Data Consultant And Business Analyst
Independent Consultant
London, United Kingdom
Providing independent consultancy for a range of contract roles. Key roles and highlights during this period: Solely responsible for the development and submission of global bank data to Global Credit Data – an agency backed by a worldwide consortium of banks, recognised by regulators. The role entailed analysis of the requirements, mapping these with internal data availability and developing and managing a project plan and data strategy to deliver successfully. There was a large amount of stakeholder management with senior management, the agency and regional teams liaising on project plans and strategy.Developing and delivering a solution that enabled stress testing data to be delivered to the regulatory body, EBA (European Banking Authority). The role included business analysis on the requirements, data sourcing and development of the tool and quality checks that would satisfy an audit as well as the development of MI/reconciliation reporting.Working for a start-up company which delivers credit-cycle solutions to financial institutions I was responsible for developing and documenting a full testing policy and strategy within the company. With nothing in place I developed a full development and testing structure that could be implemented and communicated to clients to provide auditable evidence of data quality and solution development processes. Working on the project to migrate global data from a variety of sources into a single Big Data solution to be used for modelling, monitoring and analysis purposes. Work involved technical and business analysis on the systems, requirements capture, design and development of the full end-to- end system, implementing the ETL process that delivered a SAS data warehouse used globally.Working on the support and development team for an Operational Risk solution, implementing the SAS EGRC application upgrade. This included a new data model and the requirement to maintain customisations within the platform.