About Larry
Senior Interim Programme Manager | Financial Services & Regulatory Transformation
I am a high-impact delivery specialist with over 20 years’ experience driving enterprise-scale Regulatory, Technology, and Investment Transformation across global jurisdictions.
I act as a "single source of truth" for Executive Steering Committees, bridging the gap between complex technical delivery and strategic business objectives.
Core Expertise & Specialisation:
- Regulatory Resilience & ICT: Delivering service alignment for DORA frameworks, DPIA requirements, and operational resilience within controlled environments.
- Investments & Asset Management: Spearheading large-scale migrations of investment portfolios and reinsurance treaties. Expert in fund administration insourcing, unit pricing, and SCDaaS (SimCorp) deployments.
- Enterprise Finance Transformation: Establishing Shared Service Centres of Excellence, centralising fund accounting, and delivering multi-workstream SaaS integrations (SAP S/4HANA, Tagetik).
- Risk & Governance: Designing robust governance frameworks, managing Solvency II (CIFA) assessments, and coordinating Cyber, Legal, and Third-Party Risk stakeholders.
Professional Pedigree:
I have a proven track record of delivering measurable benefits for industry leaders such as Canada Life, ICON plc, Athora, and MetLife.
My approach combines hands-on technical delivery with advanced strategic insight, ensuring operational stability during high-stakes integrations and migrations.
Education & Credentials:
- Micro Credential: Leading Digital Transformation, (2025)
- P. Grad. Dip, Managing Risk & System Change, (2022)
- MSc in Strategy & Innovation, (2017)
- Diploma in Strategic Project Management, (2018)
- Diploma in Project Leadership,(2023)
- Certified: IPMA® (Certified Project Manager),
- Future Focus: AIGP (IAPP) — EU AI & Data Governance (In progress, 2026)
English
Native or bilingual
Can work on-site
Dublin (up to 50km)
Experience
- ICONProgram Manager, Business TransformationPHARMACEUTICALS INDUSTRYDecember 2023 - September 2025 (1 year and 9 months)Dublin, Ireland
Responsibilities:
Manage a strategic change program with the objective of consolidating and strengthening the client’s Financial Operations capabilities.Achievements:
Successfully delivered the capabilities to transition services to a centralised model.- Established program engaging with senior stakeholders to agree benefits aligned to the strategic aims of strengthening Finance capabilities in a centralised services model.
- Developed program roadmap defining key deliverables, milestones, critical success factors and the governance framework to monitor risk and dependencies.
- Developed Operating Model, incorporating the services, process flows, people competencies and responsibilities to deliver Finance services to internal customers and external clients.
- Developed change management plan, conducting stakeholder and impact assessments, communication to raise awareness, and business adoption to support reinforcement.
- Developed Knowledge Transfer plan, managing onboarding, measuring training effectiveness and monitoring the business readiness for the transition of services.
- PartnerReBusiness Consultant, Finance IntegrationBANKING AND INSURANCEMay 2023 - November 2023 (6 months)Dublin, Ireland
Responsibilities:
- Design, document and agree, the business model to support the clients transition to French GAAP Accounting.
Achievements:
- Successfully elicited, gathered, documented, and agreed the French GAAP business process model including process flows, controls, and responsibility matrix.
- AthoraProgram Manager, Finance StrategyBANKING AND INSURANCEApril 2019 - May 2023 (4 years and 1 month)Dublin, Ireland
Responsibilities:
Manage a Finance change program to deliver Investment Accounting and Regulatory reporting capability from centralised Finance platforms to the client’s European subsidiaries.Achievements:
Successfully delivered the business and system capability to onboard acquisitions, portfolio transfers and reinsurance via a centralised Shared Services model.- Established program engaging with senior stakeholders and C-Level Executives to agree benefits aligned to strategic objectives.
- Developed and managed program roadmap defining key deliverables, milestones, critical success factors and the governance framework to monitor risk and dependencies.
- Managed outsourcing assessment as per Solvency II Directive including outsourcing of critical or important function’s, securing internal board approvals and notification to country regulators.
- Managed cross functional teams of internal business resources, external consultants, and third-party technology vendors to onboard acquisitions and reinsurance treaties to finance systems.
- Designed the business readiness framework to manage and measure operational readiness across Services, Functions, Business and Systems capabilities.
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Education
- MSc inMaynooth University2017MSc in
- P.GRAD.DIPTrinity College2022P.GRAD.DIP