John Kelly

Experience

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  McCreary & Bowman Associates, Inc.

  Jan 1995 - Jan 1996

  VP of Finance & Chief Financial Officer

  Responsibilities included all Finance, Human Resources, Legal, General Administration and participated in strategic planning with the owner. • Contributed to a successful turnaround from 8 straight loss quarters to 4 straight profitable quarters.• Renegotiated the bank loan from an option structured equity position to a traditional bank loan.

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  ABN AMRO North America

  Jan 1998 - Jan 2005

  SVP Finance

  Responsibilities included financial systems architecture, implementation and support for all financial applications.• Proposed and implemented the combination of the Financial Systems Support functions from throughout Finance into a centralized team that reduced support costs by 15%.• Envisioned and implemented a reporting tool which provided drill through reporting to the nonintegrated financial systems, consolidated various reporting tools to reduce training and maintenance and facilitated general information access to the entire Finance population and beyond. • Developed systems strategy to deliver Advanced Basel II approach to meet global reporting requirements while simultaneously streamlining data feeds within the organization.• Contributed to the implementation of a 1 day close (down from 18 days at peak) • Implemented a funds transfer pricing system eliminating 10 man-days of effort per month. • Implemented several Purchasing and Payables systems to create a best in class payables process. Show less

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  ABN AMRO Services

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2006

  Senior Vice President and Client Delivery Manager

  Responsibilities included delivery of all IT service levels and new development projects to the client and ensuring client needs were being understood by the functional IT areas. Clients included all Shared Services areas including Risk, Finance, Human Resources, Legal, Compliance and Corporate Services. • Created Basel II steering committee to manage the $40 million implementation program to meet Basel II requirements for the Advanced approach and delivered first 5 phases of project on time and budget. • Implemented paperless Accounts Payable process that reduced costs, ensured proper approvals and maintained audit trail.• Designed and implemented Risk reporting strategy while leveraging existing tools within the organization to manage costs and increase speed to market.• Developed IT investment-planning tool to facilitate budgeting and planning with the clients. Show less

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  ABN AMRO

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2010

  Responsibilities included operational metrics, financial results, budgeting and monitoring risk issues for all of Services as well as management of the Properties, Procurement and Physical Security functions. • Acted as Business Manager for both the ABN AMRO Head of Services and the RBS CAO to facilitate a coordinated integration of the Services functions into RBS.• Led the development of the Services organization Target Operating Model (staff of 450) after the sale of the LaSalle organization, model used as template for rest of North American organization. • Developed governance structure for Services Organization to ensure joint leadership team appropriately managed the new organization. • Transitioned Properties, Procurement and Physical Security functions over to the RBS organization.• Managed analysis and developed negotiation strategies on a disputed contract settlement with major outsourced service provider reducing settlement from $20 million to $6.5 million. Show less Divisional CIO for Retail arm of a $125 billion regional Bank. Responsibilities included all IT delivery to Retail managing a $100+ million operating budget and a $20 million investment budget through a team of over 100 staff and contractors (on-shore and off-shore).• Developed Retail systems strategic plan. Implementation postponed due to sale of LaSalle. • Led a multi-vendor co-development proposal for a retail-banking platform that would share the development costs with an outsourcer. Proposal completed but postponed due to sale of LaSalle.• Implemented On-line Banking and ATM enhancements (two-factor authentication, ATM check imaging, on-line check viewing) that kept LaSalle’s Retail arm competitive with the market.• Led development and delivery of first client road show to rollout the new global IT Operating model. • Led IT cost reduction effort for Retail client that identified $22 million of savings.• Revamped Investment Budget process from a wish list based on clout to a strategic value based plan. Show less

  • Senior Vice President - Business Management

    Jan 2007 - Jan 2010

  • Senior Vice President and IT Client Executive, Retail

    Jan 2006 - Jan 2007
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  Royal Bank of Scotland

  Jan 2010 - Jan 2011

  Senior Vice President and Head of Governance

  Responsibilities included negotiating service agreements, monitoring SLA performance, escalating unresolved issues, interfacing with regulators and chairing Oversight Committee for internally outsourced services. • Developed relationships with each of the internal service providers to ensure all services were clearly reported against and to open communication channels for early risk / issue identification.• Led Governance work stream on Regulatory Remediation program after unfavorable audit and obtained a favorable audit the following year.• Drove account and client closure program to reduce potential risk of Know Your Customer violations and to reduce effort during annual client periodic review process. Show less

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  Gravity Associates, Inc.

  Jan 2011 - now

  President

  Gravity Associates, Inc. is an Information Technology and Management Consulting firm focused on the Financial Services industry. Gravity utilizes highly experienced staff from a broad network of consultants primarily in the Chicago area. These consultants have a proven track record in Financial Services delivering high quality, elegant solutions within the required timeline and agreed budget. Services include:• Data or application strategy and implementation roadmap• Data Governance• Project startup functions including program office design and business case creation• Program management / project management• Software selection• Overall business lead, requirements development, use cases, user acceptance testing, procedures• Technical design and development, test lead, test plans, test execution and documentation• Management consulting for organizational design in Finance, Risk or TechnologyThe following are sample project performed by Gravity Associates, Inc.:Multi-National Canadian Bank and associated US arm• Providing business support for all CECL data and reporting needed by Risk and Finance• Led IFRS9 data work stream for all data and reporting needed for Risk and Finance• Acted as overall business lead and performed all business roles for creation of a modeling data mart to support Credit Risk and Treasury• Drove overall program to create Data Mart to support FR Y-14 / CCAR reporting requirements. Large Insurance Company in Northwest Suburbs of Chicago• Led Finance redesign effort to drive cultural shift to a business partner support model.• Advised on the development and implementation of a Reporting Center of Excellence.• Managed the review of over $10 billion in cost allocations to ensure methodologies reflected the true economics of the business lines.Small Chicago based bank• Advised on redesign of the Technology and Program Management departments to achieve better alignment to businesses while improving focus and productivity. Show less