Business Transformation & Restructuring
Investment Banking · EMEA · Russia · Moscow
Total compensation band $150K+. The figure is the member's band, not an offer.
An accomplished business transformation and restructuring leader with over 15 years of experience guiding Tier-1 investment banks and regulated brokerage institutions through complex change across London and Guernsey. She has directed teams across large-scale wind-down programmes, post-merger integrations, and risk infrastructure build-outs within strict regulatory environments spanning FCA, Basel III, and MiFID II frameworks. Her leadership delivered the migration of £230M in client assets across 9000 accounts (50% of 18000 acc client base) within a 12-month regulatory deadline, while cutting operational errors by 25% and lifting processing efficiency by 30%. She brings a rare combination of regulatory depth and cross-functional execution across Trading, Risk, Operations, IT, and Compliance, making her a trusted architect of high-stakes organizational change.
Achievements
- Migrated £230M (85% of assets) across 9000 client accounts within 12 months during an FCA-regulated wind-down
- Reduced operational errors by 25% and improved processing efficiency by 30% through SOP redesign at ITI Capital
- Built a fully automated, Basel III-compliant risk-reporting infrastructure from inception at VTB Capital, later adopted as the firm's standard
- Supported the Mosnarbank acquisition integration, rolling out the Calypso trading platform across Trading, Risk, and IT
- Delivered a full organisational restructuring diagnostic and TOM design across 21 structural units within a 3-month consulting engagement
Skills
- Change Management
- Business Transformation
- Organizational Change
- Post-merger Integration
- PMI Execution
- Compliance Risk
- AML
- KYC
- Risk Management
- Process Optimization
- Financial Modeling
- Stakeholder Management
- FCA-regulated Business Wind-down
- ISDA/CSA Documentation
- Calypso Trading Platform Implementation
Looking for
- Head of Change & Transformation
- Chief Operating Officer (Financial Services)
- Director of Regulatory Change / Restructuring
Experience
- Independent Consultant — Confidential Client Mar 2026 - Present
Retained on an advisory mandate to direct a comprehensive internal restructuring programme, diagnosing organisational structure across 21 units and designing a target operating model for the parent organisation.
- Financial Manager — Rigel Resources DMCC 2025 - 2026
Senior finance role in a private family office commodity trading division, directing P&L analysis, financial modeling, KYC due diligence, and tax planning until the division's strategic wind-down.
- Project Manager - Business Transformation — ITI Capital 2022 - 2024
Directed a 14-person cross-functional team through an FCA-regulated retail division wind-down, restructuring the CRM function and coordinating IT remediation and workstreams with acquiring banks.
- Prime Brokerage Manager — ITI Capital 2021 - 2022
Managed a portfolio of international institutional and HNW clients, redesigning SOPs across Operations, Risk, Trading, and Compliance, reducing operational errors by 25%.
- Corporate Client Manager - Commodity Markets — VTB Capital plc 2013 - 2017
Managed key institutional client relationships within Commodity Markets, overseeing KYC/AML and ISDA/CSA documentation and daily desk P&L monitoring.
- Senior Risk Analyst -> Deputy Project Manager — VTB Capital plc 2009 - 2013
Independently designed and delivered an automated, Basel III-compliant risk-reporting system from inception, then supported post-acquisition restructuring following the Mosnarbank acquisition.
- Risk Analyst - Emerging Markets — Deutsche Bank AG 2008
Conducted corporate credit risk analysis for Emerging Market entities and prepared risk reports for senior management.
Languages
- English (C1)
- Russian (C2)
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