Analysis & Consultancy

Business Analyis, Data Analysis, Project Delivery 

Ben Daine

Unlocking your Business Potential with Strategic Solutions

Empowering businesses with tailored consultancy, precise data analysis, and seamless solution assessment. I drive meaningful change in every project I undertake.

Highly skilled Senior Business Analyst with a wealth of knowledge in translating complex stakeholder requirements into clear and simple strategic delivery solutions to meet the needs of our customers and meet organisational goals. I am an experienced leader, coach and mentor who creates safe environments to enable teams to develop and grow ensuring each delivered exceptional results. I have had considerable experience in all methods of change delivery, including agile and waterfall. I am enthusiastic about leveraging data driven approaches to enhance the customer journey and drive business growth.

I provide a full range of Business Analysis services to support organisations of all sizes, spanning many different industries. Using effective communication, I  work as a liaison between a variety of audiences, including business users, IT professionals and other stakeholders, in order to gather, analyse, communicate and validate requirements for changes to business processes, policies and information systems.

I have the knowledge and techniques required to identify business needs and recommend solutions that enable our clients to achieve their goals. Solutions often include a systems development or integration component, but they may also focus on business processes or on organisational change.

 

Using proven methods, tools, and techniques, I can:

  • Work with Systems Analysts, business and end-users to understand business needs
  • Gather and develop current and future state business documentation
  • Model, abstract and simplify complex concepts so they can be understood by a variety of stakeholders
  • Elicit requirements and work with use case modelling, use case narratives, and user stories
  • Perform conceptual data modelling, functional specification modelling, and process modelling
  • Run facilitated sessions for requirements discovery, problem investigation, and/or to make group decisions

A phone call away

Gain access to two decades of professional experience in:
  • Business Analysis 
  • Data Analysis
  • Process Modelling
  • Process Automation and Improvement
  • Solution Assessment
  • Project Delivery 
  • Financial Services
  • Credit Risk
  • Enterprise IT 
  • Regulatory Compliance

Example Projects

CRDIV Regulatory Data Management 

Led a project to analyse, understand and document the underlying data to be used in the bank's capital models.  This data was to be used for revised LGD, PD, EAD, and BEEL modelling, validation and monitoring as well as for a new compliant Definition of Default.  Mapped each data item back to original source, analysing the data journey from start to finish.Produced data dictionaries and data lineage, documented data controls and identified controls gaps working with engineering to introduce new controls for these gaps.  Use of SAS and SQL to analyse data.

Mortgage Migration

A multi-billion-pound mortgage migration to move mortgages from their legacy source system to the strategic mortgage platform. This was a complex project requiring analysis to understand and reconcile financial components of the legacy system, engaging and managing stakeholders across 17 key finance areas.

Windows 7 Upgrade

Lead BA on a programme to upgrade >100,000 clients from Windows XP to Windows 7 for a very large financial services company.

New Model Execution System.

Led the analysis from concept to implementation for the introduction of a new Prudential model execution system to run the bank's Risk models, replacing legacy tools, EUCs and manual processes. Ensuring the new system was able to meet customer requirements and deliver benefits.

Cyber Security

Lead BA on Cyber Security Programme for large FTSE 100 company, leading the Information Asset Protection work stream, responsible for a portfolio of five projects with a budget of £15m.

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