Appointed to drive the group towards shared services and to transform the people and technology capability in IT to underpin growth into new markets and revenue streams
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Chief Operating Officer for a Private Equity business that was bought for £400m and sold for £1bn
Appointed to transform the entire Operational side of the business in order take this from a problem area to one of competitive advantage. Having excellent IT, customer service and security was essential as the company became regulated and we drove towards a sale of the business.
Changed CIO direction enabling true transformation
Given the popularity of the cloud, CIO wanted to build a business case/RFP for migrating all of the IT portfolio to the cloud. They called for a few month consulting engagement where we would do initial data collection, build business case for migration to cloud based on IT cost estimates and prepare and RFP for...
Too Much Innovation? How to Prune an Overgrown Innovation Portfolio
A Division of a large, multinational chemical company developed an innovation portfolio that proved too large to digest. Although the projects contained the potential to more than double the division’s turnover in three to five years, there were simply too many projects and not enough resources. Expanding workloads did not work. Assigning more projects resulted...
Transitioning From Failure to Success : Financial Services
A Global Financial Services organisation had a regulatory mandated system integration programme running for 2 years with no tangible outcomes. The programme was over budget and in danger of risking the organisation’s presence in the US market. The operational impact resulted in part of the organisation heading for regulatory standards enforcement, presenting a significant challenge...
Global Outsourcing and Automation of Finance Processes
A global consumer goods organisation managed its finance and accounting processes through internal, shared service centers. The centers were distributed to provide regional support for Asia, Latin America, Europe, and Russia. Most of the standard processes, including procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, and record-to-report were harmonized and shared. The regions used a common Enterprise Resource Management (ERP) system....
Cost Centre Transaction Reporting Process Improvement
The Finance Transformation Programme of a multi-national pharmaceutical organisation realised it would not be able to decommission two legacy applications, and therefore miss their cost-saving objectives, because a number of key reports, used by 300+ users worldwide, were not within the scope of the project.
Waterfall to Agile Transformation
The IT Program Head was struggling on the 4th attempt to convert the existing Waterfall project process into Agile with Scrum.
Improve Forecasting, Predictive Insights, and Budgeting
A green energy company managed its forecast process on an adhoc basis. They were only able to project 3 months ahead. The company needed to develop and maintain a 12-month rolling forecast to better anticipate the needs of their seasonal business.
Programme Manager travels Europe to fly the flag for the UK delivery team
At my Global Investment Bank Client I was managing two Anti Money Laundering Transaction Monitoring streams for the EMEA region: the lead for for Transaction Monitoring Investigations processes and procedures (Operations) and the lead for Transaction Monitoring Financial Crime Analytics & Intelligence (FCA&I = alert generation). The main stakeholder for both was a German Managing...
