Experience

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  Metro Bank (UK)

  • London, England, United Kingdom

  • Resource Business Manager

    • May 2021 - Present
    • London, England, United Kingdom

    Defined and implemented new non-Permanent resource categorisations, and associated reporting solution, to identify volume and cost of third party resources across the bankWorked with stakeholders to identify cost saving opportunities through their existing non-permanent workforce resulting in a saving of ~£1m per monthBusiness Management for the People Team focusing on financial control, forecasting and budget preparation

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  Barclays Investment Bank

  • Business Partner, Global Technology Infrastructure Services

    • 2019 - 2019

    Established financial and workforce baselines for newly created services within the Global Technology Infrastructure area following a major business restructuring programme

  • Business Partner - Central Functions Technology

    • 2014 - 2019

    Provided strategic and governance direction to the Technology Leads ensuring the smooth running of the department, pre-empting problems and providing solutions Responsible for the formulation and control of a gross annual budget of c£50m and a workforce of c600 heads ensuring that targets were met each year Project managed several special projects covering activities such as rightshoring, outsourcing and process improvement

  • Project Office Lead - Procurement Technology

    • 2012 - 2014

    Delivered Project Office services to a global sourcing application deployment programme covering both Technology and Business Change Streamlined existing services delivered by consultants such that the vendor could be exited after 2 months

  • Project Manager - HR Technology

    • 2011 - 2012

    Delivered all technical aspects of an absence tracking tool for UK staff within one of the key business streams

  • Technology Lead - HR Technology

    • 2001 - 2011

    Delivered all operational aspects of Build, Run and Infrastructure services for HR Technology.Delivered strategic SAP upgrades and transformation programmes including acquisitions and divestments.Delivered on a multi-year convergence programme to consolidate all global HR records on to a single platform.

  • Technology Infrastructure Lead - Finance Technology

    • 1996 - 2001

    SAP Infrastructure manager on the global implementation of the SAP R/3 General Ledger within the Investment Bank.Delivered the platform selection process which resulted in the first Enterprise level system to be hosted on Windows NT within the bank.Delivered operational support for all environments, system upgrades, system migrations and application security.

  • Technology Lead - Finance Technology

    • 1994 - 1996

    Implemented a structured development methodology reducing project costs, cost variances and implementation times.

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  Price Waterhouse Management Consultants

  • Consultant

    • 1990 - 1994

    Various roles on both external and in-house programmes from Developer and Team Leader, through to Project and Product Manager.