Permanent Roles

Oracle Corporation UK Ltd, Senior Consultant (27/8/96 to 03/10/02)

Specialising in Oracle Financial Analyser and Oracle Express . Worked with many clients in a variety of roles over a period of 6 years, including:

Jarvis plc. Lead Consultant in developing the Cost Value Reconciliation system, which was built within a very tight deadline. The system allows Quantity Surveyors to update their projected Costs and Revenues in Web data forms. The information is consolidated centrally and undergoes a hierarchical approval and adjustment process. Web reports allow analysis of results and can be customised by the users.

Lloyds TSB. Lead consultant in developing the OFA model for the General Efficiency Program (GEP). This project (in conjunction with PriceWaterhouseCoopers) collected and consolidated Project Business Cases, and allowed forecast revisions and monitoring against actuals.

GE Capital Insurance Holdings. Lead consultant for a new OFA implementation for Budgeting, Planning and Management Reporting. Multiple currencies were supported for data entry and reporting.

Other clients included Post Office Counters Ltd, Unilever, Aggregate Industries, Sainsburys, Freemans, Cap Gemini, Alliance and Leicester, GE Capital European Equipment Finance, GE Capital General Consumer Finance, ntl, Direct Line.

Coopers and Lybrand and Hoskyns (Cap Gemini), Project Manager (1/9/89 to 31/3/96).

Managed all the PC based finance systems including Pensions, Partner Accounts, Budgeting and Planning, then later with responsibility for all Management Information and Decision Support systems. Development projects included:

Partners' Interest System - calculating the daily interest on Partners' accounts, allowing different rates of interest on different types of account.

Central Budgeting System - collects budget data at Group (Cost Centre) level and consolidates through 6 levels of organisation, as well as providing a Practice Area breakdown at all levels. Includes Key Performance Indicators at all levels.

Planning System - a similar development to the Budgeting system, but providing a 3-year view at a less detailed level.

Working Capital Model - an extension of the Budgeting System to cover `weeks cover' values.

Corporate Finance Model - a 10-year predictive tool, using various growth factors under 3 different scenarios (levels of optimism).

Creditor Voluntary Liquidation (CVL) model for Cork Gully (Insolvency Practice Area) - modelling the financial and staffing impact of new ways of doing and selling CVLs.

Tesco Stores Ltd, Senior Analyst Programmer (12/12/82 to 18/8/89).

Started as PC specialist (Junior Programmer grade) in the newly formed Information Centre, supporting and developing a range of PC-based products. Then promoted to the Financial Systems development team. Development projects included:

Capital Investment Appraisal system, a model to calculate the return on capital for projected new store developments, under various scenarios.

Profit and Margin Forecasting system, a P&L based forecasting system, at month/store level, in pcExpress for Management Accounts.

Staff and Overhead Budgeting system, for collecting budgets on diskette and uploading them to a mainframe.