Alexander Scott

BCS qualified business analysis professional, experienced in the management of business analysis functional teams across multiple applications.  Personally skilled in the analysis, evaluation, and delivery of complex transformation projects. Key strengths include: skilled in both Waterfall and Agile methodologies including Scrum and Kanban; proficiency in multiple aspects of business analysis throughout the business change life cycle; utilising strong business analysis and project management skills with the ability to develop trusted relationships with stakeholders across the organisation to deliver programmes on time and to specification.

June 2023 to date : iamproperty : Business Analysis Manager

Property Technology Company

• Recruitment and management of the Business Analysis team.
• Definition and documentation of team ways of working to ensure a consistent approach to analysis across multiple applications and projects.
• Upskilling individuals through effective development to provide a high standard of analysis.
• Creation of performance metrics to monitor backlog health across delivery teams.
• Managing and prioritizing the team's workload and assignments, ensuring timely delivery of project deliverables.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and collaboration on project objectives and deliverables.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs, objectives, and requirements.
• Lead the identification, analysis, and documentation of business requirements, processes, and workflows.
• Manage the change request process for technology changes required from the business users.
• Conduct business analysis activities for company compliance application.

Feb 2023 to May 2023: Qrious : Senior Business Analyst

Experience Transformation Agency

• Working alongside client stakeholders to capture and document requirements for a new salesperson app for a nationwide doorstep sales company.
• Working alongside UX designers to transform these requirements into designs.
• Refining designs with client product owners to ensure business requirements fully met.
• Translation of designs into a backlog of work to be delivered using scrum agile methodology.
• Backlog prioritisation to deliver key functionality for user testing.
• Facilitating scrum ceremonies (Stand ups, Refinement Sessions, Sprint demos, Retrospectives).
• Analysis of client Oracle database to ensure integration of data from new app.

Key Projects & Achievements:

• Quick documentation and delivery of key functionality including basket, checkout, customer profile and journey pages of new app.

October 2022 Feb 2023: CEF : Business Analyst

Leading British Electrical Wholesaler 

• Working with stakeholders to capture and document requirements for cloud based (AWS) Domain for customer data.
• Work with cross functional team to create backlogs.
• Integral part of Domain Leadership Group driving agile principles across development.
• Providing analysis to feed into data mapping of legacy systems.
• Completing Impact Assessments to assist in business prioritisation of work.
• Capture and document requirements for central file storage application.

Key Projects & Achievements:

• Facilitated workshop defining work to create and migrate data into a Customer Domain

May 2021 to October 2022: De La Rue: SC Cleared Business Analyst 

British multinational Currency and Authentication company, with revenues of over £400 million.

• Appointed as the lead BA on a new UX project, redesigning the customer experience and the UI across the Order Management system. 
• Utilising Agile principles with internal and 3rd party software development teams, internal and external customers globally.
• Capture and document as-is processes for the existing Order Management System.
• Create and manage backlog for redesign of Order Management processes and user interface.
• Provide analysis on strategy for delivery schedule.
• Lead continuous improvement across operational, transformational, and development projects to safeguard achievement of divisional objectives.
• Lead backlog refinement sessions to understand, develop and size user stories.
• Capture of training requirements.
• Capture system defects and prioritisation for resolution.
• Engaging stakeholders to understand current processes and issues.

Key Projects & Achievements:

• Standardised methodology and controls for evaluating and monitoring transformation initiatives across the business.
• Standardisation of NFR approach across the business.
• Design of on-site UAT strategy.
• Strategic separation and redesign of User Interface.

June 2014 to May 2021: WorldPay: Business Analyst

American multinational payment processing company owned by FIS, with revenues of over $3.9 billion

• Hired to support WorldPay through a circa £500m transformation project building a new acquiring platform to facilitate the separation from Royal Bank of Scotland.
• Capture and documentation of business as-is processes.
• Gather, categorise and prioritise system requirements.
• Represent business interests during design sessions.
• Production of to-be procedures for the new platform.
• Engagement of stakeholders for sign off on key stages in the program.
• Facilitated business engagement strategy through provision of detailed and accurate analysis to project teams and business leadership.

Key Projects & Achievements:

• Developed and embedded time-critical functionality procedures and controls to facilitate the migration of customer accounts.
• Created test scenarios and captured system defects, prioritising for resolution.
• Tracked progress and monitored risk associated with migration of new data, coordinating the successful assimilation without impacting daily operations.
• Created proposal packs for stakeholders to identify key issues with a solution focused initiative.

• IS Business Analyst Level 4
• International Diploma in Business Analysis (BCS) - Nov 2020 
• Certified Advanced Scrum Product Owner (Scrum Alliance) - Nov 2020 
• Practitioner Certificate in Business Change (BCS) – Sept 2020 
• Practitioner Certificate in modelling Business Processes (BCS) – Jul 2020 
• Practitioner Certificate in Requirements Engineering (BCS) – Jun 2020
• Practitioner Certificate in Business Analysis Practice (BCS) – May 2020
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (Scrum Alliance) – May 2020
• Certified Kanban Systems Design (Kanban Foundation) – Mar 2020
• Certified SAFe 5.0 Practitioner (SP) – Feb 2020
• Professional Certificate in Management – Dec 2014
• HND: Newcastle College