Alex Leigh

Experience

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  University of Cambridge

  Jan 2018 - Jan 2019

  - Organised and led all events throughout the academic year.- Provided pastoral and academic support to current students.- Responsible for facilitating communication between current students and alumni. - Volunteered at outreach events, entry exam preparation daysfor state school students, open days & summer schools

  • President - T. Batterby Mathematical Society

    Jan 2018 - Jan 2019

  • Student Maths Ambassador

    Jan 2018 - Jan 2019
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  Baringa Partners

  Jul 2018 - Aug 2018

  Summer Intern
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  Baringa

  Sept 2019 - now

  - Owned & led the requirements gathering, definition and prioritisation of MI requirements for a multi-year project, ensuring that the project was able to track and quantify benefits against a multimillion pound business case. My involvement reduced MI delivery timelines & costs by 20%.- Used SQL to translate business rules into code in order to assess volumes & £ impact of automation on a workflow.- Directly line-managed a junior data analyst and supported them in their onboarding and training.- Led on the continued development of backend APIs for a cloud-hosted (Azure) web application, training up a junior developer.- Supported the frontend development of web application using React.- Founded & led a culture-focused workstream within my internal team aimed at creating spaces for colleagues to contribute to & nurture our team culture as we grow Show less - Delivered a suite of backend APIs for a cloud-hosted web application (Azure) using Azure Functions, Python and Pydantic, working within a DevOps framework.- Iterated & streamlined a comprehensive market model built using Power BI & SQL for a large software company, ingesting 6+ internal and external data sources.- Led design of a new reporting product, including surrounding data governance & assurance, for the data & reporting arm of a government department.- Delivered report-building training workshops for senior stakeholders focused Power Query & Power BI, building dashboard design best-practices, and automated report building techniques.- Acted as pastoral manager for multiple junior team members, conducting regular check-ins focused on workload management & professional development.- Company-wide coordination of wellbeing champions, cross-department, promoting collaborative working and knowledge sharing to improve employees’ wellbeing (1000+ company).- Wellbeing champion & qualified mental health first aider (MHFA) within my own business unit, founding & expanding our internal wellbeing team, whose output included monthly wellbeing initiatives, drop-in sessions and one-on-one support. Show less - Delivered first phase of data governance programme for a large government organisation, including bringing a scoped dataset under governance by delivering a data dictionary, data lineage & CRUD documentation, and building a data ownership model.- Created & rolled out a data quality dashboard and used this to perform root cause analysis on a prioritised data challenge.- Designed & built an interactive Power BI tool for Baringa’s climate change solution, which aims to advise large financial institutions on the impact of climate change on their assets & portfolios. The tool was highly successful and was subsequently sold to BlackRock in 2021.- Built a Power BI tool for business leaders to understand staffing pipeline.- Supported in the creation of a comprehensive Data Strategy for a large London Market insurer, including conducting in excess of over 60 one-on-one data gathering workshops.- Supported the build of a churn propensity model in Python for larger publisher, which resulted in targeted initiatives to reduce predicted churn.- Led socials agenda in my business unit, including organising events and managing the budget.- Part of CSR group responsible for pushing internal green transition, including roll-out of reusable coffee cups company-wide. Show less

  • Senior Data Consultant

    Jan 2023 - now

  • Data Consultant

    Apr 2021 - Dec 2022

  • Data Analyst

    Sept 2019 - Mar 2021
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  Self-employed

  Oct 2023 - now

  Maths Tutor

  - KS3, GCSE & A-Level maths tutor offering 1-to-1, interactive tutoring online.- Bespoke, tailored problem sets, revision posters & cheat sheets developed to address target areas.- Experience working with students with particular educational & learning requirements.