Brian Mcmenemy Email & Phone Number

Stockbridge, Gb

London Area, United Kingdom

Solihull, England, United Kingdom

Accountable for the Client Delivery function with the key objective to provide a high level of quality & customer satisfaction, ensuring PSL can deliver the right software & services to our valued clients. Providing leadership to a team consisting of Senior Project Managers, Project Managers and Senior Business Analysts to ensure execution of client strategy for PSL’s core banking software across PSL’s full product base.

Solihull

Providing consultancy and managing client strategy across PSL’s wide financial software product suite including secured mortgages, unsecured loans, equity release loans, commercial loans, development finance loans, asset finance, shared ownership schemes, deposits, servicing loans, pension deficits, bank reconciliation modules, MI and reporting across PSLs core & digital platform.Responsibilities include:Client Management: Managing multiple client relationships covering all aspects of client engagement ensuring a strong, trusting and mutually beneficial partnership. Building effective relationships with all stakeholders to understand their needs and developing/executing their strategic roadmaps in line with well managed expectations.Programme management: Accountable for all PSL software deliverables across multiple clients throughout the full development lifecycle from pre sales to delivery and benefits realisation.Team Management: Overseeing teams of PM's, BA’s, Developers & Testers across multiple client portfolio's to deliver against PSL commitments ensuring a high level of quality in all deliverables.Governance: Ensuring governance, risk & compliance across all elements of the delivery lifecycle. Leading monthly steering & quarterly strategy meetings with C-suite level (both PSL and client) to ensure targets are achieved and strategy is well defined.Financial Planning & invoicing: Setting, overseeing and tracking internal revenue targets, client budgets & project delivery costs. Managing programme budget & tracking individual project spend ensuring our clients are fully aware of spend relating to each project.

Home Based With Extensive Travel

As part of GE Capital’s overall divesture program to sell $200 billion ENI, within 2 years, GE announced its intention to exit the majority of its financial services businesses. - Building and preparation of pre-sale diligence activities; appraising and presenting IT landscape, systems, organisation and capabilities to bidders executive IT leaders, resulting in successful deal sign.- Accountable for leading, planning & executing activities relative to all IT aspects of business entity sale from inception of the deal through business divestiture & transition services close. - Negotiating all elements of the IT transaction ensuring transitional service agreements are favorable, all costs are agreed and contracts are transferred. - Collaborating with business executives, Functional Leaders, CIO’s, IT Leaders & IT Teams to ensure all components of these transactions are executed thoroughly & securely. - Formulating appropriate separation/carve out strategies and subsequently managing all elements of the associated transition plans to ensure compliance & closure. - Providing expert programme management to deliver multiple complex portfolios of business integration projects both technical and operational across each entity sale. - Leading and motivating global matrix teams, contractors and 3rd parties across all IT disciplines to deliver high quality solutions on time and budget. - Key elements for each of the transition programs included large data centre moves, network separation, active directory migrations, email migrations, EUS migrations, employee site moves, Finance Systems/Sourcing/HR Migrations and multiple major application migrations with detailed knowledge transfers.

Home Based With Extensive Travel

Responsible for defining, building and managing the strategy for the simplification program to enable approval from GE Capital executive leadership. This program was designed to remove and simplify 48 legacy sub ledgers across 42 businesses globally with a budget of $132 million over a four year period. Designed and built the project management office, defining the project management standards and tools to be used across the simplification program, coupled with hands on activities to oversee the successful execution of the ongoing projects. Building a team of project managers to execute the worldwide simplification projects, defining the skillset and improving project management capabilities across the simplification team.

Croxley Green, Rickmansworth

Built and provided leadership to the Quality Assurance and Risk (QA and Risk) team consisting of a Change Manager, Test Manager, Security Manager, Quality Manager, Audit Analyst, Change Analyst and Security Analyst. Determined IT strategies & policies to demonstrate core capabilities in PMO, Release, Change & Test Management, Governance Risk & Compliance. Owned the build, scheduling & release of all IT changes. Assured standards, processes & procedures are appropriate for any change & that they have been correctly implemented. Responsible for approving changes through the SDLC tollgate process as part of the Project Review Board. Owned the “Go Live” process & developed it in accordance with business needs. Reviewed, recommended & championed process improvements across the IT life cycle. Provided project management (PMBOK / PRINCE2) training ensuring ongoing improvements to the PM skillset. Sponsored and led the ITIL training initiative ensuring certification for many staff within the business. Ensured IT compliance to external regulatory requirements such as FCA, FED and SOX. Built and managed relationships with internal & external audit bodies. Ensured expert management & co-ordination of all IT audits, control failures & mitigation plans including accountability for the timely & accurate closure of all audit issues. An active member of the Enterprise Risk Management Council, responsible for IT Risk management ensuring appropriate risk culture within the IT organisation and timely identification & mitigation of IT Risks. Initiated and implemented the vendor assessment and selection process for an offshore development centre partner significantly reducing costs by $1.8MM and improving the skill set across all IT domains. Records and Information management leader for Home Lending UK, responsible for the implementation of a records and information management policy (Physical and Electronic) across the Business.

Croxley Green, Rickmansworth

Delivering Key End2End solutions for GE Money Home Lending realising significant benefit to enable GEMHL to navigate the credit cycle. Delivering on-time business critical solutions requiring both technical & business expertise:• Migration & Decommissioning. Back book migration of circa 1MM accounts from 3 legacy platforms to a single receivables platform & decommissioning of legacy platforms. Project delivered on time & fully reconciled saving the Business $2MM per year. • Identified and managed the implementation of system changes for 7 day working enabling a further working day each month realizing additional annual cash collected• Managed the design & Implementation of an award winning on line Mortgage approval system providing an instant decision online to GE Money Home Lending customers• Managed the Debt Management program identifying & delivering a range of key system improvements enabling additional annual cash collected & increased debt sale efficiency

Leeds, United Kingdom

Working in a stretch Project Manager role running the House of Fraser IT relationship managing the implementation of the Fraser card points project. In addition, managing the IT Arcadia relationship ensuring all Arcadia projects were assesed, allocated, prioritised and progressed.

Leeds, United Kingdom

Implementation of many projects including a call recording project across 3 sites and Client take on of 3 new Clients (Wallis, Miss Selfridge and Outfit). Implementation of a 'best practice' Client take on process which significantly reduced client take on time.

Leeds, United Kingdom

Working for Finance although this was mainly IT focused role. Maintaining and developing Financial systems for GE Capitals Card Services Business. This involved gathering requirements, developing the accounting systems (Cobol/JCL), producing management information (Easitrieve, connect direct, pivot tables)and unit testing including in depth Y2K testing in 1999. Spent time in India (Gurgaon, New Delhi) training offshore Accounting teams on the use of the systems.

Advanced Information Management Course, Senior Information Management Training

Lean Six Sigma, Ge Quality Training

Managing Successful Projects, Information Technology Project Management

Change Acceleration Process, Change Management

Six Sigma Green Belt, Quality Six Sigma

Economics And Public Policy, Economics And Public Policy

Economics and Politics