Ian Price
Summary
Dynamic finance leader with 20 years working in the Financial Services industry across Banking, Brokerage and Proprietary Trading. Committed to maintaining the highest standards of financial integrity and driving financial performance that delivers the best commercial outcomes for customers and shareholders. Adept in developing innovative solutions, translating complex analysis into actionable insights, critically thinking for making risk-based decisions and communicating key messages to executive level stakeholders. Passionate and hands on leader who enjoys developing high performing teams founded on empowerment and accountability.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Executive Manager Centre Finance and Business Partnering, Group Support Services Finance (GSSF)
CBA
05.2023 - Current
- Supported the Group Operations CFO with a single portfolio view of financial analysis, reporting, commentary, risks & opportunities to 6 Support Units (~$1.5b of costs) including Risk, Finance, HR, Marketing, Legal and Group Strategy.
- Built a new Centre Finance team, leading and coaching 3 direct reports and 5 indirect reports to become high performing and well positioned to deliver a clearly defined mandate.
- Full accountability for Financial Services and Corporate Centre financials, bringing tangible improvements to the reporting quality and partnering with senior leaders to manage costs effectively through strategic commercial insights.
- Set and executed strategic ‘Simpler, Better Foundations’ initiative within GSSF, under 3 key pillars - financial control and governance, decision support capabilities and data, BI & infrastructure.
- Created additional capacity (~60 hours per month) for Business Partnering teams through alignment, standardisation and centralisation of key deliverables including reporting to Group Finance, shared cost allocations, management of incentives accruals and review of SU forecasts & operating plans.
- Uplifted core capabilities of GSSF team members through the creation of tailored self-service tooling for analysis and reporting (recognised with the CEO award), supported by continuous training to optimise the tool’s effectiveness.
- Delivery of ad hoc activities such as drafting business cases to secure favourable commercial business outcomes and acting as finance lead for the Group Super to Australian Retirement Trust merger (~$3b Defined Benefit Obligations).
- Mentorship across the wider GSSF team, promoting a culture of continuous learning and development.
Group Finance Secondment
CBA
06.2025 - 08.2025
- Supported CBA’s Full Year results through the preparation and review of key external and internal materials, including the Profit Announcement and key themes packs, to enable the Group CFO effective delivery of results to the market.
- Utilized GSSF self-service infrastructure to develop a consolidated Group view of Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet for Finance leaders, supporting both monthly internal reporting and key external reporting cycles.
Performance Management Expert, Institutional Financial Performance Management (FPM)
ANZ
02.2021 - 05.2023
- Financial Performance Analysis and Reporting across Markets, Transaction Banking and Corporate Finance to support the Institutional Leadership Team (ILT) in providing insights and actionable advice for decision making.
- Drive the Strategic Planning agenda that delivers longer term financial objectives through a clearly defined set of actions that align to the Business’s Strategy.
- Ownership of Institutional’s Half Year reporting, drawing on multiple stakeholders including Business Partners, Financial Control and Investor Relations to prepare briefing materials for the ILT to deliver the results announcement.
- Change lead for Institutional Finance, overseeing the Data, Analytics and BI strategy to support data-led decisions and drive better outcomes in an efficient manner.
- Management of month end financial and forecasting reporting encompassing the preparation and collation of financial information and commentary to highlight the key themes and trends of current and future business performance.
- Leading team members by providing direction and guidance where appropriate, facilitating resourcing and training as well as promoting a cohesive team environment.
- Institutional Product Owner for the Finance Essentials App, holding accountability for ensuring requirements of business end users are delivered effectively whilst in the boundaries of the Performance Management Framework.
- Developed and automated a key driver-based tool for Markets revenue to bring further clarity and understanding of the business to senior stakeholders.
Business Partner, Data and Analytics, Markets Finance
ANZ
09.2019 - 02.2021
- Built self-service BI and analytical applications using Alteryx and Qliksense covering the Institutional Business for the purpose of enabling detailed analysis and enhancing decision making capabilities by the Business, Treasury and Finance.
- Most noteworthy is the creation of a daily trade level view of the Balance Sheet to bring transparency to liquidity, funding and capital information.
- Promoted and fostered a data driven culture within the team facilitated by technology to produce fact-based insights to key stakeholders.
- Achieved ~$10m of savings for the Group from pursuing opportunities using the data and analytics (as per below)
- Analysis of financial results between various bonds held for regulatory purposes in a bid to influence the Business’s behaviour from revenue seeking to ROE producing actions, generating $6m of economic profit
- Improved profitability and customer experience of the Money Market Business by detecting and having rectified discrepancies in funding rates offered to clients.
- Delivering tailored reporting of institutional deposits for Treasury to become more prescriptive when targeting deposit run-off for funding and liquidity outcomes.
- Focussing to reduce external bank levy costs through negotiation with the Money Markets team to proactively track ANZ’s quarterly deposit composition
- Enabling a better understanding of Markets Trading revenue by customer, production and region segments through the lens of trade turnover, volume, pricing and return on risk.
- Saved (~30 hours per month) for each individual business request received from stakeholders of Finance.
Head of Control for Wholesale FX, Markets and Treasury Control (M&TC)
ANZ
06.2016 - 09.2019
- Responsible for the financial integrity of the PnL and Balance Sheet for the Wholesale FX Trading business (~$500m revenue), instilling a strong control environment within the team.
- Leadership of 3 onshore and 2 offshore controllers covering career development, structured learning, performance reviews and the promotion of internal mobility.
- Integral part of the Leadership Team, influencing discussions and decisions toward our strategic operating model as a function and the governance framework that underpins it.
- Nominated as the M&TC Champion to drive business process and platform improvement within the team across multiple locations, involving the standardisation and automation of processes across all asset classes in Markets. Key areas included Significant New Deals, Adjustments and the Front and Back Office reconciliation.
- Deliver tailored information to the Front Office to provide insight around trading and sales metrics to help identify and measure key areas of profitability and soft sales margin figures.
- Key stakeholder in numerous FO projects requiring significant change management, including enhancements to FO and BO systems to allow Trading’s ability to manage risk more effectively and for accurate financial reporting.
- Migration of all FX products onto a single PnL valuation and risk management platform impacting end to end processes within Markets, introducing risk based analytics and developing tighter accounting controls.
Project Lead, Markets Finance
ANZ
05.2015 - 10.2017
- Appointed to integrate a new PnL valuation and Risk mgt Front Office system (SKY) into the Product Control function.
- Resourced with a team of 3 Project SMEs to work closely with numerous stakeholders across Markets to ensure collective objectives were achieved and milestones were met on a timely basis.
- Incorporation of the new technology and processes into existing Product Control infrastructure across Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand.
- Finance representative in Project committee meetings providing progress updates, risks and issues faced.
- Overseeing testing and validation of the PnL, attribution and risk figures generated by SKY.
- Played a key role in the build of a strategic web based PnL analytic and reporting tool (PLATO), significantly enhancing functionality, efficiency and user experience benefitted by more than 50 controllers globally.
- Built tactical workarounds not yet supported by PLATO to ensure the project go live date was met, including an excel based PnL risk based Attribution tool to provide a comprehensive breakdown of MTM PnL for the Linear Rates desk.
- Documentation of stakeholder and solution requirements as part of S-DLC approach to the SKY project.
Senior Product Controller (Contractor), Fixed Income and XVA
NAB
06.2014 - 05.2015
- Focused on both Fixed Income and XVA business units, resolving position and valuation issues, providing appropriate commentary, reconciling to the general ledger and conducting Balance Sheet attestation.
- Products spanned from interest rate swaps, swaptions, cross currency swaps and FX to loans, deposits and collateral.
- Adherence to various PnL controls including monitoring of clearing accounts, suspense accounts, cash reconciliations and future position/pnl reconciliations.
- Monthly FX sell down including planning and implementation of improvements.
- Built strong relationships with Front Office, Technology, Operations and Senior Management within Finance.
- Recommended and applied numerous initiatives to enhance PnL control and improve processes.
Manager, Commodities Product Control
BNP Paribas
05.2011 - 05.2014
- Leading a team of 4 analysts primarily responsible for the production, analysis and reporting of physical and financial commodity products traded including Power, Gas, Emissions, Coal, Oil, Base and Precious Metals.
- Establishing a single point of contact for the Product Control team, supporting over 30 traders.
- Active team management involving the coordination of work, organizing regular team meetings, providing advice and guidance, performing appraisals and identifying training needs.
- Overseeing the day to day activities including investigation and resolution of discrepancies between the official PnL, PnL analysis and Front Office Estimate, making appropriate adjustments writing market commentary.
- Extensive project work such as migrating the official PnL analysis from risk based to full revaluation methodology and the design and implementation of a new FX sell down process.
- Overseeing the relocation of the Product Control team from London to Paris ensuring a smooth transition and minimal operational risk.
Energy Product Controller
EDF Trading
10.2009 - 05.2011
- Oversight of the financials for the US and European Gas businesses focussing on the optimisation and valuation of physical storage facilities and transportation interconnector pipes as well as future, option and swap derivatives.
- Responsible for the calculation of valuation adjustments such as IPV through the monthly submission of prices to Totem, Bid Offer and Market Abnormality adjustments for long dated unobservable positions.
- Developed a Trader’s Estimate PnL for the Gas Business distributed to the Front Office at the start of day on T+1, eventually rolled out to all commodities products across the company.
- Supervision and training of 2 junior product controllers
- Responsible for detailed daily and monthly commentary to provide clear insight into revenue drivers for Senior Mgt
Group Treasury Product Controller
BGC International
11.2007 - 10.2009
- Responsible for holding end to end financial accountability for Group Treasury including PnL production, Balance Sheet substantiation and providing insightful analysis on the function’s performance to act as a cost centre.
- Significant project undertaken to reengineer the Cost of Carry process to provide more coherent and accurate information around the allocation of funding costs such as margins, collateral and failed positions to the business.
- Month end Balance Sheet reconciliations across a suite of products used by Treasury including repos, triparty repos, Money Market Investments, FX spot/swaps, Stock Borrow Loans and subordinated lending.
- Production and Automation of the Group’s FX Exposure and PnL revaluation.
Accounts Assistant for the Index Business
BGC International
01.2006 - 11.2007
- Provided both Finance and Operations support to a number of BGC’s Index businesses including CFDs, Financial Spread Betting and Spreadfair.
Education
Chartered Accountant - Qualified
CIMA
01.2009
BSc Hons - Economics 2.1
University of York
01.2005
Skills
- Product & Financial Control
- Business Partnering
- Strategic Decision Support
- Financial Modelling
- Change Management
- Data, Analytics & BI
- Process and System Transformation
- Team Leadership & Development
Timeline
Group Finance Secondment
CBA
06.2025 - 08.2025
Executive Manager Centre Finance and Business Partnering, Group Support Services Finance (GSSF)
CBA
05.2023 - Current
Performance Management Expert, Institutional Financial Performance Management (FPM)
ANZ
02.2021 - 05.2023
Business Partner, Data and Analytics, Markets Finance
ANZ
09.2019 - 02.2021
Head of Control for Wholesale FX, Markets and Treasury Control (M&TC)
ANZ
06.2016 - 09.2019
Project Lead, Markets Finance
ANZ
05.2015 - 10.2017
Senior Product Controller (Contractor), Fixed Income and XVA
NAB
06.2014 - 05.2015
Manager, Commodities Product Control
BNP Paribas
05.2011 - 05.2014
Energy Product Controller
EDF Trading
10.2009 - 05.2011
Group Treasury Product Controller
BGC International
11.2007 - 10.2009
Accounts Assistant for the Index Business
BGC International
01.2006 - 11.2007
Chartered Accountant - Qualified
CIMA
BSc Hons - Economics 2.1
University of York