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London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

• Ownership of Fidessa services delivered to multiple investment bank and brokerage firm customers, for hosted and enterprise equity trading solutions.
• Managed the service engagement with customers. Planned and delivered business-critical production projects and services. Built trusted relationships. Provided technical and functional guidance.
• Consulted with customer’s senior business and technology stakeholders to determine requirements, understand priorities, manage expectations and negotiate achievable delivery releases/sprints.
• Resolved escalated customer production issues by forming multi-disciplinary remote teams and leading them to deliver fixes.
• Provided leadership to leveraged business analysis and implementation teams to ensure documentation and implementations were high quality and on time. I set priorities and deadlines, provided insight into the.
• Led programme delivery to migrate 70 hosted customers to Fidessa’s new data management tool for new EU regulation (MiFIDII). Defined best practice and re-usable artefacts for other delivery managers and resolved.

London, United Kingdom

• Ensured projects delivered to sell-side investment bank and brokerage firm customers met their needs. I was promoted to Senior Business Analyst in 2015.
• Elicited business objectives and requirements from customers, defined functional changes, and proved the appropriateness of implemented solutions (UAT).
• Projects covered front office trading desk workflows, regulatory compliance (MiFID, FCA), market access, electronic orders, algorithmic trading, middle office allocation and confirmation, and back office interfaces.
• Ran requirement elicitation workshops with customers.
• Led technical staff towards the production of appropriate, high quality solutions.
• Consulted with an international banking customer undergoing a partial corporate acquisition to agree business segregation needs and required technology changes. The project went live successfully in sync with their.

• Global Insurance ClientBusiness Analysis for solution to achieve a single view of corporate risk exposures, to support Underwriting accumulation and Catastrophe modelling.
• Received an Excellence Award for Collaboration, endorsed by the client.
• Interviewed Underwriting and Catastrophe Management SME's to capture processes, and their business and solution requirements.
• Responsible for producing the project’s solution requirements specification (inc UML, use cases, data, wireframes), from which the architectural design was produced.
• Generated new revenue for CSC and greater buy-in from client stakeholders by designing and developing user experience and visualisation for a very successful Proof of Concept.
• Presented the outcomes of our Business Analysis work to senior client and CSC stakeholders, and received excellent feedback on my content and presentation style.

Achievements included project management of an infrastructure decommission, business analysis for desktop support knowledge management tool, finance, and leading a number of small groups.

Bristol, United Kingdom

• Developed innovative web-applications for clients that range from small businesses to multinational corporations. I became the development Team Lead in October 2008.
• Led the development team, allocating work across a number of concurrent projects (Oct 2008 – May 2009).
• Proposed, designed and implemented a development framework that became a company standard, reduced development time and cost, and improved software quality.
• Designed and improved user experience on many projects.
• Worked with customers to understand their requirements.
• Responsible for quoting for software upgrades and new projects.

Built a number of websites and a content management system for small businesses.

Beckenham, Kent

Various administration duties in the Share Dealing and Legal departments of Capita Registrars between University terms (approx 4 months of the year).Included administration of share registrar, and answering requests via formal letters and telephone, related to legal matters and share dealing.