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Canary Wharf

Co-leadership of Global function that has responsibility for:- Strategic Workforce Planning and Forecasting across the bank- Production of People Analytics across complete scope of HR; FTE, Hires/Leavers, Diversity, Recruitment, Early Careers and Reward.- Employee Listening, including annual People Survey- Oversight of Bank's hiring volume contols- HR Analytics' Business PartneringA key part of the role is focused on raising productivity of the reporting and analytics produced by the department. I have overseen the implementation of Visier, Workday Adaptive and Workday Prism to compliment existing Workday reporting.

Canary Wharf

Responsible for all Global HR Management Information technologies:- Lead Workday reporting implementation; delivered entire life cycle from requirements gathering, build, implementation and embedding service delivery model for global implementation- Post Workday implementation expertise in managing end to end HR architecture problem management to exit critical care- Manage generation of Official Books and Records Headcount reporting monthly for bank and managed transformation of technology stack to move away from PeopleSoft to Workday/Oracle Fabric- Increased agility in reporting by decommissioning SAP Hana/Cognos and implementing SQL server to promote more agile and efficient ways of working for analysts

Brentford

Designed and implemented Global HR Analytics Centre of Excellence for GSK HR.Delivered advanced reporting dashboards to track strategic people initiatives for GSK’s executive team and HR leadership using Qlik technologies.Produced GSK’s first quantitative Strategic Workforce Planning analytics to facilitate action driven discussions within the business.Leadership team member for global implementation of Workday and was responsible for all the reporting and analytics deliverablesProvided leadership required to address worker data quality issues globally through governance and analytics raising data completeness to 99.9% and running twice yearly validation exercises.Delivered GSK’s first HRIS consolidation aggregating data from 19 disparate HR IS instances into a SAP Business Warehouse being responsible for business case and requirements through to acceptance testing and creating the service to utilise.Mergers and acquisitions, oversaw during Novartis asset exchange the creation of the HR data strategy with counterparts in Novartis, identified the 3000 impacted individuals in GSK, managed data exchanges and set up GSK’s internal templates and KPIs for receipt of data from Novartis for over 10,000 employees.

Brentford

Responsible as a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt for our departments approach to process optimisation and programme deliverables. Two of the major deliverables I was successfully delivered were:1. Programme Director for all IT service managementDelivered programme governance for 40 IT services that directly linked the services’ performance to individuals’ bonus payments. I defined standard IT service KPIs, SLA’s and targetsProvided consultancy to all services involved to ensure concepts of programme and measurement were optimised2. Facilitated GSK IT Leadership team for 2.5 years

Stockley Park

Joined GSK as an SAP business analyst to create and manage their helpdesks during a global manufacturing and supply chain business process implementation. My primary areas of expertise were materials management and sales and distribution modules.

Hanworth

Graduate management trainee focused on logistics and the implementation of SAP across all UK Unigate dairies