce upon leaving University I took a temporary administrative role within a Council. By demonstrating my talent I rose quickly and was given a management grade and a permanent role within 2 months of joining. Main responsibilities and achievements in this role: I managed the opening of a new building to house multiple government agencies. This involved full ownership of all decision making, negotiating requirements with senior management from all agencies involved, managing the building fit out and organising the launch event. I was solely responsible for implementing a new database into 50 youth centres across Tower Hamlets to compile MI. Other councils across the UK had teams and specialists to implement this system. Mine was regarded as one of the most successful implementations nationwide. Aged 22 I was made a Principal Officer, one of the youngest people to achieve this grade in Councils nationwide. Show less

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  Deloitte

  Jan 2006 - Apr 2011

  I managed Statutory Audit and Advisory engagements for Banking clients. Gaining a Chartered accountancy qualification whilst quickly gaining responsibility for delivering large projects and managing large teams developed deep Finance knowledge, management and leadership skills. Details of some of the many projects I worked on at Deloitte are below: Large UK investment Bank (Audit project): I simultaneously managed the audit of two divisions of a large international Bank. This highly visible role developed experience of managing competing priorities and high pressure with short deadlines and limited resources. Large UK investment Bank (Audit project): I managed the audit of 40 complex structuring subsidiaries for 3 years. There were a large number of client and EY stakeholders involved with differing goals, which meant advanced management skills were required to ensure successful delivery of a portfolio of 40 projects each with its own milestones. Global investment Bank (Advisory project): I walked through Finance processes to identify the root causes and fixes for the large volume of manual entries within the Commodities department. Global Investment Bank (Advisory project): I investigated and remediated issues with Equity Swaps processes that were causing suspense account balances. I examined processes and data from Front Office systems, through Product Control and Operations into the general ledger. Show less

  • Audit Manager

    Jan 2010 - Apr 2011

  • Audit Assistant Manager

    Jan 2008 - Jan 2010

  • Senior Audit Associate

    Jan 2007 - Jan 2008

  • Audit associate

    Jan 2006 - Jan 2007
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  EY

  Apr 2011 - Aug 2018

  UK Robotics team - My role for 2.5 years within the Robotics and AI practice was split between delivery of Robotics engagements, business development and practice development. The projects I delivered were on the forefront of shaping and delivering cognitive Robotics, enabled by OCR, digital and AI technologies. Delivery – Automation of EY worldwide audit using RPA, OCR, Digital Portal and AI technologies • I led a team of 15 people on an 18 month, $2m Intelligent Automation implementation. I sold the pilot phase of work as a 3 person piece of work for 4 months in January 2017• Based on successful delivery I built my team and scope to automate 46 processes in 5 countries• The project had additional complexity to manage as the processes automated were all medium and high complexity. In addition my team upskilled 30 audit personnel to build robots Delivery – Reading semi-structured documents at a Global Investment bank using OCR and AI • For 5 months I led EY’s entry to the bank's contest between various consulting firms to determine who could best automate ingestion of data from the bank’s semi-structured documents• I combined EY propriety AI solutions with market leading software tools to create EY’s solutionBusiness and practice development: • I produced and led the worldwide rollout of the EY Global banking Robotics solution and strategy• I then led a high profile 6 month Robotics sales campaign across EMEA in the first half of 2017, building a sales mechanism in each country and helping build the Robotics practice in countries which required it. The campaign generated pipeline of $100m• I built banking Intelligent Automation sales materials, solutions, videos and demos to support this Show less At EY prior to my Robotics role I led transformational change engagements. Examples of projects successfully delivered whilst in this role are below:Driving transformational change in EY's Regional Practice- I led an EY UK strategic drive to grow EY’s regional FS practise by 100% in 9 months- I put in place the infrastructure and plans required for a further 100% growth- This required excellent Senior Stakeholder management and change delivery skills to drive change in the organisation’s operating model and cultureUS Investment Bank – Recovery and resolution planning- I managed a £1.2m engagement that produced the Collateral sections of the Bank’s Resolution Plan for the US Fed and the Operations section of the Solvent Wind Down analysis for the UK PRA- I worked across all collaterised products to draft the following components of the Bank’s Resolution Plan; current and future collateral management capabilities, rehypothecation of collateral and collateral wind down playbook Show less An example of a key project successfully delivered during this role was building a new UK Bank: Carving out a challenger Bank from an existing Bank – Delivering award winning change- Project Verde had a total cost of £1bn and 10,000 people worked on it - EY won the Management Consultancies Association award for our on time and on budget delivery of the hugely complex Finance stream, which had 210 people working in it- I held 4 important roles in the Finance and Treasury workstreams during my 3 years on the project1) Leading a team of 9 to successfully deliver all reporting processes for the new Bank. 2) A key member of the 3 person Project Management team that managed successful delivery of the budget, milestones and dependencies of the £50m Finance Workstream with 210 resources.3) Mortgages workstream - I was regarded by the client lead stakeholder as a highly effective trouble-shooter and was twice asked to turn around critical lagging workstreams, Mortgages and Treasury.4) Treasury workstream – I was key in aligning the stream to the delivery methodology of the wider project to ensure the new Bank’s Treasury function went live. Show less

  • Robotics Advisory Senior Manager

    Apr 2016 - Aug 2018

  • Advisory Senior Manager

    Oct 2013 - Apr 2016

  • Advisory Manager

    Apr 2011 - Oct 2013
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  ISG (Information Services Group)

  Aug 2018 - May 2019

  Director

  I worked with clients to shape Intelligent Automation solutions to transform their business, including: • Providing insights on the range of Intelligent Automation products in the market and their capabilities including RPA, OCR, Digital Portal and AI technologies• Advising clients on how to find and assess automation opportunities, create business cases, shape delivery plans and approach to best fit their needs

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  SS&C Blue Prism

  Jun 2019 - Oct 2021

  EMEA Banking GSI partner and industries lead

  • I created Blue Prism’s banking and FS GTM proposition including compelling sales decks, videos and end to end solutions to high priority client issues utilising RPA and Intelligent Automation tools• I collaborated with the Technologies Alliances, Pre-Sales and Marketing teams to create this• I was appointed by Blue Prism to lead GTM activity with EY in financial services in EMEA and was promoted after 9 months to lead GTM with all GSI partners for financial services in EMEA• When the EMEA FS Industries team was created I combined my GSI FS role with the Industries role, leveraging my FS GTM proposition, which become the cornerstone of the Industries offering• I worked with banking and FS account executives to support upsell and new logo acquisition Show less

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  UiPath

  Oct 2021 - now

  EMEA Banking industries lead

  • I built the EMEA banking Industries brand, GTM methods and relationships with Account Executives and clients from the ground up, supporting the Account Executives of the top 50 banks in EMEA to drive upsell and new logo acquisition. I became an integral part of their account teams• I took EMEA banking Industries from a service that didn’t exist to being used by all account executives of the top 50 EMEA banks, driving a high volume of business and consistently receiving feedback from all the account executives that I am integral to the success of them and their clients• I directly supported sales of $30m TCV and $5m year 1 iARR in 2024 – Making me the top contributor from the Industries team globally and earning me a place on the 2024 Podium / club trip• I uplevel UiPath in client’s eyes, gaining trusted advisor status by sharing highly relevant, value based insights on the art of the possible from the banking customer base to UiPath clients and prospects which helps them to identify and accelerate value realisation• My approach is fully tailored to each interaction, which ranges from a C-suite member, business unit leader or any other seniority of stakeholder, whilst ensuring full relevance to their priorities Show less