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Senior business analyst
Audie Waterman
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POLEGATE, United Kingdom
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I am a Professional Scrum Master, senior business analyst, project manager and consultant; Within the financial services industry, specialising in pensions and wealth management: • Responsible for the full project lifecycle from identifying change and aligning that with the strategy all the way through to successful project implementation. • Ensures that optimum business solutions are delivered to meet internal and external customer requirements and within all constraints and budgets, to prescribed methodologies, Prince2 and Agile. • Extensive experience in pensions, annuities and investment management in small and medium sized companies and complex worldwide organisations. • Audie's preferred methodology to work with is Agile; Recognising though that methodologies can and should flex to the need of the client and project. • Experienced in User Experience, UX journeys and design across mobile applications and websites for large multinationals and small start ups
Qualifications • PSM1 • FPC1 • 9 GCSEs • MoD recognised teaching qualification • DofE Expedition Supervisor • Lowland Leader • Activity First Aid • First aid instructor • Private Pilots Licence
Qualifications • PSM1 • FPC1 • 9 GCSEs • MoD recognised teaching qualification • DofE Expedition Supervisor • Lowland Leader • Activity First Aid • First aid instructor • Private Pilots Licence
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United Kingdom
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Language
English
Fluently
Ready for
Larger project
Ongoing relation / part-time
Full time contractor
Available
My experience
2017 - ?
freelance
Business analyst consultant
M&G Investments.
Key deliverables were:
• Direct to consumer website uplift
• Customer experience work in relation to the direct to consumer journeys
• Lead analyst for a new proposition to deliver a way to bridge the advice gap in the UK
• GDPR compliance
• Work with machine learning and marketing firm to optimise the customer experience for the platform offering
• Provide expertise and training in relation to the tools used currently (JIRA and Confluence)
• Direct to consumer website uplift
• Customer experience work in relation to the direct to consumer journeys
• Lead analyst for a new proposition to deliver a way to bridge the advice gap in the UK
• GDPR compliance
• Work with machine learning and marketing firm to optimise the customer experience for the platform offering
• Provide expertise and training in relation to the tools used currently (JIRA and Confluence)
Marketing, Machine learning, Jira, Training, Customer experience, GDpr, GDPR Compliance, Website, Compliance, Confluence, Analyst
2008 - ?
job
Professional Scrum Master
Own Limited Company.
The main services my company offers and that I personally provide are:
• Consultancy
• Professional Scrum Master
• Project Management
• Process analysis
• Systems Analysis
• Business Analysis
• Data Analysis
• Testing
• Personal and corporate coaching
• Training
• UX
A summary of what I provide to my clients is:
• Assessing current business processes and possible change to benefit the company; Advising on options for solutions with associated; Costs, Risks and Benefits
• Creation of data models and analysing the best set-up to use based on the current system architecture.
• Creation of process flows and workflow solutions to ensure efficient use of resources and systems
• Initiation of projects, deciding on things like:
◦ What the plan will look like
◦ Required resource profile
◦ Required time to go live
◦ Best methodology to use
◦ What is the scope of the project
◦ What project artefacts are most suitable
◦ Producing business cases for each strategic requirement
• Taking and owning the requirements; Working with stakeholders, users and product owners using stories or traditional requirements, again what suits the project is the focus. My output can be in any of the following:
◦ Functional specification
◦ Non-functional specification
◦ Stories using Agile methodologies
• Forming lasting relationships from key stakeholders to end users both internally and external suppliers and clients in the UK and worldwide.
• Facilitating knowledge flow across the project from end users, stakeholders and sponsors to developers and testers; Ensuring the level of detail and understanding is correct for each audience.
• Creating, maintaining and continual assessment and mitigating actions for; Risks, Issues, Actions and Decisions.
• Working with UML, Prince2 or Agile Methodologies
• User Acceptance and Systems Integration Testing
• User Experience UX, for applications and websites of start-ups and multinationals
CONTRACT CLIENT SUMMARY
• Consultancy
• Professional Scrum Master
• Project Management
• Process analysis
• Systems Analysis
• Business Analysis
• Data Analysis
• Testing
• Personal and corporate coaching
• Training
• UX
A summary of what I provide to my clients is:
• Assessing current business processes and possible change to benefit the company; Advising on options for solutions with associated; Costs, Risks and Benefits
• Creation of data models and analysing the best set-up to use based on the current system architecture.
• Creation of process flows and workflow solutions to ensure efficient use of resources and systems
• Initiation of projects, deciding on things like:
◦ What the plan will look like
◦ Required resource profile
◦ Required time to go live
◦ Best methodology to use
◦ What is the scope of the project
◦ What project artefacts are most suitable
◦ Producing business cases for each strategic requirement
• Taking and owning the requirements; Working with stakeholders, users and product owners using stories or traditional requirements, again what suits the project is the focus. My output can be in any of the following:
◦ Functional specification
◦ Non-functional specification
◦ Stories using Agile methodologies
• Forming lasting relationships from key stakeholders to end users both internally and external suppliers and clients in the UK and worldwide.
• Facilitating knowledge flow across the project from end users, stakeholders and sponsors to developers and testers; Ensuring the level of detail and understanding is correct for each audience.
• Creating, maintaining and continual assessment and mitigating actions for; Risks, Issues, Actions and Decisions.
• Working with UML, Prince2 or Agile Methodologies
• User Acceptance and Systems Integration Testing
• User Experience UX, for applications and websites of start-ups and multinationals
CONTRACT CLIENT SUMMARY
Agile methodologies, Go, Processes, UP, Assessment, Detail, Testing, Business cases, Workflow, Architecture, UML, Integration, Management, Data Analysis, Agile, Training, Prince2, Scrum master, Websites, Business Analysis, UX, Coaching, Scrum, User Experience, Project Management
2016 - 2017
job
Senior Business analyst, Product Owner, SME
FIL Investments International.
Key deliverables were:
• Senior Business analyst for a key remediation project with £15m budget
• Lead analyst, supporting key stakeholders in detailing and prioritising requirements
• Creation of UI workflow system for a remediation project
• Creation of new business and system process flows for the end to end remediation project and the various modules that are being delivered
• Creating solutions and consultancy on best options with stakeholders and the development team
• Providing final sign off for delivery of all items
• Direct support and development of database solutions to support data cleansing activities and requirement gathering.
• Process design
• Consultant and SME for Target Operation Model
• Support and leadership for 2 local BAs and 1 based in India, 2 multinational development teams each of 10 people, data cleanse team of 6 people, 4 key stakeholders and 3 third party suppliers
• Provide expertise and training in relation to the tools used currently (JIRA, Confluence, LeanKit) and source new tools as required
• Support the key Agile roles within the team with Agile expertise and help in the context of Scrum Master and Business analyst roles
• Senior Business analyst for a key remediation project with £15m budget
• Lead analyst, supporting key stakeholders in detailing and prioritising requirements
• Creation of UI workflow system for a remediation project
• Creation of new business and system process flows for the end to end remediation project and the various modules that are being delivered
• Creating solutions and consultancy on best options with stakeholders and the development team
• Providing final sign off for delivery of all items
• Direct support and development of database solutions to support data cleansing activities and requirement gathering.
• Process design
• Consultant and SME for Target Operation Model
• Support and leadership for 2 local BAs and 1 based in India, 2 multinational development teams each of 10 people, data cleanse team of 6 people, 4 key stakeholders and 3 third party suppliers
• Provide expertise and training in relation to the tools used currently (JIRA, Confluence, LeanKit) and source new tools as required
• Support the key Agile roles within the team with Agile expertise and help in the context of Scrum Master and Business analyst roles
Database, Process design, Development, Analyst, Support, Confluence, Workflow, Leadership, Product owner, Design, UI, Agile, Training, Budget, Scrum master, Jira, Scrum
2016 - 2016
freelance
Freelancer
Upwork.
• Data clean-up
• Creating migration ready data from existing database
• Creating migration ready data from existing database
Database, UP
2008 - 2010
job
Project Management
Pension Protection Fund.
Croydon
Areas of expertise my utilised
• Business Analysis
• Systems Analysis
• Data Analysis
• Project Management
• Agile and Waterfall Methodologies
• Pensions
Examples of work undertaken for the client
• Analysis for Invoicing Project
• Maintaining and updating the actuarial calculation spreadsheet in conjunction with the scheme actuaries
Areas of expertise my utilised
• Business Analysis
• Systems Analysis
• Data Analysis
• Project Management
• Agile and Waterfall Methodologies
• Pensions
Examples of work undertaken for the client
• Analysis for Invoicing Project
• Maintaining and updating the actuarial calculation spreadsheet in conjunction with the scheme actuaries
Data Analysis, Project Management, Business Analysis, Agile, Management
2005 - 2008
job
Business Analyst
Xafinity Paymaster.
My role was a typical business/system analyst role, Producing business cases and options papers then taking a project from the initial requirements through to implementation, to highlight some of the tasks I undertook whilst in this position:
• Identification of the initial requirements via interview and workshops with internal and external stakeholders and users
• A project I was business analysis for was in making changes to the existing payroll platform to make it scalable for the next 10 years of business. The change was to bring move to the PenServer and Compendia platform.
• Providing full estimations of the work involved to provide the analysis, documentation, testing and support
• Creation of the Project Initiation Documentation, business specifications and functional specifications through to detailed test plans.
• Creation of process maps
• Creation of data mapping documentation using a variety of styles including pseudo code within the documents, use case scenarios and class diagrams, to plain English explanations with diagrams to explain to all stakeholders the scope of the project and the solution being proposed
• Identification of Risk and Issues
• Building and maintaining a database for finance reconciliation employing VBA, GUI front end and working with the finance team on UX.
• Waterfall methodology (Prince2)
• Identification of the initial requirements via interview and workshops with internal and external stakeholders and users
• A project I was business analysis for was in making changes to the existing payroll platform to make it scalable for the next 10 years of business. The change was to bring move to the PenServer and Compendia platform.
• Providing full estimations of the work involved to provide the analysis, documentation, testing and support
• Creation of the Project Initiation Documentation, business specifications and functional specifications through to detailed test plans.
• Creation of process maps
• Creation of data mapping documentation using a variety of styles including pseudo code within the documents, use case scenarios and class diagrams, to plain English explanations with diagrams to explain to all stakeholders the scope of the project and the solution being proposed
• Identification of Risk and Issues
• Building and maintaining a database for finance reconciliation employing VBA, GUI front end and working with the finance team on UX.
• Waterfall methodology (Prince2)
Test, Testing, Business cases, Data mapping, Analyst, Support, Implementation, It, Workshops, UX, Finance, Interview, VBA, SoMe, Database, Prince2, Business Analysis
2001 - 2005
job
Senior Pensions/Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, Quality Assurance Analyst
Hewitt Associates, Herts.
I progressed through three roles in my time at Hewitt Associates:
• Senior Pensions/Business Analyst
• Systems Analyst/Developer
• Quality Assurance Analyst
My role as a Senior Pensions/Business Analyst involved undertaking the following tasks:
• Coding and running SQL within the mainframe system.
• Creation of macros using wizards and VBA within in spreadsheets to automate reporting and calculation tasks.
• Writing and delivery of training and process documentation
• process mapping and documentation
• Evaluation of software from various suppliers, presenting cost analysis reports and preferred supplier recommendations
My role as a Systems Analyst/Developer involved undertaking the following tasks:
• Gap analysis
• Identification of the preferred software solution
• Coding complex variable code statements written in XML and SGML
• Coding basic HTML and css statements
• Working closely with the designer to ensure the final product was visually perfect
• Translation of the configuration document into:
◦ Functional specifications
◦ Process maps
◦ Data mapping documents
◦ Coded variable documents
• Creation and delivery of training material
My role as a Quality Assurance Analyst involved undertaking the following tasks:
• Identification of testing issues and gaps in the specifications documents
• Creation and execution of test plans
• Testing paper and web based documents and systems
• Senior Pensions/Business Analyst
• Systems Analyst/Developer
• Quality Assurance Analyst
My role as a Senior Pensions/Business Analyst involved undertaking the following tasks:
• Coding and running SQL within the mainframe system.
• Creation of macros using wizards and VBA within in spreadsheets to automate reporting and calculation tasks.
• Writing and delivery of training and process documentation
• process mapping and documentation
• Evaluation of software from various suppliers, presenting cost analysis reports and preferred supplier recommendations
My role as a Systems Analyst/Developer involved undertaking the following tasks:
• Gap analysis
• Identification of the preferred software solution
• Coding complex variable code statements written in XML and SGML
• Coding basic HTML and css statements
• Working closely with the designer to ensure the final product was visually perfect
• Translation of the configuration document into:
◦ Functional specifications
◦ Process maps
◦ Data mapping documents
◦ Coded variable documents
• Creation and delivery of training material
My role as a Quality Assurance Analyst involved undertaking the following tasks:
• Identification of testing issues and gaps in the specifications documents
• Creation and execution of test plans
• Testing paper and web based documents and systems
Mainframe, Basic, Web, Software, Testing, Presenting, Data mapping, Process Mapping, Analyst, Quality Assurance, Css, Developer, Test, VBA, Training, XML, HTML/CSS/Javascript, Writing, Sql, Html
2001 - 2001
temp
Pension Analyst
Securitas, Herts.
My role as the "in-house" representative for pensions involved undertaking the following:
• Creating and documenting processes
• Creating training material
• Creating systems and process specifications
• Informing the decision making process when selecting a new pensions administration provider
• Checking manual calculations, for all of these schemes, which included, GPP, DC and DB.
• The GPP and DC scheme had a salary sacrifice element which I needed to support
• Implementing a Section 32 transfer
• Presenting at pensions training seminars for the company
• Creating and documenting processes
• Creating training material
• Creating systems and process specifications
• Informing the decision making process when selecting a new pensions administration provider
• Checking manual calculations, for all of these schemes, which included, GPP, DC and DB.
• The GPP and DC scheme had a salary sacrifice element which I needed to support
• Implementing a Section 32 transfer
• Presenting at pensions training seminars for the company
Administration, Training, Support, Analyst, Presenting, Pension, Calculations, Processes
1998 - 2001
job
Administrator
unknown.
July 1998 to February 2001 - LV formally National Mutual, Herts (Permanent)
Pensions Analyst
My role was pension analyst involved undertaking the following:
• Manually processing and checking contributions and investments
• Being the main Administrator for the two largest schemes in the department
• Creation of automated processing for the largest scheme
• Learning and developing my pensions knowledge
• The knowledge learnt was in manual calculations for; SIPP, SSAS, DC, DB, Salary Sacrifice, PPP and GPP
Pensions Analyst
My role was pension analyst involved undertaking the following:
• Manually processing and checking contributions and investments
• Being the main Administrator for the two largest schemes in the department
• Creation of automated processing for the largest scheme
• Learning and developing my pensions knowledge
• The knowledge learnt was in manual calculations for; SIPP, SSAS, DC, DB, Salary Sacrifice, PPP and GPP
Analyst, SSAS, Pension, Administrator, Calculations, Processing
1997 - 1998
job
Pensions Analyst
Aviva.
My role was pension analyst involved undertaking the following:
• Manually processing and checking contributions and investments
• Being the main Administrator for the two largest schemes in the department
• Creation of automated processing for the largest scheme
• Learning and developing my pensions knowledge
• Manually processing and checking contributions and investments
• Being the main Administrator for the two largest schemes in the department
• Creation of automated processing for the largest scheme
• Learning and developing my pensions knowledge
Analyst, Pension, Administrator, Processing
1996 - 1997
temp
cover temp worker
Short Term Emergency.
Database Administration, Accountancy, General Admin
I made myself available to agents as a short term worker to cover sickness and other short termneeds for my skills:
• Placement in various accountancy firms for anywhere between a couple of days and a few weeks
• Database entry tasks to cover short term needs, typically the work was quoted in multiples of days and I'd halve the original quote. This worked well for my reputation with the client and the agency.
I made myself available to agents as a short term worker to cover sickness and other short termneeds for my skills:
• Placement in various accountancy firms for anywhere between a couple of days and a few weeks
• Database entry tasks to cover short term needs, typically the work was quoted in multiples of days and I'd halve the original quote. This worked well for my reputation with the client and the agency.
Administration, Database, Database administration
1996 - 1996
internship
Trainee Accountant
Long & Company.
My role was trainee accountant and involved undertaking the following:
• Producing VAT returns for dental firms, at the time 3 years at a time!
• Assisting with auditing for limited company accounts
• Preparation of small company accounts
• Producing VAT returns for dental firms, at the time 3 years at a time!
• Assisting with auditing for limited company accounts
• Preparation of small company accounts
Accountant
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