Head Of Shared Business Services
Lewes, East Sussex, Gb
Responsible for leading and developing a streamlined and cost effective corporate shared business services function, providing transactional processing, secretarial administration, customer helpdesk and management information services across a range of support functions, focusing on service delivery and process improvement. Lead, manage, coach and developed a team of approx. 140 staff, providing a service to approx. 5,500 staff, various external customers and recruitment candidates.Managed allocated budgets, ensuring effective financial control. Responsible for a revenue budget of £5.0M and capital budget of £100k. Procurement, evaluation and on-going Contract Management to value of £2.5M for services to Pension Administration and Payroll and the supply of temp staff via an agreed framework.Successfully implemented a co-located integrated and multi functional business centre to support HR transactional processing, employee relations, first level HR advice, organisational recruitment activity, finance purchase to pay processing and payroll functions, Executive Secretarial support and digital transcribing service. Provided a customer-focused service through stakeholder engagement and creation of service standards and SLA’s. Developed standardised and new approaches to the use of systems, intranet and management information and developed an internal “HR Online” web based system to support self-service. Managed various change management initiatives and processes across multi disciplines, involving union negotiations and staff consultation.