Sally Evans Email & Phone Number

Kingsbridge, Gb

I enjoyed a successful fixed term contract at the ONS but funding restrictions meant that my role could not be extended. Seeking a similar position.

Key Responsibilities• Providing secretariat function at board and other meetings - Diary Management, setting up boards and other meetings (including working with Personal/Executive Assistants for senior attendees), booking meeting rooms, hosting online meetings, and all meeting related activities including setting agendas, producing meeting packs, taking minutes, following up and supporting the completion of actions arising.• Stakeholder Management – Establishing and managing friendly, professional relationships with internal and external stakeholders at all levels of the organisation, acting as a lead point of contact where needed. Providing timely administrative support to key personnel. • Monitoring & reporting - Maintaining project controls (change control, assurance checkpoints, meeting audit requirements etc), keeping the project manager aware of the project status, producing accurate reporting and communications tailored to different audiences. • Maintaining core systems and ensuring the management of documentation in line with governance best practice, configuration management, retention policies, archive rules etc.• Financial control - monitoring spend and contributing to the compilation of budgets and business cases. Raising purchase orders, compiling expenses and monthly financial reporting.• General day-to-day office administration ensuring financial, organisational and compliance tasks are carried out in a timely manner.

South East England

After taking voluntary redundancy from Lloyds Banking Group, I worked on a self-employed basis as a Freelance PA providing project and administrative support to small businesses. Three of the main businesses that I worked for, and my key responsibilities were as follows;Reputation Management/Events Company• Building and managing relationships with key stakeholders, acting as first point of contact for day-to-day communications.• Paying invoices, bank reconciliation and producing monthly financial cost centre reports.• Supporting the organisation of events at major locations like the V&A and Football Stadiums.Antiquarian Book Dealer• Financial management – processing of payments, payment of invoices, book-keeping, bank reconciliation, and preparation of documentation for end of year accounts.• Assisting with client correspondence.• Booking and coordinating overseas travel.Building Surveyor• Production of accurate property reports• Dealing with clients and maintaining confidentiality.

London, United Kingdom

Personally managed a broad range of projects with budgets up to £2.5m and up to 40 concurrent resources across multiple UK sites and globally. Well organised and a great communicator with strong core project management skills and a solid track record of on time and on budget delivery, Projects included Lloyds/HBOS Integration, Group Operations Offshoring, Credit Operations Transformation, Insurance E Commerce.- Primarily experienced in implementing new or enhancing existing software solutions. This has included managing DBT phase of in house initiatives, sourcing third party solutions via Invitation to tender / RFI and investigating the optimum upgrade / enhancement path for existing installs. - Experienced working on both the Business and IT side of projects. Spent 3 years working for IT Service Delivery, working as an ITPM and representing IT as a business unit and have experience of producing business case documentation. - Excellent stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills. Experienced working with senior stakeholders up to director level. Competent and comfortable when facilitating large workshops, ensuring the correct attendees and agenda to maximise productivity.- Significant experience working with and managing different 3rd parties, particularly ensuring roles/deliverables/financial milestones robustly defined. - Experience of undertaking the business analysis role, including managing functional and non functional requirements gathering, implementing requirements traceability and change management processes, facilitating process and data mapping analysis and designing reconciliation processes.- Recognised for strong PMO skills: Competent project planner and financial manager, proactive RAID manager and particularly recognised for audience appropriate project reporting. - Competent user of MS Project, Office, Outlook and Visio as well as Sharepoint and several project management tools.

Responsible for a small team supporting projects across Collections and Recoveries (Debt Manager). Experience of many aspects of system testing.

A key support role in the Recoveries operational area with responsibilities including, Business Project Management, Business Continuity planning, training and user acceptance testing. (Debt Manager)