Andy Thorpe Email & Phone Number

London, England, Gb

Northampton, England, United Kingdom

Subject matter expert in the travel and expense technology domain at Barclays. PM of small scale projects.

Liverpool Street, London

Lead BA at EBRDWindows 10 & Office 2016 upgrade and deployment project, around 4000 users. Responsible for discovery analysis phase, including deployment scope, hardware requirments, software applications, engaging with packaging, testing and engineer teams.

London, United Kingdom

* Liaised with key stakeholders within both Business and IT to capture the scope definition and to document high level stories and requirements.* Responsible for ensuring the requirements captured in the catalogue are successfully delivered as an IT solution. Traceability matrix used to manage and monitor progress.* Lead workshops to detail out and prioritise the business requirements, moving the solution from ‘current state’ to ‘to be’, enabling a new business process model to be… Show more * Liaised with key stakeholders within both Business and IT to capture the scope definition and to document high level stories and requirements.* Responsible for ensuring the requirements captured in the catalogue are successfully delivered as an IT solution. Traceability matrix used to manage and monitor progress.* Lead workshops to detail out and prioritise the business requirements, moving the solution from ‘current state’ to ‘to be’, enabling a new business process model to be developed. Prototype and design demonstrated via Business playback sessions, using design brief packs, process flows and mock ups.* Conduct T-Shirt sizing meetings with IT development teams, estimating delivery cost and planning capacity, using both onshore and offshore resource mix.* Sprint Planning to package prioritised Business requirements into technical build sprints, from Development system, through the series of testing phases to Production Implementation.* Daily Stand Ups and Scrums with core stakeholders communicating awareness, progress and any blockers.* Organisation of Business testing phase, including systems access, pre-training and test script creation via HPQC.* Production and storage of relevant documentation including definitions, scripts, catalogues, support help cards and training materials. Show less

Independant Consultancy Company, offering Financial Systems Implementation resource, specialising in change management across SAP R/3, BI & BO. Full project Lifecycle experience in FI/CO modules, Business Analysis, Design and Blueprinting, Systems Configuration, Testing, Data Migration and Support in Banking, Financial Oil & Gas and FMCG sectors.

London

Contracted to Lloyds Group IT as a BA, working on the GDRS Finance Transformation project. Designing and developing a new enterprise level support model required for new SAP BI applications roll out, including FIM, BFC & BOBJ reporting solution. Integrated review and upgrade of existing ECC6 support matrix and updates to service agreements.Lead BA working directly with SAP development team on COREP and FINREP FSA reporting implementation for 54 new BO reports being built for use in FSA… Show more Contracted to Lloyds Group IT as a BA, working on the GDRS Finance Transformation project. Designing and developing a new enterprise level support model required for new SAP BI applications roll out, including FIM, BFC & BOBJ reporting solution. Integrated review and upgrade of existing ECC6 support matrix and updates to service agreements.Lead BA working directly with SAP development team on COREP and FINREP FSA reporting implementation for 54 new BO reports being built for use in FSA returns via SAP Disclosure management tool converting to XBRL format. Responsible for requirements gathering, BO report and XBRL format testing, defect management and support model. Show less

Loans and Currency Account Project Manager for Corporate and Commercial Wholesale Markets sector migrating £15bn from HBOS to Lloyds system platforms including ACBS and CAP. Responsible for and managing on a daily basis 5 loan migration projects, including Libor, Fixed rate and Base rate for the Business Support Unit along with Euro and USD Client Currency accounts

Contracted as a functional SAP consultant to act as IT leads on a Barclays Group Project, managing a small development team. Responsibilities were to design, build, test and implement;A new Consolidation Interface from SAP r/3 to Oracle Hyperion, including mapping tables, controls and reconciliationsA new SAP WebDynpro application (ECC6) to hold Ledger adjustments and Interface to SAP r/3, including validations and mapping tablesAct as second line support to the helpdesk for… Show more Contracted as a functional SAP consultant to act as IT leads on a Barclays Group Project, managing a small development team. Responsibilities were to design, build, test and implement;A new Consolidation Interface from SAP r/3 to Oracle Hyperion, including mapping tables, controls and reconciliationsA new SAP WebDynpro application (ECC6) to hold Ledger adjustments and Interface to SAP r/3, including validations and mapping tablesAct as second line support to the helpdesk for Production issues Show less

Contracted directly by Kleinwort Benson, working on the INFRACON Project as the SAP stream lead, part of the Finance Functions team. KBPB Finance Functions team is responsible for;• System and Business requirements• Business Blueprint Production• Systems configuration• Conducting and running all Testing phases using scripts created and executed in HP test director • Defect management, using HP test director as a logging and management reporting tool • User training and… Show more Contracted directly by Kleinwort Benson, working on the INFRACON Project as the SAP stream lead, part of the Finance Functions team. KBPB Finance Functions team is responsible for;• System and Business requirements• Business Blueprint Production• Systems configuration• Conducting and running all Testing phases using scripts created and executed in HP test director • Defect management, using HP test director as a logging and management reporting tool • User training and Go-Live support Show less

Contracted as a BP SAP resource, working on an Accenture lead SAP deployment, assigned to the Taxation team, part of the core Functional Project Deployment.

Independant Consultancy Company, offering Financial Systems Implementation resource, specialising in SAP R/3. Full project Lifecycle experience in FI/CO/MM. Business Analysis, Design and Blueprinting, Systems Configuration, Testing, Data Migration and Support.Company ceased trading and dissolved in December 2007

Permanent member of Barclays SAP Programme GWRO (Group Wide Roll out) configuration team based at London Bridge. Assigned to multiple Projects as Financial configuration resource and project managing Configuration build, supporting existing systems and their users.

Permanent Senior Analyst in Group Finance Accounting Systems to evaluate, design and develop Group financial accounting and control systems, to achieve their business objectives. To support existing systems and their users. To provide technical advice to financial management and act as a source of technical expertise.