Peter Thomas Email & Phone Number

Burgess Hill, GB

The City Of Brighton And Hove, England, United Kingdom

• A move into the public sector led to seven years on the frontline, leading and improving process, before gaining a permanent move into Change to apply my experience organisation-wide. Currently work in the Change.
• Currently Scrum Master for enterprise change capabilities, facilitating change maturity improvement from 2.3 to 2.8 in 12 months;
• Business Change lead on documentation transfer project, driving 92% completion in three months; and
• Led change network for 18 months, recruiting 30+ champions, designing 8 stage change accreditation.

Greater Brighton And Hove Area

• Oversaw the strategic and procedural improvement of two major regulation intervention work-streams:
• Implemented a new strategy for highest risk DB intervention, training 25 staff, gaining 96% compliance;
• Re-designed the process for DC chair’s statement reviews, reducing SLA by half to three weeks; and
• Co-compered three directorate away days, two in person one virtual, facilitating speakers & workshops.

Brighton And Hove, England, United Kingdom

• Completed a year’s secondment as part of setting up the new internal Regulatory Assurance function:
• Researched and wrote ten case reviews across a variety of different case and pension scheme types;
• Wrote ten new team governance documents including Terms of Reference and Job descriptions; and
• As President, led TPR Speakers (Toastmasters) to Distinguished Club status for first time in 2018/19.

Brighton And Hove, England, United Kingdom

• Led end-to-end cases and multi-disciplinary teams across a variety of pensions’ regulation interventions:
• Gained three major funding improvements for a scheme larger than the PPF as part of banking reform;
• Led the successful defence of a Judicial Review moral hazard case, recovering over 85% of costs; and
• Worked with the Charities Commission to convict 2 trustees of fraud relating to a disabled adult charity.

Burgess Hill, England, United Kingdom

• A personal project offering hockey coaching to individuals, teams and organisations across schools, youth groups and clubs. Taking a holistic, humanistic and harmonistic approach to develop physical mobility, decision.
• Created "Monday Night Hockey" at Lewes HC in Aug 2016: still running every Monday throughout the year;
• Lewes HC Club Development Officer/Director of Coaching (Juniors) overseeing 350+ juniors 2004-2018;
• Head Coach of Sussex Hockey Association Men’s and Girls U17 squads, engaging all clubs 2016-2018;
• Volunteer coach, coach educator, coach mentor, referee for Burgess Hill RFC 2021 – current; and
• Host monthly podcast “Happy Hockey” with 38 episodes available on Spotify 2021-2024 https://anchor.fm/happy-hockey355

Brighton

• After graduating I wanted to gain experience of working in a multi-national corporation. This led to a role in banking, analysing and improving lending performance, whilst supporting the implementation of a more.
• Introduced nine process improvements to-end-to end lending, halving draw down time in 3 months;
• Engaged with change team to update finance software, improving data capture by 25% in 6 months;
• Wrote and delivered online internal training on financial accounting, improving SLA by 20% to 98%; and
• Completed a three-month placement with an RBS branch to integrate systems & processes with NatWest.

Brighton

• Chose to further my understanding of business by returning to full time education, including a four month ERASMUS exchange in Grenoble École de Management in France in 2011:
• Completed live studies of renewable energies in Northern Ireland and French Champagne industry;
• Achieved a distinction in Financial Accounting analysing and comparing Burberry and Ted Baker;
• In a Scenario Planning assignment a year in advance predicted the London riots of 2011; and
• A student trustee in my final year, providing a post-graduate view of the university experience.

Guildford, United Kingdom

• Wishing to gain a greater understanding of the corporate world I joined a small financial services company providing support to clients across the South East, appointed to Director August 2008:
• Managed 3 years of accounts payable for a client with £350k annual turnover, receiving all monies;
• Successfully negotiated a five-year refinancing of £500k HMRC liabilities for a group of public houses;
• Designed / introduced a 7-stage staff training programme, doubling employee output in 6 months; and
• Reduced internal variable costs by 50% in 18 months through efficiency and succession planning.

UK & USA

• Followed three years of involvement with students’ union sport, whilst studying for my undergraduate degree at The University of Nottingham, by pursuing a full time career in sports coaching based in Sussex:
• Awarded “Union Prize” by University of Nottingham for outstanding contribution to inter-mural hockey;
• Worked with grass roots, elite and disabled athletes across school, university, club in UK / US; and
• Mixed U11 hockey team won Sussex Youth Games 2004 “Spirit of the Games” after only 9 sessions.

Mba, International Management

Activities and Societies: Student Trustee of the University of Brighton Students UnionCMI Membership

Masters, Management

Activities and Societies: ERASMUS Exchange Student from the University of Brighton

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Chemistry, 2:I

Activities and Societies: AU Executive rep for Hockey 2003-04, Vice President Men’s Hockey Club 2003-04, Treasurer Men’s Hockey Club.

A-Levels, Chemistry, Geography, Mathematics, Further Mathematics [A/S], A, A, A, A

Activities and Societies: Sussex Hockey U15-U19, Captain Boys Hockey 2000, Full Colours Hockey & Athletics 2000, School Prefect 1999/00.