John Harding Email & Phone Number

Swindon, England, United Kingdom

System implementation - Finance

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Project Accountant providing consultancy, testing and data migration on an implementation of a new leasing system (MILES) which interfaces to a new finance system (Exact). Acting as Finance lead at project meetings and a hands on role for system testing, data migration and reconciliation, problem solving and creating finance reports. Liaising with.

Cirencester

SAP FICO consultant reviewing processes, controls and reporting improvements in a multi-company, multi-country and multi-currency environment. Investigating balance sheet issues and reconciling differences. Producing reports for Finance and business users.The final 5 months involved taking interim control of the monthly payroll (ADP Freedom system).

Chippenham

Interim Business Systems Manager responsible for a SQL server Financial Systems migration project from both business and technical perspectives. This included SQL scripts, stored procedures, XML/XSL, data imports and exports, financial reports, package support, and liaison with third party suppliers and auditors.

Warwick

Finance Systems Review and Selection, followed by 7 months of extensions to implement the new software. Supplier and project management, data migration, internal planning and team management.

Swindon

• Lead SAP FICO consultant in an IT CCC team of up to 15 FICO, SD, MM and ABAP staff. FICO configuration and user support for the 4.7 SAP system.
• Liaison with Finance and Operational teams to identify potential issues, resolve problems and define solutions. Day to day support for the FICO modules, including user support and education.
• Provide secondary ABAP support and coding for reports, interfaces and bespoke processes.
• Consultancy on developments of other systems that interface to or from SAP
• 2 month secondment to Arval Germany in 2006 to test a new SAP implementation (ECC5) for another group company
• Project to amalgamate CCC functions across Europe.

Swindon

• Company finance systems lead working alongside ATOS Origin FICO team leader to ensure company requirements were achieved. This included blueprint, design, functional and technical specifications, build, test, train and.
• Data migration from existing Oracle system to SAP, including customers, suppliers, GL accounts, GL postings, open AP and AR items, customer deposits.

Swindon

• Finance systems lead working with external consultants, contractors and Oracle staff to implement Oracle Financials for Year 2000 deadline.
• Ongoing support of Oracle system
• Data migration from previous systems
• Configuration and bespoke development of system including unix scripting for interfaces, SQL and PL/SQL development, Oracle reports etc
• Implemented BACS software and Macro 4 document retrieval system.
• Implemented an internal audit of purchase invoices that discovered £1.5 million of invoices paid more than once. Analysed millions of transactions, including partial value searches across multiple supplier accounts..

Swindon

• Reporting to IT Director. Manage 8 IT staff.
• Manage CA Masterpiece and M&D systems for UK companies
• Operational Reporting for customers, customer liaison.
• Business Continuity Planning

Swindon

• Reporting to Finance Director. Manage a staff of 30 accountants.
• Production of weekly reports and monthly management accounts
• Manage Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable functions
• Systems improvements
• Budgets and budgetary control

Swindon

• UK lead for mainframe financial systems implementation of M&D Millennium GL system to replace the CA Masterpiece GL, working with US parent company, regular trips to the parent office in Baltimore to define system.
• Implementation of MS access systems to support business processes, including creation of £30 million of weekly direct debits, payroll postings to GL, interfaces to GL and AR from mainframe operational system. Reduction.

Swindon

• Reporting to Finance Director. Manage 15 staff.
• Production of monthly management accounts. Budgets and budgetary control
• Systems improvements including design and build of systems to run the asset register for the portfolio of £200 million of show homes and part exchange properties.

Swindon

Implementations of CA Masterpiece GL/AP/AR for 4 group companies, using separate ledgers. Data migration from previous systems.

Swindon

Management Accountant for the Technical Services division, covering accounting, costing, budgeting and reporting.

Swindon

Accounting, costing and budgeting.

Swindon

Management Accounting

Ba(Hons) Economics, Economics

Acma, Accountancy