1. SEAN DENTON CURRICULUM VITAE
Address: 38 Codenham Straight Tel Mobile: 07500776634
Basildon, Essex, SS165DH Email: sdenton617@gmail.com
PROFILE
I am an ambitious, hard working individual who is always eager to learn. I am an excellent team player and
always enjoy a challenge. I have 15 years’ experience in Investment and Retail Banking. I am PRINCE II
certified with 9 years’ experience in Change, PMO and Project/Operational Risk Management. I have also been
involved in in process improvement, Project and Vendor Management, and have skills in SOP’s and writing
Business Requirements. Extensive knowledge of SWIFT messages and their format. Specialise in FX/MM
products and Process. Technical expert in the reconciliation tool TLM.
My most recent role was within PMO on very large programmes at Barclays Capital Investment Bank.
EMPLOYMENT
April 16 – Sept 16, Time out Visiting family abroad
Jan 16 – April 16 Prospects 33 Consultants
PMO Analyst/Project Manager Barclays Capital Investment Bank
Main duties included:
Project Work stream Lead for a large Non-Disclosure Project within the Investment Bank. Responsible
for leading the handover of the Precious Metals Business to Barclays Non-Core. Acquiring sign off from
Treasury, Legal, FX Trading etc.
PMO Support to Work streams for a large Non-Disclosure Project
Management of daily PWG’s, managing Risks, Project Plans, Handover Documentation
Lead of Communication Plan to key internal/external parties including Regulators, Legal entities and
Clients
Management of Programme Share Point, permissions and structure
Management of RAID Logs and reporting materials to Project Committees and Senior SteerCo on the
largest programme at Barclays Investment Bank
Assisting with Project Health checks and Lessons Learnt
Management of programme mailbox
Creation and maintenance of Milestone plans
Management of key meeting minutes
April 10 – Nov 15 Royal Bank Of Scotland (RBS) Plc
Reconciliation & Investigations Lead PMO Analyst Sep10 – Nov 15
Main duties included:
Management of the Global Recs & Investigations Portfolio Management Office for our owned systems
IntelliSUITE, SMART ARP, Accurate & Business Objects
Ownership of Global PMO Process and Practices, including training and coaching of these processes
PMO for key Regulatory/Mandatory projects such as: in Country Turkey Branch Recs, SEPA, MIFID,
H2B ISA, Williams & Glynn, SWIFT Format Changes, PPI, AML.
PMO for Reconciliation on-boarding projects for ATM’s Cards, Treasury, Mortgages, Wealth
Management etc.
Management of the KSOR Budget for small system enhancements, Project budget management and
reforecasting
Creation of Business Cases for Reconciliation & Investigations led projects
Project lead for small Reconciliation & Investigations Projects, managing key projects through
PWG/PCC Governance
Creation and maintenance of Milestone plans
Governance best practice lead for offshoring and Right Shoring of UK owned processes, and
management of key FTE change
2. Advanced Project and Operational Risk & Issue Management, regularly using ORBIT, Planview and
Project Risk Logs.
Global Reporting Lead to Management via our monthly Change Board
Creation and Maintenance Of Impact Assessment, Business Requirements and Functional Specification
documents
Minute taking for key Change Forums
Continuous Improvement and Lean vision, including site visits to our key hubs to review current
processes
Lead of post implementation reviews and customer service reviews for key projects
New Business Administrator (RBSI JERSEY) April10 – Aug10
Main duties included:
Ensuring all new Trust funds have been entered into the Trust fund System Goldmine.
Clearing all the old Trust fund back log that have yet to be inputted into Goldmine
Systems Used
Goldmine, IntelliSUITE, SMART ARP, Accurate, Quality Center, Powerpoint, Sharepoint, Orbit
June 09 – December 09 Travelling visiting family abroad
June 05 –April 09 UBS Investment Bank London
Process Control and Vendor Mgmt Business Analyst/Intersystem Recs
Jan09 – April09
Main duties included:
Improving processes, increase automation of allocation and match rates across the OTC Recs utility
using TLM
Supervising the offshore Day 1 team, monitoring their KPI’s, creating SOP’s for new processes,
providing new process training and perform regular calls and spot checks to ensure all issues are
discussed and resolved and all day to day work is complete
Perform Intersystem Recs between our Reconciliation tools and our Risk Databases reported to Senior
Management. Challenging current Intersystem Recs to automate and improve them
Global co-ordinater for the OTC Utility for any changes relating to automation in our reconciliation tool
TLM. Deciding the best practice/solution to the issues within the Utility relating to TLM
Banking Products Loans Admin Recs/Client Operations Supervisor May08 – Dec08
Main duties included:
The team perform and complete their daily tasks in a timely manner
Ensure all Loan accounts reconciled, all breaks highlighted and investigated
Performing 1:1’s and weekly team meetings
Ensuring that all payments are released on value date to avoid any compensation claims. Also to check
the validity of the payment to ensure it is paid to the correct SSI’s
Managing high risk and attending weekly SAR meetings to discuss our high risk breaks and decide the
best course of action
Engaging with clients in trade support, to ensure we deliver an excellent service and keep a good
relationship, professional and pleasant, ensuring expectations are met
Reporting daily stats and risk analysis to management. Identifying and resolving any potential/serious
issues
Involvement in many change initiatives to improve and automate the business
Ensuring all over payment/underpayment write offs are switched to P&L. Journals passed to clear
CTB Business Analyst, TLM Reconciliation, Client Reconciliation Focus January
07 – April 08
Main duties included:
Challenging break match and Allocation Processes. Approach Business Line Clients to improve and
automate their processes to reduce on human error.
Specialist in TLM building, testing and implementing Config changes, i.e. automatch, auto allocation
3. rules and dashboards
Managing Config changes within the company’s Rec Delivery team, ensuring that the team met delivery
objectives and turnaround time targets. Monthly statistics kept to monitor progress
Assisting in resolving production issues, i.e. amending erroneous rules and investigating root causes for
many other issues
Involvement in quarterly TLM releases, performing UAT Business testing and Regression testing,
ensuring smooth release implementations
Involved in system improvements, with regards to TLM user friendliness and functionality. Working with
clients, having regular meetings to improve their processes/procedures and efficiency within TLM’s
capability.
Assisting in certain projects with regards to implementing new reconciliations onto TLM. Ensuring client
satisfaction with projects and assist with issues post implementation
Reconciliation RTB Clerk June 05 - December 06
During my time in this position, I was heavily involved with an off shoring project of RECS to India, performing
onshore training sessions, creating exam accreditations, reviewing SLA’s and SOP’s, asking/answering question
from our Indian colleagues, keeping a good relationship between London and India Recs. I also travelled to India
to perform extensive offshore training/management and support to ensure the handover of Recs runs smoothly.
Other main duties for this role included:
Ensuring all cash and ledger entries were allocated to the correct area in a timely manner using the
reconciliation system TLM for FX, Treasury, Money Market products
Investigating UTA’s by looking at payment information using Side, also with the agent banks via phone
and swift MT 299 messages using the company swift system SAA
Issuing Debit Authority to agent banks for misrouted payments
Checking the trading systems SSE and CLAS for missing ledger postings
Looking at incoming swift reply’s for UTA’s through the case management tool Pega Ace ensuring items
are investigated in a timely manner
Looking at the team’s group mailbox insuring all queries are dealt with (e.g. unmatch items, match
items, issue debit authority and transfer funds) between internal accounts
Managing the nostrorecs chat channel for investigating and resolving issues with our in house
reconciliation system TLM (e.g. user access problems and password problems)
Systems Used
Systems used included TLM, Side, SAA, CLAS, SSE, PEGA Ace, Kasymir, Risk Database, Loan IQ and
Pega Rules
Dec 00 – June 05 Permanent at Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Investment
Bank London
Investigations/Reconciliations Officer
Main duties included:
Routing/re routing swifts received at RBS in a timely manner. Delivering MT094 Broadcast messages
using Bess (swift routing tool) to the relevant departments. Delivering post to correct departments and
insure incoming faxes are distributed in a timely manner
Reconciliation of Cash nostro and internal accounts in the Back Office using our reconciliation tool smart
and investigate all outstanding entries for Foreign Exchange and Money Market and Treasurt products
including settlement of trades, ensuring rates, flows dates are correct by using our trading system
Wallstreet and investigating with traders in the Front Office.
Posting journals to clear internal cash breaks using RBS and NW International
Ensuring all our queries are updated (e.g. emails, phone call times, deal amendments and swifts sent)
on to our in house Investigation Tracking system called Trade Detective
Ensuring all GBP/EUR MT202 payments are made before cut off at 16.00. Also ensure that our swifts
are sent in a timely manner using our swift/payment system STAR
Basic Knowledge of Debit/Credit interest and overdraft rates, keying account statements onto Excel
spread sheets
Monitoring and reconcile GBP same day settlement account using STARS and report non-receipts of
over GBP2m and unapplied funds to funding desk. Any unapplied funds switch to our interest baring
4. account to earn overnight interest
Contacting customers concerning non-receipts and unapplied funds, supplying trade details and
confirmation references
Keying manual payments via STAR, RBS and NATWEST international
Systems Used
Systems used include SMART, Wallstreet, STARS, Star, Trade Detective, RBS and NW International
and GIMS (confirmation reference system). Systems used include BESS and RBS/NW International
EDUCATION
September 89 – June 95 Lee Chapel Primary School
September 95 – June 00 Woodlands Senior School
QUALIFICATIONS
GCSE Other
English Literature C PRINCE II Project Management
English Language C
Mathematics C
Science (Double) D D
History D
French D
GCSE PE D
GCSE Drama B
HOBBIES & INTERESTS
My hobbies include fishing, ten pin bowling and playing pool and snooker. I also enjoying both playing and
watching football and tennis.