Siobhan Foskett Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

Based on site at Lloyds BankCost Optimisation

London, United Kingdom

Based on site at Lloyds Bank Commercial Optimisation Project Aim: Following on the success in 2017 the bank decided to run a further year of Commercial Optimisation. The aim is to continue to drive RTB savings in the Networks, Software, Mainframe and Asset Rationalisation areas with a target of £12m.My role as Project Manager within this Managed Service entails:Leading the four work streams and liaising with the work stream leads to ensure a harmonious drive towards the overall goals.Managing the resource profile of the teams within the managed service, working with the Service Delivery Executive to rotate resources to adjust to the flexing requirements.Reporting directly to the bank Executive Sponsor and accountable for delivery of benefit milestones and triggering associated invoicing.Management of other key stakeholders including Heads of Function in whose areas we are affecting change.Running team meetings, workshops and mid and end year reviews both internally and with the bank Exec sponsor.Accountable for the content of weekly reports for all key stakeholders, proposals to Head of Function for all new initiatives and internal review documents.

London, United Kingdom

Based on site at Lloyds Bank Project Aim: The Commercial Optimisation business case is based on a combination of contractual reviews, benchmarking exercises and demand management levers to reduce technology usage. The key to this activity is mobilising a programme to focus, support and enhance commercial capability alongside the technical teams and Sourcing.Programme Planning - I created and optimised the plan, this involved collating the key milestones and activities for each initiative.Financial management :One aspect of which is managing the resource model. This involves maintaining the allocated resources on the financial plans at the appropriate levels, tracking the burn rate is within governance tolerances, and raising requests for new resources when needed.Another aspect is identifying, inputting and tracking the external spends for the portfolio. This has meant identifying the spend, gaining the relevant approvals and submitting the relevant spend request within governance.Stakeholder Management – Optimisation of our stakeholder management plan within the portfolio to streamline and ensure the correct and relevant stakeholders attend the relevant Initiative stakeholder meetings. Overview of the infrastructure changes to archive the Oracle HR system to trigger benefits. This involved liaising with the technical teams and the business testers, delivering within budget and timeframe.

London, United Kingdom

Based on site at Lloyds Bank COPPER (Conservation of Power, Property and Environmental Resources).COPPER X86 Physical Migrations.Project Aim: To migrate all non-prod physical X86 servers from one data centre room to another, the purposes of which was to consolidation the dev/test environment and create space for new production servers.In the first instance I managed the migration of the SAN Attached disk storage between the datacentres. I worked on this autonomously, scheduling the technical team resources and liaising with the application and server owners. The servers were scheduled by vlan using the information provided by BT – this had a high level of importance as it dictated the migration schedule that the 3rd Party worked to during the course of the project.A Rack Layout design was created using guidance from the Datacentre teams and information gathered from the scope documents and online datacentre databases. To complete the migrations I managed the 3rd Party project and technical teams to arrange the 10 events to move all the physical servers across, collating information from the BA’s, raising resource requests for the technical teams required and gaining signoff from the server and application owners for the outages. I built a project plan to track each migrations progress against the T-8 week process and asses RAG status. Throughout the project I was required to report weekly on the project and in accordance with LBG governance structures, tracking project progress and RAID to LBG Senior stakeholder Manager.

London, United Kingdom

Based on site at Lloyds Bank IT Landscape Simplification II and COPPER (Conservation of Power, Property and Environmental Resources): January 2015 – August 2015Creating and leading the PMO Function for the two new programmes. In addition to the below activities I set up the governance structures for the programmes in accordance with both internal project requirements and external stakeholder requirements. Creation of Project codes, work package codes and project structure within the project tracking system CMT (Change Management Toolkit).Creation of Financial codes in Clarity system and set up of financial reporting and tracking.Set up of reporting cycle and meeting structure, including internal project meeting, steering groups and other stakeholder meetings.Liaised with stakeholder PMO to refine reporting requirements.Creation of Project plans with PM’s, at first at a high level and then in more detail as stages progressed.Brought project within compliance standards in terms of RAID, planning and reporting.

London, United Kingdom

Based on site at Lloyds BankIT Landscape Simplification Programme: May 2013 – December 2014Working as a PMO aligned to a programme my reporting and assurance falls into the following categories:Planning – Maintaining the High Level Plan documents, the 8 Week Look Ahead documents and the Service Delivery Plan document. Monitoring the level 0 milestones and weekly reporting on tracking for the IT Exec Board as well as monitoring all milestone delivery.Performing weekly assurance and compliance checks on the MSP plans and uploading them into CMT.Reporting – Tracking and reporting the weekly and monthly successes and highlights of the programme and submitting these to the Simplification Delivery Committee and the IT Executive Board, also respond to any queries or request that might come from the Master PMO.RAID –Creation of the weekly risk, issue and dependency report and monitoring the reports for any non-compliance and respond to the Master PMO regarding any queries they might have. I also attend the weekly meetings with the Work Stream Leads and Head of Programme Delivery.Finance – Creation of the Programme Financial Report and tracking the burn rate of the projects, monitoring the accruals and tracking the forecasted spend against the 2013 Q3F numbers.Resourcing – Confirming and tracking the programme resource requirements and liaising with the resource manager to identify gaps and requirements.During the Programme I was asked to help assist with the project coordination of a Virtual to Virtual server migration. This involved coordinating key stake holders and facilitating daily progress calls, I also deputised whenever the Project Manager was unavailable. I was also asked to spend some time consulting with the Clarity Implementation programme which had been out-sourced to an EY project management team. This involved liaising with the EY project team and the Lloyds project team to make sure the governance was compliant with Lloyds practices.

London, United Kingdom

Recording and managing the training attendance and absence register.Booking training rooms, inviting colleagues and sending out joining instructions, pre-course training materials and post course evaluation questionnaires.Printing course workbooks for each attendee and assisting the trainer in setting up the training room as requiredReporting on the uptake of training, highlighting any colleagues that have not attended mandatory training and recording the training undertaken on the HR Pro database.Recording, creating reports and providing in depth analysis of post course evaluation outcomes.

Responding to Resource Requests, via Taleo, and allocating resources that are appropriate. Matching skillsets to project specifications and briefing them on their new allocation.Scheduling the resources and planning them in using the correct project codes, or against the correct PO.Overseeing timesheet submission and checking and approving the time submitted to enable billing to go ahead correctly.Monitoring utilisation of resources, reducing any non-effective time and ensuring maximum billable hours.Requesting and tracking the scheduling codes from the Systems Operations team.Tracking and updating Taleo requests with all information keeping the Sales and Service Delivery teams are informed.Using administration rights to ensure the smooth running of Taleo and making any updates or changes to the programme or views.Updating and maintaining the skills and qualifications data and ensuring all resources have an Employee Profile.Tracking the new joiners and leavers, both permanent and contractors.Maintaining the forecast of the projects and their completion.Monitoring the delivery per month and balancing that against the forecast.Completing the forecast analysis report.Advising the Finance dept. of project completions and invoice status.Aligning quota of time per resource within Project Specifications.

London, United Kingdom

My previous employer offered me a 3 month contract during my summer holidays. I was working in the resourcing department as an administrator.Coordination of interviewsLiaising with the Recruitment Agencies on our PSL.Maintaining the various databases and information spread sheets using pivot charts and validation.Taking minutes during the bi-weekly meetings.Receive, acknowledge, record and distribute CVs/applications on a timely basis.Collect and distribute candidate and interviewer feedback as directed.Updating various documents for contractors and checking all existing information.

London, United Kingdom

Coordination of interviews and all recruitment administration.Coordination of Bimonthly Business Induction Events and Agency Meet and Greets.Accurate and efficient maintenance of candidate database/tracker and ATR (Authority to Recruit) or similar tracker (including recruitment costs and payment) and collation of data for management information reporting.Receive, acknowledge, record and distribute CVs/applications on a timely basis.Collect and distribute candidate and interviewer feedback as directed.Field speculative agency calls.Maintain all recruitment related files e.g. agency Terms and Conditions and interview feedback.Formatting job descriptions and posting details of open positions to intranet and company website as directed.Undertake pre-employment screening activities on an efficient and timely basis for identified employees, liaising with all relevant internal and external parties as appropriate in order to meet screening deadlines and targets and escalating problems to the Recruitment Manager/HR Advisor on a prompt basis.Preparation of offer letters and contracts of employment as directed by HR Advisors in line with instructions to offer and using the appropriate template. Liaise with new starter to ensure they are aware of first day arrangements.Ensure all internal departments are promptly notified of new starter details to ensure all necessary arrangements are in place for starter’s first day.Co-ordination of local induction activities and IS&T monthly induction event.Work closely with HR Administrator to ensure cover and support for other HR administration activities including updating the HR database, processing all changes for the monthly payroll deadline, set up and maintain all personal files, processing of leavers, and responding to other general enquiries as appropriate,.Provide any other general administrative/co-ordination support as required by HR Advisors/HRD.

London, United Kingdom

Provide guidance to Resourcing Manager on Contractor Party status.Maintain and update recruitment process documentation.Liaise with hiring manager for further candidate selection for interview.Maintain management information systems (SMART).Manage and collate timesheet information and by close liaison with the appropriate Service Delivery Manager. Generate reports from SMART associated with client assignments, staff holidays / sickness and cover management for Morse Infrastructure consulting staff and associated client sites.Manage holiday requests to ensure that client authorisation and scheduling is obtained. Liaise with the Service Delivery Management/ Service Operations Manager to manage attendance, ensuring that holiday entitlements are used and managed alongside other planned and unplanned absences (e.g. sickness and training) without compromising delivery to clients.Maintain SMART to provide a true and accurate reflection of Infrastructure Services staff assignments

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Creative Writing And English Literature, 2:1

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