A fantastic opportunity to bring my skills and knowledge from my previous roll to assess the compliance needs and bring cookie and 3rd party vendor management processes into place to help address a large risk in data and regulatory needs into the newspaper and its subsidiary sister business units.

Lead Business Analyst, driving privacy compliance specifically in the area of GDPR, setting the tools in place for meeting the regulatory needs, and planning and getting underway the role out of cookie compliance needs for the companies 100+ publicly facing websites.

• Led strategic change on an Agile delivery programme to digitise the cheque and paper credit payment sector across UK Banking.• Completed feasibility studies as well as impact and cost benefit analysis• Utilised Jira and Confluence tool including managing/maintaining the sprint product backlog in Kanban and producing user stories/Epics as Product Owner.• Led a team of Business Analysts, monitored performance and influenced key decisions to ensure the solution to migrate to a new… Show more • Led strategic change on an Agile delivery programme to digitise the cheque and paper credit payment sector across UK Banking.• Completed feasibility studies as well as impact and cost benefit analysis• Utilised Jira and Confluence tool including managing/maintaining the sprint product backlog in Kanban and producing user stories/Epics as Product Owner.• Led a team of Business Analysts, monitored performance and influenced key decisions to ensure the solution to migrate to a new digital payment method to meet the outcome for Barclays and other banks involved in the process.• Mapped AS IS and TO BE process models as well as several high level to low level Process flow of the multi day payment system.• Supported the design, development, testing and deployment of the new payment system from a business perspective. • Led the successful design of a new payment system that included the end to end money flow though customer and GL. Show less

• • Played a pivotal role in the design and implementation of a new in house-built system that automated several manual back office processes and delivered savings of over 40% (50FTE) in operational costs.• Prepared documentation including Business Process Diagrams, Work Flow models as well as Gaps, Risks, Issues, Assumptions and Dependencies (RAID). • Gathered requirements via workshops and ensured these were accepted and approved by stakeholders.• Prepared Key Project… Show more • • Played a pivotal role in the design and implementation of a new in house-built system that automated several manual back office processes and delivered savings of over 40% (50FTE) in operational costs.• Prepared documentation including Business Process Diagrams, Work Flow models as well as Gaps, Risks, Issues, Assumptions and Dependencies (RAID). • Gathered requirements via workshops and ensured these were accepted and approved by stakeholders.• Prepared Key Project deliverables, Operational Designs; Implementation Documentation and supported the preparation of Design and Testing documentation and senior management reports.• Reported on performance against plans, monitored for risk issues, led risk/change assessments as well as project assurance activities.• Supported the completion of testing activities and produced training and Operational Guides for the new and changed business processes being delivered. Show less

• Led operational change to support the definition of the business case for automation of a manually managed front office and back office processes. • Mapped ~200 AS IS process diagrams and mapped to the future TO BE models for the new system and operational design.• Maintained strong stakeholder relationships, influenced decisions and ensured effective communication through all project stages. • Engaged with operational departments and SMEs to understand business needs and… Show more • Led operational change to support the definition of the business case for automation of a manually managed front office and back office processes. • Mapped ~200 AS IS process diagrams and mapped to the future TO BE models for the new system and operational design.• Maintained strong stakeholder relationships, influenced decisions and ensured effective communication through all project stages. • Engaged with operational departments and SMEs to understand business needs and requirements.• Reviewed and implemented quality control procedures through regular spot checking and providing constructive feedback. Show less

• Senior BA on several projects, managed key stakeholders including Operational Departments, IT Dept, Client and engaged with Business Units to produce training and Operational Guides for the new and changed business processes being delivered.• Led BA on the integration of newly acquired business (~100+ FTE) into the organisation.• Supervisory responsibility for junior BAs, monitored performance and reported progress to the Project Manager.• Performed requirement elicitation from… Show more • Senior BA on several projects, managed key stakeholders including Operational Departments, IT Dept, Client and engaged with Business Units to produce training and Operational Guides for the new and changed business processes being delivered.• Led BA on the integration of newly acquired business (~100+ FTE) into the organisation.• Supervisory responsibility for junior BAs, monitored performance and reported progress to the Project Manager.• Performed requirement elicitation from senior stakeholders to capture business needs and documented to fit into the project inception plan. Show less

• Senior BA on voucher processing system integration and operational unit site migration, Office of Fair Trading (OFT) – cheque clearing, processing systems upgrade and roll and large scale multi operational unit migration.• Assigned as Business Change Manager UK & Ireland for voucher clearing operations, scoped/gathered change requests and assessed the impact on the business needs and supplying cost analysis of the change.