Experience

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  Flutter Entertainment Plc

  • Leeds, England, United Kingdom

  • HR Tech Delivery Manager

    • Nov 2023 - Present
    • Leeds, England, United Kingdom

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  Sky Betting & Gaming

  • Leeds, England, United Kingdom

  • Info Sec Project Manager

    • Aug 2021 - Nov 2023
    • Leeds, England, United Kingdom

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  Direct Line Group

  • United Kingdom
  • Insurance
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • HRIS Change and Project Manager

    • Jun 2012 - Aug 2021

    Working in the HR Systems team with responsibility for the delivery of HR Systems projects using primarily Workday, Cornerstone, SDWorx and associated integrations. My role as PM is to scope, plan and deliver projects, to meet HR and business needs, within agreed parameters of cost, timescales and quality. To date I have worked on process improvements to our Workday business processes, and successfully implemented Performance, Compensation, Recruitment and Onboarding modules in Workday.Current projects include: 1) Transition our Graduate recruitment programme from an external provider to in house delivery set up using Workday Recruitment.2) Manage Systems functionality to support DLGs annual Pay and bonus cycle.3) Continue to evolve our HR processes and systems to improve the user experience through management of the HRIS Change process for DLG.

  • HRIS Project Manager

    • May 2012 - Aug 2021

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  Yorkshire Building Society Group

  • Bradford

  • Financial Crime Analyst

    • Sep 2011 - Jun 2012
    • Bradford

    A role in the Group Risk directorate supporting senior managers in the development of financial crime activities and monitoring. Responsibilities: • Monthly reporting to Group Operational Risk Committee on Financial Crime team performance, reporting volume and value of Financial Crime detected, Sanctioned individuals etc. along with commentary of key cases of fraud and money laundering. • Ad hoc data queries to identify ‘at risk’ customers following incidences of fraud. • Supporting Financial Crime Manager in the collation and submission of reports to SOCA.Achievements:• Monthly data collation and analysis of Financial Crime team activity and success rate of monitoring controls, leading to a refocusing of staff time on more productive activities.• Process mapping of Financial Crime Analyst activities in order to assist with the integration of YBS and N&P Financial Crime teams.• Worked to help develop an organisation wide Vulnerable Customers policy that remained in line with Financial Crime policy/regulations, to ensure genuine customers with particular needs do not suffer as a result of AML regulations. • Regular use of SQL to interrogate YBS databases to identify trends in Financial Crime, resulting in identifying customers who were potentially at risk of specific threats/incidences based on usage of internet banking, and IP address monitoring.

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  Newcrest Mining

  • Melbourne, Australia

  • PMO Executive

    • Feb 2011 - Jun 2011
    • Melbourne, Australia

    A role supporting the PMO manager in the establishment of a new PMO office within IT dept of Newcrest Mining.Responsibilities: • Report design and production for IT project updates for Chief Information Officer. • Interrogation of SAP to ensure project forecasting is up to date. • Liaison with IT project managers to communicate purpose and benefits of new IT PMO at Newcrest, monitoring and collation of project documents for approval at steering group meetings. Ensure PM’s updated their project finances in time for monthly finance reports and forecasting. Achievements:• Worked with IT Project Managers to enforce the implementation of a new project management methodology based on PRINCE 2 principles. • I worked to produce monthly project-based financial reporting to the CIO, resulting in improved accuracy and reliability of project spend figures.• Using SAP I collated and interpreted data on IT projects, seeking out inaccuracies in project finances and improved forecasting figures.

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  National Australia Bank

  • Melbourne, Australia

  • Manager, Data Analysis & Management

    • Jun 2010 - Feb 2011
    • Melbourne, Australia

    Data analysis role within the Portfolio Review Group at NAB, a team that assessed the credit risk of different portfolios across the business. Responsibilities:• Data analysis and report production for Portfolio Review Group, to monitor the performance of ‘at risk’ exposures.• Project based analysis and presentations on specific industry sectors including the Commercial Real Estate across Australia, and the Rock Lobster industry in Western Australia.Achievements:• Co-ordinated a national review of commercial property lending across Australia, assessing levels of risk from collating results of banker surveys of real estate portfolios. Analysis and interpretation of large raw data sets relating to NABs business banking portfolio.• Analysis resulted in presenting recommendations to senior executives to facilitate effective customer portfolio management and in reducing the banks exposure to property in certain regions.

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  State Government Victoria

  • Melbourne, Australia

  • Regional Support Officer

    • Sep 2009 - Feb 2010
    • Melbourne, Australia

    A strategic co-ordination role within the Dept of Planning and Community Development, co-ordinating activities between local councils towards an agreed regional strategy.Responsibilities: • Co-ordination of a Regional Forum of Council Leaders across Eastern region of Melbourne. Providing support to the Forum, meeting papers etc.• Building the business case for priorities identified by the forum, such as bush fire strategy, aboriginal community support and environmental issues. Achievements:• Researched, developed and oversaw the implementation of strategic regional priorities as set by members of a regional Forum. Working to gain consensus over regional priorities in a diverse urban/rural area in the wake of the Black Saturday bush fires. • Worked with local councils and state government departments to develop a community engagement strategy for an affordable housing project in Ringwood Central Activities District in East Melbourne.

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  Yorkshire Forward

  • Leeds, United Kingdom

  • Project Manager

    • Sep 2005 - May 2009
    • Leeds, United Kingdom

    PRINCE 2 based Project Management role within the Major Events department at Yorkshire’s Regional Development Agency. Role was to drive economic growth via bidding for, and hosting major events within the Yorkshire Region. Responsibilities:• Responsible for full project lifecycle from business planning, funding approval, risk assessments and commissioning independent evaluation projects. • Developing and presenting the business case for investing public money in Major Events to the Yorkshire Forward Executive team.• Representing Yorkshire Forward on event Steering Groups to ensure the organisation’s strategic objectives and quality standards are met. • Work with regional stakeholders and event partners to deliver successful events in the region. • Measuring and reporting event outcomes and outputs to Yorkshire Forward board. Developing partnerships and building new relationships with governing bodies and event owners. Achievements:• Headingley Stadium redevelopment – Represented Yorkshire Forward in contract negotiations for a £4million investment in a new cricket pavilion at Yorkshire County Cricket Ground.• Project Managed the delivery of Yorkshire Forward’s sponsorship of a yacht in a round the world yacht race, organising and attending overseas trade missions and engaging local authorities and businesses in the project. The trade mission resulted in over £1million of new business contracts for the Humber region.