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Barclays Bank Plc

• Supporting programme management by managing risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, communicating these regularly and escalating where necessary.• Liaising and partnering with various technology teams, mobile engineering teams, security compliance teams, finance change teams and business delivery teams.• Managing offshore teams and being a key player in the set-up of SI Partners in India.• Managing the development requirements of external suppliers Oracle and GOOD, delivering stakeholder requirements and expectations for IPAD and OBIEE.• Managing multiple requests for delivery of small or complex change by business partners through initiation, engagement, prioritisation, control, testing and approval of change.• Setting up strategic management information plan, change pipeline and a reporting framework audit log defining roles, responsibilities, tracking change work-streams, delivery deadlines and business training required across Finance BI Tools.• Designing operational support models for project deliverables when “Go Live” specific to OBIEE and IPAD for Barclaycard.• Mentoring individuals and teams to reach optimal performance and achieve KPI`s by seeking feedback from the customer base to better our service and delivery model.

• Designing and owning the global change model for Barclays cognos reporting and MI.• Primary contact defining business requirements, business case, potential benefits for cognos MI and discussing development with senior change programme management.• Primary contact for report and MI query resolution.• Liaising with operations and development team ensuring design of lean operating models.• Liaising with technology, operations, customers across global finance divisions, finance governance, SOX compliance control teams and OpCo committee.• Managing an offshore development team of 8.• Managing and defining the project scope, approach, plan, resource, structure, budget defined by PMO, managing risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, communicating these regularly and escalating where necessary.• Managing the test strategy, defect analysis and issues logs on projects to delivery.• Promoting, building the diversification and training of the team on multiple business intelligence tools, cube design, knowledge of data warehousing and Teradata.• Planning pipeline, recognising synergies with other projects and drafting strategic plans for future reporting and MI requirements.

• Leading development of TM1 Application built to incorporate strategic cost management.• Programming business rules, turbo integrator processes and transferring into the Tool.• Designing system architecture cubes, dimensions, hierarchy and reports and creating a rules and feeder library as required by business change team.• Consulting and primary contact for infrastructure team on deployments and upgrades.• Consulting and focal point on security and governance for cubes, dimensions, element, attribute and cells.• Consulting and primary contact for best practice on reporting solutions, data integrity, automation of dimension changes and master data management.• Training users, system administrators and server teams and documenting instructions.• Consulting and primary contact for IBM testing and audit of TM1 and infrastructure.

• Running day to day administration, development and maintenance of in-house systems TM1, Oracle, Business Objects and Oracle financial Analyser to meet finance deadlines.• Supporting within project team the upgrade, implementation and enhancements of finance systems within IPC for operations, financial control and management accounts.• Managing user groups, work-shops and business requirements sessions across Finance.• Creating project plans, test environments, test plans and pilot user training documents.• Working with IT implementing change request and release management phases.• Managing and working with outside consultants and signing off time sheets.• Managing “Go Live” projects, post project support and lessons learnt process

• Managing and training up to 3 graduates as trainee accountants.• Completing monthly accounts including P & L and Profit variance analysis with detailed commentary for the magazine publishing director`s and managing director.• Preparing forecasts, budgets, what if analysis for senior finance management at IPC.• Completing strategic business reviews, executive reports and KPI`S for Time Warner HQ. • Managing and supporting group consolidation reporting

• Collecting of ad agency, customer and classified advertising debts. • Litigating multiple county court cases and delegating high court cases to solicitors.