Emily Thomas Email & Phone Number

Edinburgh, Gb

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Money Dashboard is a start-up Fintech firm that helps people to better manage their money and produces aggregated market research based upon financial behaviours and trends. Emily's role as GDPR Lead is to help ensure that the right policies, procedures and system checks are in place to support the General Data Protection Regulation, which comes into force on 25th May 2018. Her scope is company-wide, including all operational and technology teams.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Roles for RBS and Lloyds Banking Group from 2013 onwards have been conducted through EITAS, a limited company.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

The Account Opening project was one of the key pillars of the Credit Cards programme. Emily managed the project from vendor selection through to the Test phase, at which point the Williams & Glyn (W&G) programme was closed down.Responsibilities:- Managed a contentious vendor selection process through to full stakeholder agreement- Held and managed the TSYS (external vendor) delivery, including the first implementation of a new TSYS system within the entire RBS group- Responsible for both Business and Technology delivery, including post-Live vendor managed services- Led a team that were forced to find pragmatic solutions to fixed constraints. These included a Technology delivery with very little scope for change and a reduced vendor services model

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Lead Business Analyst for the inception phase of a multi-million pound Global Payments transformation programme, leading a Feasibility Study to propose a suite of inter-dependent projects, with high-level costs and timescales. Ultimately, these Feasibility Studies made strategic recommendations about the future of the Payments platform and processes, with the ultimate goal of decommissioning and archiving elements of the heritage Bank of Scotland platform.Responsibilities: - Created the template for a costs and timescales Feasibility Study- Led the Business Analyst team to complete Feasibility Studies for approx. 20 proposed projects, including a consideration of inter-dependencies and alignments- Ensured all Feasibility Studies (approx. 20 projects) were delivered to a tight, 3-month schedule- Led discussions to ring-fence Operations resources and confirmed the programme’s senior single point of contact within Ops

Edinburgh / Glasgow

Business Change Project and Programme Manager (Vice President level) at Barclays Wealth and Investment Management. Emily was the Deputy for the Head of Change within the UK Private Bank. All roles involved managing regulatory or commercial projects initiated by, or impacting, Private Bankers and their support teams. Key specialisms:- Sales Process - Client Advice FrameworkRoles included:- UK Programme Manager: Global Sales Approach- Project Manager: Sales Supervision and Management (regulated by the FCA)- Client and Banker Workstream Lead: Small Accounts

Manager at Accenture, aligned to the systems integration group for Financial Services clients (Financial Services Industry Core Processes). PMP accredited, working mainly for Banking and Capital Markets Clients, with a principal focus on Corporate Banking and Payments.Roles included [client represented in square brackets]:- Requirements Manager: Mobile Banking [Nationwide] - Project Manager / Business Analyst: Payments Strategy and IT Review [Nationwide] - Test and Release Management Lead: International Testing [JP Morgan] - IT Project Manager: Disclosures - International Financial Reporting Standards 7 (IFRS7) [Deutsche Bank]- Technology Team Lead (Data and Environments): Core Banking and Payments [RBS: ABN Amro Corporate Banking separation]- Project Manager: SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area) Credit Transfer [Barclays]

M.Phil., Medieval English

Activities and Societies: St John's College Chapel Choir; Schola Cantorum of Oxford; Oxford University Drama Society

Ba Hons, English

Activities and Societies: Light Operatic Society (LopSoc)