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Responsible for developing an application roadmap to replace or upgrade unsupported legacy systems and identify opportunities to ‘right size’ solutions to meet the changing needs of the business.Collaborated with peers and the Procurement team to identify, evaluate and shortlist potential vendors for inclusion within RFI/RFP processes for a variety of solutions including EPOS, PIM, PLM, DAM & LMS Evaluated ideas/initiatives proposed internally by the business via the ‘Concept Request’ and Governance/Stage-Gate processes and advised on impact on the ‘as-is’ and transitional architectures as well as researched and evaluated emerging trends within the external environment

Provided design governance to proposed changes to wider application landscape to reduce TCO and increase IT & business agility, in addition to retaining responsibilities for BI/MIS Involved in key projects, such as the Merchandise Transformation Programme, from inception to delivery to understand the required business outcome, identified the data implications of proposed changes and contributed to high level design of end-to-end solutions ensuring integrity of vision was maintained through to solution delivery.Researched and evaluated emerging trends, liaised with solution architecture teams to provide input into architectural designs as well as validated and had input into application development team deliverables.

Watford, United Kingdom

Responsible for all BI/MIS related BAU projects, including triage and initial estimation of requests and project managing delivery of changes, plus SME on strategic projectsManagement of small internal design team and indirect management of multi-vendor development and support teams of up to 20 resources for BAU and project activities which delivered c.100 changes per annum on average using Microsoft BI stack. Examples included new trading reports, new analysis cubes and data marts along with introduction of optimisation, stabilisation and annual maintenance programs

Watford

Involved in all aspects of systems development lifecycle on multiple IT and Business projects including the implementation of CODA financials, upgrade of Data Warehouse from SQL 2000 – SQL 2005, including introduction of BI tools (Panorama NovaView) over SSAS cubes, and integration of Early Learning Centre (ELC) into Data Warehouse and business critical reports following the acquisition.

Watford

Finance systems SME responsible for design, development and automation of all weekly and periodic reports including Management Accounts, KPI reports, Trading reports and balanced scorecards using combination of MS Access and advanced Excel.Systems administrator for Cognos (Adaytum) Planning in addition to being principal liaison with IT Project teams and Service team for support issues.Responsible for triage, interpretation and conversion of information requests from Finance and the Executive Board. into practical and manageable solutions

Colindale

Responsible for the design, development and support of all Business Planning, KPI and trading reports along with associated systems and the development and maintenance of Financial Planning models