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Tariq Islam

London,UK

Summary

A qualified professional (ACMA, PRINCE2) with significant experience in both systems maintenance and implementations. Track record of overseeing implementations of ERP, EPM and P2P solutions,, across all sectors but recently with NfP

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work history

Finance Systems Accountant (Contract)

ISTRUCTE
07.2023 - 06.2024
  • Leading the implementation of SAP Concur
  • Finance Process mapping using MS Visio
  • Process/Control improvements
  • Optimisation of month-end, CoA
  • Report writing with Excel, Jet

Finance Implementation Lead (Contract)

Chatham House
03.2022 - 06.2023


  • Reporting to MD Finance
  • Implementation of SAP Concur across the business
  • Leading selection/planning activities for the ERP replacement
  • Implementing Microsoft Jet reporting for Programme Managers
  • Integration between Great Plains and Concur


Finance Systems Manager (Contract)

Comic Relief
10.2020 - 03.2022
  • Reporting to Head of Finance
  • Leading on ERP replacement project (to test)
  • Overseeing delivery of EPM solution - Adaptive Insights
  • Implementing VAT MTD solution
  • MS Great Plains maintenance/optimisation
  • Managing Analyst

Project Lead (Contract)

Saputo Dairy UK, Dairy Crest plc
06.2018 - 11.2019
  • Reporting to Group Finance Director/Programme Manager
  • Managing Dynamics AX/Exceedra implementation
  • Working with Finance, Sales teams

Reporting Lead (Contract)

Dentsu Aegis Network
09.2016 - 06.2018
  • Leading delivery of reporting requirements for finance - liaising with finance and developers
  • Documenting finance processes to support the D365 F&O implementation programme
  • Liaising across finance teams on Planning, Budgeting, MI Reporting, Group Consolidation
  • Working with stakeholders across the business to understand current ways of working


BI Transformation Lead (Contract)

Now TV, Sky plc
09.2015 - 09.2016
  • Delivering new customer acquisition/churn reporting solution
  • Integrating solution into new Tableau reporting system
  • Delivering new model for customer movement forecasting
  • Using SQL/Advanced Excel modelling techniques, Reporting to Head of Systems

Finance Systems Lead(Contract)

M&S Group
11.2014 - 09.2015
  • Finance Systems Lead - Reporting to Programme Manager
  • Working across teams to deliver a new retail trading dashboard
  • SAP BPC implementation


Project Lead

Ascential
10.2012 - 08.2014
  • Delivering FinancialForce billing systems across businesses
  • Developing the migration strategy from Oracle to FinancialForce
  • Developing Aged Debtor, multi-year contract and other reports in FinancialForce

BI/ERP Project Manager

IPSOS MORI
02.2008 - 07.2012
  • Reporting to Director of Finance Systems
  • IPSOS (€1.5billion professional services firm, Developing global BI solution, liaising with global CFOs and heads of finance to define requirements
  • Managing implementation of Oracle ERP solution across new business acquisitions
  • Overseeing requirements gathering, system interrogation, process mapping, solution design, UAT and end user support
  • Developing data warehouse - ETL from Oracle to SQL Server

Finance Manager

ITE Group PLC
01.2007 - 02.2008
  • Preparing statutory accounts for 7 UK companies
  • IFRS accounting and liaising with auditors
  • IFRS2 - Expertise in share capital and share option accounting
  • Responsible for cash flow forecasting

Finance Manager

BPRI
01.2004 - 12.2006

Education

BSc (Hons) - Mathematics

Manchester University

A-Levels - Maths (A), French (A), Economics(B)

KGV College

Skills

  • Programme Management
  • Project Plannning
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Presentation Skills
  • ITT/Business Case Development
  • Budgetary Control

Accomplishments


  • Implementation of MS Dynamics AX/Exceedra - Saputo
  • Implementation of Adaptive Insights- Comic Relief
  • Implementation of Xledger - Comic Relief
  • Implementation of SAP Concur - ISTRUCTE, Chatham House
  • Process mapping and optimisation - ISTRUCTE

Certification

CIMA (2007), PRINCE2 (2015)

Software - MS Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, Project

ERP - MS Dynamics AX, MS Great Plains, Oracle JD Edwards, Xledger

EPM - Workday Adaptive Insights

P2P - SAP Concur


Timeline

Finance Systems Accountant (Contract)

ISTRUCTE
07.2023 - 06.2024

Finance Implementation Lead (Contract)

Chatham House
03.2022 - 06.2023

Finance Systems Manager (Contract)

Comic Relief
10.2020 - 03.2022

Project Lead (Contract)

Saputo Dairy UK, Dairy Crest plc
06.2018 - 11.2019

Reporting Lead (Contract)

Dentsu Aegis Network
09.2016 - 06.2018

BI Transformation Lead (Contract)

Now TV, Sky plc
09.2015 - 09.2016

Finance Systems Lead(Contract)

M&S Group
11.2014 - 09.2015

Project Lead

Ascential
10.2012 - 08.2014

BI/ERP Project Manager

IPSOS MORI
02.2008 - 07.2012

Finance Manager

ITE Group PLC
01.2007 - 02.2008

Finance Manager

BPRI
01.2004 - 12.2006

BSc (Hons) - Mathematics

Manchester University

A-Levels - Maths (A), French (A), Economics(B)

KGV College
Tariq Islam