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For years, organisations have struggled to deliver projects on time and within budget.

As a KPMG survey of 252 organizations highlights, technology is not the most critical factor. Inadequate project management implementation constitutes 32% of project failures, lack of communication constitutes 20% and unfamiliarity with scope and complexity constitutes 17%. Accordingly 69% of project failures are due to lack and/or improper implementation of project management methodologies.

Implementing a permanent Programme Management Office (PMO) to underpin groupwide IT and business projects, or creating Programme or Project specific PMO’s has become accepted practice as a solution to ensuring initiatives follow standardised, robust project methodologies, and successful processes, tools and communication techniques are industrialised and re-used to give future projects the best chance of success.

PMOs can help by providing the structure needed to standardise project management practices and facilitate IT project portfolio management, as well as determine methodologies for repeatable processes.

SystemsAccountants has been supplying PMO resource for over 10 years to ERP, Finance Systems, BI and Finance Transformation Programmes. We provide sector and software specific specialists for roles including:

  • Programme Office Managers (PMO Managers)
  • Project Office Managers
  • Portfolio Management
  • PMO Analysts
  • Programme/Project Planners
  • Project Accountants

Our candidates combine ERP, BI or Finance specific project backgrounds with the expertise in the following:

  • Implementation of project standards for reporting, planning, change control, configuration management, risk & issue management
  • Development and management of Programme/Project Plans
  • CPA – Critical Path Analysis
  • Prioritisation of risks, issues, and appropriate escalation
  • Documentation management and maintenance of programme/project library
  • Steering committee reports / presentations
  • Programme budgeting and progress tracking / reporting
  • Administration of resource mobilization, time-recording, and wind-down management
  • Proficiency in all mainstream methodologies, such as Prince II, Agile, etc; production of Gantt Charts; as well as the use of key project tools, such as MS Project, Sharepoint, Access, Excel, Powerpoint, Primavera, Open Workbench, etc…

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Sample Case Studies:

  • Tesco

    Recruitment of Tesco Stores' Oracle eBusiness Finance & Procurement Systems support team of 6; as well as provision of 5 Hyperion specialists to Tesco Group's EPM project (pre & post go-live)

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  • AXA

    Since 2005 over 100 contractors & permanent finance systems & finance projects staff provided to AXA globally; across SAP transformation, EDW build, Part VII transfers, Longevity Risk & Solvency II

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  • HSBC

    Provision of over 20 interims to global investment bank and UK retail bank to deliver Cognos & TM1 Financial Reporting implementation and PeopleSoft GL deployment

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  • Aviva

    Over 30 finance systems and Programme specialists provided to support Cartesis financial consolidation implementation, Oracle GL deployment, data governance, BI delivery & Solvency II

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So, what do we do?

We are the UK’s leading finance systems recruitment company.

Unlike the vast majority of recruitment companies we are not built on a sales culture. We are wholly service and solutions focused. In fact in many instances our services are more akin to a hybrid mix of recruitment and consultancy.

This is because the vast majority of finance systems work is project related, such as upgrade and development initiatives. Indeed the replacement or implementation of new finance systems, ERP or BI tools will normally be driven by a business need for operational improvements and by definition change. Such change projects typically incorporate process standardisation / automation, shared services creation, or MI transformation such as data governance implementation and enterprise BI architecture.

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  • During Save the Children`s transformation programme, of which delivery of our Agresso implementation and the subsequent post go-live support & development are critical components, we have found SystemsAccountants responsive & understanding of our charity budgetary constraints and pro-active & persistent in sourcing candidates that meet our requirements. They have been highly effective business partners in helping us find well matched contract and permanent staff.

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