James Williams

Experience

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  Quantel

  Apr 1990 - Mar 1994

  Financial Accountant
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  DSC Communications

  Apr 1994 - Oct 1999

  European Finance Manager

  Responsible for general ledger and accounts payable operations within DSC's European Shared Service Centre.

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  Portal Software

  Jul 2000 - Mar 2002

  European Financial Controller

  Set up European finance team from scratch to support Portal's growing EMEA business. Project lead for roll out of Oracle Financials.

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  SunGard - now part of FIS

  Nov 2002 - Nov 2015

  Senior Director Finance, Group FP&A. Responsible for fp&a activities of the Insurance Group within SunGard; supporting International sales leaders and teams with contract structure and revenue recognition . CFO, Insurance - Risk Management. Business unit CFO supporting successful Risk Management product (Prophet) within SunGard's Insurance group; including prime responsibilities for contract structure & revenue recognition; financial planning and analysis; billing & collections. Group Controller - Sherwood Group. Financial Controller responsible for SunGard Sherwood business unit covering several products & regions within Insurance and Public Sectors, including Group consolidation; UK finance team and fp&a.

  • Director of Financial Planning and Analysis

    Feb 2014 - Nov 2015

  • Divisional Finance Director

    Apr 2006 - Feb 2014

  • Financial Controller

    Nov 2002 - Apr 2006
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  FIS

  Jan 2016 - Oct 2022

  Senior Director Finance, Trading & Processing Group. Transitional role as Finance lead for newly consolidated & expanded software division, combining the previous Securities, Derivatives and Tax group with the Trading group to form a $1bn business. Supporting new leadership team and wider group in transformation project to centralize development & service delivery across the wider Capital Markets division and achieve expense synergies. Senior Director Finance, Securities, Derivatives & Tax Group. Finance Lead for newly combined Securities, Derivatives and Tax business (~$0.5 bn). Business partner to group President, planning and sales support. Senior Director Finance, Post Trade Group. Finance Lead for the newly created Post-Trade Services group, combining the Post-Trade Derivatives Software & Utility businesses ($0.2 bn). Business partner to Group President; FP&A activities & sales support. Senior Director Finance, Insurance Group. Finance lead responsible for supporting FIS Insurance software business (~$0.2 bn); business partner to President and leadership team; FP&A and sales support.From February 2017 was additionally responsible for supporting a separate business, the recently formed FIS Post-Trade Utility.

  • Senior Director Finance

    Jan 2022 - Oct 2022

  • Senior Director Finance

    Sept 2020 - Dec 2021

  • Senior Director Finance

    Apr 2018 - Sept 2020

  • Senior Director Finance

    Jan 2016 - Mar 2018
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  Uniguest

  Mar 2024 - now

  Interim Accountant

  Interim assignment; backfilling for the recently departed Head of Finance of recently acquired UK subsidiary. Managing ongoing finance activities, planned system migration from Access Dimensions to NetSuite, planned merger of operations and finance into sister subsidiary.