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Design and Reconciliations Analyst for Barclaycard's recent implementation of Sungard Intellimatch. Project Manager for the roll-out of the software to include circa 1000 reconciliations

Consultant and Designer SAP Travel and Expenses implementation, including Corporate Card automation and Travel Provider interfaces.

Leading a team of approx 15 staff, including Permanent, Contract, Near-shore and Off-shore (across a variety of sites) to deliver the operational support and change capability for the SAP FI module. Managing working relationships with the third-party offshore and near shore development capability (Accenture) to deliver Finance Change.The provision of resource for analysis, development and testing phases of the small change and project lifecycle; Managing working relationships with Senior Stakeholders in the Barclays Group to understand our future pipeline, support and knowledge requirements.Accountability for all SAP R/3 Finance development activity, delivering FICO change to Global Barclays Financial Leaders.Staff Management including performance development, timesheet authorisation, expenses authorisation, and day to day issues and events. Daily FICO module BAU support to over 200 global business users including the largest Special Ledger use in EuropeIntroduction of Near-shore staff into the team to help extend availability of experienced resource.Assisted Sourcing Team in design of new VISA Purchasing Card interface.Providing Consultancy to T&E project and insuring integrity of current Company Card implementation whilst helping to design the new processes.

Key Responsibilities and Achievements:Managed the transition of projects and small change from project status into the business as usual support environment, ensuring that the operational support team were able to accept the change and provide robust support from day one.All major projects and releases in 2006 successfully moved to BAU status with no severity one incidents or major impact on service.Assisted Treasury in staff training of their SOLD customer data system transfers into SAP.Assisted in the Basel II project ensuring consistency of data transfer between the three data systems involved.Developed support models to help calculating the in the resourcing impacts and handover timelines for new developments

Led a team of 10 configurers, responsible for the delivery of Project, Small Change, and BAU Support to Finance and Sourcing clients. Managed internal client relationships for the delivery of SAP change for Finance and Sourcing across the Barclays Group. Managed the Implementation of SAP FICO and MM for Gerrards and Africa Full-sitesEscalation point for Sourcing and Finance business areas for service and change issues.

SAP Travel Management Implementation in Barclays BankSAP FI Configuration and BAU Support for Barclays SAP implementationData Conversion Lead for Barclaycard move to SAP

Managing a team of 5 staff supporting the day to day running and support of Barclaycard's Finance and Banking systems on Dunn and Bradstreet's Millennium running on DEC VAX Technology

Support of Barclaycard Financial Systems - Dunn and Bradstreet MillenniumConversion of Barclaycard from Mainframe to DEC Vax functionality

Settlement of funds for 3rd Party Credit Card Provision