Greater Aberdeen Area
Extensively experienced with strong business and accounting acumen gained from implementing IT solutions for clients in 40 countries. Ready to hit the ground running on IT projects. Fully versed in global GAAP and end user functional requirements coupled with solid understanding of technical aspects required to support complete project life cycles. Superb end user to technical team liaison (speaks both functional and technical). Experienced in transitioning traditional business models into global shared service centres, delivering IT solutions into complex multi site, client and country architectures. A holistic hands-on or project lead with a pragmatic approach, buckets of common sense and broad multi functional / technical hybrid skill set. Accustomed to leading from the front, taking key roles through all phases of IT projects following traditional methodologies or more agile software development. Strong VAT knowledge with experience of making tax digital and what this means to systems and processes. Years of experience around employee expenses, tax implications and yes, of course I can tell you when yours will be paid. Many clients ranging across large corporates, oil & gas, technology companies, banks & government organisations. GDPR expert able to protect clients from the risk of releasing PII through IT processes. Experience of reporting breaches and assessing the impacts often in challenging environments. Experienced in managing offshore teams and supporting shared services centres environments. Oracle Fusion experience - HCM Cloud, iExpenses OMCS hosted systems. I began working on Oracle v6 financials and have implemented all versions up to Fusion. The past 15 years has been predominantly R12 where I have completed many successful projects implementing Oracle, re-implementing Oracle, adding applications, countries, companies, headcount to existing systems. Extensively (15 years) Oracle R12 Core applications GL, AP, AR, CM, OM etc plus some interesting applications such as Service Contracts, HCM (HR), Projects, OTL, iExpenses, EBTax, Approvals + workflows. I've used OBIEE in many companies. SSO. Treasury, Making Tax Digital (electronic tax submission to local authority). Payments. Treasury Implemented Oracle in 40+ countries, including multiple implementations in Italy and Turkey. SQL guru. Extensive experience with internal audits of system/process/data. Implemented the Oracle audit functionality on numerous tables then written the code to decipher the results.
Solution Architect overseeing the design and build of CQE's systems hosted on Azure. The system consists of a PostgresSQL database with static web front end communicating via restful backend API. Certification/authentication against a Keycloak instance. Vetting and managing outsourced teams and resources. Liaison between the leadership team and business partners. Ensuring delivery of IT projects on time and in budget. Performance monitoring system hw and sw as new clients onboard. Prepare reporting requirements, develop business rules and write SQL for 15 key reports.
PM and SA for multiple projects based around a complex hybrid of R12 and cloud applications. Very Oracle Projects driven system. People managed and time recorded through Oracle - mix of R12 and cloud. Time processed via OTL - 60k staff doing weekly timesheets. Same for expenses. Expenses approvals done through bespoke Oracle delegation of authority rules. Same for Purchasing approvals. All core applications used in R12 but with full EBTax in a unique, evolving and challenging multi organizational structure. Into this environment I implemented: HSBC.net, HSBC Connect, APRO, Webcentre, Amex travel, Amex corporate cards, iExpenses, EBTax, KDS, Traveldoo, Treasury, re-implemented EBTax, Re-implemented iExpenses. Just prior to Covid we were reviewing cloud applications - implemented HR with that interfacing back to R12 in one environment then interfacing from there to another Oracle R12 system for use in projects and otl. Interesting and by that I mean challenging to stop source data breaking project costing of otl time and iExpenses.
R12 system - core financials
R12 system, core applications but with manufacturing and some interesting order management and inventory challenges. They put devices into people’s heads so tracking sales and distribution was essential. Numerous challenges with NHS supply chain.