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Crewe, England, United Kingdom

Programme Manager (PMO) within the Mobility group, defining governance framework and ensuring overall integrity of group objectives through collaboration with corporate, technical and specialist functions.▪ Implemented and oversaw compliance with RAID management principles across the Mobility group▪ Responsible for returning ¼ day per month to Mobility CEO by assuming responsibility for generation and submission of monthly reporting to group Executive and external investment Board.▪ Drove behavioural change amongst Mobility team members to provide quantitative reporting data to group Executive and external investment Board decision-makers.▪ Manage the finalisation of £12.9 million 2021 Mobility group budget through coordination of Mobility commercial team, Mobility CEO and Group CFO.▪ Achieved buy-in from Product, Finance, Operations, Marketing and Procurement groups through commitment to attend weekly reviews with the Mobility team to ensure alignment of key tasks to delivery Mobility annual objectives▪ Re-established and improved relationships with Product and Finance leadership through weekly engagement sessions and budget renewal process▪ Manage sales and solution team members in the creation of customer delivery plans for pilots and commercial solutions▪ Collaborate with Head of Programme Management in agreeing consistent standard and application of RAG status across Mobility and Product teams, with the end goal of establishing the standard across the group▪ Reviewed and provide quality assurance oversight for change management process for the programme increment delivery process

Knutsford, Cheshire, United Kingdom

Assistant Vice President PMO working in the digital channel workplace, managing compliance with internal delivery and external regulatory standards.▪ Manage delivery of the initiative to bring ~4,000 small business customers on the Channel Islands onto the Barclays Banking mobile app.▪ Lead PMO responsible for ensuring adherence with group delivery and risk management standards, external regulatory requirements across +£5 million programmes migrating digital systems to internal cloud and Amazon Web Services proof of concept, and providing customers with ability to monitor spending, and set personalised savings goals.▪ Manage stakeholders (Director and Managing Director level) across banking products, technology, legal and compliance, and providing regular management information reports to demonstrate delivery progress and escalate items requiring senior level action/approval.▪ Developed an on-boarding document adopted by wider team and mandated for use by Director, Digital Delivery.▪ Provide advice/guidance/expertise in developing best practice for financial forecasting across the digital technology delivery team.▪ Successfully implemented a programme governance structure on a programme in distress, taking it from a position of non-compliance to now being recognised as an example of ‘what good looks like’▪ Active member of a working group reviewing current standards and for the purpose of identifying areas/opportunities for improvement.

Knutsford

PMO Lead on AMEC's largest internal global transformational change project focused on Finance, Projects and HR, including the implementation of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 and 2012.- Managed risk/issue, change control and quality control processes- Managed accurate tracking and reporting of software development progress by Microsoft Partner vendor- Directed team leads and members on adherence to PMO processes- Led Programme progress, risk/issue and change control statuses to Programme management; challenging team reporting where required- Managed overall project SharePoint site; editor of intranet web-page- Led revision of Change control process to account joint software development in the post-implementation phase- Managed development of an Incident management plan for the post-implementation and business-as-usual phases- Overall responsibility for leading Programme governance throughout implementation and post-implementation warranty periods- Responsible for internal project communications and PMO Handbook- Controlled establishment and revision to the PMO Handbook - Support the Programme Manager and Programme Director as and when required- Enhanced post-implementation reporting to key stakeholders- Assisted with the identification and prioritisation of key stakeholder concerns during the project

PMO Analyst for the Functional Workstream, customising the MDAX 2009 system functionality to meet AMEC’s finance and HR requirements- Led tracking/monitoring progress of Functional Workstreams- Managed team Workstream Lead and team members with Risk and Issue Management in addition to the Change Control process- Managed Functional Worsktream status reporting- Controlled accurate record-keeping of Functional Workstream review meetings - Managed Functional Workstream SharePoint area

Intercompany Group Returnsconfirm receivables & payables for 5 North American companies with 10 AMEC companies worldwideuse confirmed balances to compile reconciliation for submission to UK head office for consolidationbuild constructive, productive relationships with international counterpartsCost Recoveryresponsible for all departmental cost recovery billings averaging over $9 million/monthincluded: confidential payroll, benefit and management invoicesliaise with Risk Group to ensure accuracy of insurance allocations for billingscreate, set-up jobs in Penta & Convero systemsDaily Bank Depositsresponsible for depositing cheques to all Canadian companies in both Candian and U.S. dollar accountsnotify: Controller, Assistant Controller, Treasury Manager, Sr. Treasury Analyst, Director of Consolidation and project accountants of deposit size, currency & account debitedAMEC Civils LLC Payablesenter A/P batches into StreetSmart systemverify accuracy of cheque information and payee informationensure cheques couriered out to payeesupdate and maintain payment information

Cost Recovery Billingresponsible for 6 cycles of billings covering over 20 individual work ordersensure accuracy of banking information; addresses; currencyrun reports; locate & provide back-up for invoicesassemble & distribute individual billings by job to corresponding project managersConsultants Clearingmanage and update accounts for all 15 North America offices and 1000 individual consultantsbalance consultant clearing accountsreconcile clearing account to G/Ldelegate investigation of reconciling items to appropriate Payables personnelcreated checklist to enhance efficiency of the clearing processtransferred consultant payment data from Discoverer report to alphabetical Excel spreadsheet to streamline data entryoutlined consultants clearing process to auditors resulting in zero audit points (2008 internal audit)Payrollmaintain and update payroll files for North American employeesarchive payroll documentsreceive and distribute Canadian employee pay stubsreceive and distribute confidential payroll reports to 6 major offices across Canadagiven access to ADP website by Payroll Manager to assist with employee payroll enquiries

Intercompany Payables- data entry of invoices for over 57 intercompany vendors- update, maintain & archive invoices- pull back-up for period-end requests- prepare and organize invoices for month-end and wire-payments- demonstrate & explain intercompany processes to auditors resulting in zero audit points in both internal & external auditsBank Reconciliations- retrieve bank statements- reconcile Canadian & U.S. currency accounts for AMEC Americas Ltd., and AMEC Inc.- process and prepare cheques for bank depositAudit Control- verify accuracy of cheque payees and amounts- initial cheques and cheque register once amount and payee verified

B.A, History; Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Business Law

Cga, Accounting

School Of Communication Arts 2004 Post Graduate Diploma Summer Institute, Broadcast Journalism