Tony Cole Email & Phone Number

Chester-le-Street, GB

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

In this role I am tasked with designing and implementing the NHSBSA’s Data Governance Framework; ensuring it evolves to reflect the changing NHSBSA business and wider data landscape.I am responsible for the delivery of data governance and data management practices for all data assets across the business. This includes overseeing the implementation of a new.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

• Tasked with aligning the NHSBSA approach to data governance with both the Government Data Quality framework and the existing NHS Digital framework; and with steering the strategy of KPIs for critical data assets from.
• Authored an approved business case focussed on delivering a Data Quality Target Operating Model that seeks to establish and improve Data Quality across the NHSBSA.
• Senior Business User and Project Implementation Lead for rollout of Data Profiling across the NHSBSA. Experienced working with both Datactics and Alteryx Data Profiling software.
• Created job description for the new role of Data Profiling Analyst; interviewer for all recruitment into the Data Governance Team. Mentoring all new Data Profiling Analysts within the team.
• Due Diligence lead for risk assessments on behalf of Data Strategy & Governance Team.
• Developed approach to Data Quality Incident Management.

Chester-le-Street, England, United Kingdom

• Implemented covid protocols to facilitate a risk mitigated return to action for 20 football teams (350 players, 40 team officials). Co-ordinated and reviewed each teams risk assessment and medical emergency action.
• Established a GDPR compliant process to ensure accurate attendance registers are submitted for every training session and match to support the NHS track and trace process.
• Completed an internal audit of club records in the FA Whole Game System to assess compliance and address gaps for the annual FA Charter Standard health check.
• Supported new and existing coaches to complete or renew their mandatory DBS checks, child safeguarding certification and applicable coaching courses.
• Completed accreditation for ‘FA child safeguarding for committee members’.
• Successfully applied for funding from Durham County Council to purchase a portable defibrillator unit and raised a further £1,600 to purchase a 2nd unit to enhance life-saving potential across a wider section of the.

Sunderland, United Kingdom

• Tasked with developing a strategy and solution to centralise finance knowledge, improve efficiency and mitigate risk of institutional knowledge loss.
• Using SharePoint, developed a central report repository for creators, owners and users to access consistently defined data sources freeing up resource for more value-add activities. Also included a series of document.
• Re-designed and implemented new risk and control systems to align with business processes whilst removing the budget for resourcing and licencing a legacy 3rd party governance system.
• Transition lead for offshoring financial governance processes from UK to India to aid the resourcing strategy and providing a risk-mitigated resourcing solution for service delivery.
• Designed and implemented a new model for offshore performance monitoring and continual improvement to ensure optimal costs against service delivery.
• Department IT system administrator and user support for process management, risk & compliance models, SharePoint, Yammer, gifts & hospitality register.

Sunderland, United Kingdom

• Tasked with co-ordinating the consolidated output of the governance team’s risk and control management processes to present a coherent view of the company risk landscape.SYSTEM:-
• Manage the Governance Portal application for the whole Company, looking after its system administration and development requirements for hosting key risk and control information on behalf of Corporate, Customers and.
• Manage the 3rd party software supplier relationship and ensure that the product delivered its service effectively.
• System administrator for the internal Finance intranet site, for the gifts and hospitality register and for the team SharePoint site.PERFORMANCE:-
• Partner with the Corporate Finance team to maintain a complete record of Financial Authority and approval limits
• Develop frameworks for action monitoring and incident management.

Sunderland, United Kingdom

• Responsible for delivering a programme of 140 facilitated Activity Reviews across the business unit to assess the actual process maturity and agree actions required to meet the desired level.
• Embedded a controls culture in the operational business by successfully leading a team of analysts to identify and assess business process risks, controls and KPIs.
• Designed and implemented a self-assessment process maturity model as a mechanism for driving process owner accountability over assurance.
• Delivered internal audits, end to end Process Reviews and KPI training workshops for process owners to derive better performance through insightful target setting.
• Lead investigator for Energy Market and Credit Risk incidents, documenting all key facts and tracking agreed actions to ensure future mitigation.
• Developed and published guidance for risk management, process control, KPIs and associated topics by translating Company policies into appropriate practice and guidelines.

Sunderland, United Kingdom

• Tasked with expanding use of the project performance reporting system to all >£10m projects across the Company to give a consolidated view of the investment portfolio performance.
• By conducting monthly analytical reviews of all >£50m project investments with project leads, the resulting insight drove better investment control during the project lifetime, and kept the Executive team informed of.
• Acted as the ‘Intelligent Customer' to drive system improvement and resolve user queries.
• Consulted on the development and UAT of a Group wide IT application adopting the UK approach that was subsequently rolled out across China, Poland and France.

Sunderland, United Kingdom

• Responsible for co-ordinating a consistent approach to IT project performance reporting and monitoring compliance with the project lifecycle approval process.
• Lead designer for a new project reporting system, partnering with an Oracle developer to deliver this into production.
• Implemented a new project reporting approach to ~100 IT projects through webinars, training sessions and 121’s, and established the processes to support delegated management of the system to local Portfolio Management.

Sunderland, United Kingdom

• Tasked with creating a central repository for IT project financials, milestones & supporting info to provide assurance to the Department Heads that we were utilising our resources effectively and in control of our.
• By providing insight on the financial project pipeline ahead of issuing the monthly invoice to our internal customers, I improved the data quality and explained variances in the full year forecast thus giving.
• Managed development, analysis and regular reporting of the Business Unit’s employee incentive scheme to the Executive Team and supported this with a detailed management information pack for the FD highlighting the.

Sunderland, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the management of a wide range of Customer Service support activities covering the following broad areas:
• Scoping and transforming business requirements into operational, management and regulatory reports; summarising these and preparing the associated commentaries for the Business Unit and Company Executive teams.
• System Maintenance and Administration
• Developing Customer Service Data Warehouse requirements
• Productionised and ad-hoc SQL programmingThis was achieved through the effective coaching and development of a team of 20+ analysts, programmers and support staff.

Sunderland, United Kingdom

I developed new management information reports for Senior Customer Service Managers and maintained the performance data archive. I also had responsibility to develop the range of available Customer Service data by managing the workload of an SQL programmer.

Sunderland, United Kingdom

My role was primarily to process direct debit mandates, but I also helped refine the process through use of system automation to clear many more transactions per day than via the traditional methods.

Msc, Mining Geology

Bsc, Geology