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Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Norto5 KIDZ consists of a number of day care centers in the Haywards Heath area catering for children from birth to about 5 years old.

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Managing a domiciliary care agency in the Bournemouth area

Rotterdam Area, Netherlands

LyondellBasell is a $45billion pa company in the petro-chemical industry.Management recognized that considerable savings and efficiencies could be made bya) Realigning the organization from being an entity driven organization to a global process driven organization within a shared service structure as a precursor to delivering End to End global business servicesb) Relocating non mission critical activities into a low cost area.In order to achieve this, we established regional processing and moved the activities progressively from the countries into those hubs, globally standardizing the processes in the transition- and establishing new customer and stakeholder support structures needed to service the business from the revised platform. We also set up a operational risk control framework in which we integrated the risk mitigation activities into the operational activities using Archer as the integration tool.

London, United Kingdom

Consultant with Resources Global deployed to their clients for various assignments

London, United Kingdom

I carried out an upgrade to their Internal Audit application integrating changes that were identified as a result of their usage of the application since I deployed the initial application in 2012.New features include automatic maintenance of working paper files, contextual help and enhanced reporting.

Stockley Park

Designed and developed a Master Data Management application using SharePoint 2010 as the platform and integrating the advantages offered by Microsoft InfoPath, Excel and Access in conjunction with SharePoint.This allowed me to gain a greater depth of experience in how best to use InfoPath as a tool for both prototyping web based applications and as a user managed tool.

London, United Kingdom

Designed, developed and deployed an Audit Management application servicing the needs of an audit population of 120 users across the globe using SharePoint 2010 as the application platform.During my stay at Vodafone, I have acquired an in depth knowledge of the workings of SharePoint 2010 together with the integration of that platform with other Microsoft Office products

Guildford, Uk

Sanofi is a diversified global healthcare company engaged in the research, development, manufacture and marketing of healthcare products. Their business includes pharmaceuticals, comprising prescription drugs, consumer healthcare and generics; vaccines and animal health and their 2010 turnover was in excess of £25Bn.During 2011, they acquired a company by the name of Genzyme for $20.1bn and they were focused on redistributing the brands and therefore personnel to better utilize the attributes of the respective companies.I was brought into the organization for a short period in order to assist with the integration.

Global

BP is in the process of establishing a single source of truth within their IT&S financial reporting function. They have developed an application on an SAP BW platform to ingest the actual financial information and then to use this information for financial reporting and forecast updating.I project managed the integration of the application into the live environment and then subsequently to hold an interim management role while I defined and established the processes and procedures needed to drive this process.Whilst in this interim management role, I created the processes and develop the software to support a global financial transactions database allowing project managers to manage their projects from this global platform.

London, United Kingdom

Sony is in the process of centralizing it’s accounting functions into a Shared Service Center and as part of that process, they introduced document scanning across Europe.I was brought on board to give focused attention to the European Xerox scanning process, to identify the underlying issues and provide operational support to the business while those issues remained unresolved.Having identified the issues and put the actions in place to resolve them, I transitioned my role to a permanent employee who was identified for the role going forward.

London, United Kingdom

Globeleq develops power plant facilities in developing markets so it globally distributed interests. It has offices in London and Houston. My task was to analyze the business requirement, configure a prototype, specify the customization and deploy the resulting solution. The client had previously deployed SharePoint 2003 and they wanted to use the SharePoint/MOSS 2007 platform for the EDRMS.SharePoint is a product that has a track record of non adoption by users so the accent on the implementation was to create a solution that was user friendly. For me this solution was unique because the overriding concern was to only retain one copy of each document (plus versions) and maintain document security whilst at the same time servicing the needs of a matrix organization

Zug,Switzerland

1. Project co-managed the migration of the group from local currencies to a USD functional currency.2. Project co-managed the deployment of Oracle Financial General Ledger ( Version 11.5.10) across the group.3. Defined, developed and deployed a management information system for the French Marketing office in Paris.

Netherlands

1. Negotiate with resource managers (development, testing and support) to ensure that we were adequately resourced to fulfil the needs of the release.2. Resource planning and modelling to enable the company to decide on project priorities in relation to available resources.3. Interact with portfolio leads and project managers in order to verify that the projects were proceeding to plan and were not causing issues with the release.3. Manage dependencies within the release.

London, United Kingdom

Cendant (a US public corporation) bought Gulliver’s Travels (GTA) for $1.1 billion effective March 2005 and it was my responsibility to assist in transitioning this company into an SEC and SOX compliant company capable of supporting the internal needs of the corporation. The activities that I was responsible for while I worked for GTA were:• Portfolio Management: It was my task to manage the finance portfolio – in which capacity I was required to manage stakeholders expectations as well as the budget for this portfolio.• Release management for an average of 500 (mainly web based) projects at any one time covering an annual budget of some $5 million and involving 150 internal end external resources (global audience of over 3500 employees in 20 countries). I was required to manage relationships with stakeholders and external suppliers, resource scheduling as well as developing the information systems and processes necessary to support the process.• Manager of the Project Management Office (PMO) where I was responsible for project governance as well as planning and reporting on company spend to the Senior Leadership Team• Member of the SOX Steering Committee whose task it was to oversee the SOX process. My particular brief was to attend to the adaptation of existing applications and processes in order to address gaps that had been identified in the SOX remediation process.• Management consulting to the business in creating the structures and methods necessary to integrate the company into the larger corporate environment. Tutoring new managers in management techniques.

London, United Kingdom

1. Justification and implementation of P-Synch , a password management tool 2. Compiling the business case for the introduction of an Electronic Document and Record Management System (EDRMS) into the Practice.3. Migration of Ernst and Young Global from Novell to Windows 2000.4. Microsoft Content Management System (MCMS): Business analysis and process definition for the implementation of MCMS.5. ETL investigation into the integration of SAP, Sage Line 500, Great Plains, NaVision and Pegasus Opera ll with an analytics application developed by the Practice.6. Electronic payment gateway: Initial evaluation of costs to introduce an electronic payment gateway into the personal tax consultancy practice 7. Deployment of Sage Accounts Professional Advanced ( SAPA) into the Practice8. Conversion of legacy system (RAS Insolvency Management) to be platform independent. 9. Establishment and deployment of operational controls in the use of Marimba Electronic Software Distribution

Durban Area, South Africa

Cost Accountant Responsible for the management of the manufacturing and cost recovery models and reporting the results against actual performance. Continuous assessment on the basis of cost recovery and reporting to management on same.Project Manager1. Development of a financial model required to statistically identify, extrapolate or regress information in order to better predict the effect of “what if” type questions on corporate results.2. Product Cost Model was revised in order to accommodate for multi level formulations.3. Negotiable Trade Factors- an information system was established to inform trade-marketing managers as to the financial effect and cost models which their negotiation decisions would have on the product (and therefore company) profitability.Manager of the Treasury1. Administrating forward exchange swap contracts.2. Attending to the purchase and sale of foreign currency 3.Forecasting cash flows and reporting to London on cash positions.

Diploma, Mental And Social Health Services And Allied Professions, Qcf Level 5

Professional Membership

Ca(Sa), Accountancy And Auditing

Focus; Phase 1 And Phase 2 Epip Process Management, Process Management- Managing The Horizontal Organisation, Pass

Activities and Societies: Training Process improvement technologiesRummler Brache are the leading exponents of the methodology of managing.

Management Of Risk Practitioner, Corporate Risk Management

Prince2 Practitioner, Project Management

Mba, Business Administration

Batchelor Of Accounting, Accountancy

A Levels