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Andrew Gardner

Andrew Gardner

London

Summary

I am an accomplished professional with expertise in relationship management, strategic planning, coaching and leadership. I thrive in situations with challenging goals and limited resource, using my knowledge, experience and desire to collaborate to find the right solution to any problem. My teams share our successes and learn from our mistakes together. I am proficient in Salesforce, Microsoft Office, and pride myself on my ability to embrace and utilise any new technology. I think strategically but act tactically, always with the big picture in mind but flexible to the challenges of the moment.

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work history

Lead Associate – Platforms Team

FCA
London
06.2018 - Current
  • Lead for design and execution of the FCA's UK retail investment platform market supervisory strategy.
  • Coaching and developing team members, performance evaluations and constructive feedback. Extended period acting up as manager (18 months 2023-4) for team of 10 supervisors based in Edinburgh and London.
  • Extensive external supervisory engagement with regulated firms, delivering assertive regulatory messages. Lead/significant contributor multiple high profile thematic projects delivered to tight deadlines.
  • Consultant role for Policy colleagues on large scale initiatives as a subject matter expert on UK investment platform market.
  • Part of small team tasked with integrating Sharepoint as FCA's new document storage tool. 18 month change project requiring variety of design, strategy implementation skills delivered to hard deadline.
  • High profile contributor to FCA operational development strategy. Trainer for FCA Supervision new starters.

Sales and Operational Roles

Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM)
London
11.2008 - 09.2017
  • Latterly sales manager, developing LGIM's retail distribution exposure via the investment platform market to challenging sales targets. Role involved presenting to large audiences, events networking, one-to-one relationship management with key distribution stakeholders.
  • Part of small team tasked with integrating Salesforce as LGIM's new retail CRM. 18 month change project requiring variety of design, strategy implementation skills successfully delivered on time within budget.
  • Prior to sales manager role worked on sales support desk, fielding queries from IFAs, facilitating client engagement between regional sales team and LGIM fund managers. High pressure environment requiring strong relationship, stakeholder management skills.
  • Began LGIM career on unit trust corporate trading desk, manually processing very high £ amount aggregated daily trading instructions from investment platforms. Contributed significantly to integration of EMX trading system, automating majority of team's work.

Bar Management

Brains Brewery
Cardiff
01.2000 - 06.2008
  • Spent 20s in various Cardiff bar management roles developing organisational, relationship and people management skills.
  • In retrospect glad I came to office environment later in professional career. While this required harder work initially to catch up with peers, I will always value what the pub industry taught me about people, working in stressful situations.

Education

English & Media

University of Glamorgan
08.1995 - 05.1998

Foundation Art

Glasgow School of Art
08.1991 - 05.1993

Skills

  • Public speaking and relationship management
  • Strategic and project planning
  • Leadership
  • Knowledge of Salesforce, Microsoft Office and other office systems

Custom

  • Creative arts, particularly cinema and literature.
  • Board games and board game design.
  • Running a regular D&D roleplaying campaign.

Affiliations

  • My free time involves reading, watching films and far to much football and spending time with my wife as grandparents, the best job in the world.

Timeline

Lead Associate – Platforms Team

FCA
06.2018 - Current

Sales and Operational Roles

Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM)
11.2008 - 09.2017

Bar Management

Brains Brewery
01.2000 - 06.2008

English & Media

University of Glamorgan
08.1995 - 05.1998

Foundation Art

Glasgow School of Art
08.1991 - 05.1993

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