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 Achievements
§ Expert in enabling development and delivery of complex business process/system transformations for major Financial Services businesses to ensure compliance.
§ 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;
§ Successfully delivering critical regulatory and data projects across multiple regulators to ensure optimal compliance; working closely with both technical and business teams to coordinate efforts and drive effective delivery of organisational and system changes; and building collaborative key stakeholder relationships up to Board level to clearly communicate complex information and win buy-in to business goals.
Alastair Majury’s Key Skills
§ Technical Business & Data Analysis
§ Effective Delivery of Data Projects
§ Advanced Excel / VBA
§ Big Data & Cloud Computing
§ Process Modelling (BPMN v2 certified)
§ Data Migration & Warehousing
§ SQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Toad for Oracle
§ Data Visualisation: SAS BI, Power BI, Tableau
§ Data Migration
§ Experienced Jira user and administrator
§ Experienced in leading teams of analysts
§ Wireframing & Prototyping
§ Process Analysis & Design
§ Data Mapping & Data Governance
§ Scrum Master / Agile Coach
§ Writing User Stories (Specification By Example) supporting Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)
§ Requirements Analysis
§ Data Quality Analysis & Rules (including Informatica)
§ Cloud related Programmes of work
§ Six Sigma Green Belt Certified
Alastair Majury’s Client & Career Highlights
§ Standard Life needed to ensure their legacy pension system (PS) & newer SIPP/WRAP platforms were compliant with HMRC RTI legislation. As Lead Business Analyst, Alastair Majury ensured regulatory compliance. Understood legacy PS & key challenges; mentored & supervised new BA to produce requirements for SIPP/ WRAP platforms; rapidly developed business requirements; developed & agreed functional spec; and co-ordinated between business users, developers & off/on-shore testing teams. Succeeded in implementing the biggest change to PS platform in 35+ years to allow on time reporting of 30k+ pensions to HMRC.
· Legal & General needed to document BAU requirements for changes to their mature savings and pension systems. As Senior BA, Alastair Majuryensured systems regulatory & tax compliance. Understood issues with existing documentation; & mature savings processes; created fit-for-purpose & repeatable business requirements; reviewed Autumn statement & established only BAU requirements were needed; and achieved sign-off of completed requirements with all relevant stakeholders. Succeeded in completing requirements ahead of schedule & receiving highly positive feedback for the quality of work from the IBM project representative.
· 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.