A Profile of Alastair Majury

A Profile / Summary of Alastair Majury

Alastair Majury is a Senior Technical Business Analyst and Data Focused Regulatory/Compliance Scrum Master, who is very passionate, enthusiastic, and driven, empowered working with business stakeholders delivering what the business needs. Alastair Majury is a great problem solver, ascertaining the root causes of the crisis issues, and developing very positive solutions, improving business efficiency, and identifying and clarifying opportunities for Straight Through Processing, Robotic Process Automation, etc in order to allow employees to focus on the most value add aspects of their jobs and increase their productivity. Alastair Majury enjoys enlightening the business to the value of data, of “true golden” source data, so that they can turn this data into actionable business insights, looking to take all of Alastair Majury’s expertise to a very highly motivated, fast moving, forward thinking company. Experienced gained in the Public Sector, Third Sector, and Financial Services.

Alastair Majury’s Expertise

§ Technical Business Analysis specialising in Data related programmes

§ Developing Data Dashboards providing valuable Business Insights to Stakeholders of all levels

§ Regulatory and compliance process change including non-UK regulatory driven change and non-UK regulators

§ Life and Pensions Business Analysis experience gained at a number of clients

§ Alastair Majury’s Key strengths include: leveraging a breadth of in-depth knowledge across Financial Services sectors, including Life & Pensions, and asset classes to provide fit-for-purpose solutions;

Alastair Majury’s Client & Career Highlights

· National Australia Group Europe were piloting the introduction of Agile on their largest “Back Office” change programme when ensuring compliance with FATCA. As Scrum Master, Alastair Majury ensured that there was a good relationship between all elements of the development team, including clearing prior obstacles and politics, and with the Product Owner. Providing regular feedback to Senior Stakeholders who had an interest both in the success of the FATCA element, and the introduction of Scrum to National Australia Group Europe. This resulted in successful delivery of the programme ensuring compliance and a positive first introduction to Scrum.

Alastair Majury’s Career History / Clients

July 2020 to Present: Scottish Tech Army: Volunteer

Senior Business Data Analyst — Victim Support Scotland

Alastair Majury working with Victim Support Scotland and other Scottish Tech Army volunteers to introduce Microsoft 365 and Azure technologies to the organisation, and the creation of a Volunteer database with a SharePoint front end, to view and manage relevant data.

· Providing Prototypes to aid with remote workshops

· Produced Tactical solution until formal Database solution can be implemented

· Volunteer database utilising Microsoft Dynamics 365 as preferred solution, for better integration with other elements utilising Microsoft Dynamics 365

November 2016 to Present: Majury Change Management: Consultant

Clients and programmes of work during this period include:

Shree Partners: Principal Consultant/Scrum Master Statement of Work and Platform Upgrade (Birmingham and Milton Keynes) July 2019 — June 2020

• Alastair Majury was Engaged as a Scrum Master on behald of Shree Partners as their sole onshore representative at a potential Financial Services client’s sites.
• The programme served as the first adoption of Agile and Scrum, I was responsible for both coaching the Product Owner, and onshore (client’s) development team with the Agile Methodology and mindset, and ensure a good relationship between all team members, and stakeholders.
• Introducing the organisation to Behavioural Driven Development (BDD) as part of the introduction of Agile to the introduction.
• Robotics process automation — Delivered a 52% operational, and 15% quality assurance efficiency through robotic process automation. Solution extracted, read and matched data points across 30+ antiquated data sources with a capability of 500+ automated decisions. Responsible for SME workshop facilitation, capturing user stories, defining data requirements, determining system hierarchy, managing decision matrix, technical queries, test strategy, implementation, and support

· Alastair Majury was Engaged as Senior Business Analyst on ring-fencing regulatory and customer due diligence programmes. UK ring-fencing legislation requires each large UK bank to separate its retail banking activity from the rest of its business.

· Part of 4-person Trade Services project team. Personally, focused on Supply Chain Finance and Funded Trade products.

· Reviewed Trade and Legal Documentation to establish governing law and ensured all foreign law facilities reviewed by legal to enable smooth transfer.

· Ensured beneficiaries and clients included ring-fencing comms and produced communications material for Relationship Managers and other colleagues.

· Supported colleagues in sourcing facility documentation for Trade Western Europe clients.

· Supported adoption of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) for Customer Due Diligence (CDD) processes. Also, assisted with creation of VBA macros of RPA for CDD.

· Worked directly with Relationship Managers and suppliers to customers to complete legal transfers.

· Utilised variety of instruments including Funded Trade and Supply Chain Finance.

· Represented the business at Go/No Go meetings.

BNP Paribas — Senior Data Business Analyst: Data Hub Shared Services Centre project (London)

February 2017 — August 2017

· Alastair Majury was Engaged as Senior Business Data Analyst in Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB) working on a Big Data Hub Shared Services Centre project, including Data Processing Pipelines, Data Lakes, Cloud Computing, Hadoop, etc

· Project was producing global data hub to provide end-to-end data management services including Data Governance, Data Quality and real-time data intelligence to support Data Analytics and Exploration.

· Senior Business Analyst on Data Hub SSC services team working with colleagues in Paris and India.

· Produced service catalogue and cross-functional process flows for Data SSC services. Also, undertook defect management in the Dev and UAT environments

· Experience covered instrument types including Equities, Listed Derivatives, and OTC Derivatives

· Alastair Majury was Lead BA on Tax Year 2017/18 project producing requirements for both Mature Savings and Defined Contribution Workplace Pensions

· Lead BA on UNIPEN (legacy pensions system) Pre-Production project — producing requirements to ensure the key legacy system has a fit for purpose testing environment.

· Alastair Majury was Engaged as member of the W&G Technology Change department as part of the creation of the future Williams and Glyn (W&G) challenger bank.

· Assisted in stand-up of the IT Change organisation as part of a key programme team that established a strategic IT Change Team to form a responsive and Agile IT service change capability, leveraging the strategic technology partners.

· Member of multiple project teams depending on business requirements.

· Lead BA supporting development of “Change the Bank” and “Run the Bank” outsourcing contract; and creation of Change TSA with retained RBS; developing W&G CIO end to end project lifecycle flow.

· Lead BA developing W&G CIO end to end project lifecycle target operating models for both Agile and Waterfall development models ready for implementation

· Developed Service Introduction’s “Governance on a Page” and Test Assurance’s capability measurement form (Excel VBA Macro).

· Began looking at PSD2 for W&G and responsible for requirements traceability matrix.

· Working closely with Solution Designers to develop and get agreement on proposed solutions.

· In charge of parking for the W&G Technology Change department and overseeing a team wide desk moves within the department.

• Alastair Majury was Engaged as Business Analyst working simultaneously on 4 projects (Lead BA on 3) covering both “Back Office” and “Customer Facing” projects.
• All requirements produced using the “Specification by Example” Agile supported methodology.
• Member of multiple project teams depending on business requirements.

Key Projects

Mortgage Market Review Project: Senior Data Business Analyst on FCA regulatory project to enhance the existing Sales (PSD 001) report and to create a new Performance (PSD 007) report.

· Supported creation of a new Data Mart gathering information from 10 source systems

· Working closely as a Data Analyst with Enterprise Data Services and Enterprise Data Management and with front/back-end business units (including Fin Rep) to enhance process and correct DQIs.

· Created new Target Operating Model and Control Framework for Finance Regulatory Reporting

· Acted as Data Scientist to explore and examine data from multiple disparate sources and to communicate findings to both business and IT leaders.

· Acted as Data Analyst, deciding and documenting data flows, data transformations, and data lineage.

· Filled organisation gap acting as a Technical BA for the project as well as Lead Business BA.

· Analysed large volumes of data to support creation of a single data warehouse and reporting solution.

· Assisted in development of SAS Business Intelligence dashboard.

· Data Product Owner for both regulated Retail and Business mortgages

· Represented the business at Go/No Go meetings

· Responsible for requirements traceability matrix.

Siebel Risk Mitigation Project: Lead BA on strategic project to create and embed business continuity procedures to support a scenario where the Siebel Sales & Illustration platform (NAGE’s main retail sales platform) is unavailable for over a day.

Employee Enablement — Desktop Services Management Programme:Lead BA on enterprise-wide programme of work upgrading from Remedy 7.5 to Remedy 8.1 and integrating Microsoft Orchestrator into NAGE’s ITIL processes.

· Upgraded and enhanced existing functionality, information security, change management, incident management, and problem management

· Introduced (non-manual) IT Asset Management for National Australia Group Europe IT infrastructure.

· Expanded number of users from the system from approximately 100 to approximately 9,000 users, producing new Target Operating Models.

FATCA Programme: Part of largest Business Change “Back Office” programme of work as Lead BA for the Seibel UAT and Lead BA for the internal communications piece of work.

Alastair Majury has been falsely accused in the press of prior offensive behaviour. This has been thoroughly investigated by two independent bodies who determined that the allegations in the press were false.

Alastair Majury has always been of the view that as he said at the time

“I abhor sectarianism, and in fact any form of hatred that hurts or divides people.”

Unfortunately the media has not seen fit to print corrections to their stories of the time that contained the false allegations of prior offensive behaviour, after his public statement to a full meeting of Stirling Council where he clarified that contrary to what had been reported his views had always been and remain that he abhors sectarianism, and in fact any form of hatred that hurts or divides people.

Alastair Majury Chartered MCSI, is also a director of Majury Change Management Ltd is a highly experienced Senior Business Analyst / Data Scientist with a proven track record of success planning, developing, implementing and delivering migrations, organisational change, regulatory, legislative, and process improvements for global financial organisations, covering Retail Banking, Investment Banking, Wealth Management, and Life & Pensions.

For several years now, Alastair has worked extensively with a variety of financial institutions in order to offer the utmost comprehensive services. As a data scientist/business analyst, Alastair Majury Chartered MCSI is expected to find intuitive and sensible solutions to complex problems.

As a data scientist/business analyst, Alastair Majury Chartered MCSI has worked closely with several high-profile businesses, such as BNP Paribas, National Australia Bank, Standard Life and the Royal Bank of Scotland Group.A graduate of University of Glasgow, Alastair Majury Chartered MCSI earned his M.A. in Economics with Business Economics. Since then, Alastair has undergone several training sessions and earned multiple certifications for a variety of skills. More specifically, he has earned certifications in IAQ, risk management, resource management, and a bevy of other areas. Alastair Majury thoroughly enjoys his work.

What excites him most about being a data scientist/business analyst is that every problem has a variety of solutions. This allows for a great deal of creativity on his part. Providing ingenious solutions to his customers’ problems provides a great deal of satisfaction to Alastair Majury Chartered MCSI. Every single day can be a new and challenging problem.

Although he is a fierce and determined worker, Alastair also manages to find free time to embrace his hobbies and interests. Alastair is a major proponent of philanthropy and charitable endeavors. He constantly finds new and exciting ways to promote charities and philanthropic organizations in his community. He also tries to donate time and funds to said organizations whenever he can. Alastair Majury Chartered MCSI firmly believes that if we all work together towards a common goal, we can find peace.