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London, England, United Kingdom

Delivering award winning employee benefits to BofA employees across UK and Ireland

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Created just 11 years ago by its founder to re shape the energy supply sector, in January 2020, OVO acquired SSE Retail and 8,000 SSE employees.Joining OVO as Senior Reward Partner, in September 2020, I was tasked with ensuring SSE's Pensions and Benefits were transitioned into OVO. Successful onboarding was completed in December 2020. This involved -- Full operational processes to support all SSE employee Benefits, integrated with OVO payroll and HR systems- Full operational processes support all SSE employees DC Pensions, including AEIn January 2021 I was tasked with designing and launching a new harmonized Pension and Benefits offer to ALL OVO employees, including those from SSE Retail. This would be part of OVO's - New People Offer. My remit was to design an employee Pensions and Benefits offer which truly reflected OVO's values and which would make OVO a leading place to work, offering flexibility and choice to a truly diverse workforce.The New People Offer was successfully launched in January 2022. The design and communication phase involved -- Benchmarking OVO's existing employee benefits offer with the market- Evaluating the market for a new workplace pension- Union negotiations- Gathering input and feedback from our people.- Wide range of communications to ensure our LT were engaged, our People teams and People partners were fully up to speed on the offer, and employees and unions knew what was being launched.As part of the delivery and launch, OVO now has -- All employees moved to a new ESG/Green biased workplace DC pension- All of its employees on OVO's Flexible Benefits platform, allowing them to select from a wide range of employee benefits covering - Plan Zero Benefits, Financial & Protection, Health & Wellbeing, Lifestyle.- Automated and integrated HR, Payroll, Benefits, Pension and Provider solution

Intuition is a leading global knowledge solutions company. Helping clients develop the skills and expertise they need to unlock their potential. With offices located worldwide,As a Project Manager I helped them develop, deliver and deploy award-winning products and services to several of the world’s leading corporate organizations.eLearning solutions which engage, motivate, and inspire employees on their learning paths.

Owning a wider portfolio of solutions, and additional accountability for Benefits and other Reward solutions such as BP’s bespoke compensation and performance tool “Reward Manager”, Total Reward Statements, continued to further optimize the systems and solutions relating to Reward, through collaboration with the Reward Centre of Excellence, and other stakeholders. -Reduced pensions administration casework backlog by 2/3rds through the introduction of online Web based member self-service solutions, automating workflow processes, improving incoming post processing using bar coding and auto case creation;-Worked with our Flexible Benefits provider and Benefits operational team to upgrade the solution to a fully responsive platform, and introduce further employee benefits;-Continued to support Reward operations, Performance and Compensation yearly cycle-Actively contributed to the MoW benefits agenda, through the introduction of a global benefits database solution and the associated integration points with the global HR portal;Implemented a global Total Reward Statement solution to 24,000 employees across six countries, with roll out planned for another 50 or so countries, where BP operates;-Global Process Owner for Benefits during the introduction of BP’s global HR solution – Workday, which replaced SAP, ensuring benefits were configured correctly for all 71 countries;-Owned the relationship with UK Pensions and Benefits 3rd party suppliers, -Managed governance of the Reward applications, including major projects, enhancements, change control, assurance and access control procedures;-Served as key liaison between the business, HR, Reward, IT and outside service providers regarding best practices, tools, and technology needed to deliver operations and solutions;-Responsibility for budget control, resource development and management of work in my portfolio;-Providing strategic solutions guidance to Directors of Reward,

London, United Kingdom

Managing the transition of the team of data analysts and system analysts from being embedded in UK Pensions, to HR Innovation and Solutions. Activities and responsibilities remained as per the Systems, Data and Projects manager role.Since implementing the £1.5M project to deliver a new integrated pensions administration solution, and pension payroll, continued to drive further innovation and process improvements, using inhouse teams, and main 3rd party supplier.Functioned as internal consultant to business community and senior stakeholders to deliver process improvement tools and methodologies across Reward and HR;Planned and implemented continuous improvements to the solutions to improve the efficiency, and effectiveness of the systems and simplify their operation;Ensured the implemented solutions continuously met regulatory, trustee and company compliance, including implementing an Information Security management framework and data privacy requirements;Presenting to the board of trustees on a range of topics related to the solutions, including Digital Security, GDPR compliance, member self-service, and Business Continuity Planning.Contributing to Pensions management meetings as well as being part of the HRIS management team reporting to the HRIS Director for Reward solutions. This provided an excellent opportunity to build the relationship between both organisations.Supporting BP’s UK employee Payroll replacement project, ensuring complex pensions contributions and deductions including DB, DC and Auto-enrolment functionality was fully supported, documented and tested before go liveProviding technical guidance to improve governance and processes relating to the European pension funds covering 10 countries and run by Trustees based in Belgium and Netherlands.

Sunbury On Thames

Accepting a permanent employee role as Systems, Data & Projects Manager for UK Reward and Pensions. It was agreed with the HRIS management that 80% of my role would be supporting UK Pensions, with 20% still supporting HRIS – Reward. BP UK Pensions has a 80,000 membership made up of active employees, retired employees and deferred members.Overall responsibility for the implementation, development and operation of all UK Reward and Penson systems required in the operation of BP’s Global Reward processes and Defined Benefit Pension schemes;Also having significant interaction with HRIS colleagues still supporting solutions for Flexible Benefits arrangements within the UK.Member of the project board selecting and then leading the delivery of a new integrated Pensions administration, Responsible for running RFI and RFP selection process, including evaluation and scoring, working closely with procurement.This went live successfully in April 2016 with a £55M monthly payroll to pensioners, including annual pension Increases, 40+ integrated workflows and a comprehensive range of automated pension calculations. The solution also included a full document management system;Lead the internal team, consisting of a dedicated PM, 3rd party BA’s, testers as well as being the main interface with the new supplier;Maintained governance on the project, including budget, risk, status tracking, prioritisation, Data migration and cut over planning;Planning and review meetings relating to new and existing systems, interfacing with the IT function, planning system improvements and enhancements. Responsible for the relationship, and service provided by UK Pensions main system supplier Aquila and BT our hosting partner;Managing budget for systems; Operational Support; Continuous improvement; Resource planning; Application Support Model; Run the business and Projects.Management and development of the team of 9 system and data analysts.

London, England, United Kingdom

Joined BP in 2005 as an independent contractor, working directly for the senior level leader responsible for Reward Communications and Systems team.Based partly from home and BP’s offices, supporting the Reward Communications team and Group Reward deliver a wide range of HR and Reward solutions to the business.Working on projects as a technical resource with responsibility to implement a range of Reward solutions –o Flex Benefits, originally with Towers Watson, and now moved to Thomsons Online benefits (in 2014)o Performance management system, delivered with Successfactors;o International Mobility solution delivered with Equus;o Bespoke equity management solution GEMS, linked to Computershare and Fidelity;o Learning solution based on Cornerstone;o Bespoke TRS solution built inhouse.o Introduction of pension Auto-Enrolment solutiono Introduction of HR Portalo US Life Benefits platformRunning RFI and RFP selection processes for each project, including evaluation and scoring, working closely with procurement.Responsibility to ensure all systems were compliant to BP’s Information Security Management System. Introducing and documenting governance processes and training for users;Responsible to ensure all systems and solutions were compliant to BP and Country Data Privacy laws;• Providing guidance and training to junior members of the team on contracts, governance, requirements, testing, support processes and necessary controls as well as budget management.Working closely with Procurement and legal for all the above systems to ensure appropriate contracts of supply and support have been agreed and put into place. Supported the Director of Reward communications and systems to plan work, budget, resources and project governance.

Sunderland, England, United Kingdom

Earlier Career Working for various companies and consultancies providing IT and system solutions to public sector, and blue-chip European organisations, including being responsible for delivery and support of solutions for –• Welsh Development Agency, • BP Chemicals, • Carmarthenshire CC • BP Exploration • Shell• ICI• BASF• Various Utility companies• Various District Councils• Various police authorities• British Gas Transco National Supervisory SystemProjects were delivered to the company QMS standards ISO9001, and I was an internal auditor for that quality accreditation.