Dafydd Sion Assoc CIPD

HR Business Partner at St John Ambulance Cymru
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Credentials

  • Mental Health First Aider
    St John Ambulance Cymru
    Oct, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Become an HR Business Partner
    LinkedIn
    Feb, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Becoming an Impactful and Influential Leader
    LinkedIn
    Feb, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Leadership Mindsets
    LinkedIn
    Feb, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Mentoring Others
    LinkedIn
    Feb, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Organization Design
    LinkedIn
    Feb, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Succession Planning
    LinkedIn
    Feb, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Communicating with Empathy
    LinkedIn
    Jan, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Connecting with Executives
    LinkedIn
    Jan, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Develop Your HR Management and Leadership Skills
    LinkedIn
    Jan, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Employer Branding to Attract Talent
    LinkedIn
    Jan, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • HR and Digital Transformation
    LinkedIn
    Jan, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • HR as a Business Partner
    LinkedIn
    Jan, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Human Resources Foundations
    LinkedIn
    Jan, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Human Resources in the On-Demand Economy
    LinkedIn
    Jan, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Human Resources: Leadership and Strategic Impact
    LinkedIn
    Jan, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Human Resources: Managing Employee Problems
    LinkedIn
    Jan, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Human Resources: Pay Strategy
    LinkedIn
    Jan, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Human Resources: Running Company Onboarding
    LinkedIn
    Jan, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Human Resources: Strategic Workforce Planning
    LinkedIn
    Jan, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • People Analytics
    LinkedIn
    Jan, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Talent Management
    LinkedIn
    Jan, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • The Human Resources Hero
    LinkedIn
    Jan, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Understanding Business
    LinkedIn
    Jan, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Understanding Organisations and the Role of HR
    LinkedIn
    Jan, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Strategic Human Resources
    LinkedIn
    Dec, 2021
    - Nov, 2024
  • CIPD - Level 5
    CIPD Qualifications
    Mar, 2021
    - Nov, 2024
  • Level 3 Award in Leadership & Management (8600-11)
    ILM
    Mar, 2021
    - Nov, 2024
  • Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner
    IBM
    Jan, 2021
    - Nov, 2024
  • Workplace Learning with Coaching and Mentoring
    The Open University
    Sep, 2020
    - Nov, 2024
  • ACCA: Part Qualified
    ACCA
    Aug, 2016
    - Nov, 2024
  • AAT Level 3 and 4
    AAT
    Jul, 2012
    - Nov, 2024

Experience

    • United Kingdom
    • Non-profit Organizations
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • HR Business Partner
      • May 2022 - Present

    • United Kingdom
    • Retail
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • HR Manager
      • Jan 2021 - May 2022

      • Reporting directly to the CEO, responsible for all day-to-day HR Management and Finance within the organisation; • Developed and implemented HR and OD Strategy to drive performance; • Providing overall leadership and guidance on talent acquisition, career development, succession planning, retention, training, compensation and benefits; • Introduced and drove the development of performance management processes including on-boarding, probationary management, performance reviews, end of year appraisals and exit interviews; • Directed Employee Relations procedures including TUPE, redundancies, grievances, statutory rights, settlement agreement and absence management; • Ensured compliance of regulatory concerns and health and safety protocols; • Administered company payroll, benefits packages, corporate events and senior leadership teambuilding; • Re-written all company HR policies to be accurate, updated and correct; • Support managers/team leaders to embed a performance culture within the business; providing coaching and 1:1 support and competency frameworks; • Partnered and influenced key stakeholders on a number of people priorities and plans. Key achievements • Increased retention by over 30% and reduced absence rates by 80% through various employee engagement, policies and procedures. • Reduced workplace incidents by 25%; • Increased employee satisfaction ratings by over to 40% to 90%+.

    • Financial Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Financial Risk Analyst
      • Jul 2017 - Jan 2021

      • Lead on delivery of the Society’s Individual Capital Adequacy Assessment Process (ICAAP) and Reverse Stress Testing (RST) which is supported by undertaking detailed stress testing and scenario analysis.• Support delivery of the Individual Liquidity Adequacy Assessment Process (ILAAP) and Recovery and Resolution Plan.• Enhanced the Society’s financial risk management framework by supporting the effective review of the Society’s Medium-Term Plan and providing risk oversight of financial models.• Work with colleagues in the first line to enhance financial models, regulatory returns and financial risk processes and controls.• Ensure that all Treasury and Financial models are classified and reviewed in line with business requirements and against required criteria, with outputs being fed into the relevant committee.• Review relevant line assumptions and interpretations and challenge the accuracy of returns e.g. COREP, MTP, etc.• Interpret and apply new regulatory and audit requirements to ensure the Society is operating a compliant approach to financial risk management.• Ad-hoc process and control reviews, thematic analytical reviews and identification and analysis of forthcoming regulatory changes impacting the Society’s financial risk.• Working collaboratively with stakeholders from across the organisation including Finance, Risk, Treasury, and the Front Office, as well as the senior management of each entity.HR responsibilities• Assist with team recruitment from start to finish including creating the job advertisement and assessments, reviewing CVs, assist in assessment centre recruitment days, shortlisting and interviewing candidates and providing feedback on interviews.

    • Process Management Project Support
      • Jul 2019 - Jan 2020

      • Support project lead through ensuring targets were consistently met and prioritised, providing weekly analysis, burndown rates on successful and completed areas of the project;• Coordinate projects inclusive of meetings, training, recording and distributing minutes;• Assist the project lead in the production and maintenance of project plans whilst developing and maintaining the project library, filing, recording and reporting systems.• Shadowed the HR function to understand and map out their current processes. This included working closely with Business Partners, HR Admin and Management teams and the Recruitment department

    • United Kingdom
    • Financial Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Finance Analyst
      • Mar 2017 - Jul 2017

      • Assisted the team with the recruitment process by reviewing CVs, shortlisting and identifying suitable candidates; • Provide one-on-one coaching to assist in improve quality and understanding within the team. • Month End reporting for all Legal & General Capital costs; • Produce analysis and trend reports and Management Information Packs for senior management to aid decision-making and strategic planning in order to achieve business objectives; • Business Partnering – support and manage the review and monitoring of accounting standards, policies and financial controls across the team; • Project work – support the management team by undertaking ad-hoc analysis on a number of various projects within the L&G Capital division as well as Group Finance.

    • United Kingdom
    • Manufacturing
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Finance Business Partner and Project Lead
      • Jun 2015 - Feb 2017

      • Acted as a link to the HR department, manage the Travel and Fleet system for the UK part of the business, ensuring that all Fleet information is accurate and updated where necessary and the HR database is kept up to date; • Worked on a European wide HR and Procurement project as a finance lead, which meant combining my finance, HR and project management skills to improve overall operations within the temporary labour company structure across Europe; • Reporting to the Finance Controller, manage all costs within the Group Procurement, analyse all recharges across Europe for Group Procurement and code all recharges to match the budget/forecast costs; • Budget formation and forecasting of whole department within the Group Plc function; • Presenting at budgetary meetings to the Chief Procurement Officer and department heads to leading on finance communication at workshops; • Developed and manage a new reporting system that allows analysis of the Group Procurement division to be split into categories to facilitate detailed category reporting; • Developed a new category reporting system which allows all category heads within Procurement to see actual spend vs budget at category level and not just group level; • Developed effective networks internally and externally with our stakeholders and customers to ensure the reputation of the company continues to grow.

    • United Kingdom
    • Media Production
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Office and Finance Manager
      • Oct 2012 - May 2015

      HR responsibilities • Manage team of three finance staff including all development needs; • Scheduled calls and interviews whilst working closely with talent agencies and balancing diaries ensuring that all interviewees had the relevant scripts; • Responsible for team recruitment, selection and induction activity for both permanent & temporary staff; • Sickness and absence monitoring for the team, with monthly reporting to directors; • Managed company payroll on a weekly and monthly basis, for both permanent staff and freelance/contract staff, including full understanding of employment rules and regulations; • Managed starters/leavers and liaised with HMRC to ensure all requirements were completed in a timely manner; • Conduct analysis of training products and provide assessment feedback and recommendations for product improvement and course training development products. Other Responsibilities • Financial control for up to 10 production accounts and main company account with a turnover of over £30m, including bank reconciliation, credit control, sales invoicing, petty cash, sales and purchase ledgers and cash flow management; • Managed finance team across both office sites; • Investigated project variances and submitted variance reports to management • Writing and summarizing financial production progress reports against budget; • Tracking activities against the detailed project plan in terms of finance and timing; • Reviewed and approved all financial project documentation; • Building relationships and liaising with all external parties including banks, auditors, suppliers and government bodies; • Implementation of financial controls during a period of substantial growth; • Managed the development of Finance and IT systems to improve, automate and simplify processes across the finance department; • Contribute to production budget process, working with various production managers to review historical activities, trends, and future obligations.

    • United Kingdom
    • Staffing and Recruiting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Finance Assistant
      • Jan 2012 - Oct 2012

    • United Kingdom
    • Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
    • Office Manager
      • Dec 2009 - Dec 2011

      Responsible for all recruitment and payroll processes. Organise and liaise with talent agencies regarding actors/actresses in terms of interviews, call backs and diary management. Created new HR system for the company, recording all employee details and ensuring that this was up to date with records sent to HMRC. Responsible for all recruitment and payroll processes. Organise and liaise with talent agencies regarding actors/actresses in terms of interviews, call backs and diary management. Created new HR system for the company, recording all employee details and ensuring that this was up to date with records sent to HMRC.

    • Switzerland
    • Insurance
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Performance Analyst
      • Mar 2007 - Dec 2009

      - Responsible for identifying areas of improvements and concerns in business operational areas and provide appropriate strategies to resolve them; - Responsible for the development and implementation of performance metrics to improve business operational efficiency; - Responsible for the analysis of business problems to identify the root causes and recommend corrective actions; - Serve as mentor to colleagues and providing training to fill gap needs. - Responsible for identifying areas of improvements and concerns in business operational areas and provide appropriate strategies to resolve them; - Responsible for the development and implementation of performance metrics to improve business operational efficiency; - Responsible for the analysis of business problems to identify the root causes and recommend corrective actions; - Serve as mentor to colleagues and providing training to fill gap needs.

    • United Kingdom
    • Entertainment Providers
    • 500 - 600 Employee
    • Human Resources Manager
      • Nov 2005 - Mar 2007

      Manage probationary review process, starter/leaver processes, responsible for all recruitment including interviewing and making final decisions. Keep employee files up to date and accurate, payroll duties and responsibilities for up to 20 staff. Created new relevant recruitment and performance KPIs for head office. Manage probationary review process, starter/leaver processes, responsible for all recruitment including interviewing and making final decisions. Keep employee files up to date and accurate, payroll duties and responsibilities for up to 20 staff. Created new relevant recruitment and performance KPIs for head office.

  • Wales Tourist Board
    • Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
    • Human Resources Administrator
      • Jul 2005 - Nov 2005

      New starter packs all complete, right to work processes up to date, prepare and administer all documentation relating to changes in employee roles/remuneration, liaise with L&D with regards to inductions. New starter packs all complete, right to work processes up to date, prepare and administer all documentation relating to changes in employee roles/remuneration, liaise with L&D with regards to inductions.

Education

  • CIPD Qualifications
    Human Resources Management and Services, Level 5
    2020 - 2021
  • ACCA
    Part Qualified
    2013 - 2016
  • CIPD Qualifications
    Human Resources Management and Services, Level 3
    2013 - 2014
  • AAT
    Level 3 and 4, Accounting and Finance
    2010 - 2011
  • Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
    Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Administration and Management, General
    2002 - 2005
  • Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf
    A Level, Computing
    1999 - 2001
  • Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf
    Advanced GNVQ, Business Studies
    1999 - 2001

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