Duties:-Analysis of procurement spending in order to identify performance and financial improvements. -Analysis of internal supply contracts and advice to stakeholders on supplier contract negotiations.-Preparation of documents associated with conducting procurement including RFPs and RFIs.-Supervising financial aspects of client-facing procurement service.-Financial and performance analysis of UK IT and facilities departments.-Preparation of UK IT and facilities budgets including analysis and justification.-Management of all financial aspects of a key client outsourcing contract.Achievements include:-Dealt with all financial aspects of a multi-million pound outsourcing agreement, including the balancing of costs and fees owed at its conclusion, all signed-off by the client.-Based on the review of historic accounts payable spend and in-depth consultations with relevant stakeholders prepared bottom-up budgets for UK IT and facilities departments for 2014 amounting to approximately £3.6m and capital budgets of £1.3m.-Supervised the financial aspects of UK IT and facilities departments throughout the year ensuring that consistent P&L reporting was achieved.-Supervised the transition of tasks for the client-facing procurement service from near-shore to offshore.-Led analysis and produced justifying evidence to support in excess of £4mGBP of savings in order to prove substantial fees to be billed to the client.

Duties:-Day to day accounts payable tasks.-Analyse and improve finance processes.-Supervise team of three purchase-order and accounts payable processors.-Contract and sales invoicing.Achievements include:-Designed processes to ensure variations to contract were priced, agreed with the client and billed on delivery.-Ensured complex billing processes on client outsource contract - comprising fixed, variable and pass-through elements - were restructured to be more accurate and efficient.-During a first time looking at contracts in detail acquired operational knowledge of the principals of outsourcing contracts.-Implemented structured billing processes for new service lines including IT and Legal Knowledge and Research Services.-Analysed existing rudimentary purchase-order and accounts payable processes. Redesigned and implemented them in the UK as part of global implementation of a new Oracle-based financial system.