As Chief Financial Officer, Declan manages the bank’s overall financial operations and is responsible for the financial management of the company, including capital and liquidity management. He also has responsibility for strategic and corporate development activity, capital raising and longer term financial and business planning.
He joined Starling in 2017 as Head of Strategy later becoming Chief Strategy Officer. Prior to this Declan trained as a chartered accountant at PwC where he led engagements across corporate finance working on the turnaround, restructuring and sale of European banks as well as on a range of large loan portfolios and other credit-related transactions involving UK and European banks.