Colin Smith Email & Phone Number

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 RACI to support the stand up of a FinOps Function. The creation of an early Savings Opportunities Log and articulate and document were savings could be made. Working with the Business and Finance to support the creation of the Finance and Business Personas. Working with my GL colleague to produce a maturity assessment template to identify where the organisation was on the FinOps journey.Multi National Bank - Analysing data and contract information to find cost savings and benefits. Advise client on possible areas of service and process improvements and support implementation.Review and validation of 154 historic cost saving proposals across 17 global regions. Working with the Cost Management team, Business Owners and 3rd party suppliers to determine if savings can be claimed against the Banks P&L. Collation of contracts and inventory data for 123 Global Suppliers under an umbrella contract. Documenting business ownership, procurement and supplier contacts to enable quick and timely resolution of 3rd party queries, invoice challenges and payments (c$140m per annum flowing through the contract).Support of the Umbrella contract renewal and delivering significant annualised savings on behalf of the client.Review of processes and procedures and recommending alternative methods of managing and supporting contracts with a view to an end to end solution over multiple systems.Full review of what goods, services and products provided under the Umbrella contract. Provided a detailed analysis against each account number and region with the estimated annual value and Identified potential cost savings.

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 Efficiencies, Simplification, Time Enablement and Data Quality. • 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 reporting.• 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.• Completed the RBS / Natwest leadership Programme (Determined to Lead).

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, budgeting, receipting and reporting relating to Staff Costs, Recurring Contract Costs, Depreciation and ad-hoc revenue spend.various Role Descriptions:Financial Planning Manager - 2001 to 2005Cost Management & Commercial Services Manager 2005 to 2008Cost Management Manager 2008 to 2014

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, Networking, and Installation.

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