Ian Mcghie Email & Phone Number

Senior consultant with 25 years of financial technology analysis and delivery experience, including:● Project management- Preparation of proposals; project initiation, planning & estimation; resource/budget tracking; milestone management; quality planning/management; RAID; status/progress reporting- Management of up to four concurrent projects, for a single stakeholder and across multiple stakeholders- Experience of iterative, agile and waterfall deliveries of both fixed price and time & materials projects- Project manager and/or lead business analyst on ~40 projects● Business analysis- Requirements capture; functional specification; gap analysis; documenting business/process flows- Preparing user stories; defining acceptance criteria; producing wireframes/mock-ups; structuring epics; configuring boards- Planning, authoring, reviewing, presenting, iterating and managing timely sign-off of document deliverables- Test planning, preparation and execution; capturing evidence; collating and publishing results; defect management; UAT support- Running basic SQL queries for data analysis purposes; preparing entity relationship diagrams● Advisory/consulting- Current and target state analysis; TCO analysis; preparation of current/target state operating models; system selection● Team leadership- Management of teams of up to 17 multidisciplinary consultants, mainly developers, business analysts and quantitative analysts● Stakeholder management- Requirements gathering; specification sign-off; design walkthrough; expectation management; status meetings; UAT management- Working closely with sponsors, senior business users, client project managers, IT managers and other key project personnel● Vendor management- Management of vendors; coordinating plans and integration activities; managing interdependencies; tracking progress/status● Sales/pre-sales- Developing relationships; identifying opportunities; analysing business cases; preparing/reviewing costed proposals● Recruitment and career management- Screening/reviewing CVs; interviewing candidates; mentoring; reviewing performance● Financial services- Broad understanding of trade lifecycle for all asset classes- Deep knowledge of FX front office processes and systems- Knowledge of rates & credit front office processes and systems- Exposure to investment banking and asset/hedge fund management- Limited exposure to insurance via Solvency II programmes● Project tools- Power user of Jira, Confluence and Microsoft Project- Expert in Excel, Word and PowerPoint- Proficient in Visio and Balsamiq

Listed skills include Business Analysis, Requirements Gathering, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, and 35 others.