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Some of the engagements I have led:- Global oil and gas: Retained Finance organisation design; finance business partnering; planning, budgeting and forecasting and BI - Global drinks company: Supporting the client in accelerating its year- end financial close process- Global shipping leader: Led the development of the Finance Target Operating Model, off-shoring or outsourcing the vast majority of all finance activities- Global business services organisation:Led the development of a feasibility study to create a BI Competency Centre- Global pharmaceutical giant: Finance transformation programme lead - managing the process design, organisational design and implementation of a new finance operating model comprising outsourcing, regional shared service hub and retained finance business partnering- Global pharmaceutical giant: Designed an efficient and fully integrated budgeting, forecasting, and sales & operational planning process that ensured ‘one set of numbers’ agreed by finance, commercial and supply chain- Global mining company: Project managed the design of a code-block in support of a global SAP implementation, to achieve process standardisation and SSC optimisation; Led the development of a global activity production costing methodology to be built into SAP; Project manager of Central Finance Re-organisation programme; designed and implemented a Value Based management reporting process- FTSE 100 confectionary company - Project managed the development of a global group chart of accounts, and the implementation and testing of a Hyperion Financial Management reporting and consolidation solution.

Finance Controller for Bonded Abrasives (Grinding Wheel) Business Unit