About Jen
English
Native or bilingual
Thai
Conversational
Experience
- Natwest GroupGroup Lead Commercial Strategy AnalystBANKING AND INSURANCEJanuary 2025 - January 2026 (1 year)50 Bishopsgate, London, England, United KingdomResponsible for leading the review, negotiation, and renewal of all credit reference agency (CRA) contracts across NatWest Group, specifically focusing on Equifax, TransUnion, Creditsafe and other companies such as TTG and Arkline.My role involves identifying and securing cost-saving opportunities, ensuring contractual terms are commercially advantageous, and safeguarding group wide compliance and value. I also provide strategic support on Experian contracts as needed, contributing to the broader optimisation of CRA relationships and procurement efficiency across the organisation.
- Phoenix Asset ManagementLead Business Analyst /Compliance Project ManagerBANKING AND INSURANCEApril 2023 - December 2024 (1 year and 8 months)20 Old Bailey, London, England, United KingdomSupporting the Direct Liquid Investment programme of work with streamlining risk and controls processes for trading.
- Supporting the Direct Liquid Investment programme of work with streamlining risk and controls processes.
- Lead for Third Party Assurance Assessment, contract negotiations, vendor management with BT & Bloomberg including Information Security questionnaires & Governance approvals
- Collaborate with senior management to refine business requirements for Aladdin Enterprise
- Working with Head of Compliance to establish new processes for mandate monitoring incl. team/FTE set up
- Map As-Is and To-Be processes for pre and post-trade compliance, including attestation and breaches protocol
- Manage regulatory reporting requirements for sanctions and trades with new report implementations and demos
- Support Product Control to implement new reports and provide demos on how to use Aladdin View
- Partner with development teams to extract and send reports from Invista for external AML screening
- Conduct thorough data analysis, cross-referencing received data with executed trades
- Engage and manage vendors for financial crime screening tool evaluations (World Check, Bloomberg Vault Surveillance, Finscan), presenting recommendations at the Solutions Forum for approval
- Map As-Is & To-Be for AML/KYC screening including creating standard operating procedure documents
- Map As-Is& To-Be for ESG process and highlighting areas of risk to Head of Trading
- Drive projects, implementations, tasks to completion including best execution, risk and control framework, mandate monitoring, ops risks review/audit, lead First Line and Second Line Compliance with change
- Review SQL data and reporting processes for Product Control, assessing potential output within Aladdin
- Working with Acadia to establish Backtesting process and escalation to ISDA
- Facilitate daily standups, manage RAID logs, and escalate resource requirements ensuring project continuity
- Nationwide Building SocietyLead Business Designer / Business Analysis LeadBANKING AND INSURANCEJanuary 2022 - March 2023 (1 year and 2 months)Swindon, England, United KingdomLeading on the initiation and scoping of new digital customer journeys for mobile & internet banking for ID&V by working with Product Owners to create high level epics and scope. Managing and supporting a team of 15 Business Analysts (Trainee to Senior) including contractors. Lead BA on the Consumer Duty project to create and simplify handbook/guidance documents.
- Reviewing book of work for the team and proposing the best solution to link the work items to the Objective Key Results to illustrate benefits of tasks to strategy
- Coached and lead the business analysis team, act as a recognised expert, continuously reflecting, challenging the team and creating an environment for success
- Set the methods and standards for eliciting requirements, defining standards and quality targets whilst managing multiple stakeholder perspectives and expectations
- Provided business process design and documentation expertise, recommend business process and/or system improvements using formal and informal techniques. Lead the development and implementation of these improvements / new processes
- Provided guidance and feedback on how to improve the quality of the business analysis team and ensure that changes implemented result in a positive customer outcome
- Supervised efficient working of teams, provide feedback including managing performance appraisals
- Assessing team skillset and horizon planning for training needs and potential work coming up
- Resource allocation to ensure the skillsets matches tasks required including recruitment/interviews
- Proving regular updates to Chief Product Owner and Senior Management on team progress/issues
- Elicited business requirements and creating user stories, acceptance criteria (GWT) and hosting daily stand-ups
- Worked with Tech & Dev to share and walkthrough the requirements and obtain estimates
- Validation of requirements for Fraud reporting as part of the Payments Directive regulation
Recommendations
Be the first to recommend Jen
Help this freelancer shine by sharing your experience working together.
These freelancer profiles also match your criteria
Agatha Frydrych
Backend Java Software Engineer
4.7
(3)
2
Baptiste Duhen
Fullstack developer
4.6
(4)
5
Amed Hamou
Senior Lead Developer
4
(2)
7
Audrey Champion
Web developer
4.3
(3)
4
Education
- Business Analysis in PracticeQA2015Business Analysis in Practice
- Business Analysis FundamentalsDeutsche Bank by IIBA)2014Business Analysis Fundamentals