David Neale

Experience

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  Arthur Andersen & Co.

  Jan 1986 - Jan 1990

  Tax Senior

  Progression from Tax Assistant to Tax Senior under a UK Accountancy Training Contract.• Experience ranged from small service businesses to large manufacturing companies.• Trained to understand client requirements and to focus on delivering client satisfaction.• Handled a varied portfolio of small to medium sized tax clients.

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  Guinness

  Jan 1990 - Jan 1993

  Tax Manager

  A conventional corporate tax manager role

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  Sothebys

  Dec 1993 - Oct 1998

  Promoted twice in the period; appointed Director in 1997.As well as managing the day to day corporate tax affairs for the UK, I successfully managed a multi-disciplinary European project revising business practice for new VAT legislation. This included the planning and delivery of a change programme across the European business and being part of a team negotiating with senior Customs officials, UK ministers and the European Commission, winning concessions on behalf of the company and the UK art market.My success in managing this project resulted in the award of a discretionary bonus and enabled the company to comply with legislation whilst gaining a competitive advantage. Show less

  • Director - Special Projects

    Dec 1997 - Oct 1998

  • Director - European Taxation

    Dec 1993 - Nov 1997
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  Pecaso

  Oct 2000 - Apr 2006

  Senior SAP HR Consultant

  Following a career change I developed from an 'apprentice' consultant to Senior SAP HR Consultant over my time at Pecaso, the SAP HR specialist.My client experience included the following public and private organisations: University of Sheffield Scottish & Newcastle plc - global template blueprint workshops HBOS plc Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council Northern Ireland Prison Service London Borough of Haringey West LB Heineken - global implementation approachI developed deep experience in the following SAP HR submodules: Personnel Administration Organisation Management Recruiting E-Recruiting Personnel Development Training and Event ManagementI also gained experience of Time Management and Payroll.Pecaso has been purchased by Accenture to form its SAP HR specialist function. Show less

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  Raspberry Consulting Limited (Contracting entity)

  May 2006 - Sept 2021

  Business Analyst & SAP Functional Consultant
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  IBM

  May 2006 - Feb 2007

  Project: SAP HR Consultant at DfT SSC Swansea (DVLA)

  IBM contracted me to provide expert E-Recruiting services (Release 3.0) to the DoT SSC.- E-Recruiting (Release 3.0) - Responsible for reviewing and revising the blueprint requirement in line with the SAP product; gap analysis and development of functional specifications for supplementary developments. Assistance with development of business process diagrams/BPPs.Configuration of the E-Recruiting client and providing knowledge transfer to customer staff, as well as providing infrastructure assistance.Development of work instructions (for training) and assistance with the development of scripts for unit, integration and user acceptance testing.- Personnel Development, Personnel Administration and Organisation Management – integration with E-Recruiting and general advice. Show less

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  SAP AG

  Mar 2007 - Nov 2007

  Project: SAP HCM Consultant

  SAP AG required my services in the absence of available internal resource for this Global project. (Release 3.0 and upgrade to release 6.0)- E-Recruiting - Responsible for the UK and Ireland portion of the integration and shared service centre (SSC) project.Produced process diagrams, process handbooks and a blueprint following detailed process workshops, using template materials. Supervised offshore configuration changes and the testing of those changes.Prepared training materials and delivered training to Recruiters, SSC staff, Managers (MSS) and Agencies.Supervised changes to internet and portal offerings to interact with SAP E-Recruiting and assisted the Recruiters and Managers (MSS) with post go-live issues. Go live October 2007. Show less

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  ROC

  Feb 2008 - Jul 2008

  Projects: SAP HCM Consultant

  ROC called upon my services in order to bolster their expertise in SAP E-Recruiting (Release 6.03 EhP3). Kent Police: April 2008-July 2008:- Clearance: Kent Police Basic VettingRoyal Mail Group: February 2008-March 2008:

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  Wipro Technologies

  Oct 2008 - Dec 2008

  Project: SAP HCM Consultant at TNT Express (ECC 6.03 – EhP 3)

  Development and implementation of Global template- E-Recruiting - troubleshooting and correcting the initial E-Recruiting system. Provided expert guidance for the business blueprint process, prepared and delivered blueprint workshops in the Netherlands, demonstrated standard functionality and with ESS and MSS, designed/created business blueprint.- Personnel Administration and Organisation Management – integration with E-Recruiting- Personnel Development, Performance Management, Succession Planning with ESS and MSS – review of EhP4 processes Show less

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  Wipro Technologies

  Jun 2009 - Nov 2009

  Project: SAP HCM Consultant at TNT Express (ECC 6.04 – EhP 4)

  Development and implementation of Global template- E-Recruiting (EhP4) - blueprint and implementation troubleshooting- Group Compensation - determination of business requirements, functional analysis and prototyping for development costing using SAP ECM- Talent Management and Visualisation with Nakisa - demonstration of prototype processes

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  Logica for Hertfordshire County Council

  Nov 2009 - May 2010

  Project: SAP HCM Consultant (ECC 6.03 – EhP 3)

  Building the SAP E-Recruiting system to the customer's blueprint specification and advising on suitable changes to enhance functionality.

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  Thames Water

  Nov 2010 - Apr 2011

  Project: SAP HCM Consultant (ECC 6.04 – EhP 4 Upgrade)

  Performance Management (EhP4) - blueprinting, configuration and subsequent steps to a successful, issue-free go-live.Talent Management & Succession Planning - provision of advice and support during lifecycle

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  Logica

  May 2011 - Sept 2011

  Project: SAP HCM Consultant (ERP6 EhP4) for Nottinghamshire County Council

  E-Recruiting (EhP4) - blueprint review, requirements gathering, functional specifications and configuration.

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  Brakes

  Dec 2011 - Mar 2012

  Project: SAP HCM Subject Matter Expert / Business Analyst

  Providing expert SAP HR/HCM advice to the Business Process Director as part of a strategic requirements gathering exercise. The aim of the overall project was to deliver a Target Operating Model for the enterprise.Performed a detailed analysis of the ESS, MSS and expert user business content for EhP5/6

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  EPI-USE

  Aug 2012 - Nov 2012

  Project: SAP HCM LSO Consultant for CSC/Urenco

  Validation of business blueprint and configuring the changes in an upgrade project from Training & Events to SAP LSO Training Management EhP5.Successful, trouble-free go-live

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  Manchester Metropolitan University

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2015

  Project: SAP HCM Functional Consultant

  SAP E-Recruiting 6.06 implementation from business blueprint to go-live. Successfully live in 2014.Our SmartForm output for both job adverts and candidate correspondence were the best presented output I've ever seen from an SAP system.

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  Searchlight Consulting

  Apr 2015 - Jul 2015

  Project: Business Analyst (Searchlight Associate Consultant)

  Providing business analysis services to a client of Searchlight Consulting in the property management sector.

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  Keytree

  Jul 2015 - Dec 2015

  Provision of SAP HR expertise for the implementation of:Technical interfaces between SAP and a new workforce planning system.Technical interfaces between SAP and a new Success Factors Learning Management (LMS) module used for competency management.Work consisted of business requirement clarification and functional specifications. Provision of SAP HR expertise for the implementation of new user interfaces for HR business processes for Barclays Managers and HR Team.Project was run under the Agile methodology and replaced previous UI5 screens with UI written in AngularJS.Work consisted of business requirement clarification, advice to developers and testing.

  • Project: SAP HR Functional Consultant at Transport for London (TfL)

    Oct 2015 - Dec 2015

  • Project: SAP HR Functional Consultant at Barclays Bank

    Jul 2015 - Oct 2015
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  Itelligence Business Solutions UK LTD

  Apr 2016 - Apr 2017

  Project: SAP HR Functional Consultant at De Montfort University

  SAP HR consulting services for a full SAP HR implementationWork consisted of blueprinting, functional specifications, configuration and development management for E-Recruiting and blueprinting for other Talent Management areas

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  N/A

  May 2017 - Mar 2018

  Time out for house renovation
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  Matrix SCM

  Apr 2018 - Aug 2018

  Project: SAP HR Consultant at Hampshire County Council

  Testing of new Manager/Employee end-user Fiori forms in the context of the take-on of new customer organisations.Configuration and testing for new automatic annual leave quota development.

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  Raspberry Digital Studio Limited

  Oct 2021 - now

  Director

  Photography, graphic arts and illustration