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Edinburgh, Scotland, GB

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

To evaluate FinOps requirements within a large Private Equity Organisation. Review available data and data sources and produce draft dashboards and reports. Provide FinOps RACI, Personas, KPIs, roadmaps and savings opportunities. Recommend the approach to implementing a FinOps function.Working with the Business, Finance and Technology to deliver a FinOps.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

• Managing and driving a portfolio of Continuous Improvement and Operational Effectiveness projects to support the Services Business Enablement and Effectiveness department with a focus on Customer Experience, Cost.
• Developed, created and managed a programme of c50 continuous improvement projects to deliver better customer experiences as well as service, time and cost efficiencies within the Services organisation.
• Enablement and Effectiveness lead in the development, testing and roll out of the Banks new global finance system with responsibility for recurring contracts, requests and Purchase orders.
• Created and driven process improvements in the cost management of Managed Service Workers. Providing greater transparency in costs, reduced monthly data reconciliation, reduced costs and delivered robust and reliable.
• Attained Coaching Mastery Accreditation.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Leading a team of Business Managers, supporting the Global Technology Run the Bank operations. Managing staff, contracts and depreciation cost across India, Poland, UK and Republic of Ireland.
• Delivery of Oracle Projects solution for managing Technologies recurring revenue (Contract) budgets and forecasts. Managing c£550m of costs per annum.
• Automation of the quarterly Cash Reconciliation reporting for Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) Compliance.
• Driven the Infrastructure Technology Services Cost of Service metrics and demonstrated year on year cost efficiencies.
• Driven and Project Managed the Gartner Cost of Service project for two years, covering Mainframe, Midrange, Storage, Applications, Desktop and Networks.
• Key lead in implementing and enhancing the annual / quarterly / monthly budgeting and forecasting activities for Global Technology.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Management of the Central Infrastructure cost base covering resource, contract and depreciation costs. Managing a small team of analysts in Edinburgh and data entry team in London.
• Introduction of the Central Infrastructure Benefits review board to ensure consistent capture, articulation and reporting of benefits within the organisation.
• Development of the Service Improvement Programme process and introduction of the bi-weekly forum to manage project spend, delivery and benefit capture

Gogarburn Edinburgh

Managing a small team of Business Managers and Analysts. Providing support to platform heads and leads within the Infrastructure Production area of Technology (Mainframe, Enterprise Platforms, Storage Services, Data Centre Operations, App Support, Security, Resilience, Service Delivery and Operational Controls. Dealing with the monthly financial out turn.

Edinburgh

Major Project AnalystDeveloping project plans and monthly financial reporting on complex projects.Worked in a small team of Project Managers and Analysts, concentrating on the day-to-day project management and project financials of key BAE projects including Euro Fighter helmet development and ground support navigation systems.

Edinburgh

Managing staff, Capital and revenue costs for the Midrange Platform.

Haddington, East Lothian

Managing remote AS400 midrange system, cabling / networking, Desktop and dumb terminals.IT Manager 1993 – 1997Systems Manager 1990 – 1993Systems Technician 1988 - 1990Management of a small team of 4 Systems Technicians and Systems Managers. Supporting all aspects of planning and development of the plants network including Project Management, Cabling.

Dundee City, Scotland, United Kingdom

Preparation and creation of TV, Newspaper and magazine adverts for local and UK wide organisations.

Education record

Information Science/Studies