Lucy Taylor

I have been working for two years at KPMG as a Technology Consultant, with experience working on large financial transformation Projects. I have had roles as a Business Analyst, Testing Manager and Team lead. I am passionate about enacting change and creating strong trusting client relationships. \i am proficient in Python, R, and SAP

KPMG UK (Professional Services firm) Oct 2022 - Present

Consultant, Technology Enablement 

Support clients transform the way they manage and deliver services to their customers through large scale digital transformation programmes that enable business strategy, deliver value, agility, and efficiency.

National Standards Body and Payments Operator - Payment System Implementation

• Created Test Plans for Sprint, E2E and Industry testing
• Led Client Workshops with Senior Stakeholders outlining the system’s functionality, which increased client satisfaction and trust
• Created and refined requirements through User Stories on Jira
• Produced and presented a multitude of demos of the systems to Programme Leadership and the C-Suite
• Produced high quality test scripts to fit refined requirements for system testing
• Executed Sprint and various cycles of E2E tests on Zephyr
• Interacted with a variety of Financial Institutions 

• Worked as a Test Lead on a £100m ERP transformation
• Developed a strong proficiency in SAP S/4 HANA Cloud and took ownership of this aspect of the value chain, becoming an SAP Finance SME on the programme
• Worked one on one with the stakeholder to refine the requirements through chairing multiple workshops 
• Built test scenarios to fit the requirements 
• Created Test scripts for User Acceptance Testing 

• Acted as head of an Improvement initiative that strived to improve the E Grade experience at KPMG, leading around 30 people split into 5 streams, each with their own stream leads
• Interacted directly with Senior Leadership to host events and enact change that improved the E Grade Experience. 
• Showcased the Initiative’s progress at Department level meetings to over 150 people

University College London – Distinction, MSc Social and Geographic Data Science 2021-2022

Principles of Spatial Analysis – Developed analysis skills in R and Python

Dissertation topic - Created a wildfire prediction model incorporating human factors – Data Analysis on R

University of Nottingham – First Class Honours, BSc Geography 2018-2021

Developed skills in ArcMap, SPSS and ERDAS Imagine