Thomas Bennett Email & Phone Number

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Lead Business Analyst for a global customer base, responsible for gathering requirements, production of clear and concise functional specifications, testing and managing stakeholder expectations.
• Reporting design Lead for a global Workday implementation, responsible for both system and process design.
• Proactively partnering with business areas on projects to identify and predict future needs.
• Coaching, supporting, Mentoring and challenging wider community to enhance technical capability across the HR Function.
• Accountable for design of complex dashboards and reporting solutions for a global customer base and continual improvement of reporting processes.
• Leading research and implementation of new Workday reporting functionality to enhance business benefit.

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Implementation lead for reporting on a global HR outsourcing project, covering over 60,000 employees in 70+ countries.
• Responsible for the delivery of a global reporting solution as well as providing governance for the country fit gap processes.
• Built strong relationships in a very short period of time with country teams, an outsource provider (NorthGateArinso) and the programme team.
• Managed the delivery of over 200 custom/standard reports, in addition to supporting design, build and testing for all countries each with local reporting requirements.
• Challenged the country teams to significantly reduce their local reporting requirements and to follow the standard solution, where necessary representing their local customisations to the global programme team.
• Held the outsource provider to account for delivery as well as providing feedback where necessary on the service they offered.

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Part of a high performing global team, delivering Management Information to support business decisions.
• In addition to my role as Management Information Analyst I also acted as Deputy Team leader, dealing with escalations, supporting the team and monitoring demand in the absence of the team leader.
• Worked with customers at all levels of the organisation up to Vice President, to provide reports that added significant value to the business.
• Delivered a large number of Management Information projects including system enhancements.
• Led the design and implementation of a new ad-hoc request process which was both more user friendly for our customers and both simpler and more efficient for the reporting team.
• Took the lead in working with a new Measurement and Metrics team responsible for the creation of Senior Executive level dashboards.

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Responsible for delivering a standard reporting tool to support the global annual rewarding performance project.
• Designed a solution which supported Manager and HR decision making, allowing AstraZeneca to avoid significant development costs from an external provider.
• Acted as test lead for changes to existing provider reports.
• Worked with customers in multiple global locations, required to quickly understand local processes and data in order to deliver a single solution that would provide value for locally varying processes.

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Administered key HR and Payroll interfaces for the AstraZeneca benefits scheme, company cars and pensions schemes.
• Built relationships with external providers and worked with them to improve interface processes, designed and delivered standard documentation template for interface processes to facilitate efficient knowledge transfer.
• Led interface configuration changes and supported the UK Payroll Manger with monthly payroll cycles and system changes to PeopleSoft Payroll.
• UK Integrations lead during a multi country PeopleSoft implementation.

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Key member of a project team, responsible for delivery of annual salary review and bonus process for over 10,000 employees.
• Part of a small project team responsible for the delivery of the 2005 Market Data round.
• Led Development of teams internal Website and managed updates to content.
• Creation of self service tools to support key HR Processes (such as calculations of Holiday, Redundancy or Shift Patterns).
• Provided Data Analysis support for regular project activity including annual reward process, benefits renewal and union negotiations.