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A career Interim with over 40 years experience. Fully qualified Prince2 Practitioner and Lean Sigma Green Belt trained Senior Business Project / Change and Operations Manager. Also has wide-ranging experience in operationally focused roles including Service & Sales, Human Resources, Marketing & Retail Banking. Successful track record evidenced in managing multi-stream projects in matrix management environments across the full project lifecycle, regulatory driven change, business change management, process improvement and taking on ‘in-flight’ challenging / underperforming projects and programmes of work. Commercially aware, pragmatic and delivery oriented with a specialism in Financial Services that includes significant exposure to regulatory driven change (e.g. AML, CCA, CCD, MCOB, MMR, ICOBS and TCF). Customer focused with excellent stakeholder management, communication and people leadership skills. A structured and solution driven approach to dealing with challenges and problems. Skilled at translating technical, legal and compliance requirements into tangible and understandable actions. Key Skills / Experience:• Project Planning & Tracking (inc. MS Project)• Business Cases & Requirements Gathering• Leading Control Boards / Review Groups• Report Writing (inc. Project Status Reports)• Project Governance & "Raid" Management• People & Performance Management• Working with external Partners / 3rd Parties• Budget Management & Benefit Tracking• Business Testing (UAT / BVT Live Proving)• Training & Communications

Listed skills include Stakeholder Management, Change Management, Management, Financial Services, and 38 others.