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London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for overseeing and delivering client data programmes, building out propositions and client opportunities to grow the consulting business and coaching team members as part of their personal development. Responsibilities included: • Accountable for a number of data capabilities across Redkite (Data Quality and Information Security, Data Privacy & Protection), responsible for owning and developing the strategy and go-to-market propositions.• Delivered the Data Strategy for multi-national manufacturing organisation, a FTSE100 company, including data maturity assessment, As-is and To-Be operating model and recommendations through a strategic roadmap and operational plan.• Data Governance SME for a FTSE100 company operating in CPG, defining and implementing Data Governance and Data Quality standards for the Commercial Division, globally.• Business development for multiple sales prospects within Automotive and Engineering industries as the Data & Analytics delivery partner, including RFI/RFP responses, assignments, demos and sales presentations.

London And Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Responsible for operations and finances for the business with a peak team of ~40 located across 3 locations across London, Edinburgh and Goiania, Brazil.Responsibilities included:• Creation of new legal entity for a B2B Software as a Solution (SaaS) business, following an acquisition event.• Held formal roles of Data Protection Officer and Company Secretary.• Set up HR, payroll and finance systems and processes, managing payroll, cashflow management and budget forecasting of a £m seed investment, including R&D Grants with local authorities. and set-up of HMRC services (VAT and PAYE).• Documentation of all IT & Data Security policies to ensure the business is fully GDPR compliant, • Designed and managed the Leadership and Board cadence rhythm including responsibility of all MI reporting, company metrics and KPIs, utilising business tools including PowerBI.• Cost reduction exercise across the business by 30% in response to Covid-19 pandemic. This also included overseeing reduction in IT hosting costs by 50% without impacting user performance or downtime of services.• Organisational restructuring to support market demandsengineering operations to reshape the business for better balance across customer acquisition and engineering teams.• Creation of investor data room for Seed+ funding rounding• Created B2B Master Software Licence Agreements to secure enterprise customer revenues.• Delivered improvements of sales reporting process to increase conversion rates of opportunities across the deal stages.• Managed all third-party relationships covering Operations, Legal, Finance and People services such as business insurance, employee benefits, HMRC submissions, professional services.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for defining and delivering the business strategy designed to scale the business to meets its strategic objective of YoY growth 100%, working with the leadership team and reporting directly into the CEO.Responsibilities included:• Built and managed the strategy framework and cadence rhythm for the business which successfully doubled the revenue in a year, and increased employees from 45 to 170 over 18 months.• Designed and facilitated leadership strategy meetings and planning workshops integrating all areas across the business to achieve its next inflection point.• Worked with Corporate Finance partners to successful complete an acquisition event including due diligence.• Responsible for separating the B2B software product service into a separate GTM service.• TUPE of ~40 employees across London, Edinburgh and Goiania, Brazil to a new legal entity.

London, United Kingdom

Establishing Chief Data Office function for a large UK retail bank designed to deliver operational processes and comply with regulatory demands to improvement in data quality and transparency across the bank• Target Operating Model processes for enterprise wide data management• Data Governance framework• Data Ownership• Data Management standards

London, United Kingdom

Enhancement of Data Management service function into a Target Operating Model state to promote operational efficiencies, support regulatory demands, and improvement in data quality across the bank• Target Operating Model for enterprise wide Data Management• Data Management Strategy Playbook• New methodologies and processes to support Target Operating Model• Data Management collateral• Tooling requirements for vendor selection• Vendor selection process• Strategy Governance Forums for Process, Methods and Tooling enhancements• Managed Service Model

London, United Kingdom

In adherence to meeting BCBS 239 standards, established an enterprise wide data governance office to support data management activities and providing transparency in quality of data across the bank. • Defined Data Governance Standards• Defined enterprise wide Data Ownership Model• Production of Outsource Model matrices defining responsibilities between Data Management service functions and business divisions• Delivery of data governance structure and roles for wealth division• Conceptual DQIM Incident Framework• Training stakeholders in Data Management concepts

London, United Kingdom

Delivering an end-to-end global delivery of an account opening system, migration from the current system, across all functions involved in client onboarding, while establishing clean and enriched data through implementation of complex concepts, including transformational client structures. Responsibilities included:• Performing User Demos of new functionality to SMEs• Drafting test scripts for QA testing• Leading design and storyboard sessions for delivery• Performing Smoke Testing prior to UAT• Participation into policy programmes to identify change opportunities and future proof solutions under the delivery programme.

London, United Kingdom

Global programme to deliver a replacement client onboarding system at a Tier 1 Investment Bank. Responsibilities as a lead Business Analyst included:• Responsible for delivery of KYC and Financial Crime business functions• Requirements gathering across the global landscape• Engaging with SMEs to identify gaps in current solution for target state and• Transforming business processes/procedures• Producing documentation to support IT delivery and build.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Operating under a newly formed arm of the business development team, primary responsibilities include:- Generation and identifying new service development opportunities both to enhance the proposition to clients, and to increase efficiency and de-risk platform services.- Implementing strategic development roadmaps for vendor relationships to ensure the service requirements are met, for both current and future needs.- Owning and directly overseeing the management of key vendors relationships ensuring Platform Securities continue to receive value and that the full potential of supplier offerings are utilised.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Responsibilities included:- Sales bid process - Complex commercial propositions- New product proposals.- Development roadmaps- Preparing solutions through numerous changes to industry regulations, - Business strategy development- Sales relationships with existing clients- Contract negotiations- Competitor analyss- Market research- Vendor solutions- Outlining service definitions

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Left the Graduate Programme prematurely to join the Sales & Development team with the main responsibility of identifying and implementing a Partner Transition plan, with the purpose to identify which partners were on model. Conducted a review on Partners on model to see how TDWI could further improve the business opportunities for the partners, through additional services and subsequently improving working relationships between respective parties. Engaging partners off model onto services that were aligned to service propositions to enhance the development in partner performance, including hosting events to engage 'best of breed' vendors with partners for increased partner experience.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Graduate Programme consisting of three-month rotations across Operations, Sales & Marketing, Finance, Project Office, HR & Technical. Obtained Associate Chartered of Securities & Investments (ACSI) status from The Chartered Institute of Securities of Investments (CISI) with passes in:- Introduction to Securities & Investment- FSA Regulations- Global Securities & Operations Experienced active roles in all rotations including:- Dealing desks, pre & post-settlement, reconciliations, corporate actions and dividends.- Sales opportunities, exploring service opportunities with prospective & existing partners- Corporate and Operational Finance- Project Management, using Prince2 methodology practices

Basingstoke, Hampshire, United Kingdom

Placement year in industry as part of the degree qualification. Held responsibility in:- developing product packs and deliverables across EMEA.- implementing financial budgetary measurements to the EMEA Brand Division.- creating and training staff in a new commission payments process used for monitoring and measuring sales support staff across the EMEA region.

Msc, Investment Banking & Securities

Bsc, Business Economics With Computing