Head of Operational Risk - Group Corporate Treasury - Lloyds Banking Group
London, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Head of Operational Risk, Group Corporate Treasury (GCT), London at Lloyds Banking Group
- Past
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- Compliance Manager at JNJ Global Business Services s.r.o.
- Senior Auditor at American Express
- Manager - Exchange Traded Derivatives at UBS Investment Bank
- Management Accountant at Standard Bank London Ltd
- Assistant Divisional Accountant at Harcourt - American Publishing Company
- Management Accountant at Fred Perry Ltd
- Senior Accounts Assistant at Chevron U.K. Limited
- Business Manager at Reeds Ltd
- Education
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- London Metropolitan University
- Allerton Grange High School
- Leeds Metropolitan University (French evening
- Park Lane College
- University of North London
- Connections
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- Industry
- Banking
- Websites
Hardeep Bhogal’s Summary
Skills Managing a diverse set of stakeholders.
Maintaining wide network to understand up and coming initiatives.
Strong desktop/ IT skills.
Ability to educate line management in accountancy based approaches.
Awareness of control implications of emerging commercial environment.
Work well as part of a team, a great believer in teamwork.
Ability to organize and analyse information.
Ambitious, motivated and willing to learn.
Strong communication skills
Strong Influencing skills
Hardeep Bhogal’s Specialties:
accountancy, accounting, advertising, analysis, auditing, balance, bank reconciliation,budgeting, business objects, business plans, customer relations, decision making, delivery, derivatives, documentation, executive management, financial, fixed asset register, fixed assets, , forecasting, management, marketing, risk assessment, risk management, rolfe, sales, sales analysis, sarbanesoxley, strategic, swift, treasury, trend, vat returns, vision, year end accounts,
Hardeep Bhogal’s Experience
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Head of Operational Risk, Group Corporate Treasury (GCT), London
Lloyds Banking Group
(Public Company; LLOY; Wholesale industry)
June 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)
Head of Operational Risk, Group Corporate Treasury (GCT), London
Support the Group Corporate Treasury (GCT) business unit management by driving the delivery of improved risk assessment, controls monitoring and risk performance indicators.
Manage the Sarbanes Oxley process for the department
Project manage the Integration projects for Operational Risk including SOX.
Ensure effective risk management processes are embedded around the businesses, including any new areas of business that are being developed.
Keep the management team in the informed of all initiatives.
Co-ordinate and complete risk assessment activities for the GCT businesses to include Operational Risk Effectiveness Evaluations (OREE) and Controls Self Assessment (CSA); Risk management framework; Maintain and manage the risk calendar.
Developed and maintained strong relationships with the following key stakeholders: GCT Management team, Group Audit, Central Sox, Group Risk teams and External audit.
Business Continuity Management, ensuring necessary plans are in place in the event of a disaster.
Manage the Risk Control Assurance (RCA) for FSA returns. -
Compliance Manager
JNJ Global Business Services s.r.o.
(Pharmaceuticals industry)
July 2006 — March 2007 (9 months)
with 6 Direct reports)
Managed day to day Compliance operations
Ensured adherence to SOX, VAT regulations and internal policies
Translated the SSC strategic vision into a strategy and goals for the Compliance department
Initiated and monitored innovation within the ComplianceTeam to keep P2P SSC moving toward an "e" environment
Promoted a customer relationship oriented culture within the P2P SSC.
Consolidated and proposed performance improvement actions (update of policies & procedures, process re-engineering, technology enhancement, etc)
Provided management team with suggestions to improve compliance of affiliates to P2P SSC processes, policies and procedures
Led Compliance team to ensure staff performance, motivation & development
Managed period-end financial closing requirements;
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Senior Auditor
American Express
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AXP; Financial Services industry)
May 2006 — June 2006 (2 months)
Derivatives Support Group
Completed an assurance engagement. Review covered back office processing of derivatives. Included the capture, confirmation and settlement of trades and clearance of related reconciliations. Key risks, controls were identified and tested. Also provided recommendations for further improvements as to mitigate risk. -
Manager - Exchange Traded Derivatives
UBS Investment Bank
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; UBS; Investment Banking industry)
June 2001 — March 2006 (4 years 10 months)
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Management Accountant
Standard Bank London Ltd
(Banking industry)
September 1999 — March 2001 (1 year 7 months)
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Assistant Divisional Accountant
Harcourt - American Publishing Company
(Banking industry)
December 1998 — September 1999 (10 months)
Preparation of Monthly Management Accounts - Profit & loss of product divisions; comparisons with current budget and previous year's actual results. Reporting to head office; Preparation of Budget - for the current fiscal and calendar year, also five year plan.
Investigating variances - Providing supporting Product Analysis
Measuring performance of products through to Gross Margins from UK based products and Global.
Designed and Developed models using Excel and Access to provide quality information.
Improved and Developed Systems - in order to be more efficient and improve quality of Information.
Analysis of various budgets with actuals - for each internal department, monitoring expenses.
Ad hoc projects when required - analysis of data at the request of group head office -
Management Accountant
Fred Perry Ltd
(Banking industry)
June 1997 — November 1998 (1 year 6 months)
Preparation of Monthly Management Accounts - Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet, Cash Report, reporting to parent company in Japan.
Control Accounts - Reconciliation of all Balance Sheet accounts and setting up of standard journals.
Treasury - Preparation of daily cash report in sterling (inc. Foreign Currency converted at month rate to sterling equivalent), ensuring funds are used efficiently.
VAT - preparing quarterly vat returns.
Working Capital Projections - monthly report giving working capital availability for the month (per week for month and three months ahead).
Fixed Assets - updating and maintaining fixed asset register.
Business Planning / Forecasting - assisting in the the 1999 Business Plan.
Payment Request Report - weekly production of report, giving details of payments to be made during the week with reason of payment and in currency. Approval of payments requested required from Parent Company
Dealing with Retail Management - explaining management information in layman terms.
Invoice Matching - matching invoices to goods received notes, to calculate F/X gains or losses, and find any discrepancies with goods invoiced for to actual delivered.
Improving and Developing Systems - in order to be more efficient and improve quality of Information.
Ad-hoc Project work - P & L Schedules, P11 D's, Improving Internal controls, etc. -
Senior Accounts Assistant
Chevron U.K. Limited
(Banking industry)
February 1997 — May 1997 (4 months)
Reconciliation Project - reconciliation of travel accounts, suspense accounts, inter-company accounts, loan accounts.
Production of statistical information for management - on staff performance in graphical presentation.
International foreign currency reporting.
Sales analysis - graphical presentation of sales, per month and yearly using Excel.
Analysis of Debtors. -
Business Manager
Reeds Ltd
(Banking industry)
January 1995 — January 1996 (1 year 1 month)
Involved in all aspects of the business ranging from: Sales/ Purchase ledger work, Bank reconciliation statements, VAT Returns, Incomplete records, dealing with the company accountant as to prepare and finalize the year end accounts. Also experience in managing staff, organization and distribution of work; administration and marketing; gained invaluable experience in dealing with customers at all levels.
Hardeep Bhogal’s Education
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London Metropolitan University
BA(Hons) , Accounting & Finance , 1992 — 1995
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Allerton Grange High School
B.A. Honours; GCSE's inc; Commerce , Accounting & Finance (IIii); Maths, English, Accounts, Physics; Law , 1986 — 1989
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Leeds Metropolitan University (French evening
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Park Lane College
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University of North London
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