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Keith Warden, Principal From 1986 to 1997 he worked at the The Royal Bank of Scotland where he ran the finance function of the clearing bank and prepared the statutory and regulatory financial statements of both the clearing bank and the quoted RBS group. He also sat on a number of UK bank accounting committees and was responsible for the review and implementation of accounting policies throughout the RBS group. One of his principal achievements was the project management of the implementation of the RBS group-wide general ledger. This involved gathering business requirements from all business users of financial information throughout the group and ensuring that a consistent picture of performance was presented to all business users. In 1997 he took the opportunity of imparting his extensive banking knowledge to Qatar National Bank, a major Gulf retail and wholesale bank, at a time of expansion both of the bank and of the State of Qatar and was, up until his departure in 2005, General Manager – Finance and Administration. The initial remit upon assuming the position was to develop the finance function into an effective executive support and risk control service supplying deliverables such as financial statements, monthly management accounts, ALCO and risk management reports. He designed the strategy reporting and monitoring system using balanced scorecard principles, liaising with all business areas for preparation and feedback. This was further cascaded down to the development of personal performance objectives. He left Qatar National Bank in 2005 to embark on projects on an interim and consultancy basis that drew on his wide banking experience and from 2005 to 2006, acted as interim finance executive with Standard Life Investments, the investment management subsidiary of Standard Life group, to assist with accounting, risk, strategy and systems matters in the run-up to their listing on the UK stock market in 2006. In 2007/2008 he was Group Chief Financial Officer with Commercial Bank of Qatar, the second largest bank in Qatar, responsible for all aspects of finance, but specifically with a Group remit. This involved establishing a monthly routine of performance reporting and management on a consistent basis across the Group (including Qatar, UAE and Oman operations) and working closely on various strategic initiatives across the Group. Most recently he worked for a major Kuwait investment institution and a large UAE bank in establishing a joint venture Islamic Shari’a compliant investment management company, to be established in the Dubai International Financial Centre. This involved preparing the business plan, the regulatory application, the initial financial forecast and start-up implementation plan. He is based both in his native Edinburgh and the Gulf and undertakes financial, management, risk and strategy based projects for organisations that need the experience of someone who has implemented similar solutions in the past in a no-nonsense, efficient and practical manner, and successfully handed them on to the business owners and permanent staff to operate on a full time basis.
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