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Edinburgh, Scotland, Gb

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Working as a contract Project Manager in the Information Systems Department, initially for 6 months, leading a new IBOR (Investment Book of Records) Program of work. Introducing an IBOR new to the Firm. Initially tasked with leading a small team to drive a decision on buying an IBOR or building one internally, then upon deciding to use Finbourne’s LUSID cloud-based service, further tasked with building a relationship with the supplier, driving the signing of the contract and growing the team to accommodate the required effort and wider collaboration.

Edinburgh

Jun 2019 - Feb 2020Project Manager at Lloyds Banking GroupWorking as a Contract Project Manager, initially for 6 months on the SWIFT programme, based in Edinburgh but with multi-site travel as well as weekend working and on site at the key Supplier’s office. Leading a cross functional work package part of an overall programme comprising over 120 staff at LBG and similar numbers across suppliers. The focus of the programme was to move administration of a large group of funds from one supplier to another, with associated parties’ involvement, over a number of Tranches throughout the latter half of 2019 and Q1 of 2020.Feb 2016 - Jun 2019Project Manager at Citi GroupWorking as a Contract Project Manager, initially for 6 months in the Client Change Delivery team, based in Edinburgh. Managing a range of projects for key “platinum clients”, where Citi act as Fund Accountant, ensuring delivery on to agreed timelines and budget.May 2015 - Dec 2015Project Manager at Franklin Templeton InvestmentsWorking as a Contract Project Manager, initially for 6 months in the Global Transfer Agency Project Management Office (GTA PMO), based in Edinburgh. Facing off to a number of international teams and working with colleagues and suppliers across the globe to help deliver key change initiatives.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Working for Mentor Services UK, part of the RBS Group. Mentor provides consultancy & advice services and ancillary products to RBS SME customers.My responsibilities were to deliver a programme of change which provides tangible benefits to the business. Focussing on two major project deliverables, but also responsible for a suite of smaller local change.Major projects include Insurance, and Energy Audits, with both representing a change to an existing product, attracting rigorous governance and the requirement to deal with both external suppliers and regulators.

Scotland

Regional Implementation Manager for RBS Business Banking Scotland, responsible for the delivery of a large change programme, to c.200 front line staff, as well as driving small change agenda.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Working for a small specialist change team, supporting Business & Commercial Banking. Responsible for end to end delivery of a portfolio of small to medium sized change projects.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Part of a large central change function facing off to the Retail Bank.Responsible for elements of large change programmes.

Edinburgh

Originally starting out in Customer Services, and moving into Continuous Improvement and Change roles.Worked with Accenture on the delivery of a new pensions platform, acted as a subject matter expert and test analyst.