Mike Collins Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Leicester, England, United Kingdom

Advisory role with a major retail organisation embarking on a Finance Transformation journey. Providing advice and guidance on setting the programme up for success.Responsible for programme advisory on setting up for success, including: -• Contractual agreement with system implementation partner• Overall programme scope and structure• Support model high level vision and roadmap• Operating model high level vision and roadmap

United Kingdom

[P/T] Quality assurance and expert advice for major finance & retail transformation programme (~£60m) reporting to the Group CFO and Audit Committee. Includes implementation of Oracle Cloud Retail & Finance into a very complex multi-country organisation in Eastern Europe.

London, England, United Kingdom

Responsible to CFO & CTrO for the “Discovery/Vision” phase of Finance Transformation & ERP rollout programme, including:• Legal entity rationalisation• Review and uplift of Workday Financials implementation to align with Global Processes• Establishment of Shared Services in Poland & Ireland• Establishment of Programme Governance and Reporting• Co-ordination of SI (KPMG) activities• Advice & input into target architecture

Kingston, Jamaica

Overall management of US$40m Finance Transformation Programme from inception through to roll-out of Workday Financials in 30+ markets (140 companies).Responsible to Group CFO & Global Head of Business Services for:- Programme Inception- Business Case and Board Presentations- Vendor and partner selection- Delivery management- Budget management- Senior Management Liaison- Solution architecture- Entity & Bank Rationalisation- Captive Service Centre Stand UpAchievements:- Migration of Shared Service Centre from Chennai, India to Kingston Jamaica- Implementation of Global policies, processes and procedures- Implementation of Workday Financials in 140 companies across 30+ markets

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for programme management of transformation delivery, including: -• Transition from original implementation partner to a new implementation partner• Review of Programme status for delivery including completeness of design, governance structures and planning resulting in recommendations for amended structure to be adopted during delivery

Welwyn Garden City

Management of global design and deployment to UK, RoI & India of Finance Transformation for Tesco PLC, based on Oracle ERP Cloud (Fusion) SaaS (using KPMG Powered Enterprise “KPE”), EPM EPBCS, DRM/DRG, BICSResponsible for programme management of transformation delivery, including: -• Completion of global design of core financial processes, organisation design, service delivery model, governance & controls based on Fusion SaaS and KPE• Liaison with Group Technology providing technical architecture and engineering service to the programme• Liaison with OCS providing Fusion and EPM SI services to the programme• Planning and delivery of deployment into UK, RoI and India

London, United Kingdom

Architecture, design and delivery of the FAH solution for Clearing and Investment accounting for LSEG Clearing Houses (LCH.ClearNet & Borsa CC&G) using Oracle e-Business R12.2.4.Responsible for all aspects of delivery including: -• Requirements gathering and analysis• Solution architecture and design covering three entities LCH Ltd (UK), LCH SA (France) & CC&G (Italy) in a single ‘global’ solution including Conference Room Pilot (CRP) sessions• Design of source system accounting event extracts (Sungard, T2S, Calypso) and management of the build using local IT resource• Design, build & test of inbound FAH interface• Functional configuration of FAH• Implementation and trainingTechnical lead for US rollout* Payment Integrations (ISO20022) to/from JP Morgan, Wells Fargo & HSBC* Lockbox / Receivables Integration

London, United Kingdom

Responsible to CFO and Programme Director for the delivery of an Integrated Financial ERP Solution using Oracle e-Business R12.2.3 (GL, AP, AR, PA, CE, FAH, FA, OAM/OID), Hyperion Planning, HPCM, DRM, FCM/ARM and OBIEE 11G/OBIA Financial Analytics from initial feasibility study, implementation partner selection through to implementation.Responsible for all aspects of technical delivery including: -• Selection and liaison with implementation partner (OCS) including specification of project brief leading to contractual agreement• Initial solution architecture design and technical roadmap for Finance applications to fit in with corporate middle and back office architecture• Initial technical architecture design, with partner and subsequent procurement and commissioning of environments• Establishment of the project team with the Finance business stream lead• Delivery management of OCS & Mizuho project resources through CRP(conference Room Pilot) stages into UAT, transition and go liveo Review of OCS functional design documents (AN.100)o Resolution of business process and technical gapso Co-ordination of business and project resources• Liaison with Mizuho technical services and middleware teams to design and implement key interfaces• Detailed technical and functional design of interfaces from middle office systems into FAH

Birmingham / London

Responsibility for major reguilatory transformation programme

Marlow

Business Solutions Architect for global ERP implementation : Oracle R12.1.3 Financials and Supply ChainGlobal Data Migration Lead

London/Birmingham

Bring Enabling Programme under control and deliver major Web & CRM based income project for 2012.

London, City

IT Project Lead for implementation of Oracle E-Business R12 (GL,FAH,AP,FA,AGIS) and Business Intelligence (OBIEE/Hyperion/ ESSBASE) platform in the EMEA Region. Also, application/technical architect for the integration of Oracle E-Business into the existing application infrastructure and design authority for the implementation of revenue accounting (T2E).Responsible for technical delivery, application and technical architecture in EMEA.• Defined integrated architecture covering interfaces from Back Office applications, payroll (ADP), Expenses (Concur) and outgoing interfaces to Hyperion, ESSBASE, OBIEE etc• Data Migration from SUNGL to Oracle ERP• Management of on-shore/off-shore development staff on a matrix basis in Europe and Chicago• Liaison with Oracle-on-Demand for the provision of outsourced environments and services• Liaison with local IT functions for the provision of internal resources and co-ordination with other projects• Member of the Advisory Board determining global architecture and processes

VP Finance Applications (Corporate Technology)Responsible for Business-as-usual support & enhancements, BI & EBS systems, Application & Technical Strategy/Planning.Previously~~~~~~~Oracle BI Technical Manager/Architect/Business AnalystTechnical Project Manager responsible for the technical implementation and roll-out of Oracle eBusiness R12 (GL,AP,PO,CM,FSAH/FAH) and Oracle Business Intelligence for MUSI (UK,CH,IT & DE) & MUS(USA): -- Responsible for managing the delivery of Infrastructure Components (Servers, Databases, Storage & Network) and handover to Infrastructure Support- Responsible for the delivery of Application Architecture, Interfaces & Extensions- Responsible for the Implementation of Financial Services Accounting Hub (FSAH now FAH) to interface trading systems to revenue accounting system.- Recruitment and establishment of support team~~~~~~~MiFID Programme Manager - management of all aspects of a major compliance programme impacting front, middle and back-office functions.~~~~~~~Anti-Money Laundering(AML) & KYC Technical Manager - implementing Siron AML, PEP and integrating with existring systems~~~~~~~~Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Project Manager - implementation of processes and controls both Technical (General Computer Controls) and business related to meet SOX requirements.~~~~~~~~Change Management/IT Governance Manager - implementation of automated change/release management and IT Governance in line with ITIL & CoBIT frameworks~~~~~~~~~Security Settlement Systems Project/Support Manager - management of the implementation and support of STP settlements system

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