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Systems administrator for Hyperion Planning and Essbase used by Network Rail for budgeting, forecasting and reporting of income, opex, and capex across more than 15 applications• Automation, scheduling and running of processes in line with the business as usual (BAU) calendar• Maintain and update the BAU calendar to allow for agreed changes to business processes• Maintain and update dimension members and hierarchies in line with defined business processes ensuring that the… Show more Systems administrator for Hyperion Planning and Essbase used by Network Rail for budgeting, forecasting and reporting of income, opex, and capex across more than 15 applications• Automation, scheduling and running of processes in line with the business as usual (BAU) calendar• Maintain and update the BAU calendar to allow for agreed changes to business processes• Maintain and update dimension members and hierarchies in line with defined business processes ensuring that the Oracle General Ledger and Hyperion structures are aligned• Deployment of changes to dimension members and hierarchies• Creating, updating, tuning and running of business rules and calculation scripts• Creating and maintaining data forms• Review and maintenance of users and user groups ensuring compliance with the number of end user licenses held• Maintenance of dimension and business rule security• Loading of balances from Oracle General Ledger, Oracle HR, and other systems and sources• Provide second line support to the Hyperion user community• Development of training content and provision of end user Hyperion & SmartView training to the end User community• Provision of communications on behalf of the Hyperion support team regarding outages, data loads etc• Maintenance unit costing process simplified and improved • Additional SBP application created to facilitate preparation of Strategic Business Plan• Additional capex and business planning applications and improved budget flex and maintenance unit costing processes added as part of phase 2 development of Hyperion • Opex budget and rolling forecast processes and forms simplified and made more consistent as enhancements to initial implementation of Hyperion • Opex budget application added to allow future year budget to be created separately from the ongoing application used for period and year end reporting Show less

I was a member of the project team which successfully implemented Hyperion Planning as a replacement for OFA via involvement in all phases of the project. This includes requirements gathering, the conference room pilot, system user and PPTE testing, and the migration to and set up of the live system. Following the implementation the opex and income budgets were entered into Hyperion by the user community and the central planning / project team in 13 working days from the main go-live… Show more I was a member of the project team which successfully implemented Hyperion Planning as a replacement for OFA via involvement in all phases of the project. This includes requirements gathering, the conference room pilot, system user and PPTE testing, and the migration to and set up of the live system. Following the implementation the opex and income budgets were entered into Hyperion by the user community and the central planning / project team in 13 working days from the main go-live date. It was subsequently used for to enter and update the rolling forecast and for reporting of actuals vs budget and forecast. This reduced the reliance on running reports via the Oracle General Ledger. Show less

With assistance from Oracle I was responsible for the implementation of Oracle Financial Analyser (OFA) within Network Rail. I was then heavily involved throughout all stages of its development as a reporting, budgeting and planning system becoming the principal OFA expert within Network Rail. Achievements include the following: • Pilot OFA reporting system setup and populated with balances.• OFA user training provided to 80 pilot users• OFA rolled out to the remaining… Show more With assistance from Oracle I was responsible for the implementation of Oracle Financial Analyser (OFA) within Network Rail. I was then heavily involved throughout all stages of its development as a reporting, budgeting and planning system becoming the principal OFA expert within Network Rail. Achievements include the following: • Pilot OFA reporting system setup and populated with balances.• OFA user training provided to 80 pilot users• OFA rolled out to the remaining functions• 30 OFA reports developed and reconciled to reports run from the Oracle Financials General Ledger• OFA business planning project extended the use of OFA so that it was used to build opex business plans with the consequent benefits to the business in terms of the consistency and transparency of this information compared to the previous spreadsheet based business planning process• Provision of ongoing support BAU support of OFA • I received positive feedback regarding outputs from the OFA business planning model from the Finance Director and Group Financial Controller. The added value was also confirmed via a survey of system users• Training courses provided for super users and end users • Reporting packs created using the OFA Excel spreadsheet add-in.• • The OFA business planning system was enhanced via a new income planning model as well as enhancements to the usability and performance of the system Test results indicated performance improvements of between 11% and 91% on the principal OFA models• • I designed, developed, tested, and implemented the OFA rolling forecast system allowing quarterly and periodic rolling forecast to be completed using OFA rather than via spreadsheets. This generated great feedback and personal mentions at the annual Finance conference• I received an invite from the Finance Director to the “You Make the Difference” Awards in recognition of work done in developing the OFA Rolling Forecast model and supporting OFA Show less

• Setting up and maintaining users, responsibilities, employees, profiles, menus, print queues• Liaison with business units to ensure that user and employee / budget holder details are kept up to date• Provision of second level support for ad-hoc user problems principally in the areas of System Administration, General Ledger, and ADI (Applications Desktop Integrator)• Provision of user training for General Ledger and ADI• Monitoring of and production of statistics regarding… Show more • Setting up and maintaining users, responsibilities, employees, profiles, menus, print queues• Liaison with business units to ensure that user and employee / budget holder details are kept up to date• Provision of second level support for ad-hoc user problems principally in the areas of System Administration, General Ledger, and ADI (Applications Desktop Integrator)• Provision of user training for General Ledger and ADI• Monitoring of and production of statistics regarding system performance particularly during reporting week• Production and distribution of statistics concerning FSG and ADI budget uploads submitted during reporting week• Creation and maintenance of Financial Statement Generator reports• Team member involved in Oracle Financials system upgrades from version 10.7 to subsequent versions 11.5.3, 11.5.7 and 11.5.9 • Testing of system patches• Approximately 100 new FSG reports created to support MBR reporting following a reorganisation• Team member involved in merging and / or splitting business units following reorganisations Show less

I was a member of project team which implemented Oracle Financials. Areas of responsibility included:• Cleansing of data from the previous Scala finance systems• Migration of data from Scala to Oracle Financials• Liaison with, and auditing of, zonal implementation teams with regard to data cleansing and data migration• Design and running of Scala Query reports to assist in data cleansing and data migration• Setting up and testing of interfaces for payroll, treasury and… Show more I was a member of project team which implemented Oracle Financials. Areas of responsibility included:• Cleansing of data from the previous Scala finance systems• Migration of data from Scala to Oracle Financials• Liaison with, and auditing of, zonal implementation teams with regard to data cleansing and data migration• Design and running of Scala Query reports to assist in data cleansing and data migration• Setting up and testing of interfaces for payroll, treasury and bank statement data• Review of, and production of, project documentation concerning interfaces, data cleansing and data migration Show less

• Created and provided national second line support desk for 10 installations of Scala version 3.1.5• Resolving ad-hoc user queries and problems• Writing and running Scala Query reports to extract and summarise data within Scala• Writing and delivering super user, reporting, and new user training• Setting up internal Scala user group and newsletter• Implementing system upgrades and reorganising zonal system to match company reorganisations

• Use of Excel and XDB database package to implement projects such as an invoice logging system designed to minimize rekeying of data and improve efficiency within the Finance department• Principal zonal representative in the implementation of the Scala finance system• Zonal super user and system administrator for Scala

• Produced a library of reports for planning and monitoring purposes enhancing information available concerning store payroll costs• Use of the database package Foxbase+ 2.10 and Foxpro 2.5to extract and organise payroll data for approximately 20,000 permanent and temporary store staff• Use of the R&R v5 report writer package to design and produce reports analysing and summarising the payroll databases• Use of Lotus 123 (v3.4) to produce spreadsheets summarising payroll data

• Audit and cleansing of data relating to BT’s portfolio of approximately 9500 properties stored on a property database management system and an executive information system• Production of reconciliations of, and specification of adjustments to, the cost and space information held for the portfolio of properties• Checking and correcting updated information input into BT’s new property database• Use of the Powerplay Executive Information System to analyse and summarise… Show more • Audit and cleansing of data relating to BT’s portfolio of approximately 9500 properties stored on a property database management system and an executive information system• Production of reconciliations of, and specification of adjustments to, the cost and space information held for the portfolio of properties• Checking and correcting updated information input into BT’s new property database• Use of the Powerplay Executive Information System to analyse and summarise information• Use of other computer packages such as Excel, Lotus 1-2-3, and dbase IV Show less

• Employed within a general practise department rising to the grade of Supervising SeniorAudit• In charge auditor for companies and groups of companies mostly having a turnover of 1 to 20 million pounds and ranging from small owner-managed businesses to PLCs and subsidiaries or subgroups of multinational groups• Audit planning including budgeting of time and costs and allocating responsibilities• Supervision and management of usually two or three junior staff• Audit… Show more • Employed within a general practise department rising to the grade of Supervising SeniorAudit• In charge auditor for companies and groups of companies mostly having a turnover of 1 to 20 million pounds and ranging from small owner-managed businesses to PLCs and subsidiaries or subgroups of multinational groups• Audit planning including budgeting of time and costs and allocating responsibilities• Supervision and management of usually two or three junior staff• Audit of principal areas of judgement and / or risk• Producing a memorandum summarising major audit issues and the letter to management notifing systems and control weaknesses• Liasing with client, audit manager, and others Accountancy and SpecialWork• Production of accounts and management accounts from underlying record• Preparation of statutory accounts and consolidated accounts• Review of cash flow and working capital forecastsCorporation Tax Compliance• Preparation and review of computations for submission to the Inspector of Taxes• Preparation and submission of relevant claims and elections• Liasing with tax consultants, professional advisors, clients, and Inspector of TaxesOther Experience• Group leader on internal training course• Regular use of Excel, Wordperfect, and Taxsoft computer software Show less

• Industrial Placement student working for the EDP unit of the Statistics Division• Writing and documenting computer programs mainly written in Pascal• Using and advising other users on the use of various computer packages and services such as dbase II, Textline, and Telecom Gold

Aca, Pass - 1St Attempt

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Accounting And Computer Science, 1St Class Honours

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