Chris Seacombe

Experience

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  Lloyds Bank

  Jan 2002 - Jan 2003

  Project Manager Trainee - Business Partnership

  Responsible for managing a portfolio of small investment (10-100k) projects within LloydsTSB Group IT.Designed and rolled out an efficient process for initiating and managing small projects throughout Group IT.

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  Barclays

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2006

  PMO Manager - System Implementation

  PMO Manager on a Business Banking programme which involved migrating client details onto a revolutionary new relationship management system.

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  Barclays Wealth Management

  Mar 2007 - Sept 2008

  Front Office Work Stream Lead on a major strategic change initiative. The core banking replacement programme involved migrating the Gibraltar Wealth business off the legacy infrastructure onto the standard global platform.- Responsibilities included: conducting impact assessment on the Front Office area and designing, documenting and rolling out updated processes & procedures required to support the new platform APAC Hub Migration: Business Analyst working on creating a new Wealth Management hub in Singapore to support the existing Hub in Geneva.- Activities included; designing & documenting processes for Treasury, FX, FXO, MM, Payments etc. Implementing efficient milestone tracking and senior management progress reporting.

  • PM/BA Front Office - Core Banking Replacement

    Nov 2007 - Sept 2008

  • Business Analyst

    Mar 2007 - Nov 2007
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  ABN AMRO Bank N.V.

  Sept 2008 - Nov 2009

  PM / BA - Separation and Integration Programme

  The 'OPUS' Programme, one of the key Separation & Integration projects between RBS & ABN AMRO, helped facilitate the technical separation of the ABN infrastructure which was acquired by RBS.Responsibilities included; designing and implementing a solution to successfully separate the RBS client SWIFT payment & reporting traffic and route it via the RBS infrastructure.

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  RBS

  Nov 2009 - Apr 2014

  Responsible for managing the transfer of the RBS International Banking business (Cash, Trade & Lending) between legal entities (RBS N.V. to RBS PLC), in a number of APAC countries: - Thailand- Indonesia- South Korea - China- IndiaManaging multiple cross-functional workstreams, including; Operations, Technology, Legal due diligence, Finance, Product (Cash, Trade Finance & Lending), Credit Risk and Client Comms The programme was key to the RBS Group’s efforts to simplify its structure, thereby reducing risk, cost and complexity. Show less Successfully delivering a number of key aspects of ‘Project Unicorn’, a global legal entity integration programme tasked with transferring the global network bank from RBS NV to RBS plc. Responsibilities include:- Design Authority: Defining, documenting and signing off the ‘end to end design', which was used as the framework for the legal transfer of GTS business (Cash, Trade & Lending) in 38 countries.- Global Renaming: Managing a global workstream, tasked with updating; online banking systems, contracts, documents & marketing material to reflect the new legal entity- Coordinating the Legal transfer of security/collateral agreements worth over £8 billion Show less The ‘Non Core division’ was created to manage the sale, or run down, of £240 billion of assets which were no longer seen as ‘core’ to the businesses strategy. The role, which was positioned within the Corporate Banking Division, had a dual reporting line into the Head of Operations for Latin America and the Non Core divisions programme structure. The key responsibility was to define, coordinate and drive the necessary Operations activities required to exit four countries across the Latin America region (Chile, Colombia, Venezuela & Argentina). Show less

  • International Banking PM - Global Intergration Programme

    Jul 2012 - Apr 2014

  • Global Legal Entity Integration Programme - PM

    Jan 2011 - Jun 2012

  • Global PM - Operations – Non Core Divestment

    May 2010 - Jan 2011

  • PM - Separation and Integration Programme

    Nov 2009 - Aug 2010
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  Avaloq

  Apr 2014 - Oct 2017

  Avaloq Sourcing Asia Pacific, the newly founded subsidiary of the Avaloq Group, will supply back office services for the Wealth Management business of Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management in Singapore.Responsible for managing the migration and cutover, from legacy systems and processes, to the Avaloq core banking platform and newly formed BPO organisation.

  • Head of Transformation & Integration, Avaloq Sourcing Asia Pacific

    Feb 2016 - Oct 2017

  • Migration & Cutover Manager - Core Banking implementation and BPO carve out (Deutsche Bank)

    Apr 2014 - Jan 2016
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  Standard Chartered

  Oct 2017 - now

  Successful ‘programme recovery’ of one of the Banks ‘Top 20’ investment programmes (~$20m USD p/a). Key achievements;o Addressed legacy programme governance audit findings o Re-defined scope, value and strategic roadmap through definition of CCIB Customer Relationship Management (CRM - Marketing, Sales & Service) Business Architecture and Roadmap.o Championed & lead a successful transition to Agile, one of the banks earliest adopterso Delivered +$100m of financial benefits, through a range of global initiatives Show less

  • Managing Director, Head of Change & Transformation, CCIB Client Coverage

    Mar 2023 - now

  • Executive Director, Head of Change & Portfolio Management, CCIB Client Coverage

    Oct 2020 - Mar 2023

  • Executive Director, Client Coverage Strategic & Core Capability, Programme Director

    Oct 2019 - Oct 2020

  • Executive Director, Client Engagement Effectiveness, Programme Manager

    Oct 2017 - Oct 2019