Blair Bradley
About
Blair Bradley is from Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand. Blair works in the following industries: "Financial Services", "Banking", and "Accounting". Blair is currently Head of Finance - Expenditure & Operations at Kiwibank, located in Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand. In Blair's previous role as a Senior Manager Financial Applications at Kiwibank, Blair worked in Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand until Nov 2020. Prior to joining Kiwibank, Blair was a Senior Business Analyst at HSBC and held the position of Senior Business Analyst at London, United Kingdom. Prior to that, Blair was a Senior Business Analyst at Lloyds Banking Group from May 2013 to Feb 2015. Blair started working as Management Reporting Analyst at HSBC in London, United Kingdom in Oct 2011. From Oct 2010 to Oct 2011, Blair was Product Controller at Deutsche Bank, based in London, United Kingdom. Prior to that, Blair was a Senior Associate - Advisory at PwC from Feb 2007 to Sep 2010.
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Blair Bradley's current jobs
Responsible for Business Partnering for Expenditure and systems and operational responsibilities.
Blair Bradley's past jobs
A passionate Kiwibanker dedicated to delivering great outcomes. I am currently focused on improving the quality and delivery of financial information, enhancing financial management capability and cost efficiency across the organisation. A foundation of experience gained as a Chartered Accountant in New Zealand and in the banking industry in the United Kingdom: - Financial Control and Reporting (HSBC) - PRINCE2 qualified Finance Business Analyst and Project Management (HSBC) - Financial Planning & Analysis (Lloyds Bank)
Senior Business Analyst – Business Finance Change Creation of a ring-fenced Operating Bank Service Company (ServCo). (10,000 staff) Responsible for implementation of all Finance, Recharge and Billing and Procurement reporting and MI requirements from new integrated Oracle Fusion Accounting tool. Supporting integration of new Operating Bank into existing HSBC Finance systems infrastructure and processes. • Responsible for delivery of all Financial Control, Procurement and Recharge and Billing reports and dashboards as part of the implementation of a new Oracle Fusion integrated accounting solution for the new ServCo legal entities. • Performed strategic review of current ServCo Finance systems infrastructure and MI capability. Presented recommendations incorporating the use of new applications and toolkits, and the utilization of existing infrastructure in order to develop best disciplined best practice approaches to MI. • Stakeholder relationship management with HSBC internal Finance customers. Including communication of changes to existing processes and systems and recommendations of proposed actions to prepare for change. • Senior analyst responsibilities include oversight across multiple work streams (including Planning, Financial Control, Procurement and Recharge and Billing), coordination of analysts and prioritization of developers. • Performing analysis of existing reporting inventory and recommendations of best practice strategy using new Oracle reporting toolsets. • • Stakeholder relationship management with HSBC internal Finance customers. Including communication of changes to existing processes and systems and recommendations of proposed actions to prepare for change. • Responsible for building and testing data interfaces from Oracle system into existing HSBC Group MI and statutory reporting tools.
• Implementation of new P&L reporting database and reporting suite for Commercial Bank. • Alignment of CAD Reporting Hierarchy with Lloyds’ strategic ledger based Hierarchy. • Liaison with senior Executive MI and Product Control management involving the clear communication of arising issues and dealing with ad-hoc information requests from all stakeholders • Coordination of system requirement specifications, Implementation, UAT process and Stakeholder engagement, management and communications. • Coordination and reporting of Monthly P&L, budget and forecasting numbers in “One P&L”. • Reconciliation of monthly P&L reporting to ledger. • Review of Daily P&L production and commentary
Business Analyst– Central MI - GBM Product Control •Project implementation and development of key global Product Control systems. Including WIRE (Daily P&L reporting), The “Book Mapping System” and Financial Statement reporting in PC Portal • Implemented the Book Mapping System as part of an internal control directive by the FSA to improve trading book controls of HSBC. Maps all front office trading books to back office books and the general ledger, and is verified on a monthly basis by individual owners in Product Control. Now used as a golden source of book information by users in Market Risk and Operations. • Presentation of daily and monthly financial information for key Product Control stakeholders including, senior management, front office, FSA and KPMG at a regional and global level • Coordination of the daily P&L submission and commentary process for Product Control. Including preparation of summary commentary for senior management and submission into TM1 • Maintenance and continual development of internal control procedures. Including Estimate versus Actual variance reporting and P&L adjustment monitoring
• Daily P&L production for Credit, Rates and Emerging Market Primary Debt Capital business • Preparation of monthly P&L and Balance sheet analysis pack for senior management. Including reconciliation and substantiation of balance sheet and preparation of commentary • Preparation of distressed Spanish mortgage portfolio performance analysis for use in presentation of impaired asset balances and RWA calculations in financial statements
• Production of annual financial statements (IFRS, IAS and statutory reports) • Consolidation of company results for group statutory reporting. • External secondment project roles to provide specialist accounting/analyst resource solutions to a variety of large New Zealand companies and government agencies • Financial instrument accounting treatment for HNV client transactions (Bonds, Equities, FX) • Development of MS Excel modeling tools for client specific financial analysis • Led the development of monthly management reporting templates and tools for Sealord Group Limited (secondment role) whilst the company was going through a challenging accounting system and restructuring change • Prepared a report to the Tertiary Education Minister outlining the financial impacts that various different funding cut models would have on Tertiary Education Institutions.