IBusiness Lead on three year $50 million software project to design and implement new operational system to enable JTI to purchase and process tobacco leaf directly from 50,000 farmers based in remote locations in the Americas, Europe and Africa, interfacing with JTI’s SAP global ERP platform. The largest in-house software development project in the company’s history started with a blueprinting phase in 2011 and saw phase 1 going successfully live in July 2014.

Project Manager leading the worlwide implementation of IFRS at JTI, transitioning from US GAAP.

Leading JTI Corporate Accounting & Consolidation team responsible for quarterly financial reporting of the consolidated JTI group results to Japanese parent company.Key project member on Finance team responsible for Purchase Price Allocation (PPA) and acquisition of Gallaher plc (FTSE-100), the largest Japanese acquisition of a UK based company.Transition of Gallaher Group reporting responsibilities from Weybridge to Manchester; first financial consolidation with the JTI group, and implementation of Gallaher onto JTI SAP business consolidation system.Global business process owner for implementation of JSOX (Japanese Sarbanes-Oxley) controls within financial close and reporting process.Consolidated US GAAP tax reporting and analysis of worldwide tax charge in excess of $400 million.

Project Manager responsible for integration of TM businesses into Chester financial shared service centre and roll-out of Lawson ERP system.