An accountant by profession, David has held many of the usual accounting and business focused finance roles, including that of Finance Director for a £300m autonomous Division.
Over the last 5 years, David has stepped out of these traditional roles into the wider world of Shared Services, Process Ownership and large scale technology deployments. During this time David has been responsible for steering the development and deployment of common processes across Balfour Beatty in support of the UK wide Oracle R12 implementation. Along the way he has also managed Balfour Beatty’s UK shared services project from feasibility to the transition of services into Balfour Beatty’s UK shared service center.
Latterly his focus has been on the governance and control of system and process changes associated with the Oracle R12 deployment and the transition of the in-house Oracle technical resources associated with the R12 programme to an out-sourced Systems integration partner.
1) If you could be anybody for a day, who would you be and why?
Actually I have no burning desire to be anyone else. I’ve just seen my son graduate with first class honours, and win a prize for best software engineering project. What more could you want?
2) You’re stranded on a desert island and allowed just 3 essentials. What would you choose?
Plastic sheeting, a survival knife and some fishing line
3) What is your idea of a perfect weekend?
Relaxing with family and friends with some good food and some chilled wine
4) If you won the lottery what would your first purchase be?
I’d pop down to the nearest Ferrari dealer
5) What is the most satisfying part of your job?
Helping people understand complex processes
6) And what do you find challenging about your job?
Failing to get people to understand complex processes
7) What is your advice for anybody looking to enter your career?
Keep smiling and keep pushing, you will get there
8) Which part of sharedserviceslink’s Summit for Global Process Owners are you most looking forward to?
The Speaker Clinics
David will be speaking at the Summit for Global Process Owners, taking place between September 3rd-5th, 2014 at the Kensington Close Hotel in London.
His particular presentation will discuss the journey that Balfour Beatty are currently undertaking to roll-out Oracle R12 implementation, and what he has personally done to effect cultural change and process standardisation across the board in order to support the mission.
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