Robert Mcdonald Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

Many of the duties from my previous role as Head of Systems & Business Solutions remain but in addition:* Designing and optimising the system landscape for both the London Branch and FirstRand Securities, including motivation for the use of systems and processes not part of the broader Group infrastructure housed in South Africa.* Administration and support of FIS Integrity but driving projects to remove the "manual" in favour of automation, including data automation via a web-based API.* Development of a Data Integration service (written in Java) to manage connectivity to various Tibco queues for broader system integration

City Of London, England, United Kingdom

Duties included:* Managing a team that supports various aspects of the business through software support and solutions, including pre and post trade support, and finance support for Group and Regulatory reporting* Recruiting, mentoring and training of junior staff* Administration and support of FIS Integrity, including leading the project to migration from a legacy on-premise version to the current SaaS solution. Playing an active role in individual product migration off Integrity onto Group Systems (Murex / ACBS).* Development of bespoke reporting middleware in C# consisting of an ASP.Net web front-end, Microsoft SQL Server databases and various Windows Services.* Creation and maintenance of a Cash Management Tool used by Group Treasury, written in C#* Development and maintenance of an Outlook-based Leave Add-In, written in C# using vsto, allowing employees to book leave via their Outlook Calendar.* Daily reconciliations of source feeds to downstream systems.* Setting, and adhering to, an annual budget for the Systems team* Managing the various team projects and business-as-usual tasks via Jira* Management of the Systems Helpdesk on ServiceNow* Creation and maintenance of a Cash Management Tool required by Group Treasury, written in C#

London, United Kingdom

Key duties within the role:* Administration and User support for HFM, including source to HFM mappings, data loads, first-line support and managing data replication between the two instances.* Oracle E-Business Suite support and administration across AP, AR, PO, CM and FA modules.* System owner of Sungard Integrity (since acquired by FIS) used by the Branch for its trading and cash management activities, as well as being the custodian for the Mark-to-market valuation engine written in VBA.* Dashboards and Analysis using OBIEE* Financial Systems Helpdesk support

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Development and Maintenance of bespoke Customer Relationship Management and Telephone Management Software.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Managing all IT processes, policies and procedures including liaison with suppliers and service providers.

Bachelor Of Science (Honours), Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Information Technology