Summary of Alastair Majury’s Hype News articles
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A round up of some of the stories from Alastair Majury on Hype News.
Councillor Alastair Majury on Bridge of Allan Tree Pruning Concerns
Dunblane and Bridge of Allan Councillor Alastair Majury, has written to the council on behalf of a number of Bridge of Allan Residents who are concerned about tree pruning in Bridge of Allan’s “The Avenue” that is scheduled to occur between 17th and 20th
Councillor Alastair Majury on Walkers Thankful for New Reservoir Bridge
Councillor Alastair Majury on Update on Waste Transformation Discussion at Stirling Council
The Green Councillor and an independent councillor proposed an amended.
Councillor Alastair Majury on Stirling Conservatives request public be listened to on waste.
A Profile of Alastair Majury
For several years now, Alastair Majury has worked extensively with a variety of financial institutions in order to offer the utmost comprehensive services.
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 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.
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.
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
Digital Business Analyst — Project Miricyl
Alastair Majury was working on a new mobile app focused to help young people with a variety of issues, including Mental Health.
Senior Data Business Analyst — Scottish Government Covid19 Project — Successfully Completed — Active BPSS
Alastair Majury was working on two Scottish Government programmes of work that will help keep the public informed of the current status of Covid19 in their local area, utilising Amazon Web Services technologies as the core platform
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
Royal Bank of Scotland — Senior Business Analyst: Ring-fencing Regulatory and Customer Due Diligence programmes
(Edinburgh) September 2017 — June 2019
· 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
Legal & General: HMRC Driven Annual Regulatory Programme of Work (Hove) November 2016 — January 2017
· 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.
Future Williams & Glyn: Senior Technical BA (contract) November 2015 to August 2016:
· 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.
National Australia Group Europe: Senior Business Analyst & Senior Data Business Analyst (contract) September 2013 to October 2015:
- 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’s Voluntary Roles
2012–2017: Officer at 25th Stirling (Dunblane) Boys Brigade
Relevant Earlier Career
§ 02/2013 to 09/2013: Standard Life: Consultant — Legislative & Regulatory Programmes
§ 07/2012 to 02/2013: Barclays Wealth: Senior Business Data Analyst — PBTV Programme (contract)
§ 09/2011 to 12/2011: Barclays Wealth: Senior Business Analyst — Project Gamma (contract)
§ 08/2011 to 09/2011: Citi: Senior Business Analyst — Fund Migration (contract)
§ 07/2010 to 07/2011: Royal Bank of Scotland: Change Analyst — Change Services (contract)
§ 11/2006 to 09/2009: HSBC Held Security Services: Market Data Administrator / BA (temp to perm)
Alastair Majury’s Education / Memberships
§ Pg Dip — Banking & Finance: University of Stirling
§ MSc — Information Technology: University of Stirling
§ MA — Economics with Business Economics: University of Glasgow
§ CISI (Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment) — Individually Chartered Member
§ Data Science — Edinburgh College NPA Level 6 (Jan 20201 to Current)
o This course will develop the knowledge and skills of the students in Data Science to support progression and employment. Learners will experience multi-disciplined programming languages including ‘R’ and ‘Python’ and will learn how to analyse and visualise data as a means of communicating important information.
Alastair Majury’s Professional Training
§ 6 Years Logged Continuous Professional Development (certified by CISI)
§ Six Sigma Green Belt Certificate, 2009
§ Lean & DFSS (Design for Six Sigma), 2010
§ APM (Association for Project Management) — Introductory Certificate, 2010
§ PRINCE2 — Foundation Certificate, 2010
§ CISI — Investment Administration Qualification (IAQ), 2010 (also known as the IOC — Investment Operations Certificate since 2011)
§ IBM Data Science Orientation (January 2020)
§ SAS Visual Business Analytics Professional Certificate (June 2020)
§ IBM Key Technologies for Business Specialisation (July 2020)
§ IBM Cloud Computing Core (August 2020)
§ IBM Key Technology Foundations (August 2020)
§ IBM Cybersecurity Fundamentals (August 2020)
§ IBM Data Visualisation Using Python (August 2020)
§ IBM Python for Data Science (August 2020)
§ IBM Hadoop Foundations (August 2020)
§ SAS Programmer Professional Certificate (August 2020)
Alastair Majury’s Agile Experience
§ User Stories, Product Backlogs, Iteration Planning, Specification by Example, Interdisciplinary Teams; Agile & Lean Start Up; Scrum including Scrum Master / Agile Coach; XP (eXtreme Programming), Kanban; INVEST (Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small, Testable); Culture of Continuous Delivery and DevOps; Automated Testing; Customer Journey –AIDAOR (Attention, Interest, Desire, Action, On-boarding, Retention)
Alastair Majury’s System Experience
§ Advent Geneva (Alternative Investment Manager); Reuters Terminal plus data products; Bloomberg Terminal plus Excel Add-Ins; HP ALM (Application Lifecycle Management); Deriv/SERV (Access Co-ordinator and Administrator levels); SharePoint; SOAPUI Pro; Trello; Ab-Initio; SQL including SQL Server; MS Word including Mail Merges; MS Excel Advanced including VBA Macro; MS Visio (BPMN); IBM Blueworks (BPMNv2); Avaloq; Toad for Oracle; Informatica Data Quality; Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS); Hadoop; Azure DevOps
Alastair Majury’s Product Knowledge
§ Equity; Fixed Income; Listed Derivatives; OTC Derivatives (with a focus on Credit Derivatives); Pensions; Mortgages including Current Account Mortgages; Business Loans; Business Secured Overdrafts
Alastair Majury’s Regulatory & Legislative Experience
§ Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority (Mortgage System); Williams & Glyn EU Divestment Programme; HMRC RTI (Real Time Information) (Pensions); PSD2 (Payment Services Directive 2); FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act); UK Budget (Tax & Pensions); PRA & FCA MMR (Mortgage Market Review); Basel III Requirements
Alastair Majury’s Personal Details
§ Location: Dunblane, Perthshire, FK15 — Able to work UK wide (Worked on site, in Hove, London, Birmingham, Milton Keynes, and in the Republic of Ireland)
§ Driving Licence: Full UK (clean)
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.
Some accurate press reports include:
Daily Record — Alastair Majury — Concerns raised over drainage and lighting issues at popular Dunblane play park
Daily Record — Alastair Majury — Dunblane residents left without new bins after warning letters arrived too late
Hype News — Alastair Majury — Call for Increase in Secure Cycle Lockers
Stirling Observer (Press Reader) — Alastair Majury Dunblane Skate Park Drainage
