Stuart Barber Email & Phone Number

Singapore, Singapore

• Key contact for users within the Asia region to identify and resolve issues regarding process and software.• Strategic and analytical thinker, acted as the conduit between business stakeholders and the technical team to ensure clear requirements are specified to meet the needs of the business.• Maintaining, editing and refining product backlogs in both JIRA and Confluence software.• Analysed and documented the ‘as is’ and the ‘to be” processes with consideration to timelines, costs & benefits.• Key member in IT software projects for the replacement of the front-office system in more than ten trading platforms within the Asia region and globally.• Subject matter expert for Singapore & Malaysia system rollouts for Rice, Sugar, Grains, Oilseeds & Structured Trade Financing platforms.• Defined, standardized and automated the KPI reporting requirements for the Global Execution department resulting in time-saving efficiencies for month end reporting processes.• Anticipating process conflicts and working with all parts of the business from Trading, Accounting, Business Control and the Operations teams to resolve.• Created User Acceptance Testing scenarios and ran the workshops through to acceptance with the user audience.• Created training materials and conducted user training sessions with the stakeholders.

Singapore, Singapore

• Key member in the first project roll-out of new front-end software for the Palm trading platform in Singapore• Identifying change management points and training users on the new front-end software.• Creating work-around process solutions, vetted by all functional units, covering gaps in software until development completion.• Requirement gathering & gap analysis team member for the implementation of the first front-end system for the refining business in Indonesia.• On-site support of users during the roll-out and hyper care phases of the project go-live.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• End-to-end administration of Contracts: Trade Input, Contract send/receive process, invoicing, grower payments, receipts matching, trade costs monitoring. (Grower, Trade, Futures Contracts) • Superior understanding of Storage and Handling agreements. Responsible for translating this information into master reference data essential to inventory and contract management software and invoice calculation.• Extensive experience in the administration of End Point Royalties, National Grower Registrations, State Levies, and Federal Levies endemic to Australia grains business.• Accredited knowledge of Grain Trade Australia Grain Contracts rules.• Skilled communicator with growers and trade counterparties on contract execution matters.• Major contributor in the project to replace front end software system for the Australia Grain platform.