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London, Gb

London, United Kingdom

Creating, editing and publishing a broad range of travel content, including miles and points, credit cards, aviation, destination travel, flight and hotel reviews, travel disruption and advice.Optimising content for SEO and conducting deep dives into the topics people are searching for.I have worked closely with major travel and loyalty brands including American Express, Citibank, Barclays, Virgin Atlantic to deliver campaigns to promote their products and brands in creative ways.

London, England Metropolitan Area

Editing, writing and Project Managing across various Uswitch and Money.co.uk personal finance verticals including banking, investment products, credit cards, loyalty programs, and home, travel and car insurance. Optimizing existing content for SEO.

Helping readers maximise their travel at the world's most read independent travel blog, with a special focus on UK and Australian markets. Writing about miles, points, airlines, loyalty, hotels and all things travel.

London, United Kingdom

Client: Change Healthcare (McKesson Corporation)Reviewing and redesigning contract and template management system for Imaging, Workflow and Care Solutions Radiology and Cardiology division.Advising General Counsel and other senior stakeholders on legal matters including GDPR, TUPE, product standards, third parties, RFPs and public sector procurement process.Conducting independent risk assessment on UK&I legal department and reporting to General Counsel.Creating and drafting complete legal playbook for contracting process.Reviewing, harmonising and updating suite of templates.Assisting with negotiation of transactional matters with both customers and third parties.Client: 10x Banking (for Virgin Money UK)Developing and project managing the design and implementation of ‘Cael’, a contract and project management software solution for their Partnerships division as 10x build a digital banking platform for Virgin Money UK. This includes creating master product standards (for SaaS, DaaS and hardware), due diligence checklists, Run/Change/Exit strategies and implementation plans for software and other technology Partners and consulting senior stakeholders to finalise. Reviewing Partner framework, advising on risk registers, data protection/GDPR and driving the selection, negotiation and contracting of live Partners with a manual interim process (prior to Cael implementation). Organising, preparing materials for and running regular Partnership Forum with senior management to resolve risk and commercial issues. Advising General Counsel and other senior stakeholders on legal matters.

London, United Kingdom

Redeveloping how the Group manages risk for Outsource Providers, Third Party Suppliers and Intra-Group through entire lifecycle from Proposal, Selection, Contracting to Vendor Management, Assurance, Vendor Consolidation, Change Management and Exit and Renewals. Agile Project ManagementGDPR Subject Matter Expert for Third Parties, reviewing and advising on Groups GDPR Framework and Strategy as a key stakeholder. Designing GDPR rollout for existing relationships and implementing for new relationships. Assisting business units with data mapping and identification of data controllers and processors. Extensive experience with SYSC 8 and intra-group arrangements. Leading Project Delivery Group and participating in and presenting to various Senior Executive forums, including SteerCo, COO Committees and SYSC 8 Working Groups. Incorporation of third party risk into Group enterprise risk management framework and performing GIA gap analysis. Drafting 50+ pages of procedures to document entire new model lifecycle. Advising on team structure, adoption of risk, IT/IP, management reporting, systems integration, legal service model and vendor consolidation. Remediation of existing Third Party relationships and design of staged roll-out of new model. Assisting legal team with Procurement and IT Legal transactions BAU.

London, United Kingdom

Peer-to-Peer lending FinTech start-up environment. Drafting template facilitation documentation for partnerships and customers to ensure complete FCA compliance and obtaining banking licence. Advising on various compliance, credit, regulation, assignment, transactional and peer-to-peer platform and technology issues. Drafting, negotiating, supervising and closing complex finance transactions end-to-end. Reviewing, drafting (from scratch) and updating complete suites of finance templates for Commercial and Property Finance, building a documentation platform, rolling-out projects, business process and delivering training. Establishing legal panel, drafting policies, process maps and guidance notes for financial transactions and new starters.

Melbourne, Australia

Supporting Global Procurement/Outsourcing, Enterprise Service Delivery.Drafting, negotiating and advising on complex Master Service Agreements and confidentiality agreements for various services including technology, utilities, human resources, travel and software consulting. Coordinating documentation for panel arrangements. Meeting with service providers to understand services, needs and priorities. Developing business process simplification initiatives and delivering cost benefits. Identifying material deviations and advising on risks.

Melbourne, Australia

Supporting Corporate Banking Australia, Healthcare Banking Australia and Events, Marketing and Sponsorship for Institutional and International Banking Australia.Documentation, advice, risk, statutory compliance and legal guidance of full front-end life cycle of finance relationships (debt, property, asset, FX). SME knowledge of global markets products, consumer protection, compliance, sponsorship, always with commercial awareness. Understanding ANZ products, functions, policies and engagement. Engaging panel firms with a focus on cost reduction and performing tasks internally if possible. Meeting tight deadlines for significant new-to-bank transactions. Identifying and mitigating risks. Conducting training on documentation changes and initiatives. Reviewing and amending policies and templates. Managing project and leading Project Working Group to redesign of Institutional and International Banking Legal documentation platform including supervision of junior staff, development of new (and simplification of existing) template documentation and approved bank of non-standard clauses.

Melbourne, Australia

Banking and Financial Services and Major Projects Team (formerly Middletons).Corporate, acquisition, syndicated, cross-border, commercial and property finance. Monitoring regulatory changes and training and advising my team. Drafting letters of offer/facility agreements and securities (property mortgages, charges, share mortgages, guarantees etc) and associated ancillary documentation, review, negotiation, and amending of these documents, identifying risks and coordinating execution and settlement.

Adelaide, Australia

Financial Services GroupDrafting, reviewing and negotiating corporate and project finance security documentation, project for new lodgement procedures for rural security documents, drafting and lodging ASIC documentation.Drafting Deeds of Company Arrangement and sale agreements, preparing counsel for court attendances and compiling briefs to counsel. Managing and running files in secured and unsecured recoveries including drafting of statutory and court documents, various Supreme and Federal Court insolvency appearances, arranging and monitoring service of documents, negotiating settlement.

Adelaide, Australia

Litigation and debt-recovery.Discovery in large litigation matters including establishing and maintaining a database of over 2000 discovered documents, drafting legal documents including statement of claims, compiling briefs to counsel, affidavits, bankruptcy notices, direct contact with clients, preparing solicitors for Federal Court appearances, civil procedure research and running debt recovery files.

Bachelor'S Degree, International/Global Studies

Activities and Societies: Majoring in American Political and Social HistoryDouble degree in Laws and Legal Practice as well.

Bachelor'S Degree, Laws And Legal Practice

High School