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• Business process design with particular expertise in Purchase to Pay and Internal Controls• Implementation of new business processes including the Change Management• Finance Accounting and reporting.• Internal Control and Compliance• Programme and Project ManagementMay 2013 to August 2014Auditor Cost and Compliance Associates LtdUndertaking supplier contract compliance audit services to FTSE 100 businesses looking to confirm that charges from their suppliers were in accordance with the contract terms.Feb 2012 to Feb 2013 Grosvenor Group: Led the implementation and roll out of "No Po No Pay".Led the design of Purchase to Pay processes as part of a 'Yardi' system implementation.Led the training and implementation of the new Purchase to pay processes.Led for Purchase to Pay to "bed down" the system and processes.2011 Contract Price Complince Auditing for various clients

Responsible for the design, maintenance, and implementation of the Purchase to Pay process across BP Refining and Marketing• Developed an improved Purchase to Pay Process and, through high quality stakeholder management, secured Finance sign off for implementation across all the businesses. o Led project teams employing Six Sigma methodology to implement these Purchase to Pay processes across Refining & Marketing. o Sat on the project review boards which ensured that the 50+ projects delivered c.US$100m in process improvements.• Designed and implemented a Contract Price Compliance Audit programme, and recovered more than US$10m from overcharges by suppliers.• Initiated, programme managed and delivered a Procurement Card project for lower value spend in Europe (>US$100m). o Built a cross functional team to conduct an RFP and select a card supplier. o Led the development of the tools and processes to ensure transactions were correctly recorded and VAT was recovered• Reduced process costs by 20% through the design and roll out of a standard process for setting up new vendors in Europe.• Provided subject matter expertise to the design of the Purchase to Pay module of SAP for roll out across BP’s businesses. • Change Agent for the SAP Purchase to Pay implementation in Spain and Portugal.• Designed and implemented an Internal Control Framework covering Indirect spend amounting to US$ 29 Bn.• Designed a compliance audit for the Purchase to Pay process, and led the audit programme of businesses in EMEA and Australia.• Developed Delegation of Authority protocols to ensure compliance with legal and Internal Control requirements.

Responsible for applying a Finance viewpoint to the project teams designing and implementing new processes for R&M, particularly on Purchase to Pay.• Ensured Purchase to Pay processes complied with Sarbanes Oxley requirements.• Improved the MI reporting for all five projects, increasing the accuracy of the forecast spend, saving over US$2m.• Worked with the business CFOs and COOs to secure support for the process improvement projects. • Implemented a web based tool to simplify the travel approval process for 800+ people, using e-mail workflow, and effective reporting capabilities.• Implemented an Outlook Calendar based process for recording individual working locations to ensure compliance with the BP HSSE requirements.

Appointed to implement a previously selected trading credit risk reporting engine across the five trading businesses in BP.• Reviewed the Credit Risk reporting project and recommended that the business requirements should be re-visited and the project re-assessed. The Steering Board adopted my recommendations.• Carried out a re-evaluation of how credit limits and credit exposures were calculated.

Workstream lead for Finance, Control and Reporting; rolling out a single instance of an Oracle ERP to the major businesses in BP Solar.• Led the finance workstream, and the Unit and User Acceptance testing for a worldwide, single instance, Oracle ERP implementation.• Designed a single chart of accounts for use across all the solar businesses worldwide.• Obtained sign off for the single worldwide chart of accounts through effective stakeholder management and the understanding local legal and cultural obstacles.• Set up the Finance modules, trained the local finance teams, and managed the successful transition from the existing multiple ERPs to the Oracle tool.

Sat on the European Management Board for BP Solar with businesses in Spain, the UK, Germany and France. • Led the Finance team running manufacturing and supply businesses across Europe.• Streamlined the Management Information processes, and reduced the reporting timetable by 30%.• Designed and implemented a new monthly rolling forecast process to align production planning with sales expectations; reducing sales order lead times by 4 weeks and finished product stock holdings by US$2.5m.• Reorganised the Finance teams in Europe, forming a small shared service team in Madrid and reducing the headcount by 30%.• Designed a financing package, in conjunction with a German National Bank, which customers used to facilitate purchases.