Andrew Braid Email & Phone Number

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Key Responsibilities;• Lead; Manage, coach and develop team of consultants. Role model all areas of the role• Partner; with stakeholders and colleagues to provide analytics and insight based consultancy and advice on innovations and improvements that can be realised through the implementation of analytics technologies• Consult; Act as consultant and strategic partner in impact assessing, proposing and designing analytics solutions using industry best practice and innovation, combined with understanding the optionality available within and across all people data sources• Data Evangelist; Leverage data scientist techniques and a visualisation platform, hypothesis building and storytelling to proactively deliver insights and trends to the organisation, leveraging multiple data sources to address business challenges and strategies• Story telling with data; Simplify and translate data and insights into meaningful visualisations and stories to drive strategy, action, and decision-making for a wide range of audiences, including senior leadership• Strategy; Contribute to the delivery of and shaping of our People Data & Analytics strategy, and contribute to the delivery of an on-going HRBP/People Function wide culture and education programme around data interpretation and predictions• Customer Focus; Align research priorities with business priorities and take a customer-focused mind-set in working with stakeholders• Academic; Leverage academic expertise and knowledge of HR industry and People Analytics trends to address practical business challenges• Development; A constant learner, active listener, and teacher to advance People Analytics, and our organisation

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Managing a cross location team driving the move from MI and reporting to research and analytics

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Responsibilities:• Proactively evolve and improve the quality of service provided and continually strive to improve the Tier 0 (self-service/on- demand) offering.• Expert in understanding the multiple sources of HR management information and tools for production and analysis• Manage and offer solutions for large data requests whilst being mindful of costs, competing priorities, timescales, data security and strategy• Adherence to process control measures to ensure compliance, identifies risk mitigation opportunities, ensuring all requests for data are appropriately reviewed and approved.• Develop and maintain appropriate technical/operational standards and quality assurance processes for monitoring team output and ensuring delivery of tasks to a high standard• Ensure effective knowledge transfer takes place, increasing the teams capability in relation to MI reporting and analysis.• As primary contact for all request and projects requiring people data, build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders at all levels in the organisation.• Work closely with senior colleagues in the People Function and IT to promote and maintain the successful operation of the department• Reviewing trends and identifying cost/time-saving opportunities, e.g. multiple requests for the same report from different audiences

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Responsibilities:• Implement and maintain effective processes for HR MI within a complex global business division of c.30,000 staff• Engage and consult with senior members of staff within HR and the business• Lead on projects as a subject matter expert for Business Services MI• Support HR Management Information to better align to customer expectation and functional needs• Insightful MI delivery, report writing, production of project documentation• Interpretation and knowledge of a wide range of HR MI subjects including, budgets, reporting metrics, resourcing, organisational design, and diversity and inclusion• Through consultation and regular engagement, ensure MI provided is supportive of HR and Business’ needs• Proactively manage requests, in line with requirements and timescales agreed with the customer• Engage and collaborate with HR MI Delivery to ensure consistency over Group MI reporting• Collaborate with divisional MI consultants and HR MI to continue to improve delivery to customers• Deliver high value HR Management Information to HR and business leaders in support of their strategic people priorities• Establish the team as known high quality professionals with strong and focused expertiseAchievements:• Ovation received from Head of Business Services HR for outstanding work within restructure project• Ovation received from Business Services Communications team for outstanding work in relation to their division wide communications• Implementation of organisational design toolkit (spans & layers) across the division, then used as bank wide solution

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Responsibilities:• Engage with the customer to understand their needs, build trust, discuss options and establish relationships• Collaborate with customer to ensure delivery of regular reports and work requests meet requirement and are fit for purpose• Provide value add analysis and commentary to support business decisions• Develop and deliver regular reports in Business Objects using a complete understanding of business requirements • Add value by providing technical solutions to ensure efficiency and minimise manual effort• Adapt and respond quickly to changing environment and business needs• Cross skill and mentor colleagues, share best practice and work as a team to deliver excellent customer service• Gather specific feedback from Stakeholders and colleagues at regular intervals• Take responsibility to ensure reports are developed efficiently, following guidelines around quality assurance and best practice. Challenge requirements and promote self service optionsAchievements:• Rewarded with significant additional responsibility within the team to support line manager in her absence• 2 recognition/ovation rewards from the business for excellent customer service and going the extra mile• Received a great deal of positive feedback relating to performance and ability to collaborate with others

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Responsibilities:• Provide support direct to Director of Sales, Head of Sales and Head of Intermediary Sales• Prepare documentation and analytical results, spotting trends/variances and providing written and verbal commentary• Maintain regular contacts with internal customers, providing market and/or customer insight appropriate to customer’s own area• Participate in (and advise on) projects as required• Review and evaluate databases through the analysis of customer/intermediary behaviour patterns • Targeting to support the companies agreed business objectives• Participate in the development of materials to support Business Strategies/Structures/Incentives etc• Maintain knowledge of the financial services market, banking industry trends and strategiesAchievements:• Winner of "Ultimate" performance incentive 2007/08 – Exceptional Performance within MI Analyst Role (1 of 20 winners within the Intermediary sections of Intelligent Finance, Bank of Scotland and BM Solutions - over 300 employees)• Nominated for "Ultimate" performance incentive 2008/09 – Exceptional Performance within Business Analyst role, specifically for being pro-active in improving reporting suite within Bank of Scotland Intermediaries Team• Nominated for "Ultimate" performance incentive 2006/07 – Exceptional Performance in MI Analyst Role

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Achievements: • Winner for Outstanding Customer Service - Oct 2005 (1 of 12 winners within Intelligent Finance, over 500 employees)