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ERCA provides consulting and interim management services across multiple sectors.Completed General Management, Financial Control and Project Management assignments in healthcare, manufacturing, distribution, retail, recycling, agricultural and ITC sectors. Companies supported include; Clients including; Rehab, J. Grennan & Sons, St Francis Private Hospital, Jaguar Capital, Combat Poverty, Barclays Bank, Midland Veterinary, Glen of Aherlow, Connelly Builders.• Project managed the selection and implementation of an ERP system for a diversified, multi-site business, delivering annual administrative saving, improved management information.• Prepared and agreed the budget and forecasting model for a diversified, multi-site business, enabling the management to identify/agree KPI's, targets and monitoring methods.• Delivered a 3 year business plan to support a capital investment project of €7M.• Implemented an integrated business management, payroll and attendance system within a multi-site agri-manufacturing business. Also revised credit control policy and the daily cash balancing process.• Prepared and implemented a 5 year rolling business plan for a Private (Acute) Hospital and Nursing home.• Implemented an integrated job costing system for a construction company, utilising a single data repository and data capture system, thereby eliminating reconciliation's and delivering instant on-line job profitability reporting. • Prepared the business case for an IT change programme at a large Financial Institution via assessment of the organisation’s readiness for change and producing a costs/benefits funding model.

Member of core team leading the corporate "software performance improvement initiative", and responsible for successful implementation of a strategy deployment process (multiple units and countries).• Applied the fundamentals, tools and methodologies of Six Sigma to deliver a consistent transition to next generation software development methodologies. • Project managed the development of training material, courses and mentoring and created a tool-kit to support the selection and reporting of measurable KPI's.• Performed benchmarking analysis of Ericsson’s global software development organisations, across multiple product releases and market deployments.• Delivered a paper on “Linking change programmes to organisational goals” to the Software Engineer Process Improvement Group conference in the United States.

• Prepared 3 year business plan, annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, monthly management accounts and supporting KPI’s.• Project managed the development and negotiated the deployment of a team based performance evaluation and reward system within individual appraisals.• Prepared business cases for each projects in annual capital expenditure program.• Benchmarked the business unit against Ericsson companies and external market, identified opportunities for improvement, agreed priorities with management, and project managed implementation of agreed actions.

Responsible for the preparation of consolidated financial accounts for local management, and corporate consolidations in Stockholm in line with strict formats and deadlines and for audit. Also managed Treasury for Ericsson Ireland with NTMA and other financial institutions.• Introduced a new general ledger and fixed asset system, and defined a revised chart of accounts. Reduced month end close effort.

Responsible for, Debtors, Creditors and Inter-company reconciliation's and the management accounts including variance analysis for the software development unit.