Daniel Feld

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ABOUT DANIEL FELD

A Chartered Accountant with extensive experience spanning strategy, finance, treasury, risk and tax.Skills & ExperienceA track record of designing effective strategies, across the financial services sector.• Conducted strategic reviews across capital markets, corporate and retail businesses. For example; led a review ofone operating division with (income > £2bn); resulting in changes to target market segments and organisation design.• Able to build the case for change at ExCo and Board level, leveraging a strong understanding of bank businessmodels, industry trends, and a clear communication style.Capable of navigating roles that require financial acumen, leveraging my experience across the responsibilities of both a CFO and CRO.• Experience spans the breadth of CFO responsibilities, including strategy, treasury, tax and business performanceroles. Augmented by an understanding of how to effectively manage risk in complex businesses.• Deep analytical capability, and experience in building forecasts, budgets and robust business cases. For example,built a financial model which underpinned the decision to enter the originate-to-distribute lending market.Able to reliably deliver, by working constructively with stakeholders and building purpose-driven, motivated teams.• Experience in driving consensus on challenging and opaque issues. For example, agreed a refreshed client strategyfor a business unit within retail banking, by using an active listening approach to bring stakeholders together.• Proud to build teams by fostering a common purpose and sense of belonging. For example, spent two months inIndia standing up a new strategy team, which included setting the team value proposition and training programme.Driven to seek out opportunities to improve efficiency and controls, leveraging new technologies and ways of working.Capable of prioritising human and financial resources, by considering long term objectives.• As a recent example; successfully challenged a key function to adopt programming languages such as python to automate repetitive manual controls; improve resilience and efficiency• Experience in re-designing processes to improve controls, by focusing on robust ownership and documentation.• Supported delivery of a cost challenge by prioritising resources against growth ambitions and an agreed upon“minimum service levels” for remaining activities.