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Maidenhead, England, United Kingdom

Theale, England, United Kingdom

Newbury

- Conducted an 'As-is' assessment of company processes, identifying areas for improvement across people, processes, and systems.- Recommended approaches for implementing improvements to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.- Initiated the review and documentation of processes company-wide to ensure clarity and consistency.- Reviewed the Health & Safety platform, updating documentation to align with recommendations and ensuring compliance with overdue deliverables, thus bringing Beninca up to speed.

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Achievements- Delivered Target Operating model (TOM) architecture approach, aligned to business strategy and transformation objectives across ASDA value streams alongside their SAP S/4 Implementation.Responsible for:• Embedded operating model construct, view of how assets across org structure, people, process, technology and data thinking transform how ASDA delivers value.• Planned and developed Operating Model roadmap (Scope, Approach, Governance, Roles and Responsibilities and Ways of Working, Capabilities and Resource requirements) • Collaborated with functional leads, transformation and strategy teams to ensure an integrated framework with the value chain L1-L4.• Led the ‘As-Is’ assessment and change impact analysis (CIA), mapped into the transition state and ‘to-be’.• Provided critical support for 'As-Is' Process Mapping utilising IBM Blueworks, facilitating a clear visualisation of current processes.• Constructed a centralised repository for non-system activities and documents affected by the new SAP S/4 ERP implementation. • Evaluated impact of non-system activities, identifying necessary training requirements, and assigning action owners accountable for their completion.• Drafted detailed remediation plans for the non-system activities and documents, ensuring thoroughness and identifying opportunities for acceleration and enhancement.

Newbury, England, United Kingdom

Achievements- Successful implementation of one new payroll vendor and Workday Time and Absence management system across 45 countries, 101 payrolls and 12,500 employees all while offboarded 19 existing vendors.Responsible for. • Directed transition of 19 different Global vendors (Pre-Planning, Design, Build, SIT, UAT/OAT, parallel runs, Go Live & Hypercare) across 45 countries covering 101 payrolls and 12,500 employees into 1 Global Payroll Provider (Immedis) across three phases.• Implemented, enabled, tested and enhanced Workday platform to deliver its full capabilities for time and absence.• Management of the system integrator through their statement of work, worked collaboratively through system design, test and rollout.• Directed, mentored and developed the activities and efforts of 2 x Project Managers as well as 3 x Implementation Leads to deliver the programme across 6 work streams.• Planned and directed workshops, drop-in clinics and intranet hubs for smooth communication with impacted colleagues and stakeholders.• Ensured effective and timely change management and comms with support from HR and Comms team. (Utilised ADKAR & PROSCI methodologies)

Newbury, England, United Kingdom

Achievements- Designed, recruited, trained a new Finance Systems Support team in Bangalore through Covid with annualised savings of $2.5m.- Responsible for.• Developed and delivered business case, scope, budget, resources and milestones to implement a new TOM for FSS into India as the receiving location from 9 sending countries, exiting 45 employees. • Managed the pre-planning to include taxonomy driving the due diligence and RACI across systems. (Anaplan, Onestream, Netsuite, Blackline, Assurenet, Concur, Workday to name a few) • Supported and collaborated with all stakeholders (R2R, P2P, O2C, FP&A, Tax, Payroll, IT, HR and Comms) to develop the TOM for FSS.• Led the recruitment process E2E with talent acquisition and vendors from job descriptions to interviews.• Created and delivered Knowledge Transfer (KT) plans and strategy, monitored, mitigated risk and accelerated where necessary to keep on plan without impacting savings. • Worked closely with HR to ensure smooth communications and exit plans for impacted individuals.• On boarded new hires on Day 1 and managed and coached until reporting lines established.• Actively adapted delivery of plan during KT phase to realise savings around role requirements and capacity opportunities.

Bucharest, Romania

• Delivered the OPEX Transition as Project Manager, first point of contact for Sending Team leads in Poland, Mexico & Malaysia as well as Receiving team in Bucharest.• Implemented process improvements by simplifying existing processes and procedures to rationalise across regions and provide efficiency and effectiveness. (Start, Stop and Continue)• Deep dive due diligence undertaken with 32 OPEX senders, key deliverable to understand the FTE requirement into Bucharest – involved a short notice week for turnaround in Guadalajara.• Mentored, Coached, Led & Managed onboarding.• Proactively led the Service readiness testing (SRT) and GO Live planning to ensure smooth time zone risks mitigated and stakeholders engaged for smooth stage gate approvals.• Managed internal and external recruiters to screen CVs, undertake interviews and recruit.• Designed and led a recruitment day for O2C to ensure we fulfilled requisitions on time to enable KT, 25% success rate.

Bucharest, Romania

After the success of creating the Centre of Excellence in Bucharest i wanted to be involved in the next phase of transition. Roles into Bucharest for Treasury, Payroll, Order Management, Credit and Collections and OPEX. (65+ roles)Ensure anything that landed in Bucharest did so smoothly and in the desired transition timelinesInvolved in:-- Recruiting (O2C, Payroll & Treasury), working closely with the internal and external recruiters to screen CVs, undertake interviews, provide feedback, recommend and recruit across the variety of Service Lines- Onboarding, design and carry out onboarding on a 1:1 basis as well as through group 3 day workshops- Mentoring / Coaching / Leading / Managing the new teams on board as the point of contact on the ground- Global Real Estate (GRE) -> ensured smooth transition to accommodate, worked very closely with Bucharest leadership team and real estate delivery managers - IT - ensured all employees equipped with hardware and peripherals, constant dialogue with procurement and IT support teams to make it happen

Bucharest, Romania

• Established a FP&A Centre of Excellence (CoE), recruited over 90 employees across various skillsets and management levels in a challenging timeframe (March – July 2019).• Developed and delivered with input from our Learning and Development Team the onboarding phases 1 – 6.• Team lead for Decision Support, Headcount and Commission teams.• Partnered with Deloitte the managing of knowledge transfer (KT) from employees across the globe into Bucharest.• Point of contact through transition from KT, SRT and into to GO Live as well as mentoring and coaching individuals and the team. • Designed and laid the foundations for the building of the new ‘Commissions Model’ alongside the newly formed team.

Newbury, England, United Kingdom

Reporting directly to the International FD, promoted into taking on a broader role across the International region post merge with HPE Software.• Managed and supported the team post merge with HPE software in understanding our P&L. Actions put in place to remediate issues, increase relationship building and stakeholder management across the merging companies. Ultimately this led to better decision making from senior business leaders with best-in-class MI• Led and advised on providing simpler analytics, driven through collaborative approaches with the BI team and Sales Ops• Directed the creation of a manageable and timely Balance Scorecard• Coaching & Mentoring of OPEX team in Wroclaw• Worked closely with Sales VPs to direct the strategic decision making across the International Region

Newbury

Financial Planning & Analysis lead for the two largest Sales Regions in EMEA as well as Services Sales Org.Finance Business Partner to three Regional Vice Presidents.• Analysis on Revenue Performance, key drivers and trends, recognition and reconciliation, investment opportunities and project support to promote growth.• Management of monthly expense and forecasting reviews, actuals V budget, forecast and prior forecast.• Manage Annual Budget process.• Production and Presentation to RVPs the Quarterly Performance Pack• Support the commission team on key financial data relevant to the payments.• Key partner in bringing the HP Software and Micro focus teams together during the merge in Sept 2017, increased responsibilities and driver of change to simplify in extreme deadlines.• Heavily involved in the planning cycle for FY18 across the ‘New’ Micro focus post merge, managing expectations and team deliverables, relied upon by manager to support the ever-changing business landscape.

Swindon, England, United Kingdom

• Hand-picked by the MD to Project lead alongside our Head of Retail for the MORE initiative from April 2016 onwards, implemented reporting dashboard on the intranet to monitor the 10 key drivers of branch operations.• Suggested and led a Project to reduce our Work in Progress (WIP). WIP stood at £2.3m of Turnover. Collaborated with 6 different departments to execute the project plan. Received an ‘extra mile award’ for my efforts (only 6 of these awarded in the whole business for 2015). WIP reduced from 27 days in May, ending 2015 at 15 days, Increased Turnover by £500k.• Implemented a web-based portal called Report Manager by working with our IT team. Portal offers numerous levels of reports to provide the branch network with up-to-date information to make proactive decisions that add value.• Adapted the Month End Reporting Suite which resulted in saving of a day off the month end process to enable more value-add analysis of the result. • Significantly improved relationships and mutual respect with all levels of personnel in the Branch network from Aftersales Directors (ASD) to administrators, through increased visits and visibility offering more detailed insight

Thatcham, England, United Kingdom

Reading, United Kingdom