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London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting. The knowledge Services department provides specialist research and knowledge management services retail banking investment banking insuranceWorks with a wide range of information tools and proprietary databases to provide research for client projects and business development.Provide both quick solutions and in-depth research for the business.Leverage the Knowledge Management team to provide joint solutions on projects.Assist in the education and training of the consulting staff both with research issues generally, and with end-user training specifically.Work within the framework of the European based team, sharing work and experience and helping build the research function in the region

Promoted directly from Assistant-level to Senior Executive-level (bypassing Executive-level) due to significant impact made in first 18 months. New responsibilities included management of the intern programme and database contacts and negotiations.Research information leveraged from databases including: ThomsonOne; Zephyr; Orbis; Factset; EIU; OneSource/Avention; EIU; governmental and NGO statistical data stores. Production of reports to provide intelligence for: Strategic development of the network; business development targeting; M&A targeting; credential building; and corporate research.Monitoring KPI’s through Google and SharePoint analytics to asses member firm presence on internal databases; collaborating with member firms to increase their online presenceProcessing, mining, quality control of incoming data sets and uploading of credentials to SharePoint for use by the networkMonitoring usage of internal systems and provide statistics to other GTIL teamsProjects at GTIL included:Performed a capability analysis of our member firms. The capability analysis allowed us prioritise the strategic development of member firms in order to better serve international clients.The development of a global visualisation model which allowed member firms to quickly create branded maps displaying coverage, capability and opportunities, for a wide variety of purposes, such as proposal documents, internal reporting and presentations. Created an advisory scorecard which is used to determine the level of interaction firms have within the network. This helps the team focus on relationship building throughout the organisationParticipated in several CSR initiatives including a project in Ethiopia. This involved repairing a charity’s employee database, in MS access, and provided lessons in MS excel to students approaching the end of their secondary education.

Manifest assesses the corporate governance of large publicly traded companies against codes of corporate best practice (e.g. Council of institutional investors). Depending on adherence to corporate best practices, Manifest will cast their clients votes at each annual general meeting.Day to day duties involved:Examining the remuneration policies of major public listed companies.Determining whether our clients should use their investments to vote for, against or abstain at each annual general meeting Analysing data sets using Excel with the use of complex formulas and a variety of functions.Editing reports to ensure adherence to the Manifest House style using functions such as macros. Cleansing and entering large volumes of accurate data into an Access database.Training new members of the data team. Producing bespoke research reports.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc) (Hons), Environmental Science

Education record

3 'A' Levels, Biology, Physics, Mathematics