Christopher Hodgetts Email & Phone Number

Birmingham, Gb

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Birmingham, United Kingdom

The position held is of Reporting and Management Information Analyst working for the Major Projects Programme Hub division of Highways England. My primary objective is to manage the monthly reporting and build internal capability to meet the demands of the management information. Duties include:• Production of timely routine reports at a Company, Portfolio and Programme level.• Ensure company reporting strategy, KPI’s, standards, processed and systems are consistently applied and quality assured across a Company, Portfolio and Programme level.• Collate, consolidate and quality assure reporting data from various systems and stakeholders.• Analyse and assure management information and provide high quality narratives to explain reporting and management information.• Design report content and formats that meet routing and ad-hoc information requirements/requests. • Automate the production of Management Information to streamline processing of data.

Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

The position held was of Senior Underwriting Analyst for Charter Court. My primary objective was leading and supporting a busy team of Underwriting Analysts, embedding an environment that encourages innovation and creativeness. Duties include:• Manage a diverse range of projects that come into the team to deliver new processes, procedures and system changes, co-ordinating resource effectively to ensure projects are delivered on time as well as monitor ongoing issues.• Develop and maintain templates/models and processes for data gathering, manipulation and reporting.• Standardise and automate business reports.• Development of new Reporting Deliverables.• Liaise with Internal Stakeholders, to establish reporting requirements to meet business needs.• Work closely with the IT and Change Management teams in developing and maintaining mortgage processing software.• Creating and maintaining a robust control environment/ reporting process as well as ensuring adherence to mortgage policies and procedures at all times.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

• Management of the UK MI Team.• Ownership of UK MI Transition Project.• Identification and re-development of existing UK MI reports in line with European MI/BI Strategy.• Review of existing Business Objects Universe and provide recommendations of improvements.• Development of new Reporting Deliverables.• Ongoing provision and support of existing Business Objects Reporting Deliverables.• Liaise with Internal Stakeholders, advising of changes to MI/BI strategy and impacts upon existing provision and external customers.• Liaise with IS Stakeholders to agree required changes to facilitate UK MI transition to European MI/BI strategy.

Acton Gate Stafford

• Capture and document business MI reporting and decision support requirements.• Design, develop and implement reporting applications using agreed technologies and MI applications including Business Objects, Microsoft Access and SQL.• Determine relevant data sources of data to be used.• Assist in the design of Business Objects Universe’s• Assist in the design of Reporting Data Mart, ETL processes and refresh scheduling.• Develop project and resource plans required to implement requirements and agree with lead users and other process stakeholders.• Ensure all reporting applications are available for Business end – user access within agreed Service Levels.• Implement agreed modifications to the design to reflect users’ more specific needs• Implement measures to understand the proposed use of the information and its context within the existing and post-project operation.• Management of the Analysis and Projects Team and deputise for MI Manager/MI Production Manager.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

• Operational responsibility for managing and training junior analysts within the bureau.• Operational responsibility for invoice, account and payment management of customer accounts, including DEFRA, UK Home Office and Ealing Council• Continuous review of client requirements and implementation of improvements to client services.• Liaising with Commodity Suppliers (Electricity, Gas, and Water) ensuring reliable delivery of billing data and resolution of queries.• Development and implementation of internal systems, process and procedural improvements.• Validation of Gas, Electricity, Water, Oil and CHP invoices utilising TEAM Sigma.• Maintenance of Validation Database.• Production of Monthly Consumption and Cost Reports.• Production of Monthly Query and Client Savings Reports.• Trend analysis, charting and graphing support to all areas of the Energy Consulting Business.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

• Analysing and investigating specific job expenditure.• Collation of client payment schedules, and monitoring of client’s performance.• Continuous process/procedural review and implementation of commercially beneficial improvements.• Continuous training and development of other team members and process stakeholders with regards to contractual and commercial awareness and analysis.• Coordination and supervision of Quantity Surveyors (QS) Project Team to identify additional areas of income recovery following redefinition of contract interpretations. (Recovering in excess of £1.5 million) • Design, development, implementation and publication of management information and reports for internal and external audiences, utilising internal and external data sources.• Develop cross-departmental costing toolsets to improve business expenditure.• Identification of recoverable project costs in accordance with contract definitions and subsequent submission to the client.• Implementation and improvement of existing business Information systems and toolsets, utilising Microsoft Excel, Access and IBM’s Maximo and Cognos.• Implementation of purchasing controls, including sub-contractor performance and cost efficiency reviews.• Regional primary contact, allowing for regular liaison with the client to resolve any contractual issues and maintain mutually beneficial working partnerships.• Regular management reporting of income recovery status and issues to the Commercial and Finance Managers/Directors.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

• Development and operational responsibility for delivering all contractual elements of the Traffic Data Validation Process.• Advise all necessary levels of the Business of continual performance, with particular reference to the Head of Traffic Engineering and the Contract Managing Director.• Implementation and monitoring of KPIs in accordance with contractually required SLA’s.• Management of third-party suppliers.• Production and submission to the Client of contractually required Service Level Performance Reports.• Identify, monitor and escalate MIDAS equipment and system failures. • Instigate System improvement recommendations, with detailed Risk & Cost Benefit Analysis.• Liaise with the NTCC Infrastructure Team to resolve complex configuration issues.• Production of NTCC Traffic Engineering procedural documentation and Work-Instructions.• Recommend Traffic Model improvements, with supporting Risk & Cost Benefit Analysis.• Development and implementation of NTCC Infrastructure Team’s procedures in identifying and resolving equipment failures of remote roadside equipment (TMUs – Traffic Monitoring Units/ANPR Cameras – Automated Number Plate Recognition Cameras), and equipment installed in Police Control Offices.• Investigate loss of NTCC’s access to CCTV and VMS (Variable Message Signs).• NTCC Technical Support, including processing of Incidents, Observations and Change Requests.