Experience

Brown Thomas Arnotts

• Ireland
• Retail
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Head Of Data, Infrastructure and Operations

  • Jan 2021 - Present

  Head Of Data, Infrastructure and Operations. Previously consulting on Data and Analytics strategy and interim Head of IT and Digital Applications teams. Head Of Data, Infrastructure and Operations. Previously consulting on Data and Analytics strategy and interim Head of IT and Digital Applications teams.



Bank of Ireland

• Ireland
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Chief Data Officer at Bank of Ireland Group

  • Jun 2018 - Oct 2020

  Responsible for transforming BOI into a data driven organisation through design and creation of Group Data Function and wider Data and Analytics organisation structure. I led the senior managers of the of Data Consolidation, Architecture and Infrastructure, Data Management, Advanced Analytics and Data Value Realisation teams and managed 3rd party vendors.

• Director of Finance Strategy and Transformation

  • Aug 2016 - Jun 2018

  Finance leadership responsibility for the delivery of core Enterprise Data programmes including EDW (which evolved into CDO role in 2018), BCBS 239 (to strengthen banks’ risk data aggregation capabilities ) and data and financial reporting aspects of IFRS9 compliance.



UDG Healthcare

• Ireland
• Pharmaceuticals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of SAP

  • Feb 2013 - Aug 2016

  Head of SAP as part of the Business Technology Services organisation at UDG Healthcare, Led the team to the first successful rollout of SAP and Business Data Warehouse in UDG in UK and US business units in Feb 2014 and ROI in 2015. Head of SAP as part of the Business Technology Services organisation at UDG Healthcare, Led the team to the first successful rollout of SAP and Business Data Warehouse in UDG in UK and US business units in Feb 2014 and ROI in 2015.



Bank of Ireland

• Ireland
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head of Change Delivery for Corporate, Treasury and Central in GTaC

  • Nov 2012 - Feb 2013

  Working in the Group Technology and Change Organisation with accountability for Business Change Delivery, both IT and non IT, for the Corporate, Treasury and Central (Finance, HR and Risk) Divisions.

• Head of Enterprise Change and Support Domain - GroupIT

  • Oct 2010 - Nov 2012

  In charge of team responsible for development of Enterprise systems, predominately SAP ERP, SAP Bank Analyser, SAP BW, Business Objects and Oracle.Most of the effort and focus during this time was on the delivery of enhanced data and reporting to meet business and regulatory demand in a very challenging market environment. In response to ever increasing demand for data, instigated and created version 1.0 of Group Data Information Strategy that led to the successful set up of the Enterprise Data Warehouse in BOI, a corner stone of the data transformation in the group. Show less

• Head of Finance Systems and Control

  • Jan 2007 - Oct 2010

  Member of Group Finance with a remit to cover systems control and change. Part of core project team (1Finance) that implemnted the Finance shared service centre. The programme also had a technology remit which included the revision of the current SAP ECC6 implementation and a new implementation of SAP BW and Business Objects.



Colgate-Palmolive

• United States
• Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• IT Finance/BI Team Lead & Project Lead

  • Nov 1999 - Jan 2007

  Worked in Group IT in Euro Africa SSO, based in Dublin, implementing and supporting projects based on SAP platforms, ERP, BW etc. Predominately covering Western and Central European Divisions as well as Russia and Africa. During this time I was also the IT project lead on a 16 country re-implementation of SAP to reflect a new corporate structure and also lead the BI and Finance Teams. In earlier roles I was responsible for the delivery of key reporting through Oracle and Cognos, which we subsequently successfully migrated to SAP BW. Show less



Diageo

• United Kingdom
• Beverage Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Finance and SAP Implementation

  • 1994 - 1999

  Finance Analyst, focused on Supply Chain, on biggest business change program implemented in Guinness at that date, 3 Year project with team of 120 people implementing SAP R/3 and Shared Service Centre. Finance Analyst, focused on Supply Chain, on biggest business change program implemented in Guinness at that date, 3 Year project with team of 120 people implementing SAP R/3 and Shared Service Centre.



IBM

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Accountant

  • Jan 1992 - Jun 1994

  Finance lead on project implementing an integrated business system (JBA Business 400) Finance lead on project implementing an integrated business system (JBA Business 400)



Deloitte

• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Audit

  • Oct 1987 - Dec 1991

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