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Edinburgh, Gb

Edinburgh

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Responsible for investment in water and waste services to ensure economic growth within Scotland- Developing bottom up investment plan for £200m regulatory submission.- Investment planning, reporting and analysis for development growth requirements.- Strategic review of current £80m regulatory investment needs. - Team management covering design, recruitment and training and support.- Member of investment infrastructure governance panel.- Growth forecasting, trending and risk reporting- Forecasting new connections and revenue

Scotland

Responsibilities: - Design and test the operational cost process to support investment appraisal.- Business change impact analysis, stakeholder analysis and business readiness - Process design from “as is” to a “to be” and new process design. - Provide support and carry business benefits realization and mapping to support business change.- Create high level engagement user journeys for business engagement and communication.- Provide technical support for the operational cost estimation for investment appraisals.- Project board member and deputy to project sponsor- Establish benefits, measurements, indicators and time scales for business change projects.

Scotland

Responsibilities:- Establish the business and system requirements for investment appraisals on a risk based approach.- Engage and design the service risk framework for operational and investment appraisal - Provided the detailed technical intelligence and analysis on proposed systems developments and business impact assessments.- Communicate business change using road shows, team presentation and face to face meetings.- Design and provide the business requirements and contact details for 3rd party system development.- Create Test Scenarios, Apply Test Scenarios and Sign of UAT into production.- Provide support and guidance on information portal for operational cost reporting.

To provide leadership support in the development of the strategic approach of Whole Life Costing and Asset Sustainability.Responsibilities: - Design and develop an investment appraisal system for £1billlion investment system- Development and implementation of Asset Management’s sustainability strategy- Developing and delivering the risk/ benefits framework for Asset Management- Delivering the carbon whole life process’s and model into Asset Management

To establish a working knowledge of the key aspects of non-financial data, this knowledge feeds directly into the Regulatory Returns and Business Strategy development.Achievements:- Area based Changing Project: Sponsored and lead the delivery of a million pound project generating £8 million additional revenue into the business. I was responsible for managing the multi disciplines, linking internal and external resources and presenting the results and benefits to senior management.- Delivered a streamlined automated process for non-financial regulatory reporting, significantly reducing the number of audit queries from over 200 to less than 20 in a 3 year period. - Leading the end to end development of IT reporting system and design reports with key internal customers, this retained the knowledge in the business and its dependency on external consultants Responsibilities: - Manage the Regulatory annual return process to reduce and enhance the reporting of key non- financial data to the regulator. - Developed, maintained and managed Scottish Water standards for data and systems and proposed business project as and when required.- Provide detailed technical intelligence and analysis on proposed systems developments and business impact assessments.- Established a long term systems strategy for business and data requirements.- Communicate and monitor business information improvements targets to all key stakeholders.

To manage the Management Information & Regulatory Reporting Team, providing a comprehensive financial support and business intelligence service to Customer Service, Finance and Regulatory Reporting.Achievements:- Migration Project: Migration and reconciliation of new billing system for £360m revenue and 180,000 customers.- Reporting System Project: Designed debit reporting and collection process enabling a £20 million reduction in debt and its associated provisions.- Scoped, specked and delivered an automated regulatory reporting system allowing monthly monitoring of regulator targets and internalized the knowledge management.- Restructure the reporting team to optimise its performance and reduce the dependence on external contact resources.- Designed the business requirements for a customer tracking system, presented the analysis and gained the funding for system development.Responsibilities:- Provided all key performance indicators for Finance Director on revenue streams, debtor recovery performance and balance sheet reconciliation.- Migrated and reconciled new billing system with £360m revenue and 180,000 customers.- Create budget, cash flow forecasts and revenue and collections analysis reporting.- Provided a comprehensive financial support and business partnership services - Staff management and appraisals for a team of 12.

Acting as the financial controller for a £185m Customer Relationship Management project, the key aspects of the role involved controlling the day-to-day financial operations, reporting KPI

Working within Retail Direct, the role involved monitoring the performance of both the business units and the overall performance of the division against the market and the internal budgets and forecasts.Balance sheet analysis - margins and revenuesCentral Bank Retruns

Dublin

Banking and finance

Mba, Business, Pass

Chartered Management Accountant, Management Accountants, Full Member

Activities and Societies: Scottish Area Committee Member Edinburgh Committee Member Past UK Management Advisory Group Member

Bacc (2.1), Accountancy, Bacc (2.1)

Diploma, Management And Transport Engineering