Antony Moon

I am a highly motivated and self-starting change leader.  I qualified as an accountant initially working through all layers of finance from bought ledger clerk to regulatory reporting.

Over the last 10 years I have worked in finance change in large scale financial transformation projects. I'm always a key member of the solution delivery team where my excellent problem solving and communication skills are pivotal to ensure successful project outcomes.

I have extensive Agile experience holding different responsibilities including scrum master and proxy product owner. This includes writing epics, user stories with acceptance criteria and preparing back logs before each sprint in Jira to ensure minimum viable product conditions are successfully met when completed. 

Although from a business background I able to clearly communicate the business requirements to the IT developers and ensure close collaboration to identify, escalate and resolve any issues early in the process to ensure efficient use of resources and avoid rework.

NATIONWIDE BUILDING SOCIETY       JULY 2024 – JAN 2025

Solution Architect – Mainframe decommissioning

Tasked with determining the solution intent to re-platform a number of batch processes from end of life legacy Mainframe to alternate strategic applications.

• Identified delivery gaps; where no inflight project would deliver a solution to stop non member transactions processing on the mainframe; Drafted high level proposed target state.
• System decomposition; Worked closely with IT SME to decompose existing functionality of mainframe application responsible for processing ATM transactions; Identifying future state functionality required.
• Provided clarity to key stakeholders; Presented a number of working group deep dive sessions to unravel the delivery dependencies and give key stakeholders a clear understanding of the complex nature of the non member transactions process flows through subledger e.g. SAP FPSL, SAP Deposit Management etc.

Credit Suisse                                   May 2021 – June 2024

Data integration - Intercompany Stream lead

The UBS takeover of Credit Suisse required a new strategic integration feed to be implemented for Statutory reporting. Led the change team to ensure Intercompany balances correctly reflected in UBS financials and correctly eliminated in the consolidation process.

• Quickly turned stream RAG status from Red to Green; The stream was reporting red initially when taken over the position but was able to return to green status within 6 weeks by identifying reasons and the actions to resolve intercompany control balance breaks and ability to run process parallel to production successfully.
• Implemented new control framework for Intercompany break investigation; This enabled the intercompany team to identify the cause of breaks more effectively and efficiently.

Senior Business Analyst – Valuation in Resolution Planning

Member of an Agile team supporting the deliver of releases to the applications calculating the winding down of the trading balance sheet used in the global wind down reporting process during a crisis.  

• Oversee the successful Delivery on time of key functionality agreed with regulator; The lead change BA working closely with IT and product owner to ensure requirements and understood and delivered successfully.

Senior Business Analyst – Intra Month Balance Sheet

Member of a large regulatory change program for Recovery and Resolution planning – Valuation in resolution (ViR) focused on determining root cause and remediating systematic breaks between the ledger, sub-ledgers and regulatory systems  for intra month balance sheet reporting.

• Immediate impact enabling the project stream to report from red to green; by implementing clear plan of action for remediating data quality issues and building a data model to identify issues across entities/products.
• Successfully resolved over 60 high priority data quality issues; through IT and business changes that led to an overall reduction in adjustments by 300k per month.
• Oversee changes globally in processes relating to Nostros reporting  in the regulatory system; including implementing new IT interfaces as well as improving business processes that resulted in over 60 hours per month savings across all regions as well as improved data quality through improved data governance.
• Enable the business to be able to adopt a source base (sub-ledger) reconciliation as part of BAU; by working with IT developers to process over 6 million journals in the ledger to align historic sub-ledger balances.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS                 Feb 2021 – Apr 2021

S/4 Integration Business Analyst

Large S/4HANA implementation for UK and US entities. Joined the R2R integration stream to prepare inface functional specifications for revenue subledgers to S/4HANA universal journal. 

• Identified existing interface issues and proposed resolution for S/4 Hana; this involved working closely with finance subject matters experts, local IT and S/4HANA functional consultants to agree resolution.
• Review master data; Provide a technical and financial review of master data provided to Cognizant (configuring and building S4HANA) including Chart of Accounts and Entity structure.
• Provided key insights in creating successful Agile stories; Stories were not aligned to key business processes/ functionality and acceptance criteria was unclear, presented overview to senior management of key issues identified and proposed actions.

RBC Capital markets                         Jul 2016 – Jan 2021

Agile Solution Team Lead, SME & Business Analyst (Contract)

Joined major Agile finance change lifecycle to implement SAP S/4HANA Fiori across Europe and Asia, aimed at delivery of standard general ledger incorporating fixed assets, accounts payables and receivables. Initially supported proof of concept and country roll-out of SAP Fiori then took on statutory, regulatory and group consolidation reporting.

• Standardised financial ledgers in Switzerland on SAP Fiori and rolled out across ten locations across Europe and Asia; held roles as Business Analyst and Agile Solution Team Member during end-to-end Agile lifecycles. 
• Delivered Proof of Concept and Business Requirement phases for new integrated financial management solution; captured general ledger requirements from country teams and outlined localisation needs.
• Embedded uniformity into global financial landscapes; implemented Multi-Currency Accounting (MCA) module alongside SAP consultant, reviewed core G/L processes, generated crib sheets for Fiori tiles, performed end-user demonstrations of user stories and supported User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Enabled Swiss National Bank supervisory reporting; enabled users to load schedules via online portal.
• Onboarded Italy to SAP Fiori; deployed interim solution to load in balances and simultaneously defined local banking system interface in conjunction with local vendor to automate G/L entries into SAP Fiori.
• Minimised impact of SAP Fiori upgrade; focused on MCA processes and mitigated risks.
• Redressed critical gap in SAP Fiori relating to European and Asian statutory and regulatory reporting; appointed as Agile Solution Team Reporting Lead and headed up end-to-end delivery of SAP Business Objects. 
• Ratified data quality and set out global reporting vision; oversaw finance and development talent pools, determined gaps in SAP Fiori, outlined requirement specifications for CDS / SQL views, created test views using SAP HANA Studio and Business Objects web intelligence reports, and supported data migration.
• Rapidly resolved reporting issues for Luxembourg finance team; supported first month-end reporting cycle.
• Consolidated group accounts for Financial Statements and regulatory reporting, including FINREP; played integral role in onboarding of SAP Group Reporting as Agile Solution Team SME.
• Transformed financial and regulatory reporting capabilities; assessed Group Reporting Fiori tiles, drove report development / delivery of business objects Webi reporting for non-standard requirements, and led business support and training of end users on how to use new solution, including best practice.
• Migrated 18 months of historic data; managed complicated data migration process that included key reconciliations for before and after eliminations to legacy consolidation system.
• Guaranteed readiness for October 2020 Go-Live and minimised risks to normal reporting cycles; oversaw parallel running between new SAP Group Reporting solution and legacy SAP version.

RBC investor & treasury Services Jan 2011 – Jun 2016

Business Analyst & Regulatory Change SME (Contract)

Engaged on multiple contract assignments during this period, including system interfaces, regulatory change, Foreign Exchange (FX) integration, new reporting applications and continuous improvement projects. 

• Facilitated Balance Sheet Attestation, reporting to RBC Head Office; designed and delivered operating model for use by RBC Investor Services globally.
• Reduced reporting time between RBC Investor Services and RBC Head Office; drove end-to-end lifecycle delivery of small project as part of larger programme, including business case, requirements and test plans.
• Improved standardised profit and loss management reporting; undertook business analysis for changes 
  to downstream systems and data feeds in relation to standard RBC enterprise-wide reporting application.
• Contributed to success of Foreign Exchange (FX) Integration programme; assigned as Lead Finance Business Analyst during implementation of Kondor+ into front office and K+ Trade Processing into back office.
• Eradicated manual journal process and boosted local financial controls; designed journal interface between FX system and local general ledger.
• Protected continuation of high-risk FX reporting; identified reports needing post-implementation, initiated fruitful communications with business to outline finance impact and triggered change request.

Royal Bank of Scotland                 Dec 2008 – Dec 2010

Business & Regulatory Analyst (Contract)

Joined during key period for banking industry following financial crisis, selection based on substantial regulatory reporting expertise, and commenced assignments relating to Bank of England and DNB Liquidity reporting.

• Consolidated Regulatory Bank of England and DNB Liquidity (Form 8028) reporting process for ABN AMRO onto new FRS Data Foundation reporting platform; handled business analysis, determined data requirements for new application by product, wrote functional specification and redressed data gaps.
• Enhanced reconciliation process and met 100% of DNB Liquidity requirements; developed new source feed in MS Access for Commercial Banking, which was used for six months before system migration.
• Responded quickly to changes relating to ABN AMRO / RBS business transfer structure; appointed as Regulatory Analyst, highlighted weaknesses, recommended improvements, collaborated with IT on enhancements to FIRE application and supervised one FTE during BoE reporting process run-through.
• Trimmed 0.5 day off month-end; devised Access reconciliation tool for Bank of England capture process.
• Resolved reconciliation breaks caused by data sourcing from two systems; developed new source files from financial reporting systems instead of legacy trading systems.
• Submitted BoE forms and determined root cause of historic £1.6BN imbalance for GED BT form; accountable for production of ABN AMRO full return that covered Profit & Loss and Financial Derivatives business. Generated BoE statistical returns for Global Equity Derivatives (GED) and resolved static data issues.

Earlier Contracts & Permanent Career

RBC Global services / RBC Dexia IS, Commercial Manager                                    Nov 2007 – Dec 2008

• Precipitated £4M p.a. in new business; prepared final fee proposal for client as part of tender process.
• Supported BASEL II programme; captured requirements and tested new outputs for Canadian-based lifecycle.
• Embedded robust standard pricing models across new and existing UK Franchise products, including Global Custody, Fund Accounting, Investment Operations and Transfer Agency. 

RBC Global services / RBC Dexia IS, Business Analyst                                            Aug 2006 – Oct 2007

• Recorded FX Mark to Market (MTM) accurately in G/L following joint venture; analysed root cause, and introduced accounting controls and processes for FX Derivatives for Canadian and Luxembourg regulatory bodies.

Planned career break: travelling around USA                                                             Apr 2006 – Jul 2006

RBC Global services / RBC Dexia IS, Project Accountant                                        Oct 2005 – Mar 2006

Credit Lyonnais, Various Regulatory & Accountancy Roles                                     Jul 1999 – Sep 2005

Qualified Accountant - CIMA