HR Systems and Processes SME for the implementation of SAP Enterprise Resource Planning system incorporating HRIS, Accounting, Supply Chain and Expenses solutions for the business.Working closely with the HR team and senior business leaders to identify functionality and process requirements to deliver a fully integrated system and articulating those requirements to the external implementation partners and developers.Key Accountabilities:• Ensuring compliance with project steering group directives and programme governance• In-depth assessment and evaluation of existing processes to define opportunities for improvement and refinement in a new automated environment• Close liaison with business leaders to ensure cross-functional system compatibility and integration• Managing data cleanse and integrity projects for transition to SAP• Working with external implementation partners to develop SAT and UAT workshops and programmes• Ensuring developed system meets requirements of all stakeholders while meeting business parameters for ‘out of box’ system delivery• Developing system reports and analytics for senior management and operational functionality• Leading post-implementation hypercare and support for HR team and business system usersResponsible for ensuring optimal use of data in the HR function and analysing key insights from those data. Working across the function to ensure the integrity of data held in the People HR HRIS and to maximise use of the system functionality.Extensive reporting and data presentation including Board and Executive Leadership Team data sets and charting, monthly management and cross-functional reports.

Providing leadership in planning, coordination, change management, implementation and execution of the integration elements of a major organisational restructure and change programme, delivering cost savings of more than £6 million per annum through optimising organisational and functional structure and integrating trading entities to enable adoption of the standard target operating model utilising global and regional shared-service centres.Working with a dedicated team, developed a structured methodology to deliver globally consistent ways of working through implementation of the Oracle ERP back office and cloud-based HCM/HR Information Systems, transferring all transactional HR activities to the global service centre and implementing manager and employee self-service on multiple platforms.With a focus on P&O/HR, acted as a consultant and business partner to the operational and functional leadership teams in an enabling and facilitating capacity, driving people priorities in entity simplification, leading employee communications and engagement. Delivered change management and risk mitigation for effective employee and industrial relations in workforce planning and resourcing including oversight of concurrent employee transfer and workforce restructuring programmes.

Global Business Services Manager with a broad remit in operational management of the business in the Aberdeen, Houston and Perth, Australia, branches including a long-term assignment as General Manager of the Houston office.Actively contributed to operational management and leadership with focus on sound HR management with a commercial focus. Responsible for joint management of a managed service contract with a major oil company including negotiating commercial terms and conditions and developing a performance-based reward mechanism for staff awards and bonus payments.As the primary activity of the company changed to focus on technical documentation and operational management services over a period of two years the Recruitment function was absorbed into the HR function with a consequent change of role to HR Manager. During this period managed a structured recruitment programme to increase the employee headcount four-fold from 52 to more than 200 in support of major contract awards.Appointed as manager of the Recruitment division, the company’s internal employment agency providing engineering and technical staff to the operations, maintenance and drawing office departments and to external clients in the oil and gas industry.

Managing a recruitment agency specialising in technical disciplines and managed service contracts.