Neil Walke Email & Phone Number

Highclere, GB

• Introduced Agile Corporate Governance at a new Private Equity funded fibre broadband business combination: Worked collaboratively to define and cascade strategy, implemented OKRs and established the Business Review.
• Responsibilities extended to become acting Head of Strategy

London, England, United Kingdom

• Programme recovery for data cloud migration: Drove the move to Scaled Agile (SAFe) that halved implementation time and cut through global / local politics, mobilising a team of 50
• Orchestrated the move to Lean Portfolio Management across Data and Analytics for 3 Release trains / 200 people involving department-wide reskilling.
• Identified and secured agreement to deliver use cases contributing benefits of £30m including roll out of Customer Profitability modelling.
• Left amicably as part of a planned Programme ramp down

Newbury

• Executed delivery of the Profitability tool achieving a £54m benefits case. The tool remains the cornerstone of Consumer Finance analysis more than five years on.
• Pioneered Data Science solutions including data wrangling in Financial Operations and a predictive analytics use case that achieved 99.9% accuracy for the biggest revenue line.
• Delivered IFRS16 compliance for the UK business with recognition of a £1bn right of use asset and liability.

Newbury

• Established and managed IFRS15 project teams and delivered the first go-live of SAP RAR in Vodafone despite being in the second Wave of markets to start.

Newbury

• First Global implementation of SAP Fraud Management on HANA delivering £10m benefits leveraging highly capable offshore team.
• Introduced a Global electronic invoicing platform in best practice time despite the scale of Vodafone.

Paddington

• Headed up Financial Planning and Analysis activities for the Africa, Middle East and Asia Pacific Region.
• Established a culture of no surprises with the budget delivered throughout my tenure.
• Business Lead on Hyperion Strategic Finance planning tool implementation.

Newbury

• Oversaw team providing Finance Business Partner support to the UK Consumer Sales and Device teams.

• Directed the Financial Planning and Analysis activity for all Verizon Wireless reporting to Vodafone.

• Finance Business Partner to the Group Roaming Services function. Conceived and implemented a wholesale roaming mechanism that enabled Vodafone to realise roaming as a strategic differentiator.