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Jana Zdravecka

Jana Zdravecka

London

Summary

I am a confident and highly motivated Executive Director with over 14 years of experience in the financial sector. As a committed manager, I possess exceptional leadership, organisational skills, and communication abilities, enabling me to lead high-performing cross-functional teams effectively. I take charge of projects, company operations, and business growth initiatives, consistently delivering results.

I thrive on taking on challenging responsibilities, leveraging my interpersonal skills, collaborative approach, and problem-solving abilities. My dedication to delivering high-quality work and achieving consistent results is unwavering. Additionally, I have a keen eye for detail and take pride in my organisational abilities.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
8
8

Years of Capital Markets Experience

Work history

Executive Director

INFINOX, London
London
02.2023 - Current
  • Board member
  • Drive the execution of the Group's business strategy
  • Working as Finance Director until the replacement will be found to develop, implement, and execute annual budgets, control headcount and cost-of-sales, and identify overhead efficiencies and establish performance measures to optimize resource utilization across all functions and lines of business
  • Working with local regulators and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and maintain timely and transparent communication regarding operational approvals, necessary notifications, and other relevant matters
  • Leading 4 direct reports (Head of Finance, Head of Compliance, Head of Operations, Head of HR), engage and inspire all staff to embrace the vision and strategy, ensuring they deliver on strategic priorities through strong leadership, setting a positive example, and maintaining continuous communication with colleagues at all levels
  • Lead complex projects with collaboration of different stakeholders and all senior managers of the group.
  • Prepare the recommendations for CEO on different business areas to ensure effectiveness of the business and keep the operation cost in line with business expectations.
  • Responsible for corporate finance such merges and acquisitions of corporations and licences for the group for Multi-National Expansion solutions.
  • Experience in different jurisdictions such FCA, FSCA, CySec, AFSC, VAFC, SCB from Financial, Compliance and Regulatory.

Non-Executive Director

Conduity Capital PLC
London
01.2023 - Current
  • Board member
  • Attending board meetings and participating actively and conscientiously.
  • Participating in the evaluation of business operations and executives.
  • Approving audit reports, budgets, and business decisions.
  • Understanding the organization's financial affairs and ensuring fiduciary responsibilities are met.
  • Ensuring the organization complies with legal requirements.
  • Maintaining confidentiality on all internal organizational affairs.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/CEO AND MLRO

London Capital Group Limited
London
01.2020 - 01.2023
  • Board member
  • FCA approved JXZ26735
  • Responsible for chairing Committee and Board.
  • Responsible for internal management and oversight of Internal Audit programme and reporting to Board.
  • Responsible for external Audit
  • Accountable for firm’s Compliance and AML
  • Accountable for all FCA submissions and all other regulatory obligations
  • Accountable for CASS and held CASS oversight function
  • Take responsibility and initiative in smooth running of business operations (finance/Sales/Compliance)
  • Responsible for oversight of Service Level Agreement. Specifically, addressing issues arising with outsourcing providers, performance measurement of these contracts acting as liaison with outsourced provider and reporting to Board.
  • Responsible for Leadership and management of Firm’s finance, Sales and Compliance departments and overall responsibility for the activities and functions of Firm’s departments.
  • Responsible for sign off of Firm’s financial accounts and reporting to Board.
  • Create Strategic plan which complies with and enhances Group-wide business plan
  • Key contact with Regulator

FOUNDER & CEO

London Capital Group Technology s. r. o.
Slovakia
05.2019 - 08.2021

Set up and managed offshore outsourcing company in Slovakia to support IT development and Marketing for London Capital Group Limited and FlowBank.com

GROUP HEAD OF OPERATIONS

London Capital Group Limited
London
02.2019 - 12.2020
  • Provide effective team and project management duties, including overseeing project completion timelines, monitoring project costs, and ensuring business needs are met
  • Liaise with other departments, including finance and marketing, sales, dealing and IT to ensure operations budgets meet department goals
  • Maintain strong relationships with all third-parties (vendors)
  • Identify patterns and problem areas, and implement effective solutions to increase efficiency - Analyse current operational processes and performance, recommending solutions for improvement when necessary - In charge of acquisitions and maintenance of systems to meet organisation goals
  • Coordinate with human resources department to recruit skilled talent and keep the best employees - Develop, implement, and monitor day-to-day operational systems and processes that provide visibility into goals, progress, and obstacles for our key initiatives
  • Identifying and implementing process improvements that will maximise output and minimise costs
  • Uphold organisation policies and standards, ensuring legislative regulations are followed

PROJECT MANAGER

HSBC UK
London
11.2018 - 02.2019
  • Working on new system implementation for Finance DataHUB (Google Cloud Engine for RWA Calculation) - Working with number of senior stakeholder form Regulatory reporting team but also from Finance team and Google cloud IT architects to deliver RWA Calculation Engine for HSBC UK (This will be rolled-out globally across the HSBC Bank Plc.
  • Review of business requirement for RWA data sourcing for Finance DataHUB to enable RWA engine calculate correct values and ensure the completeness of the data Finance DataHUB project
  • Working with Policy on defining the business requirements
  • Leads the end-to-end planning and execution of the project
  • Ensuring plans are accurately maintained, clearly communicated and reported into the respective forums - Highlighting projects risks and issues
  • Acting as a point of contact for key information around existing decisions covering the scope, strategy and approach

REGULATORY REPORTING MANAGER

HSBC UK
London
11.2016 - 11.2018
  • Monitoring implementation of system and process changes (logical and legal separation of Ring Fenced and Non ring Fenced banks)
  • Testing and business check outs of the Implementation Events (testing of the impact of the business changes) involved in parallel runs ahead of live in July 2018
  • Highlighting projects risks and issues to the Head of Ring Fenced Bank Regulatory Reporting - Set up process for Reference Data in UCD on controls and review. This process has been reviewed by SOX compliance

REGULATORY REPORTING AND RISK MANAGER

London Capital Group Limited
London
03.2016 - 11.2016
  • Responsible for submission of COREP reports to FCA (Own Funds, Credit Risk, CCR (Standardised approach), Market Risk (Mark-to-Market), OR and Leverage Ratio)
  • Ensure reports are accurate and fit for the purpose and submitted on timely manner
  • Reviewing data and calculation of Market Risk, CR, CCR and OR.
  • Keeping up to date with a new rules coming from FCA and PRA and providing a guidance to middle office for live PRR calculation and to senior management
  • Develop and maintain procedures related to all the regulatory reporting and internal reporting - Responsibility for internal reporting to the business in respect of regulatory capital, leverage, solvency and currency exposure
  • Ensure all data used in calculations and for the reporting is accurate and complete
  • Development of Recovery and Resolution Plan for London Capital Group
  • Maintenance of ICAAP document for London Capital Group
  • Controller of regulatory reporting system which include maintenance and ensuring correct taxonomy is being used - Ensuring appropriate training is provided to staff members

REGULATORY REPORTING MANAGER

HSBC UK
London
10.2015 - 03.2016
  • Liaise with sites/regions to ensure I manage GRIAP’s expectation and ensure accurate and timely submissions
  • Ensure adequate control and governance over the FDSF Actuals process and ensure timely and accurate submission
  • Ensure rigorous review and challenge of FDSF Actuals regulatory returns on a quarterly basis and obtain senior management sign off
  • Participate in group’s implementation of new regulations and new system requirements, specifically on changes required to the BAU FDSF operating model
  • Ensure timely and accurate submission of returns to the Central team and preparation of review schedules for senior management sign off
  • Ensure I keep up to date with regulatory changes (Basel III, CRDIV, COREP and FDSF)- System used for FDSF submission reports is FELT (this is an ACCESS database) and system used for data analysis is QLIKVIEW

REGULATORY REPORTING MANAGER

HSBC UK
London
04.2014 - 10.2014
  • Production and consolidation of quarterly reporting of Capital numbers (COREP) and supporting management review packs to facilitate senior management review and challenge
  • Production of quarterly COREP MI and review pack for the senior management and reviewing quarter-to-quarter variance
  • Resolution of queries from internal stakeholders and senior management review
  • Responsible for ensuring COREP Geographical reports are reviewed to ensure they are fit for the purpose
  • Preparation of adjustments needed for COREP Geographical reports to be accurate for the submission and for the clearance of EBA and internal validations
  • Ensure all EBA and internal validations has passed
  • Ensure that data flow for the COREP Geographical reports are accurate
  • Drill down to the data if any discrepancies occur
  • Querying source data with written SQL queries to ensure data are complete and accurate - Understand source feed to the reports
  • Documenting a process flow documents
  • Liaising with other global business

COREP REPORTING PROJECT REGIONAL LEAD

HSBC UK
London
04.2012 - 04.2014
  • Working on behalf of the Global COREP Programme Team to liaise with the regional teams (including HSBC Hong Kong) throughout the Dress Rehearsal reporting cycles in readiness for COREP reporting
  • Ensuring that each of the regional teams understood the dress rehearsal reporting requirements and providing support to help them achieve the objectives
  • Analyse and explain variances between the COREP returns and existing regulatory returns (FSA004, FSA045)
  • Provide training and support for users of the new systems being implemented for COREP reporting
  • Detailed understanding of data and system issues, and the regulatory reporting requirements
  • Developed a detailed understanding of local and group reporting processes involved in the dress rehearsal
  • Running regular meetings and tracking the progress and resolving issues throughout the dress rehearsal cycle
  • Liaising with the other regional leads to discuss problems, opportunities and resources
  • Ensuring security of data at all times
  • Understanding complex system designs, data flows and regulatory requirements

BUSINESS CONSULTANT

Nasdaq + ADENZA (Former AXIOM SL)
London
09.2010 - 04.2012

Axiom SL is a leading software provider of Data Management, Regulatory and Risk systems to leading Banks and Financial Institutions around the world. Clients including JPM Chase, Macquarie Bank, Morgan Stanley, RBS etc.

03/2011 — 04/2012

J.P. MORGAN CHASE, LONDON

Working on system implementation of new regulatory platform for FSA Liquidity and Capital Adequacy reporting - Implementations of Basel II calculations

11/2010 — 01/2011

MACQUARIE BANK, LONDON

Working on system implementation of new regulatory platform for FSA liquidity reporting and Bank of England reporting

Education

Association of Charted Certified Accountants - Audit and Accounting

Kaplan Business School, London
09.2009 - 01.2016

AAT - Diploma Certificate - Accounting

Kaplan Business School, London
09.2006 - 06.2008

Skills

  • Effective leader
  • Attention to detail
  • Deep finance knowledge
  • Budget development

Timeline

Executive Director - INFINOX, London
02.2023 - Current
Non-Executive Director - Conduity Capital PLC
01.2023 - Current
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/CEO AND MLRO - London Capital Group Limited
01.2020 - 01.2023
FOUNDER & CEO - London Capital Group Technology s. r. o.
05.2019 - 08.2021
GROUP HEAD OF OPERATIONS - London Capital Group Limited
02.2019 - 12.2020
PROJECT MANAGER - HSBC UK
11.2018 - 02.2019
REGULATORY REPORTING MANAGER - HSBC UK
11.2016 - 11.2018
REGULATORY REPORTING AND RISK MANAGER - London Capital Group Limited
03.2016 - 11.2016
REGULATORY REPORTING MANAGER - HSBC UK
10.2015 - 03.2016
REGULATORY REPORTING MANAGER - HSBC UK
04.2014 - 10.2014
COREP REPORTING PROJECT REGIONAL LEAD - HSBC UK
04.2012 - 04.2014
BUSINESS CONSULTANT - Nasdaq + ADENZA (Former AXIOM SL)
09.2010 - 04.2012
Kaplan Business School - Association of Charted Certified Accountants, Audit and Accounting
09.2009 - 01.2016
Kaplan Business School - AAT - Diploma Certificate, Accounting
09.2006 - 06.2008
Jana Zdravecka