LYNN LIM
Summary
Motivated Manager with excellent business acumen and broad experience across finance and regulatory roles. Highly adaptable and self-motivated leader with proven ability to manage diverse stakeholders. Offers strong analysis and innovation to identify solutions to challenging problems. Collaborative team player with excellent interpersonal, communication and conflict resolution skills.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
Work history
Competition Policy Manager
FCA
01.2023 - Current
- Credit Information Market Study (CIMS) - design of market interventions and industry reform
- Overseeing and motivating a cross-departmental team of 12 to analyse, formulate and develop market-level interventions for the credit information market, including assessing risks and benefits and ensuring quality and timely delivery of complex workplans
- Leading extensive engagement with diverse external stakeholders involving HMT, firms, trade associations and consumer bodies by building relationships through bilateral conversations and chairing industry roundtable discussions to design overall strategy of industry reform and to win support for change
- Line managing (directly and indirectly) team of 9 in matrix manner, including setting objectives, managing performance and supporting team to ensure they grow in knowledge and expertise.
Technical Specialist (Competition Finance)
FCA
01.2022 - 01.2022
- Wholesale markets competition and financial analysis lead
- Oversaw high performing team in the design of analytical plan and information request to 13 firms for the Trade Data market review, while managing competing priorities and challenging workload
- Managed key stakeholders and led engagement with firms by having regular meetings and building relationships to ensure good quality submissions for information request
- Led team of financial analysts, economists and competition practitioners to deliver high quality competition analysis using data collected from firms to draw insights and make evidence-based recommendations and writing findings report
Technical Specialist (Consumer Duty)
FCA
04.2021 - 12.2021
- FCA Consumer Duty policy design
- Led policy development of the price and value outcome rules under the Consumer Duty leveraging on understanding of conduct risk, consumer behaviour and drivers of poor consumer outcomes.
- Managed and provided oversight for the delivery of complex cost-benefit analysis while writing and reviewing consultation papers.
- Chaired and led industry roundtable discussions with senior representatives of firms to advocate Consumer Duty and to evaluate impact on different financial sectors.
Technical Specialist (Competition & Economics)
FCA
10.2018 - 04.2021
- Proven delivery of market studies and policy development: General Insurance Pricing Practices (GIPP) Market Study and package of remedies
- Managed and coached team of 6 competition economists and financial analysts to develop pricing remedy and demonstrated ability to exercise a range of leadership styles.
- Collaborated closely with supervision, policy and general counsel colleagues while demonstrating effective project management and delivery, and a strong ability to explain complex issues succinctly and clearly to Exco-level senior stakeholders.
- Coached team of 2 analysts to issue information requests to 34 firms, responsible for critical assessment and evaluation of the information to form judgement, wrote and delivered technical annex which was praised as ‘excellent’ by senior stakeholders under very tight timelines.
- Supervisory thematic project experience
- Led quantitative and qualitative analysis to examine different business models of unaffordable lending for range of consumer credit firms to assess drivers of consumer harms.
- Coached and developed team of newly recruited financial analysts to interpret financial information, conduct interviews with firms and produce clear and impactful written analysis to share with internal stakeholders.
Private Maths Tutor
10.2015 - 10.2018
- Maths Logic by Lynn
- Transformed the success of tutoring my daughter into The Times 2017 State Secondary School of the Year into my own 11+ tutoring business
- Tutored and coached students into securing places in highly selective fee-paying senior schools.
Lead Business Analyst
BG Group
05.2004 - 12.2011
- Demonstrated ability to think creatively and delivered quality financial evaluation models for strategy formulation and investment opportunities, playing an integral part in influencing senior management decision making by answering key questions on pricing, profitability, business models and competition
- Demonstrated a strong ability to adapt, pick up and analyse problems in a variety of markets
- This resulted in entry strategy into China, expansion plan in Thailand and Malaysia and disposals of investments in Italy
- Often presented complex economic and financial analysis to CEO and EVPs level audience and a pivotal member of Group Strategy team
- Worked in multi-disciplinary teams and established ability to communicate complicated financial analysis to a range of internal and external non-technical stakeholders effectively
- Excelled in effective, confident and positive communications, making strong impact at meetings, often taking the lead in joining up thinking within project teams.
Senior Business Analyst
BG Group
10.2000 - 05.2004
- Demonstrated a thorough and diligent approach in designing financial models for power generation assets in Malaysia and the Philippines which were used to evaluate and monitor the asset profitability
- A major achievement was the delivery of the financial analysis for the disposal of a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal in Indonesia.
Group Accountant
Singapore Power Ltd
07.1997 - 10.2000
- Drove the month-end and year-end accounting processes to ensure quality management and statutory accounts for management teams and shareholders were produced on a timely manner
- Managed a team of 6 accounts assistants and clerks.
Education
Bachelor's degree - Accountancy, Business Studies
nanyang technological university
1997
Skills
- Policy development
- Stakeholder management
- Leadership and management
- Financial analysis
- Coaching leadership
Languages
English
Native
Chinese (Mandarin)
Fluent
Timeline
Competition Policy Manager
FCA
01.2023 - Current
Technical Specialist (Competition Finance)
FCA
01.2022 - 01.2022
Technical Specialist (Consumer Duty)
FCA
04.2021 - 12.2021
Technical Specialist (Competition & Economics)
FCA
10.2018 - 04.2021
Private Maths Tutor
10.2015 - 10.2018
Lead Business Analyst
BG Group
05.2004 - 12.2011
Senior Business Analyst
BG Group
10.2000 - 05.2004
Group Accountant
Singapore Power Ltd
07.1997 - 10.2000
Bachelor's degree - Accountancy, Business Studies
nanyang technological university
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