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A Finance and HR technology systems lead with10 years experience of project delivery and BAU support of corporate functions within the Financial Services Investment Management / buy side industry. Passionate about getting the most from technology, solving business challenges with efficient and effective solutions. I achieve this through strong stakeholder and sponsor engagement, transparency on progress, clear choices and decisions. I build strong global 'hybrid working' delivery teams with clear direction and fit for purpose delivery processes. I am experienced in partnering with 3rd party System integrators / SIs to augment the delivery team. Track record of delivery to time and budget.Experience of Workday FINS & HCM. SAP ERP.Key Achievements:Soft landing a FINS & HCM Workday implementation from project delivery, through post-implementation and steady-state BAU. Building the BAU team with support operational and governance processes. AMS Support Partner managementDeployment of single global Accounting and Financial Reporting platform as part of the Janus Henderson merger. Platform centred around SAP ERP BW BPC Business Object, Basware & Concur. Delivered within budget to a hard deadline. SAP Business Transformation Quality Award FinalistFinance Transformation programme; introduction of central Finance service centres supporting a global organisation. Centred around SAP ERP BW BPC Business Objects. 3 year programme of changeProject / programme management experience of running complex multi-stream programmes; Cxx level steering, change planning, RAID, budget control. Strong goal focus from a career founded in IT delivery. Experience of several large global corporate mergers. Most recently, the merger of Janus (US based) and Henderson (London based) Investors. Also Gartmore and Newstar.Team management with a focus on developing high performing teams, growing talent, consistent and efficient processes. Management of global teams consisting of internal, contact, 3rd party and off-shore team members.Projects led with a deep understanding of the business and technology brief. Delivering PIDs, Requirements, Data definition, Test Planning, and business readiness for go-live.Robust selection and management of suppliers / 3rd Parties. RFI, RFP, service definition, contract negotiation, continuous service improvement and KPIs. Focus on extracting the most value from important partners.

Listed skills include Programme Delivery, Asset Managment, Project Delivery, It Strategy, and 13 others.