Amy Buchan (Née Mcquillan) Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

Highlights include: Leading a high performing consultancy team to solve business problems using a data-driven approach, and provide insight to underpin key strategic decisions. Setting up and leading the Anaplan Centre of Excellence to transform Royal Mail's financial planning and analysis capabilities. I am proud to have provided expertise on a variety of investment cases up to c.£200m, and worked collaboratively with a range of functions including finance, commercial, operations and regulation to deliver value in a challenging financial climate. I support my team to manage a suite of productivity, costing and forecasting models used for internal and external reporting, and constantly seek to automate and simplify processes, allowing resource to move from data generation to value-add results interpretation and R&D. I am passionate about supporting my team’s learning and development to keep pace with the knowledge and software skills required for these process improvements, as well as their career progression.

London, United Kingdom

Highlights include: Leading the development of a significant upgrade to the system used to measure productivity in a key section of the logistics pipeline. I scoped and implemented a more efficient and flexible technology stack, more advanced datasets and overhauled the algorithms to reveal new insight from geographical variations. In the later stages of the project I focussed on stakeholder engagement (internal, union and regulator), while supporting an analyst to complete updates and validation.

London, United Kingdom

Highlights include: Performed extensive econometric research based on stochastic frontier analysis, and presented my work to members of the chief executive committee in a way that distilled complex mathematics into meaningful results.Developed an efficiency model for a previously unmeasured area of the business, to monitor costs and drive performance improvement. I worked across multiple teams to drive ownership and correction of input data, and persevered through testing and socialising the model through to sign-off and wider uptake.

Tel Aviv, Israel

Identified weaknesses in current Fourier-based stellar rotation period detection methods. Designed, implemented and automated an improved version, using autocorrelation. Published the largest catalog of rotation periods available, and identified significant trends in the resulting data.

Oxford, United Kingdom

My responsibilities included teaching undergraduate students to start programming and supervising their projects. I also supervised MPhys students on night shifts using the Philip Wetton Telescope.

Executive Mba

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Astrophysics

Mphys, Physics With Astrophysics

1st Class Honours

Level 7, Senior Leadership, Distinction