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Cambridge, Gb

United Kingdom

Finance Excellence Programme

London Area, United Kingdom

Development and implementation of change, Comms and training strategy to support the implementation of Oracle PPM across global Operations and Project Finance teams.

United Kingdom

As Change Lead, delivered the full end-to-end change management to support the delivery of Coupa for Supplier Sourcing, Risk Assessment, Requisitioning and approvals, to payment. Activities included Stakeholder Management to senior, mid-level and users, end user communications and training, Delegation of Authority policy adoption, go-live support. Together with the wide GBS programme, developed the service management model with the new Porto S2P team; with development of Service Now forms, Knowledge Articles, Continuous improvement, daily user support calls during go-live. Delivered Source to Contract change activities across US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, and Source to Pay to US, Canada, UK, Ireland and latterly Spain, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and France.

United Kingdom

Delivered the Change approach, stakeholder management, communications and training for the implementation of new Financial controls (framework, risk and control matrices) with WDesk as the controls tool for control owners and operators to Attest to control effectiveness, aligned to US SOX requirements for the Johannesburg Stock Exhange. Delivered the training and change across multiple markets in Europe and Africa.

Luton, United Kingdom

Planned and delivered the first cross-programme leadership event, launching the new Finance Operating Model.Delivered the change, communications and training for the first successful implementation of Hyperion for Cash Forecasting, supporting the Treasury team and all regional finance teams.Delivered programme communications to finance and operational teams on Workplace; for example Townhall videos, development of materials for Implementation Council Leadership Meetings.Stakeholder engagement across senior Finance stakeholders.

London, United Kingdom

Delivered the Change and communications to support the reorganising of Finance Shared Service Teams, and the transition to the new GBS team based in Poland. This included engagement with HR, local work council organisations, and leadership teamsProvided change support for the release of ServiceNow for Finance Service Management; building the new framework and forms, tools and knowledge article publications.,

Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Delivered the change management for implementation of the new Finance Service Management Framework; new service catalogue, interaction model, SLAs/OLAs, process maps and standard operating procedures, governance framework. Built the approach and materials to develop a cross-business Champion network, including delivering Champion briefing/ training sessions, and providing on-going champion support.

Rushden, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom

Change workstream lead, reporting directly to the Programme Director, for the BOOST Transformation Programme. Lead the development of the Change and Communications strategy from the first release of Oracle R12 Finance, Procurement, and later HR, through multiple releases of Oracle across the business. Lead the Change and Communications team throughout the programme, and represented the programme to senior leaders and Directors across the entire business. Chaired the regular Deployment Board governance meetings with Implementation Leads from each Business Unit to ensure there was a common understanding of the need, actions and outcomes required from the business, at each stage of the programme.Delivered change activities to support the implementation across multiple waves, including Procurement for Plant Hire and Complex plot procurement.

London, United Kingdom

ERP Change Management approach and Organisation Design, supporting the Finance workstream in the programme.

Bethnal Green

School Sales; generated sales in new regions to meet our growth target from 300 to 1000 pupils across 84 schools, in new locations such as Liverpool, Doncaster, Sheffield and Manchester.Managed the installation of, and move to, new business premises for a team that doubled in size to 18.Process development across the tuition programme, from sales, through recruitment and allocation, delivery of materials, tracking and performance management.Implemented new tracking and reporting tools, such as attendance and impact registers, used by tutors to provide data for performance management.Co-designed strategy and delivery model for the future tuition programme.

London And Client Sites

Delivers Change Management People and Organisational changes required for the client's programme to succeed. Effective leadership and influencing skills required to deliver these changes, backed with credible personal expertise and best practice methodology. Sell IBM services into existing and new clients.

London, United Kingdom

Defining and delivering the global blended learning strategy for business change training within IBM's organisation & change practice. Budgeting and managing the delivery of on-line and classroom training for consultants of all grades.Delivered the IBM Berlin University; 4 Strategy Courses running simultaneously with EMEA Leadership plenary session and Knowledge Fair, with participants from across Europe.

Produced E-learning for the PWC and IBM consulting practice. Included a series of short Sector / industry views, to longer interactive Consultant skills training.

Multimedia producer at an award winning medical communications company, leading the development on information kiosks, multimedia presentations, games, representations of biological interactions to demonstrate the efficacy of our client's products, managing exhibits stands and representing the company to our multi national Blue Chip Pharmaceutical clients in the UK and US.

Led the development team creating education materials supporting the Ashridge Online e-learning products, and temporarily held the interim role as operations manager for Ashridge Online to assure delivery of e-learning products on time and to specification.

London, United Kingdom

Conceiving and developing E-learning/ multimedia for surgical training at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the centre for surgical training and quality in England.

Msc, Knowledge Based Systems, Pass

Activities and Societies: Apple Competition. As one of only three Universities in the UK to be invited to participate in this global.

Ba (Hons) Combined Studies, History/ English, 2:1

Activities and Societies: Volleyball club (Chairman), football club, rugby clubBA (Hons) Combined Studies (History and English) - 2:1