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Director level role and part of the Boots UK & International Data Office Senior Leadership Team, defining our analytics strategy, roadmap and goalsDesigned and created the MI Centre of Excellence, directing significant run and project budgets and part of the Data Office 3YP process Designed and directed a reporting transformation program, reducing the reporting catalogue by 2/3’s, saving business teams 000’s of hoursExecutive data/analytics partner to Operations, HR & FinanceSuccessfully delivered of multiple cloud migrations projects, improving competitive market advantage, agility, resilience and governanceOwnership of and accountable for all the financial planning models in IBM Planning Analytics, optimizing the financial planning process for a Fortune 500 businessSetting up of and direction/ownership and shaping of the data governance function and strategy for Boots, enabling data excellence whilst supporting data protection and compliance

Director level role within the executive leadership team, responsible for the complete analytics strategy design through to deliveryLead and educate the executive and senior leadership teams along our data journey, building a positive and thriving data culture from the ground upOwnership and direction of all analytics programs during a period of significant growth, from a turnover of £30m in 2017 to £130m in 2020Successfully delivered a brand-new Data Warehouse and reporting capability using PowerBI, leading to business performance clarity and highlighting a 10% discrepancy between our industry and billing system numbers, a cashflow impact of c.£1mDelivered a Data Science capability to the business, supporting 10k customers through financial difficulties and improving cashflow by £2.5m over 3 monthsOwnership of all IT systems, services and infrastructure supported by international third parties (c.100FTE) with an annual budget of £10m

• Create a secure, trusting environment for my teams, enabling constructive challenging to the business and each other.• Being seen as a leader within the MI Centre of Competence (MI CoC), fostering the development of my teams across different sites, creating development opportunities for people with differing experience and needs. Being open to and supporting the development of people in other teams in the MI CoC, as well as wider Finance teams.• Expanding the number of areas my team’s support, creating positive, lasting relationships and increasing the profile of the MI CoC within E.ON.• Challenge business & MI leadership decisions where I believe the outcome will negatively impact E.ON or the MI CoC respectively. Conversely when needed, embrace all change and lead my teams with a positive attitude.• Proactively manage the perception of my teams, outlining to senior leaders our current activities and how we are supporting their businesses.• Creation and implementation of an enduring team structure for the Finance MI teamKey Techincal killsOracle SQLOracle OBI DashboardingAdvanced ExcelVBAANSI SQLData WarehousingAgile