BP Plc – BP Chemicals
Internal Control Manager – 2005 to present
Responsible for delivery of Sarbanes-Oxley compliant processes and documentation for regulatory reasons across the PetroChemicals business and embedding it in daily business.
Achievements:
- Evaluated potential new Compliance software tools and implemented the chosen solution
- Migrated existing Microsoft Word documentation into the OpenPages compliance database
- Managed annual programme of compliance re-certification
- Coached and Mentored staff in requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley legislation to embed in daily business
- Supported Quarterly Due Diligence reporting
BP Plc – Refining & Marketing
Internal Control Analyst – 2003 to 2005
Responsible for project managing a segment wide delivery of Sarbanes-Oxley compliant processes and documentation for regulatory reasons.
Achievements:
- Identified processes that required additional assurance and project managed to successful implementation.
- Coached and Mentored staff to ensure completion to schedule
- Developed and maintained Excel reporting tools to report key milestones
BP Plc – Gas, Power & Renewables Digital Business
Data Migration Manager – 2003 to 2003
Responsible for ensuring the auto migration of data from legacy systems into SAP, whilst maintaining efficient support on legacy systems.
Achievements:
- Project managed data migration accurately and on schedule, having required to resource plan & subsequently accelerate delivery to ensure deadlines were met.
- Averted incomplete solution being delivered by identifying necessary, but missing data elements. whilst not impacting migration, this would have impacted the project key performance indicators.
- Gained buy in from key stakeholders over approach to migration and data cleansing giving business additional flexibility over resource planning.
- Influenced& led to change of strategy for system cutover, minimising risks involved.
- Developed report suite to assist management of business data issues
BP Plc – Gas, Power & Renewables Digital Business
Business Consultant/Support Team Leader – Aug 2000 – 2002
Responsible for support team delivery against legacy systems. in additions, used as a skilled resource to provide input to various project based activities.
Achievements:
- Identified capability for automated SMS & other messaging technology to allow pro-active attention to database & file problems.
- Initiated a change control forum, having recognised the additional controls & decision making required in an ever changing environment.
- Eliminated multiple potential points of failure in legacy systems, reducing servers from 4 to 2.
- Planned a contingency solution to work with legacy systems had major industry change (RGMA) gone ahead April – July 2003 as originally scheduled
- Influenced deferral of Transco meter asset pricing disaggregation, saving BP from potential liability for asset charges not contractually recoverable from customers (several £m’s).
- Delivered solutions for meter reading separation, meter asset pricing disaggregation and Climate Change Levy
BP Plc – Gas, Power & Renewables Digital Business
Chief Analyst – May 1999 – Aug 2000
Responsible for identifying, specifying & delivering systems solutions to business problems.
Achievements:
- Contributed to reduction of customer debt in excess of 60% by working with stakeholders to specify and deliver valuable quick wins.
- Delivered valuable report in my own time to manage out ‘lost’ business, getting special appreciation & reward from the customer department.
- Identified and delivered a solution to tighten our portfolio management, reducing risk from ~£6m down to zero.
BP Plc – Gas, Power & Renewables Digital Business
Analyst Developer – April 1997 – April 1999
Responsible for identifying, specifying & delivering systems solutions to business problems.
Achievements:
- Improved billing efficiency by improving meter reading capture close to 100% innovating with fuzzy meter serial number matching – a 40% improvement.
- Recruited, coached and trained new support personnel, running teach-ins to extend depth of knowledge within the team.
- Initiated change control process to manage requests for new work & data fixes, cutting backlog to a quarter inside two weeks.
BP Gas Marketing
Operations\Joint Venture Coordinator – Dec 1991 – March 1997
Responsible for various operations requirements, including Gas nominations, demand forecasting, billing team leader & joint venture operations
Achievements:
- Enabled wholesale customer to start their invoicing run in half the normal timescales by instigating manual process & flexing resource to deliver the data they required.
- Specified systems for meter reading report to improve Join Venture partners billing arrangements, completing invoicing in reduced timescales.
- Completed billing run in a quarter of normal timescales to allow successful migration to new systems to schedule
- Trial of remote meter reading services to improve demand forecasting
