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.
• 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.
• 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

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

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

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

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

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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