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Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Responsible for managing the delivery of a third party life and pensions administration system to a tier one insurance company for a number of concurrent and business critical projects.Built and maintained valuable relationships with senior stakeholders within the software supplier and the insurance company and technology partners.Worked closely with an.

Managed a project aimed at delivering significant business benefit across three international businesses.Responsible for liaising with internal development teams and third party suppliers.Quickly built productive relationships with senior stakeholders across the insurance company's international business.Influential in high profile programme decisionsTook.

Key member of the analysis team on, and instrumental in the success of, a corporate priority programme.Took the lead on resolving a number of issues to a satisfactory conclusion. Demonstrated out of the box thinking which avoided the need for a large piece of development work, whilst still meeting the business requirements. Ran daily scrums on behalf of.

Functional Architect for a sofware supplier tasked with introducing a new administration platform to the insurance arm of a large Belgian bank.Led a team of 5 analysts tasked with documenting the client’s requirements and the software firm's solution for a new investment and insurance product. This included all aspects of the policy lifecycle from quotes.

Information Systems Analyst on a number of projects for a market leading pensions company.Established mainframe business and systems requirements, for the introduction of SIPP and Drawdown pension products. Important member of a large project team which involved representatives from across the company.Influential in many of the programme’s system designs.

Bsc, Mathematical Physics

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