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I am a highly motivated, experienced Technical Business Analyst with a proven ability to hit the ground running and adapt quickly to new challenges. I have excellent interpersonal skills and am adept at building strong relationships with customers, and I am well suited to working within a team.
I am seeking contract roles as a Business Analyst, Change Manager or Data Analyst, open to roles inside or outside IR35 and ideally hybrid within the central belt, but I will work in other locations. I bring a wide breadth of technical support and development experience as a Technical Business Analyst, Data Analyst, Change Manager and Team Leader, and I am an enthusiastic advocate of Agile methodologies.
Skills
Language
English
Fluent
Work Experience
Business Analyst and Change Management Team Lead at Morgan Stanley
October 1, 2023 - September 1, 2025Leading process improvement and change management of key regulatory reporting functions. Defined processes that can be improved and implemented automation tools to drive efficiencies, ensuring uptake within the team and delivering training and support. Developed key system processes using Alteryx workflows, to reduce manual effort and human errors, and increase quality controls and checks. As Change Team Lead, managing the team’s goals and providing support and guidance to the team. Project management of tasks within the global team, tracking progress and reporting to key stakeholders using Excel, Power BI, Visio and Tableau.
Lead Data Business Analyst at Aberdeen Standard Investments
September 1, 2020 - April 1, 2023Responsible for data separation of Phoenix from SLA. This required analysis of large data sets to extract key information as well as liaising across various business and IT teams to ensure no financial penalty is met at the end of the agreed period for separation. Working across multiple projects simultaneously using Agile methodologies, such as User Stories and ADO boards for projects under extreme time pressure and subject to scrutiny at the highest level within the company. I have worked on Marketing and Infrastructure, installing a Marketing Campaign Automation product, using Eloqua, which is integrated with Salesforce, creating a new Document Management system, integrating with existing Fund Management database, using Aprimo integrated with a new Sales Enablement tool using Seismic and Seismic LiveDocs. Financial projects which required a full understanding of Fund Products and their relationships as well as ensuring all key functions were appropriately tested according to plan an
Lead Business Analyst at Aberdeen Standard Investments
April 1, 2018 - February 1, 2020Lead BA for an integration project, gathering requirements from a variety of Business Users across technology footprint to facilitate the increased efficiency from rationalisation of technologies. As Lead BA, also managing resources and workload against deadlines. This role required strong analytical skills and written and verbal communication, plus proactive initiative to adapt to changing requirements.
Developer and Lead Business Analyst at Morgan Stanley
March 1, 2015 - March 1, 2018Developer and Lead BA within the Finance Regulatory Reporting team in EMEA. Working in an Agile team using JIRA, initially as a developer for a new platform to report to Bank Of England; liaising with project team and Business Users to establish detailed requirements and ensuring tasks are 'ready for sprint' and maintaining accurate progress. Focus on identifying problems faced by Business Users, maintaining reporting to latest regulatory requirements (BASEL, MiFID, EMIR) and defining solutions to reduce time, effort and risk. This role involved data upstream providers, XML report development for ETL, and reporting dashboards using Power BI; documented the full system.
EMEA Regional Support SME at Morgan Stanley
September 1, 2012 - March 1, 2015Final line of support for all applications in the Regulatory suite, requiring management of high severity incidents, onboarding new applications, ensuring documentation is complete and accurate, coordinating global communications, and managing Problems to drive continuous improvement in service and reduce outages.
Application Support Team Lead – ‘Run The Bank’ at Barclays Wealth
June 1, 2011 - September 1, 2012Technical support of Front Office Trading, Middle Office Trading and International Products to ensure smooth operation in a high-pressure environment. Incident management for major issues, on-call duties, and line management tasks for the team.
Support Consultant at Sword Ciboodle/Rtel
March 1, 2008 - June 1, 2011Support for multiple mission-critical applications on Unix and Windows; service desk management; Application Owner and Operational Manager for the Document Storage system (Livelink); SME for the document storage domain; responsibility for enhancements and patching.
Administrator - Scotland at Street Child Africa
February 1, 2005 - February 1, 2007Setting up and managing Scottish office of a small charity; fundraising and awareness; presentations to organizations and schools.
Analyst Programmer at Kyndal Spirits Ltd
May 1, 2000 - December 1, 2002Support and maintenance of Progress systems (Proteus and MFGPro); development of new systems using Webspeed and Zope; Unix-based environments with some Linux development; helpdesk and intranet development.
I. T. Professional Officer at Glasgow City Council
August 1, 1997 - October 1, 1999Correction work, maintenance and enhancement of the Non-Domestic Rates Progress database; interface development for Y2K compliance; upgrading Progress V6 to V8 on a UNIX box.
Education
Pg Dip Information Technology (Medical Physics) at University of Aberdeen
January 11, 2030 - March 6, 2026BSc Hons Physics at University of Glasgow
January 11, 2030 - March 6, 2026Qualifications
Alteryx Designer Core Certified
January 11, 2030 - March 6, 2026Industry Experience
Financial Services, Professional Services
Skills
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