Marjan Webb Carter
London,UK
Summary
Bringing over 20 years of project experience across Corporate Financial Services, Private Equity-backed M&A, and FinTech, Marjan Webb Carter is not your typical Business Consultant. She excels in navigating complex and ambiguous problem statements within fast-paced, target-driven environments. Highly organized and adaptable, her super power is integrating multiple roles, including project and change management, in addition to her extensive Business Analysis expertise.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work history
Integration Lead
Octavius Infrastructure Limited
Remote
10.2023 - 04.2025
- Managed end-to-end ERP integration (Causeway & Sage to COINS & WebContractor) for acquired company of over 100 employees within aggressive 6-month timeframe.
- Led portfolio of projects including implementation of new data analytics platform, COINS ERP upgrade & enhancements, migration from Conquest to Causeway Estimating, and vendor selection for replacement subcontractor system.
- Produced all project management and analysis documentation including status reports, plans, scoping & process diagrams, requirement catalogues, UAT and change management documentation.
- Reported directly into the CFO and was responsible for all stakeholder management, managing multiple vendors and internal developers/consultants.
Senior Business Consultant
Fitzwilliam Dunne
London
03.2023 - 05.2023
- Project lead for custom data warehouse solution for Real Estate investment company Castleforge. Stepped in as emergency cover during build stage and successfully completed delivery of the first phase of implementation.
- Produced data dictionary, flows and SOP.
Senior Business Consultant
Alirity Limited
Remote
10.2022 - 02.2023
- Established Business Case, Project Initiation document and delivery plans to implement Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement for end client Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
Carve Out Integration Lead
Octavius Infrastructure Ltd (formerly Osborne)
Remote
10.2021 - 04.2022
- Led biggest and most complex workstreams for acquired infrastructure business carve out.
- Project managed migration of data and systems from On Premise to Cloud working with large number of vendors. This was completed within 6 months starting right from discovery and included COINS Financials, SharePoint / One Drive, MS Dynamics, Salesforce and Cloud HR.
- Used modelling techniques including Business Context and Business Capability diagrams to determine scope and complexity and inform the project plan.
Post Merger Integration Lead
Optimizely Inc (formerly Episerver)
Remote
07.2020 - 04.2021
- Managed Vendor selection and implementation planning for migration from 10+ existing HR systems onto SAP Success Factors for 1000+ employees as the single global solution.
- Defined the new HR target operating model, produced a comprehensive business requirements catalogue and defined an assessment process to shortlist vendors.
- Provided Business Analysis and Architecture support on a number of other projects including target operating model definition for a Customer Success programme.
Senior Business Analyst
The Analysts Consulting Ltd
Remote
10.2019 - 12.2019
- Delivered Service Blueprint and Opportunities Backlog for wealth management company Rowan Dartington as part of project to identify initiatives to facilitate scale.
Client Delivery Lead / Senior Business Consultant
Instinct Studios Ltd
London
02.2018 - 04.2019
- Led team of 15 which included Business Analysts, Designers, Developers and Testers working in a rapid pace, innovative and agile environment to deliver digital and batch PDF reporting solutions to the wealth and asset management sector including Schroders, Quilter and Allianz.
- Provided high quality and artefacts for consumption by clients including requirement documents (in traditional formats and as epics & user stories), product / features catalogues, engagement approaches, process maps, business cases / proposal documents, statements of work / change requests, data models, architecture diagrams, use case models, state models and status reports.
Integration Lead (Finance)
Cision Inc
London
11.2016 - 02.2018
- Led all aspects of the post-M&A EMEAI migration from existing Finance systems (Sage, Oracle Financials and AccPac) to the global Finance solution (NetSuite), managing a team of SME's, Developers and NetSuite Professional Service reps.
- Put in place project governance, reporting and controls, reporting directly into the CFO.
- Produced all design, test and training artefacts and supported NetSuite data migration and configuration activities.
Business Analyst / Project Manager
John Lewis Partnership
London
02.2016 - 11.2016
- Produced solution design and business case to recommend extensive improvements to the Retirements service for members of the pension scheme.
- Identified business & system requirements and operating model impacts, defined customer journey and re-engineered business processes.
Senior Business Analyst
Prudential UK & Europe
London
12.2010 - 12.2015
- Worked on projects across Risk & Regulatory and Finance Portfolios.
- Led business architecture and design of Boards Governance Solution producing business design, impact assessment documents and solution backlog. The solution used Microsoft Dynamics technology and was developed in collaboration with Microsoft Professional Services acting as successful pilot for other projects to adopt ‘Agile' methodology.
- Sole Business Analyst on project to migrate services to PruHealth / PruProtect as a result of Prudential reducing their share in the Joint Venture. Defined current and target states across all business functions and produced detailed requirements to support the migration of services.
Lead Business Analyst
Ofgem
London
06.2010 - 12.2010
- Produced and project managed feasibility study for IT solution to collect new tax from electricity suppliers to raise funds of £9.4 billion. This fed directly into the government advisory paper.
- Produced vision document, business requirements, use cases and vendor tender documents for system solution to support new Renewable Heat Incentive scheme.
Business Analyst
Legal and General Assurance Society Ltd
Brighton and Hove
10.2000 - 06.2010
- Worked on number of different projects across Retail Savings and Individual Pension divisions.
- Lead Analyst on Service Orientated Architecture project to deliver new internal administration interface and external web-based application for retail and corporate clients. Used Unified Modelling Language to define new processes and design.
- As part of Business Improvement Team, developed workflow tracking capability using eg software. This was delivered through LEAN methodology to address performance issues within operational areas, creating 27% capacity.
Education
ISEB Business Analysis Diploma - Specialist module: UML
Unipart Lean Expert Practices - undefined
BSc (Hons) - Mathematics
University of Sussex
Skills
- PE-backed M&A and Carve Out integrations
- End-to-end system migration & integration
- Multi-workstream program planning & governance using variety of tools - includes MSP, Jira, MS Planner and Executive dashboards
- Cross-functional ERP integration experience spanning Finance, HR and Supply Chain
- Adaptability across scale, complexity and industries
- Business analysis & architecture, project management, QA and change management skills
- Stakeholder engagement & trust-building across all levels
Accomplishments
- Carve out of 28 systems for Private Equity acquisition within 6 months involving 15 vendors
- Led migration onto Oracle NetSuite ERP from multiple legacy systems within 6 months for organisation of 500 employees
- Migration of a large FTSE 100 Asset Management firm onto a new fund reporting platform across their website, sales solutions and client reporting applications
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Integration Lead
Octavius Infrastructure Limited
10.2023 - 04.2025
Senior Business Consultant
Fitzwilliam Dunne
03.2023 - 05.2023
Senior Business Consultant
Alirity Limited
10.2022 - 02.2023
Carve Out Integration Lead
Octavius Infrastructure Ltd (formerly Osborne)
10.2021 - 04.2022
Post Merger Integration Lead
Optimizely Inc (formerly Episerver)
07.2020 - 04.2021
Senior Business Analyst
The Analysts Consulting Ltd
10.2019 - 12.2019
Client Delivery Lead / Senior Business Consultant
Instinct Studios Ltd
02.2018 - 04.2019
Integration Lead (Finance)
Cision Inc
11.2016 - 02.2018
Business Analyst / Project Manager
John Lewis Partnership
02.2016 - 11.2016
Senior Business Analyst
Prudential UK & Europe
12.2010 - 12.2015
Lead Business Analyst
Ofgem
06.2010 - 12.2010
Business Analyst
Legal and General Assurance Society Ltd
10.2000 - 06.2010
Unipart Lean Expert Practices - undefined
BSc (Hons) - Mathematics
University of Sussex