Dan Percy

Business and technology change professional with strong people and critical thinking skills, looking to apply my experience from large financial services organisations to provide solutions for not-for-profit, charitable and B-Corp organisations, that are innovative, sustainable, user-centric and which make responsible use of data and technology.

Selected Work Experience

Business Case Developer/ Digital Innovation Lead

Marie Curie | Jan 22 – Jan 24

  • Responsible for guiding business partners through options, evaluating benefits and providing justification for change

  • Established new business case process reducing time to complete from average 2 months to 3 weeks

  • Managed business case for full rebuild of website to break even after 2 years for £500k spend

  • Managed business case and vendor selection for a CRM for business development and fundraising

  • Developed prototype app for caregivers using low-code/ no-code tech

  • Designed and led workshops with medical and clinical stakeholders to develop a new virtual hospice service

Director

Synechron | Nov 16 – Nov 20

  • Business Consultant specialising in regulatory change, ESG and risk, in an advisory capacity or as a functional architect

  • Involved in proposal-writing and pitches, including a successful $90m multi-year global consulting portfolio

  • Prototyped solutions with global teams involving UX design, AI & data science and technology engineering

  • People-focussed ensuring that business strategy and planning also delivers career development opportunities

Principal Architect

HSBC Bank | Sep 13 – Jun 16

  • Accountable for producing cross-asset transaction reporting solutions for multiple global regulators

  • Led strategic review and re-design of global transaction reporting systems to provide a more scalable solution

  • Managed a global team of up to 31 business analysts

Skills

  • Critical thinker with good understanding of business knowledge and ability to meet business need

  • Digital Innovation practitioner with design thinking and design sprint experience

  • Enjoys problem solving as part of teamwork, happy to work with diverse perspectives and share success

  • Leadership, managing a global team of up to 32, and coaching & mentoring direct reports and external students

  • Experience of writing proposals and business cases and evaluating options and benefits

Achievements

  • Finalist WeAreTheCity Men for Gender Balance Award 2020

  • Finalist UK FinTech Team of the Year 2020

Education

The University of Birmingham | Sep 96 – Jul 00

BSocSc International Studies with Political Science (2:1 Hons)

Interests

Sustainability | Making | Science Fiction | Culture | Exercise | Volunteering