Mike Edwards

Director, Head of Birmingham Office @汇丰

Birmingham, GB

Established a near-shore office for 50+ front office roles, managing day-to-day operations and contributing to long-term global location strategyServed as Interim Global Chief of Staff to the CIO, leading 2025 strategic planning for budgets, and key initiativesManage a global business management team of 7 across Birmingham, London, and Hong Kong, supporting a wide range of functions on behalf of the CIO office Oversee budgets for existing and future years planning around people and non-people costs, including market data, research, and travel; developed Tableau-based reporting of key metrics for the leadership teamGlobal Head of Research Services, managing 120+ vendor relationships and negotiating contracts against a $7.5m annual budgetIntroduced a service review for research providers, achieving $750k in cost savings whilst aligning to business needs on an ongoing basisRepresent HSBC AM in industry engagements, analysing FCA and ESMA regulatory changes under MiFID IILead a review of data arrangements and agreements across 145 vendors, targeting $4m in savings; achieved $1.5m to date on a $40m budgetDirected HSBC AM’s migration from Bloomberg to Refinitiv Workspace, saving $2.5m annually; expanded project to evaluate FactSet with a potential $6m savingAssisted in the creation of a new performance rating framework for non-fund managers, improving fairness and consistency against a quantitative and qualitative scorecardAct as project office tracker, monitoring all front office projects using Monday.com, Jira, and Confluence

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