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Edinburgh, GB

Delivering Technology solutions that combat Fraud

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Permanent member of Royal Bank of Scotland, responsible for delivering specific tactical and strategic initiatives that enables the bank respond quickly to emerging fraud threats keeping the bank customers safe and.
• Supporting the Fraud Strategy and Roadmap creation.o Working in collaboration with the Fraud Architect creating the current state and target state Strategic Fraud roadmap by channel and by capability, together with a.
• Responsibility for the Fraud Platform Board.o Providing a formal forum to share and collaborate all aspects of Fraud across Business and Technology including Risks and costs.
• Supporting the creation of the Fraud Business case and ongoing tracking of costs and benefits against the business case.o Triaging and assessing tactical initiatives from the Fraud Business using an Agile approach from.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

As a member of a team responsible for Risk and Assurance within the NOSIA Remediation Programme set up to resolve and remediate CCA non compliance by implementing system solutions while remediating loan, card and mortgage customers. - Responsible for Implementing robust Risk Management across the programme to create a 'no surprises' environment. - Designed.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Within the William and Glyn programme standing up a new UK challenger bank I supported the separation programme in building the new Chief Information Office (CIO) for the new Bank providing delivery and Risk management expertise to create robust Technology processes and controls critical to supporting the Target Operating Model.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

As a member of the Technology Controls assurance team delivered a compliance framework and embedded a controls mechanism that enabled Testing compliance to improve dramatically from 64% non-compliance in October 2014 to 6% non-compliance by end Feb 2015.Promoted a culture of risk control via process assurance, assessing compliance with risk appetites and.

Edinburgh

• Responsible for leading a team to deliver an E2E Service Support Process model for the Mobile Banking environment being hosted in RBS data centres. The Service support model will cover all the infrastructure.
• Develop and agree an E2E Service Support Process Model that ensures there is an agreed owner for the Mobile Banking service components.
• Ensure that there are support arrangements with the appropriate vendors to support all the components and to identify operational risks.
• Liaise with 3rd Parties, Client & Development Services to agree roles / responsibilities (a RACI)for the transitioned Mobile Banking service.
• Provide input to the contractual negotiations for the transitioned Mobile Banking service.
• Create / update operational processes with 3 party vendors

Edinburgh

• Responsible for leading a team to deliver the detailed analysis of closure activities and the articulation of any residual Risk associated with the delivery within the Technology Resilience project (part of the.
• Management of stakeholder relationships across multiple project streams to ensure a consistent approach to closure governance.
• Facilitation of information gathering and risk analysis sessions which delivered the basis for closure documentation and risk reporting.
• Team co-ordination to drive an approved approach to documentation and stakeholder engagement.
• Maintaining of project plans and communications ensured targets were achieved and deliveries met the required standard.
• As a result the team successfully completed a risk review aligning 64 platform related risks wh the Technology Resilience Remediation activities enabling the programme to identify a reduction in the RBSG risk portfolio.

Edinburgh

• Responsible for the scoping and definition of the GIS Release 4 Programme within RBS Technical Services (GIS), liaising with GDS, Oracle, Ernst and Young, Infosys and others in order to define, drive and deliver the IT.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Led a team of PM’s responsible for the implementation of Network services and cabling Infrastructure across 4 datacentres within RBS Technical Services (GIS), liaising with IBM and Oracle to define, drive and deliver.

Edinburgh

• Senior Project Manager with Scottish Widows. Working initially in the Strategic Change and IT as a Senior Project Manager laterally within ADM (Application Development and Maintenance) area of the business as a Work.
• Currently running 2 MI projects to provide accurate reassurance data, via Actuarial, to the reassurance companies who reassure Protection products, without the need for excessive manual reworking
• As WPM successfully delivered several application development projects within complex mainframe and 3rd party applications on time and budget with no major interruption to business
• As Senior Project Manager delivered multi-work stream IT projects that ensured all IT systems were scalable to support large Corporate Pension Schemes on time and in budget.
• Delivered Business cases to support tactical and strategic enabling initiatives key to the Lloyds Banking group Integration programme.
• Developed and nurtured strong partnership relations with stakeholders that ensured agreed delivery of project deliverables and business benefits.