FILLED: Interim IT Applications Support, Invest Bank, London

We have an urgent request from one our consulting friends working at an investment bank needing an experienced IT professional (could be experienced consultant) to run a small team for a few months while they look to recruit for the position.


The key requirement are as follows :


· Head of Service Delivery – equals application support
· Not support for IT infrastructure as this is outsourced
· Not really a consulting role but a consultant with line IT background would work for interim
· Role is to mgt dept of 20 people supporting front office trading applications
· Manage client and management
· One of 5 people reporting to head of IT at bank
· Industry knowledge useful but not a pre-requisite
· Will pay a good rate
· Role will last all the time it takes to recruit
· Start asap with ~ 3mths
· London



Please contact TonyMcneill for more information.

POSTPONED - Interim IT Project Manager, Professional Services Firm, London

UPDATE - 15/12/06 - THIS ROLE HAS BEEN POSTPONED

Our client is a leading global professional services firm and is looking to hire an interim project manager to deliver the global consolidation of its Peoplesoft HR systems.

Responsibilities:

• Build business cases for the project
• Initiate project governance and define roles and responsibilities
• Produce project plan
• Perform risk analysis and contingency planning
• Consider change management aspects, especially organisation impact, training, communication and documentation
• Manage project finances
• Monitor progress
• Structure handover to support
• Perform post-implementation review

Essential skills / experience:

• 8-10 years project management experience (including business cases and change management)
• Experience of at least one global ERP / Peoplesoft implementation

Advantageous skills / experience:

• Peoplesoft recruiting / performance management
• Systems implementation in a professional services firm
• European language(s)

FILLED: Interim Finance Consultant, Professional Services Firm, London

Our client is a leading professional services firm who are undertaking a significant transformation of their support services.

They are looking for a consultant to conduct a review of their client billings and collections function. The initial review lasting 4 to 6 weeks is expected to offer recommendations for performance improvements.

The chosen consultant is likely to be asked to implement the recommendations.

Good rate.



Please contact Tony McNeill for more information.

Creating Consulting Connections

The B2E R Consulting Network

The purpose of this note is to let you know of a great new professional networking opportunity that we would like to open up to you.

Your existing links with B2E Resourcing mean that you are already part of a network of over 3,000 mainly ‘ex-Big 5’ consultants (we also welcome experienced ‘industry consultants’ too) but to-date, this has been a one-way network that has not been accessible to you.

B2E Resourcing wants to open up this network to create a vibrant and active community that shares mutual professional interests and generates value for its members by being connected together. We want to create the opportunity to allow members to make contact and build new business relationships to drive commercial success.

We would like to develop an environment where much of the professional/social support offered within a Professional Services Firm is available within this virtual network. Can you imagine the power of members gaining access to the collective consulting experiences within this group ??? A ‘Neural Napster’ where distributed experiences are indexed by the brains of quality consultants, linked by the power of the web !!

Being a member of the B2E-R Consulting Network means :

• You can contact other members of the network
• You can request help from other consulting professionals
• You can post interesting information to the group
• You will have the opportunity to join ‘interest groups’ as the network grows
• You will be invited to regular networking/social events to meet new consultants (quarterly, initially)
• You will have the opportunity to meet with old colleagues and ‘stay in touch’
• You will receive regular job/role opportunities suitable for experienced consultants

Membership of The B2E-R Consulting Network is free of charge but by invitation or recommendation only.

The majority of the network membership will have worked for professional services firms like, PWC, E&Y, Deloitte, Accenture, Andersen Consulting, KPMG and CAPGemini but also includes ‘Industry Consultants’ who have gained most of their experience working with ‘Blue Chip’ corporations.

The experience of members is very broad, covering strategy to operations and from several years experience to a lifetime.

To celebrate the creation of the Network we intend to hold our first social event on Thursday 18 January 2007 from 6:30pm, in central London. Please put this date in your diary – details to follow over the next few weeks.

Visit the network at http://groups.google.co.uk/group/b2e-r_consulting_network/

FILLED: ERP Programme Director with Automotive Experience

We have a client who is looking for a senior Programme Director to run a complex ERP implementation in the automotive industry.

Key factors are :

• Senior role operating at Board Level (Associate Partner or Partner level)
• Likely to have 15 years + consulting experience
• Automotive experience a bonus
• Interim or permanent
• Based in UK but operating in Scandinavia
• Fee/salary consistent with level
• Start asap
• Duration – subject to agreement

If you are interested or know someone who may be, please let me know.

Please contact Tony McNeill for more information.

FILLED: Project Manager for large Government Data project - Near Southampton- Good Rate

We have an interesting project role working for a government department which provides information to the public using the Census Data. The Census occurs regularly with the next one due in 2011. The department are currently evaluating their downstream systems for managing, analysing and presenting data.

They are looking for a technical project manager to provide strategic direction and planning to the project. This person will be able to evaluate and compare options for the programme including outsourcing.

They will have skills in the following key areas:

Business analysis
Data analysis
Project Management
Planning
IT architecture
IT infrastructure
Strategic direction

The project is for 3 months and is based near Southampton.

There is a good rate available.

Please contact David Meggitt for more information.

FILLED - Interim Senior Prog Manager - eHR Deployment, Belfast - 18 months

We have an immediate opportunity for a senior (Accenture AP equivalent) programme manager to manage the "Business Change and Deployment Programme" associated with an eHR implementation.

Our client is looking to transform and modernise the structure and delivery of personnel services to around 29,000 staff in a project which started in April 06. The services are due to come on stream in May 07 and to become fully operational during 2008 as part of a multi-release rollout.

Essential:

• leadership and management of large, complex programmes, with direct experience of implementation and business change aspects
• personal presence and credibility
• client sensitivity (political nous)
• ability to use influence to acheive results
• excellent business writing skills
• management of large and diverse resources
• managing diverse and senior stakeholders
• managing sub-contractors (ideally consultants)
• understanding of PRINCE2 project management requirements

Desirable:

• HR and Payroll Operations
• BPR/Shared Services prgramme experience

Other:

• owing to the nature of this work, it is essential that the role is filled full time (5 days per week) and that the candiate is able to spend 4 days per week in Belfast
• the role needs to be filled as soon as possible - ideally before Xmas - and is expected to last for 18 months
• excellent rates for the right person
  

Please contact Jo Young for more information.

FILLED - Interim Senior Integration and Testing Project Manager, Belfast

UPDATE - 03/12/06 - THIS POSITION HAS NOW BEEN FILLED

Our client is performing a major eHR programme of change and is looking for a Senior Project Manager with strong PRINCE 2 project management experience to coordinate the final end-to-end testing of, and obtain the Authority to Proceed to, the launch of the new HR services. The project will bring together the solution components (business process design, Shared Service Centre, Applications, and Infrastructure) to ensure they work together. It will achieve client acceptance and approval to launch the new service.

The successful candidate will have the following responsibilities:

• Manage production of required products
• Direct and motivate project team
• Plan and manage the project
• Produce product descriptions
• Manage business and project risks, including development of contingency plans
• Be responsible for change control and configuration management
• Report to Project Board
• Agree technical and quality strategy
• Be responsible for project administration
• Liaise with sub-contractors

The project is being delivered using PRINCE 2 and ESSENTIAL skills and experience include:

• Very strong PRINCE 2 project management
• Implementation of projects that change the business
• Management of strong sub-contractors
• Integration testing and client acceptance

'NICE TO HAVES' include:

• HR
• Payroll
• Shared Service Centres
• Package implementation (Oracle)

Other information:

The programme and project team is based in Belfast and works 5 days on the project, 4 days in Belfast and 3 nights away from home. The role is likely to run for at least 6 months with a good opportunity for extension.

FILLED: Interim HR Transformation Project, 6 months, London

The project is part of an HR Transformation programme already underway for a large Financial Service company requiring:

• A target operating model (TOM) for the global HR function.
• Covering the new HR processes, technology, people and structure at a high level.
• The business case for the TOM.
• A programme plan to show how HR function could move to the target operating model.

A lot of the content will come from the existing HR teams, but experienced outside resource is required to help complete the design work and document the output.

The ideal candidate will have the following attributes:

• Good HR knowledge
• Logical thinker
• Good writing and PowerPoint skills
• Hard worker
• Can organise and lead w/shops
• Previous experience of TOM development
• Credible with senior management
• Experience of Peoplesoft HR would be a bonus.

The programme will kick off in 2 - 3 weeks time and last for 6 months. Good rate available.

Please contact David Meggitt for more information.

FILLED - Senior (board) level Prog Mgr, Outsourcing/Business Case expertise, IMMEDIATE, London

We have a client (‘FTSE 250’) who is embarking on a strategic review of their support functions. They are looking for a senior Programme Manager to guide them through a Feasibility Study (~ 3 months) to assess the potential of outsourcing elements of their support services.

Experience of Outsourcing Projects, at the strategic level - including business case development, is essential for this role.

This is a senior role possibly at the Associate Partner/Partner level, and is URGENT - we have interview slots with the recruiting Board Director on Friday 10th Nov.

Essential

• Demonstrable consistent delivery of multi million change/ outsourcing programmes against targets exceeding expectations of the client
• Demonstrates a successful history of operating and influencing at senior managerial levels
• Demonstrates entrepreneurial flair and can provide details of developing and implementing creative business solutions
• Minimum of 8 years programme management experience within a complex multi-national organisation
• 4 years leadership and managerial experience
• Educated to degree level

Desirable

• MBA/ Business degree
• Has extensive experience of sourcing and multi sourcing environments within an IT environment

Please contact Jo Young for more information.

FILLED - Interim Project Manager - Johannesburg - 6 months

We have an exciting opportunity for a "personable" (!) Project Manager to join a project team in Johannesburg. This would be working with a recognised professional services firm who have been engaged with this client for some time.

Key aspects of the situation are :

• Project is rolling out a new system associated with digital radio
• Experience of ‘technical’ project management (although general IT work will be OK)
• Good interpersonal skills needed
• A ‘can do’ project manager with a track record of project delivery
• Starting asap
• 6 months duration

Package includes :

• 6 weeks on site, 2 weeks at home
• Generous local allowance for subsistence
• Car, hotels included
• ~ £500/day

Please contact Jo Young or Tony McNeill for more information.