Young Professionals & Professional Memberships: A conversation with Helen McKay & Craig Graham CCBI
Edinburgh, Lothians & Fife District Centre event
This event is being ran in collaboration with Scottish Financial Enterprise’s Young Professionals network (SFE YP) and is a follow up to February’s event on a similar subject with Milly Batchelor CCBI and Rory McIntyre CCBI.
In February we discussed how professional memberships and networks are great tools for younger professionals to gain traction in progressing their career. This was from the perspective of two younger professionals who have had success through their roles with the Chartered Banker Institute and with SFE YP, in this follow up we will continue this conversation from the perspective of two more experienced professionals.
Helen McKay of Lending Crowd is Chairperson of the Institute’s Membership Forum and Craig Graham is a Professional Standards Manager at the Institute. Both have a wealth of experience in the Banking Industry with different organisations and will be discussing how Institute membership and qualifications have helped them progress their careers as well as providing career advice for younger professionals.
MODERATOR
Rory McIntyre has been an employee of NatWest Group since 2016 and currently works as a Performance and Business Management Manager within the bank’s Services Workforce Enablement team. Most of Rory’s time with NatWest Group has been in a variety of business management roles relating to workforce management activities such as headcount forecasting and hiring governance. Following studies in Mathematics and Economics at the University of Strathclyde, he regularly seeks opportunities to apply his analytical skillset to streamline manual data manipulation processes and has become an Excel SME within his wider business unit.
Away from his day job, Rory is a keen musician, an ardent sports fan, and an active member of the Chartered Banker Institute’s Edinburgh Lothians and Fife District Centre, serving as Chairperson since early 2022.
SPEAKERS
Having worked for nearly 30 years in banking, during which time she gained invaluable experience in customer service, regulated activities and business credit, Helen joined LendingCrowd in 2014 as the fintech lending platform’s first employee. Helen gained her fellowship of the Institute in 2017 and was appointed as Chairperson of the Membership Forum in 2021 and is Past Chair of Edinburgh, Lothians & Fife District Centre.
Craig joined the Chartered Banker Institute after 18 years of banking experience in various roles across retail and commercial banking. Craig works as a Professional Standards Manager at the Institute, where he manages the relationship between existing and new clients helping them to meet training and education requirements. Part of Craig’s role also includes working with Fellows of the institute who are key advocates for Institute to keep the relationships strong.