Stuart Balfour Email & Phone Number

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

• Project-managed entire life-cycles of two projects, consisting of a team of 20+ people, across the Payments function in the Digital & Transformation department of a Tier 1 bank.
• Led a complex Agile with Technology regulatory delivery to ensure the bank can continue to send scheme-compliant SEPA payments – outcome delivered was a payments offering which was fully compliant with the SEPA.
• Simultaneously led a strategic project which extended the Bank’s SEPA product to three further jurisdictions, obtaining market parity, improving the offering to customers as well as the bank’s competitiveness in the.
• Created and re-shaped multiple delivery plans throughout the 18 months, reporting to the Bank's Head of Payment Operations and Head of Product.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Inter-departmental role, assisting both Motor and Property in the Actuarial team and working closely with the head accountant to help the company to meet with the new IFRS 17 standards
• Responsible for preparing the renewal data and upload templates for several clients
• Prepared the experience rating and pricing data, including working on development patterns and catastrophe modelling
• Consultant to the broking team
• Passed the CB1, CB2, CB3 and CP3 actuarial exams in two sittings

London, United Kingdom

• Consultant in the Global Services and Solutions branch of WTW’s HQ
• Project managed benchmarking and global benefits review projects across up to 8 countries, through all delivery stages, from selling the project to the client, through to completion and winning further business
• Developed knowledge and skills in an extensive variety of areas, from pensions to M&A projects
• Assisted in the development of a financial wellbeing diagnostic tool

Paris 08, Île-de-France, France

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Attained the prestigious Carnegie Vacation Scholarship, intended for Scottish undergraduate students who have shown exceptional merit at university.

Aillon-le-Jeune

Master Of Business (Mbus), International Business With Modern Languages, Pass With Distinction

• Distinction for all 5 years • Principal Business Subject - Economics • Principal Language - French

Education record

Erasmus exchange programme - spent entirety of 4th year at one of France's most prestigious business schools. All classes taught and.