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Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Deployed onto TSA Exit programme with focus on Finance and Anti Financial Crime (AFC), to assist with data separation activities from SLA. Responsible for Finance and AFC Exit activities across numerous core financial applications and functions (including Reg Reporting, Screening of PEP’s & Sanctions, Transaction Monitoring). Encompassing analysis.

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Deployed onto global cloud migration programme to manage the end to end process / plan for the HELIX Reporting Solution. Spanned across a number of projects with some of major components being managed by third parties (i.e. Deloittes and Accenture). The programme seeked to migrate existing healthcare data from existing country based policy systems onto a.

Edinburgh

Responsible for the establishment of a delivery plan, recruitment and management of a specialist team of BA’s, Data Analysts and third parties tasked with the IFRS17 data delivery for Aegon UK (Finance) in order to comply with the IFRS17 regulation set. Workstream spanned the entire project life cycle from requirement definition through to detailed design.

Gogarburn, Edinburgh

Responsible for leading a specialist data remediation team consisting of business and data analysts within Data & Analytics (PBB) orchestrating specialist remediation projects within a Customer Contact and Regulatory (such as European Deposit Guarantee Scheme) remit. Complexity and size has varied from project to project involving third parties (i.e..

Gogarburn, Edinburgh

Responsible for all aspects of Business Readiness, and stand up activity for PMA function within RBS and new bank. In particular, management and tracking of business project deliverables across the programme and associated quality. Preparation and support of senior executive documentation and materials pertaining to stand up of new banking functions to.

Dundas St, Edinburgh

Responsible for managing the Implementation & Cutover Risk Assessment project within the wider programme for Technology Services. Tasked with managing a small team of specialist Risk Managers and Risk Analysts conducting Risk Assessments. Focused on major technology Operational risks at cutover point for the new bank and RBS. Managing geographically.

Head Office, Glasgow

Deployed onto a specialist team set up to co-ordinate a response to a request received from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) - personal and business current account switching activity. Very complex set of returns with extremely aggressive timelines. Received the highest priority within the bank. Co-ordinated pooling of data sets from across the.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Deployed onto FINREP programme within Commercial banking to lay foundations for strategic programme and to cover project management tasks on tactical until solution implemented. Also providing cover for programme manager up until transition point across to Strategic (December).

Head Office, Glasgow

Deployed onto a regulatory workstream which was initiated in response to a high priority Governance report, under direct scrutiny of the CFO. Report highlighted a number of failings and gaps in the financial reconciliation framework centred on the banks European Data Warehouse (EDW). Given a very high priority due to the critical nature of the data flowing.

Wythall, Birmingham

Phoenix Group Solvency II programme - Design Cluster Business Process Lead replacing interim consultancy lead (PWC). Responsible for development and documentation of all business processes within the scope of Solvency II for the Life business, Group, and transition to BaU. Workstream RAG status at joining stage was red. Carried out analysis of existing.

Edinburgh / Netherlands

Deployed onto Aegon’s Global Solvency II programme. Responsible for Data Quality Management implementation within Corporate Centre. Primarily, a “hands on” project management role. Responsible for planning and implementation of Groups Data Quality Management approach to Solvency II. Group Corporate Centre is responsible for consolidating all reporting from.

Edinburgh, Lothian Rd

Deployed onto Solvency II programme within Reporting, Tax and Documentation workstream to manage Documentation effort for Standard Life. Produced high level Policy and Governance documents outlining Documentation Governance, Standards, Principles for entire organisation. Subsequently included in Group Policy statement. Responsibility for defining work.

Edinburgh

Responsibility for producing & managing process models / maps illustrating all processes associated within the Economic Framework (formally Economic Capital Model). Produced supporting documentation covering: any assumptions, known dependencies, issues effecting current reporting regime. The output (process models) is being used extensively throughout the.

Core Banking Team:Managed definition of Core Banking requirements (production of core Business Requirements Def / Spec) and capability design. Cross business liaison at all levels (incl. sponsors & exec).Key involvement in producing and supporting RFP for main banking supplier (banking platform)Key involvement in supplier capability (system) sessions.

Project Role(s)Engaged by Prudential to work on Transformation programme as Senior BA / PM. Contact Centre Programme: Intelligent / Natural Language Recognition: Metrics, Workflow / Process Modelling, Business Requirements specs, Third Party Management (VeCommerce), Stakeholder Management, WorkshopsSALAS Platform - Removal of Manual Processing: Pensions.

• Project RoleEngaged by HBoS on Platform for Growth and Faster Payments programmes as a PM. Faster Payments:
• Implementation – Planning, Workshops, Creation / Management of Task Lists, Deployment
• Provisioning Process for Applications under Faster Payments (analysis / production of requirements / SOC)
• Business Process Provision for Application Management
• Security / Risk Operational Compliance (HBoS / APACS)
• Support to Deployment Teams – liaison between business and IT for delivery of Faster Payments AppsPlatform for Growth:

• Project RoleEmployed by NAG (Business Change) on major Securitisation project. Produced:
• Business Requirements Specification (BRS) for largest single phase of programme. Impacting all major Finance Systems (ie RE, GL), Reporting (Hyperion, Holos) and Secured Recoveries (Oracle).
• Business Requirement Specifications for all impacted Basel / Regulatory Compliance components. Namely; Credit Risk Engine (UK & Global), Interest Risk Rate in the Banking Book (UK & Global), Integrated Regulatory.
• Business Process Definitions (identification of new processes / amendments to existing processes) covering all effected Business Units including Mortgage Services (new procedures / guides for Real Estate & Prevail.

• Project RolesRe-attribution Project – Business / Implementation Analysis, Task / Event Management Distributed Change Project – Project Manager (XP Rollout / Delivery)Distributed Change Project – Project Manager /.
• Managing Rollouts at locations throughout UK - including York and Glasgow (business, contact centres). Liaison between business and technical resources, management of third parties during rollout.
• Rollout preparation: Analysis of requirements, Customer Orders preparation, Application Packaging process control (management of third parties / support staff), implementation, and project management.
• Management of the preparation & migration of data from existing servers (NT / Novell) to new Storage Area Network.
• Management of: in depth analysis of business requirements, documentation of migration process, requirements gathering, process design, data structure design, liaison with business at all levels, project reporting.
• Third party management and liaison (ie NUCS) to ensure business requirements being met, and that project timescales being adhered to / deliverables being met

• Responsibilities / Experience:Senior Business Analyst / Proj Manager within Technology Services – Cross Platform Group.Project Roles Scottish Power – Senior BA: Transition Analysis (£10 mil) Consultancy Bid Work –.
• Company Performance Review Scheme
• UML & RUP Training Material Sales Support:Scottish Executive and Scottish Enterprise bids.Edinburgh City Council.

• Responsibilities / Experience: De-Regulation - Business Process Mapping project team: Responsible for carrying out Business Analysis and Design work concerned with the re-engineering of the Business for the open.
• Registration / De-Registration process interfaces for new & existing customers.
• Business Processing of DTC / CIDA flows Remedy Service Desk project:
• Detail the Units Requirements & Specifications
• Process Design and Documentation Tivoli Implementation:
• Business Requirements Specification

Responsibilities / Experience:Employed at the Lockerbie site to provide IT expertise across the business and to manage the introduction and implementation of a new Business System.  Management / Co-ordination of Site Support Business Systems Analysis and Design

Bsc (With Distinction), Business Computing

Hnd, Computing

Onc, Civil Engineering

Ond, Computer Studies & Applied Mathematics

7 'O' Levels; 3 Highers

Business Systems Analysis (Spring – Iseb Bcs Diploma In Business Analysis) – Oct 2003

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Software Engineering Certification Level 1 – Oct 2003

Data Migration Academy (Cgey) Eti Solution Toolset – July 2003

Tivoli: Software Distribution 4.1, Inventory 4.0, Framework (Elyzium) – May 2002

Solaris Systems Administration Ii (Sun Systems) - Dec 2000

Tivoli: Framework, Management Platform, Software Distribution & Inventory (Protek) - July 1998

Solaris Systems Administration I (Sun Systems) - Feb 1998

Systems Analysis & Design (Delphus) - Jun 1997

Prince – May 1997

Project Management (Parity/Bis) - Jan 1996