Scott Foster Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

Working as the lead analyst on the Master Data Management Project leading a team of up to four analysts to gather requirement's and turn them in to dev ready stories for the development team to deliver for the business to consume. Arrange planning of two weekly sprints within a 90-day cycle based on business priorates and assign resources as required. Engaging with various stakeholder across the insurance world, compliance, credit risk, actuaries both analytical and pillar actuaries, underwriters (All departments), the CDO and there Data & MI teams.Leasing with downstream systems to integrate the MDM data with there system to maximise the benefits MDM, connecting via, UI, API and data views.Working with developer to release enhancements and new features into the production pipeline.Mentoring and tutoring new team member and ensuring any leavers had provided adequate knowledge transfer. Feeding into various elements such as the Product User Group, Quarterly New Underwriting New Services Meeting and Executive summaries.

London, Gb

As part of the Master Data Management project. Concentrating on Reference Data, particularly Industry/Occupancy data sets mastering across LSM globally.Stakeholder management with heads of department and heads of business across multiple countries.System investigation and consumption, data modelling.Also involved with data cleansing, process design, migration planning and testing.Syndicated Insurance & London Insurance Market data.

Offering consultancy services to corporate clients to improve Business and Data services within their organisation.Anything from streamlining a process to utilising undiscovered data to open up new opportunities or locate risks.Examples of my data visualisation work can be found in the featured section above this is for Tableau and Power BI, the Power BI links are web links you do not need Power Bi to gain access.Examples of my Excel work non-VBA and VBA can be found under the following link along with some of my project ethos: http://consultingsynergyltd.com/example-work/Additionally: Creating a brand identity for Consulting Synergy Ltd across multiple media, including creating and maintaining the company's webpage and social media. Set up company banking systems, monitoring & controlling budgets.

London, Gb

Data migration project to unify global reporting under one golden source managed by an outsourced third party.Acceptance testing of Global Data Dictionary, sourcing data and verifying appropriateness for MVP1Utilising domain knowledge of derivatives to advise on appropriate methodology and attribute issues.Operating Shadow Middle Office testing, running and creating reports, NFE’s & EUC helping resolve large numbers of data breaks.

London, London, Gb

As an associate of Ammonite Data, I provide strategic consultancy for data lead change and transformation initiatives along with steering clients through all phases of programme/ project delivery.Specialising in data visualisation and telling stories through data insight.Looking for data insight to find patterns and correlations that will allow improvements in rail safety and best guide safety investment.Producing visualisation in Python and Power BI (including interactive dashboard linked to updateable data source)Identifying and ingestion new data sources from external vendorsMeeting clients and client groups to discuss prioritisation and gain a fuller understanding of potential data source and data shortfalls.Collating and writing user stories using.

London, Uk, Gb

As a consultant I provided Data, & Project services alongside Investment and regulatory expertise.Delivering the Invested assets workstream of the solvency II acceleration project 6 months ahead of schedule.Delivering a decreased solvency II deadline by a fifth attained by maintaining and updating the PRL and mapping of the SII & IFRS process’s as is then redesign. (including splitting reports out to allow multiple edits and increasing efficiency 62%) then mapping as will be, plus undergoing a series of cross training session to enable a truly flexible team.Running, maintaining, and improving an ETL process taking it from a manual to a semi-automated process.Stakeholder management both interlay across departments, management groups as well as externally with third party suppliers.Conducting Cost- Benefit analysis, GAP analysis Creating report and feedback for both internal consumption (data modelling) and externally regulatory purposes using a variety of methods, SQL, Tableau, Excel (both with and without VBA) Business Objects.As a consultant I provided Data, alongside Investment and regulatory expertise (SII, IFRS, RDR, MiFID, CASS, CSDR).Conducting a requirement gathering operation and carrying out team workshop’s before Analysing and mapping the existing error tracking process for data issues, to improve via a full redesign and create a proposed new service level agreement and KPI’s for the clients third party administrator. Ultimate outcome was an easy-to-use multi-functional dashboard that could track, investigate, and report on data quality and general data issues.General data quality & integrity checks as well as undergoing data cleansing and reconciliation.

London, Gb

As a consultant working with the Investment operation team to review and engage the new “Wealth Retirement Project” which was friends Life new customer facing investment platform for pension investments post pension reforms pre Aviva merger.Conducting operation analysis of the programme including contractual agreement and presenting the finding to relevant committees.Leasing and improving communications between Fund operations and Investment Proposition, for both Corporate and heritage parts of the business.Looking at client retention projects and conducting gap analysis on fund agreement.

London, Gb

As a consultant working with the Investment operation team to review and engage the new “Wealth Retirement Project” which was friends Life new customer facing investment platform for pension investments post pension reforms pre Aviva merger.Conducting operation analysis of the programme including contractual agreement and presenting the finding to relevant committees.Leasing and improving communications between Fund operations and Investment Proposition, for both Corporate and heritage parts of the business.Looking at client retention projects and conducting gap analysis on fund agreement.Database clean-up and integrity maintenance of the internal fund database.Program analysis and review for presentation to relevant Committee.Client retention projects on a corporate pension basis.Conducting GAP analysis on the fund of fund agreement.

Bath, Somerset, Gb

As the Investment analyst and Investment committee secretary for both Novia Financial and it’s DFM trading name Copia Capital Management I was responsible for the review and investment proposition of the nonstandard /esoteric assets. Ensuring due diligence and suitability for the platform.Providing knowledge and expertise on Fund assets (UT, UCIS, UCITS, NURS, IT’s, ETFs, Equities etc.)Sole responsibility as a leading member of the RDR project team for decision on relocating assets when moving from Dirty to Clean share classes.

Basingstoke, Hampshire, Gb

As investment analyst I was providing management information and analysis to the Investment Committee.Conducting market and fund research and analysis, tracking market developments.Preforming and managing reconciliation check between data sets, both internally & with external suppliers. Gap analysis, integrity checks.Analysing & assessing the onboarding of new funds /fund groups including acting as the gatekeeper for the Elevate platform. Cost benefit analysis, Due diligence, portfolio review, prospectus review all formed part of this process.Benchmarking the performance of internal funds and promotions against competitors and market benchmarks which included internal confirmation of value created by inhouse investment arm.

London, Gb

Responsible for a large geographical sales patch covering both Foreign exchange and Interest rate derivative, Basic Foreign Exchange & Money Market.The ultimate responsibility for all Global market’s products in my area, direct responsibility customer with an FX requirement of £5 mill per annum. Undertaking cost analysis and evaluations of products, including running scenarios on the effects of moves in the underlying market.Tailoring solution to best fit the customer requirement including considering trade contracts and invoice financing, lead times as well as what type of market we were in and the clients requirement i.e. to outperform or to lock in and protect etc.Using statistical analysis to monitor the market moving averages, Bollinger bands, Fibonacci series to spot retracement possibilities and resistance / support levels.

London, Gb

Money Market Dealer.Looking after high net worth individuals.High level of customer service.Communicating with outsourced departments.IT liaison.

Continuous Professional Development

2:2, Business Management

H.N.D Business Studies, Business Studies