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Sale, GB

Remote / London

Delivering large scale cyber security transformation with a specific focus on Privileged Access Management (PAM/IAM), M365 Copilot, Defender for Identity, Defender for end point protection, Cloud Apps, Office365 security optimisation and AD / Azure AD / Entra ID and eSecurity controls, across the group

Frankfurt Am Main, Hesse, Germany

Engaged on a large scale Cyber Security programme, with a specific focus on IAM and Role Based Access Control.

United Kingdom

Engaged by UK Transformation on a programme to introduce measures to help combat Automated Push Payment Fraud, Money Mule Activities and to introduce the Contingent Reimbursement Model.

United Kingdom

Working for UK Transformation on the structural reform of HSBC to comply with the ring fencing legislation, with specific focus on the separation of banking and technology systems and their associated data.Initially working on the HSBC Universal Banking platform for Foreign Currency Accounts before moving into the Global Trade & Receivables Finance (GTRF).

I Worked as part of DWP's major transformation programme, in order to achieve its 2020 Vision, with specific focus on deploying and implementing an Application Performance Management (APM) toolset across DWP's cloud hosted systems, that underpinned the new User Service Operations Centre.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Worked for Transformation & Change on the Mortgages redress and remediation programme, with a specific focus on the Sold and Securitised Third party accounts.

Knutsford, UK

I worked for Global Information Security on an IAM Programme introducing Privileged Access Monitoring capability (monitoring and alerting utilising Splunk, CyberArk, PowerBroker), to be used globally across the group, offering 24/7 monitoring and alerting across all the technology towers.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Worked for the UKRBB Change division on the introduction of a new Collections platform whilst working with Credit Risk on the required updates to the Barclays Business Collections and Barclays Retail (Unsecured) collections policies, including the contact strategies associated with each policy.

Halifax / London / Edinburgh, United Kingdom

I worked as the Senior / Lead BA on the User Access Management Programme (UAM), as part of the On-boarding & Recertification work stream, looking after the Group Operations division of the business.

Manchester, United Kingdom

I worked on a number of projects and strategic initiatives as part of the Transformation Critical Programme.This included:Identity & Access ManagementSystem and Service Management ToolingAD consolidationBranch InfrastructureData DesensitisationI also worked at a programme level supporting the programme manager with dependency mapping and business / benefit.

Manchester, United Kingdom

I worked on the Central Business Processing system, Swinton’s main accounting and financial system.Lead Analyst on a number of projects, including:Net Rates ProjectPolicy Migration projectContinuous Payment Authorities Card payments.Direct Debit CollectionsIntroduction of new product linesAlso contributed to the Debt Securitisation project undertaken in.

I worked for the Business Transformation Group on the introduction of a new Identity Management System, allowing a centralised method of authenticating users and their systems access rights to core corporate IT systems.

Manchester & Hook, United Kingdom

I worked as part of the business services team overseeing the consolidation of Customer Management and Billing platforms and the migration of numerous Billing systems, namely SMS, Geneva 4 & 5, Harmony BAPS, Classic SABS and Strategix into IRB/ ICOMS, totalling some £250M p.a. of business billed revenue migrated.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Project managed the specification and integration of sales systems and the data requirements for the telesales call centres for ex-NTL and ex-TelewestLed the definition and documentation of existing business processes and the analysis and gathering of business requirements in order to produce the technical specifications for the handover to the development.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Project managed the analysis, specification, development, integration and implementation of a new EPOS system for processing credit cards across the group, liaising between the business and third party vendors / suppliers.Project managed the implementation of a new call centre management system introduced across the group and its integration with existing.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Responsible for the analysis, design and development of a client/server knowledge management workflow system, utilising an n-tier architecture, with particular reference to the purchasing system.Undertook the design and integration of the purchasing system with 3rd Party accountancy software applications.The production of technical documentation i.e..

Athens, Greece

London, United Kingdom

Lead the analysis, specification, design and development of a global data warehousing system, alongside managing the support/maintenance of a three tiered client/server customer reservation system used both in the UK and in France.

London, United Kingdom

Worked as a Functional and Business Analyst within the Capital Markets Projects team, charged with the analysis, remediation and development of End User Applications for the introduction of the Euro currency.

Brussels

Working as a systems analyst charged with the production of functional specifications and state diagrams to be implemented on the PSTN project.I also worked as a systems analyst on the new billing platform, gathering requirements and producing functional specifications and state diagrams for use by the development teams, along with event diagrams, data.