Stephen Middleton Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

• Successfully migrated all UK entities onto a single finance general ledger system (Infor) and a single procurement platform (Maximo). This transition was driven by the strategic aim to standardise business processes.
• On joining the project, immediately addressed some key challenges regarding project framework, scope, governance, business requirements and the collaboration between IT and the business.
• Worked closely with the Finance and Procurement teams to build a robust plan, covering deliverables, data migration to new chart of accounts, process standardisation, as-is and to-be documentation, testing, data.
• Was the main contact for the project, including C-Suite interactions to ensure senior stakeholders were kept informed and timely decisions were taken.

• Re-platform existing e-commerce site in Japan onto SAP Hybris, using Spartacus headless storefront. Key parts of the project were to integrate to the new global OMS system, all local payment methods and the regional.
• Represented the Digital part of the business in the global project that migrated the business onto IBM Sterling, overseeing the creation of new omni-channel journeys for Dr Martens Digital customers
• Set up a project that will upgrade the global on-premise instances of SAP Hybris before migrating them to be hosted in the SAP Commerce Cloud

• AnyNest is a shared ownership housing “start-up” venture in the West Midlands, whose aim is to help key workers onto the property ladder
• Working alongside the only other employee, the Marketing Director, I was responsible for the overall management of the project and also for developing all aspects of finance, control, operations and systems in the lead.
• As a not-for-profit organisation, my focus was building an efficient, effective and scalable business model, utilising both my own experience and that of industry experts.
• My work included designing the end to end business model (and capturing it in Microsoft Visio), delivering the website content, developing legal, customer and policy documentation, integrating a tenancy management.

London, United Kingdom

• Managed a transformation team of highly experienced project and change managers, successfully delivering multiple transformation and Brexit mitigation projects. Considered the “Go to” person for executive management.
• Successfully delivered business critical AEO (Authorised Economic Operator) accreditation in UK for Burberry Ltd to ensure customs privileges were secured by demonstrating robust controls over the end to end supply.
• Managed a suite of system implementation projects across global Finance that re-engineered substantial parts of the PTP, OTC & R2R processes so as to improve efficiency and control. These included the implementation.
• Ensured adherence to IFRS 16 lease accounting standard across Real Estate, Legal and the global Finance estate by the implementation of a third party solution (CoStar) and integration with SAP. Project success was.
• Lead a project to cleanse SAP access across global Finance functions, addressing critical issues raised by Internal Audit. Project focussed on introducing standard SAP roles, robust system controls and establishing a.
• Project managed complex legal reorganisation in Italy to reduce the risk of tax issues post Brexit.

London, United Kingdom

• Managed a team that represented Finance and supported the Creative, Digital and IT teams to launch Burberry’s global e-commerce platform. Responsible for the integrity of the journey from checkout through to.
• Key player in a project team that worked with local Burberry teams and local third party providers (e.g. AliPay & PayEase) to set up an in country World Store for China. Significant increase in sales as Burberry was.
• Received a Retail Excellence Award on behalf of Burberry (partnering with Chase Paymentech) for designing an innovative global payments reporting and reconciliation process, which enabled Burberry to perform sales to.
• Responsible for a cross channel project to introduce gift cards in the UK servicing both the Retail and Digital estates. Main contact between Burberry and the third party provider (SVS) to define, design and fully test.
• Represented Finance on a project to open retail stores in Russia, overseeing the finance aspects of the SAP deployment and outsourcing the in-country finance support model to Deloitte. Ensured SAP was fully tested and.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Day to day management of a Finance Shared Services team of circa 75 people incorporating Payroll, AP, AR, Credit Control, Finance Systems, VAT & Management Accounts.
• Responsible for working capital management.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Budgeting and forecast consolidation across Europe, Canada and Latin America (13 entities).
• Profitability analysis to support the pricing decision between hardcopy and online.
• Investment and acquisition reviews.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Managed an audit team of 6.
• Developed a global framework for risk management.
• Partnered with Deloitte to introduce a global approach to Sarbanes-Oxley.

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

• Managed a Finance Shared Services team of 35, including rights and royalties.
• Cost reduction programme that included redundancies.
• Addressed significant audit issues regarding royalty payments, limited the potential reputational damage and ongoing relationship with key authors.
• Project managed the introduction of BasWare, an invoice management and document archive solution.

Oxford, England, United Kingdom