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London, Gb

London, Gb

London, Gb

Key Responsibilities:• Utilising agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions, determining and managing tasks, issues, risks, and action items, scheduling and facilitating scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes, monitoring progress and performance, assisting teams in making improvements.• Coordinating sprints, retrospective meetings and daily stand-ups, collaborating with Product Owners to prioritise backlogs and new requests, directing teams in the implementation of changes effectively, ensuring deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint, guiding development teams to higher scrum maturity.• Leading onshore and offshore remote workers, planning and organising demos and product/system testing• Line managing individuals.Key Achievements:• Successful delivery of various projects, by utilising agile frameworks, effectively coordination of the communication processes in and out of the project team, as well as introducing, implementing and streamlining work processes, enabling all projects to be delivered with time and budget constraints.• Forging, maintaining and nurturing strong relations with various internal and external delivery teams and key stakeholders, facilitating the removal of impediments to the Digital Scrum Team, and the delivery of solutions.• Strengthening the capabilities of the Digital Scrum Team, by encouraging and driving continuous improvement, through introspection, retrospection and adaptation.• Implementing training and development initiatives for the Digital Scrum Team, supporting the organisation’s strategic objectives of personal and professional development of key staff members.

London, Gb

Scrum Master supporting Agile delivery across the Aviva Digital business.• Facilitating and co-ordinating the simplified purchase process (SPP) project under Aviva’s number one priority programme.• SPP project delivered an improved home product customer journey for online and offline channels. The implementation achieved an uplift of 6% in quote completions which is equivalent to 3,500 incremental home sales to existing customers per annum.• The SPP project delivered an improved 50% uplift in sales for protection policies.• Delivery of the improved online home product journey involved co-ordinating deliveries of 20 platform teams.• Implementation of functionality to provide pre-calculated home, travel and health care quotes to all existing customers.• Encouraging Agile principles as a Scrum Master across the demand team.• Facilitating the Investments and Savings platform team and introduced weekly deployments.• Introduced effective Agile ceremonies to the SPP team resulting in enhanced continual improvement across the teams.• Introduced visibility of cross-stream stories within the SPP team resulting in increase sprint velocity within platform teams.• Removal of obstacles for the demand and platform teams enabling projects to deliver on time.• Co-ordinating with and influencing Product Owners to prioritise stories to deliver features safely.

London, Gb

ECM with Hyphen/Ajilon.Key Responsibilities:• Led ongoing reviews of business processes and developed optimisation strategies, evaluated business processes, anticipated requirements, uncovered areas for improvement, developed and implemented solutions, kept up to date with the latest process and IT advancements to automate and modernise systems.• Conducted meetings and presentations to share ideas and findings, performed requirements analysis, documented and communicated results of efforts, effectively communicated insights and plans to cross-functional team members and management, gathered critical information from meetings with various stakeholders and produced useful reports.• Worked closely with Solution Designers, IT Developers, Testers and Product Owners to establish and shape viable play ready stories, provided leadership, training, coaching, and guidance to junior staff, allocated resources and maintained cost efficiency, ensured solutions met business needs and requirements.• Prioritised initiatives based on business needs and requirements, monitored deliverables and ensuring timely completion of projects, controlled competing resources and priorities, collaborated with Product Owners to prioritise stories within the backlog, served as a liaison between key stakeholders.Key Achievements:• Influenced the delivery of a new functionality, enabling life product holders to change their policy address online, whilst reducing inbound contact centre call volumes.• Steered the initiation of ‘No Claim Discount’ upload functionality.

Glasgow, Scotland, Gb

Key Responsibilities:• Coordinated internal resources and third party business partners for flawless project execution, ensured that project was delivered on-time, within scope and within budget, developed project scopes and objectives, involved all relevant stakeholders and ensured feasibility, developed detailed project plans to track progress.• Performed risk management to minimise project risks, used appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule and costs, carried out analysis and workshop facilitation to gather requirements at both high and detailed levels, established and maintained relationships with third party business partners to develop training for new product launch.• Produced level 3 customer journeys; including risks and controls for the Virgin Money Lounges, managed sales and operations deliverables relating to new product launch; consisting of management information, customer journeys, scripts and processes.Key Achievements:• Drove the internal rebranding of Virgin Money, during the merger of Virgin Money and Northern Rock, which involved the integration of 2 corporate intranets. • Led the proposed sale of a subsidiary, which involved the transfer of IT, assets, finance and people.

London, Gb

Key Responsibilities:• Coordinated with cross-discipline team members to ensure that all parties were on track with project requirements, deadlines, and schedules, met with project team members to identify and resolve issues, conducted post-project evaluation and identified successful and unsuccessful project elements.• Oversaw third party suppliers and internal Development Centres to maintain and monitor deliveries, held regular project account / spend reviews and maintained fiscal records and controls, engaged with infrastructure teams to deliver systems implementation, reviewed internal RAC processes to realise potential opportunities for efficiencies to be made.Key Achievements:• Audited third party activities and legal agreements, which led to securing £250k worth of business cost avoidance, through company disposals.• Successfully guided £1.8m worth of change activity budget across multiple projects.

London, Gb

Key Responsibilities:• Developed financial plans to help the business to achieve their long-term and short-term financial goals, assessed company’s financial status, forecasted revenues and costs and reported any discrepancies, analysed market trends and identified risks and opportunities, provided solutions and set goals to increase profitability, reviewed day-to-day transactions to identify areas of improvement.Key Achievements: • Validated cost and efficiency savings, by work stream in a cost base worth £422m for 2008. • Tracked, evidenced and reported pack for savings of £72m, and reconciliation of the cost base.• Contributed towards severance costs being captured, and benefits of over £20m being banked.• Established a model to value the costs and benefits to reach the 2010 cost base.

London, Gb

Key Responsibilities:• Assisted in the development, instigation and management of new planning processes following the merger of 2 Business Units; including regular stakeholder meetings, tracked movements between planning rounds to monitor and record changes.Key Achievements: • Crafted an effective plan to rationalise resources within the Exceed Data Centre.• Constructed a database to record and display weekly resource utilisation for a total of 500 FTE.• Built a planning model to value the NUI IT Solutions cost base of £450m.• Integrated RAC acquisition into NUI cost base. • Merged 2 cost bases (£133m and £194m totalling £327m) into a single cost base.• Reported an accurate and effective ’Global Sourcing Provider’ role-off plan, which minimised external resource, whilst enabling flexible resource; rationalised by 58% (265 FTE).

Norwich, Norfolk, Gb

Key Responsibilities:• Carried out bank reconciliations, assisted with the production of monthly accounts, monitored and updated subjective codes, monitored and reconciled capital expenditure and fixed assets, oversaw accounting procedures and supervised junior financial department staff.• Ensured that financial management policies and procedures adhered to regulatory standards, performed financial record keeping, as well as protecting sensitive and confidential information, kept informed of regulatory requirements and best practices in management accounting.

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Martlesham Heath, England, Gb

London, England, Gb

Various finance and accounting contract roles through Hays Accountancy

Btec Gnvq, Advanced Business And Finance

Gcses, 9 Subjects