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Oracle Implementation Consultant
Oracle GL and AP UAT and full implementation of Oracle AR (8,000 invoices of £500m).  Configuring descriptive “flexfields”, transaction types, memo lines, autoaccounting rules, systems setup. Creating responsibilities and assigning user “folders” with imbedded SQL queries. Business requirements documentation, system and user acceptance testing, user training, go live support and post go-live enhancements. Set up related business processes.

IT Reporting Consultant
Member of change team transforming outsourced shared service centre for large public sector multi-site client (120,000 employees). 

Consultant for Oracle Interfaces and BI (XML) Publisher Reports
Configured API data loading and built VBA routines to build interface files (cheques and BACS receipts with automatic allocations, “autoinvoice” and customer loads) liaising with DBA to set up processes to populate staging tables using SQL routines (and including FTP to $AR_TOP).
Replaced reports and documents requiring third party software with clean, integrated XML publisher reports (e.g. separate remittance advices, staged dunning letters, GL detail Excel reports).

Oracle Support Consultant
Documented business requirements for Oracle support and initiating a review of support arrangements, particularly with respect to Oracle DBA activities by third party managed service provider.
Provided on site and remote support for users for day-to-day operations which included user training and enhancements to Oracle functional configuration. Resolved over one hundred service calls and implemented over thirty enhancements in response to development requests.

Senior Finance Manager, Process Strategy & Development
Led two teams of four, undertaking projects including Performance Management Methods, Talent Management, Knowledge Management, and Balanced Scorecard.

Oracle Systems Administration
Including review of CPU (critical patch updates), initiation of patch installation (CU2 and FPG), modification of concurrent request programs, enhancement of responsibilities, menus and exclusions, purge of concurrent request queue.

Lead Consultant
Built a consultancy which earned its fees improving the effectiveness of organizations by scrutinising the way in which groups of people interacted.

Implementation Manager
Responsible for the management of the project team in respect of the implementation of the Cartesis Magnitude consolidation Financial reporting system, with the objective of supporting the Group PLC statutory reporting requirements post de-mutualisation.

Business Performance Consultant
Coached and motivated a diverse team of six, delivering improved business performance by completing high profile projects. 

Project Manager
Responsible for the Project Management of the development team ( including out sourced offshore personnel), employed to implement the Business Objects reporting software to support the production of Financial and Management reports form the Magnitude system.

Finance Systems Transformation Programme Consultant
Design and initiation of a Finance Systems Transformation programme with a budget of £12m to address the primary strategic objectives of the Finance Function, including:
o Implementation of Oracle GL across all sites
o Implementation Investment Administration and Accounting system
o Implementation of Budgeting, Forecasting and Cost Reporting system
o Roll out of in-house Cashbook and Reconciliation systems relating to Customer Shared Services platform.
o Implementation of a Data warehouse solution.

Project Trouble-shooter 
Brought in by ex-colleague to break the deadlock on various projects.

Project Consultant
Implemented “major projects” reporting and consolidation system and automated invoicing process.

Financial Services Manager
Built “Fleet Contract Services” as part of project team, introduced new consolidation and reporting system, cascaded strategy to regions.