Rob Howe Email & Phone Number

Surbiton, GB

• Assembling an international team of asset-creators, coders, and scientific advisors. Project and team management, coding, graphic design, and full sole executive creative control, training and mentoring junior coders..

Paris La Défense Cedex, FR

• Infor SUN Systems plus a suite of addins (Professional Advantage iPOS, etc)
• General management, administration, support and responsibility for the systems.
• Controls and compliance ownership; defining and managing UAT.
• Process documentation, implementation and upgrade management, BA and project management roles.
• Strategic planning and development of financial systems ecosystem in general.

Fort Lauderdale, FL, US

• Overseeing all technical and process issues relating to financial systems.
• Systems and business analysis work in a bespoked, MS Dynamics (Great Plains) and SQL Server environment.
• Ongoing input into various project streams, using Jira and Confluence.
• BI design and deployment management, workshops with SMEs and definition.
• Liaison between finance and IT, and system admin for Great Plains.
• Managing major incidents. Reporting code triage, design and development of new SQL code, and bug and data fixing, establishment and rollout of new processes. Contract and support liaison with third-party companies.

• Short-term and ad-hoc consultancy and development of client systems, to keep some work flowing during the pandemic lockdown.

Warrington, Cheshire, GB

• Obtaining ownership and full expertise in an undocumented, bespoke system dealing with all aspects of company operations.
• Managing consultancy and development project for system end-to-end, costing and time/resource allocation. BA and project management roles. Workshopping.
• Design and development of all code and GUIs etc. Scoping, documentation, resource planning, UAT, data-flow and business process reengineering. Defining and designing business processes within systems and within.

Stockport, England, GB

• Design and programming of an interim system from scratch, which would transition smoothly into a selection of “off the shelf” products a few years later.
• Rollout of new business and data processes to support the financial management of tenancies. Data mapping and load into the interim system, and out of it at the conclusion of the project.
• Defining data-ownership/control and policy decisions around master data, establishing VAT rules, defining, developing and mapping the as-is and the to-be processes. UAT management. Huge cost-savings and removal of a.

Sydney, AU

• New South Wales Government Access database project:
• Skype-managed contract.

Cork, IE

• Unpicking and reengineering complex semi-automated ETL reporting. Multi-dialect SQL and reverse-/re-engineering Excel, VBA and Crystal reporting tools.
• Implementation of data controls and masks and governance rules. Introduction of new business processes for departments with impacts on FP&A source data.

Chiswick, London, GB

• Implementation of Workday Financials with HCM:
• Data cleansing, mapping and transfer from SAP to Workday Financials via EIB (.xml files). Creation of VBA tools for data analysis, cleansing and upload.
• Financials implementation was abandoned due to product incompatibility; I took redundancy.

London, Greater London, GB

• Further development of the solution previously built for the client (see in 2014).

London, Greater London, GB

• Integration of Raiser’s Edge with new VBA data analytical/reporting dashboard tools in Excel.
• Design and programming of charity campaign expenditure tracking tools and templates, interfacing with automated reporting. Bringing in line with GAAP.

London, England, GB

• Design and programming of a semi-automated Credit Control work tracking/KPI/bonuses calculation suite, on top of a PeopleSoft system and integration of a telephony system via VBA and SQL. User/SOP and technical.
• Defining UAT for upgrade project on Oracle Peoplesoft/Business Intelligence.

London, England, GB

• Reporting to the North Africa Controller and region CFO: creation of MI for war-related issues. Management of US/EU sanctions and Libyan tax regulations.
• Responsibility for Joint Venture accounts within SUN, financial closes, forecast vs actuals and GL variance analyses. Data analysis/correction; introducing improved procedures/automations. Documentation. Staff.

London, GB

• Merger of the Germany and Austrian companies (O2C, VAT, intrastat, EC Sales lists, compliance, logistics/shipping, legals, billing, financials, operational, etc.) into one entity within Great Plains/Business Dynamics.
• Finance and Logistics input for upgrade of MS Dynamics Great Plains and add-ons (e.g. Scribe for EDI, and Excel-based company reporting packs). Designing testscripts, managing UAT.
• Overhaul of UK and EU VAT recording and reporting; Payroll, pensions and Cycle to Work scheme revision.

London, GB

• UK, German and Alpine and Scandinavian regions.
• All standard financial accounting clerical work. Staff training.
• Communicating in German, French and English.

New York, US

• Russia, CIS, Nordic regions and France.
• Implementation and design of process improvements and SOX compliance. Including design and programming of upload and processing template files written with VBA in Excel.
• IT/finance project work: Development / upgrade of systems, working with interfacing a contracts system with the finance system.

Diphe, Law

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Musicology

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Music