Kamaljit Bal

Experience

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  Heathrow

  Oct 2007 - now

  • Programme Management and controls- managing portfolio activities throughout 16 key projects, ensuring deliverables are agreed, met, updated and tracked throughout complete project lifecycle• Continuous Improvement- Building processes for C.I initiatives, creative thinking and implementation• Risk management - Building continuity within the Finance team for processes and acting on current issues creating innovative change • Leading and managing a team of project leaders, highlighting and working through various risks and time constraints and providing ongoing support• Providing regular communication to senior leadership team in the Finance functions, Finance Director team and Executive on progress of programme and preparing and presenting summary reports• Analysing the business delivering positive capex plans.• Delivery management of an integrated plan for the Leadership team and Executive, ensuring milestones are reached ahead of schedule.• Compliance and Internal Controls- Ensuring controls are in place for processes used in the Finance department and are tested efficiently and effectively ensuring compliance• Stakeholder management- Building and maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders across the business- externally and internally, project leaders, and teams- focusing on ensuring deliverables and objectives are met•Personal Data & GDPR- Championing personal data activities within the Finance department are compliant against guidelines and law• Implementation of forward planning milestones and objectives transpiring goals into a digestible plan holding colleagues accountable to achieve commitments• Creating and owning a self-assurance plan- creating processes for Finance team with an aim to achieving KPI’s, ensuring improvements are delivered and in line with desired processes.• Tactical planning around delivery of milestones aligning with Executive objectives for senior leadership teams Show less • Ensure all areas of the Security Function are compliant• Creating Internal controls for security measures to ensure assurance and compliance• Self-auditing of Security processes and document retention• Function wide communication of changes to processes, procedures and any policies• Project implementation and management• Contingency planning and implementation• Ensure the integrity of the CPSRA is maintained at all times• Deputise for the Terminal Operations Manager• Working with external stakeholders to ensure compliance requirements are adhered to• Working in collaboration with the CAA to ensure all HAL processes are implemented in line with regulations• Building processes for C.I initiatives and Show less • Leading, managing and developing a team of 22 security personnel and overseeing 450 staff to ensure compliance & efficiency within security as well as coaching & mentoring colleagues across security highlighting areas of improvement and development- enabling staff to come to ample solutions with the skills they have gained• Prioritising complex and demanding workloads in a busy environment, making key decisions in a live running operation• Creating and maintaining processes within the security function- communicating those and presenting to security personnel daily, ensuring all understand the importance of each element of the security triangle showing a genuine care and concern for each• Presenting to and working collaboratively with senior leadership team to mitigate any potential issues and work towards overcoming high risk activities which may occur- Ensuring all risks and potential issues are noted & reported to provide alignment within the safety aspect and managed in a timely manner• Liaising daily with a large number of stakeholders to enable the operation to run as efficiently as possible, tackling any issues immediately to avoid further escalation leading to time waste• Managing terminal operations sufficiently whilst adhering to KPI’s concluding in a safe and efficient environment• Managing C.I initiatives, creating process for implementing continuous improvement through innovation or service. Programme managing the • Leading and assisting in ambulance requests & fire activations within the terminal. Show less • Leading colleague engagement within all security business units, tying in with other business units to identify areas of improvement for all users of the airport• Work collaboratively with external and internal stakeholders and Security Leadership Team to set project briefs and share businesses cases leading into a shared business goal • Ensuring wash ups are conducted through every project phase, identifying interdependencies and ensuring continuous learnings are undertaken and acted upon.• Looking for inexpensive ways of improvement within the local workplace, further ‘cross pollinating’ airport wide continuously looking for quantifiable benefits• Introducing new structure within workplaces, working with all staff finding ways to maximise efficiency• Using PM and lean 6 tools to ensure a faultless way of working concluding in successful completion of projects within a timely manner- working to key deliverables ensuring quality of project is not compromised• Coaching & mentoring fellow colleagues within the team ensuring a good balance of work/life is incorporated at all times• Creating recruitment process for new project leaders Show less

  • Compliance Lead - Technology

    Sept 2021 - now

  • Resilience Manager - Operations

    Jun 2020 - Sept 2021

  • Project Manager & Process Improvement - Finance

    Jun 2018 - Jun 2020

  • Security Compliance Manager

    Mar 2018 - Jun 2018

  • Security Operations Manager

    Sept 2016 - Mar 2018

  • Continuous Improvement Project Lead

    Jan 2016 - Sept 2016

  • Various

    Oct 2007 - Jan 2016