Jason Roberts - CFO-VP Finance-Finance Transformation Consulting, Norgine

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Work Background

NorgineFinance Director - GBS

Mar. 2023Global lead for 4 finance & accounting towers (RTR, PTP, O2C and FP&A - Financial Planning & Analysis - including business partnering 100 roles) in a newly created Global Business Services (GBS) function. Led the stabilisation effort and integration of GBS within the wider retained Norgine organization using best practices developed over 24 years of building and transforming finance functions. Developed the (GBS) global delivery model for Finance across the Group.

WiproAssociate Partner/Managing Consultant

Sep. 2019 - Nov. 2022London Area, United KingdomConsulting for finance transformation projects across Media & Entertainment and Life Sciences sectors. Responsible for surveying the market, assessing client needs and tracking and qualifying prospects as well as leading and managing high-performing teams. 2 years on secondment to the global innovation team within Novartis (Global Pharma). This was a new and visionary organization and involved hypothesis-based testing of emerging technology solutions to problems in a fail-fast environment including: • using immersive AR/VR in manufacturing training settings to replace SOPs • automation of medical writing and report generation for 6 diseases using advanced NLP and NLG. This experience led to key knowledge management back into the WIPRO practice around innovation, with several thought leadership pieces being developed. Led the largest workstream on a large transformation project (£30m - S4Hana implementation of digital core and supply chain) for a leading FMCG.

Northgate plcGroup Head of Finance Transformation

Sep. 2018 - Jul. 2019Design and implementation of a new UK billing system that includes both rental hire as well as more than 5,000 tariffs for servicing of cars and vans Implementation of a separate ERP (Microsoft Dynamics) system across 40 sites for the UK retail sale and disposal of Cars and Vans (Van Monster business - £200m revenue) Restructuring and re-design of the collections and billing functions which required managing a large cross-functional team and resulted in significant headcount reductions (30 staff) and savings of more than £1m per annum

NBCUniversalVice President Finance

Jul. 2016 - Apr. 2017London, United KingdomFinance lead for International operations (including International Payroll) outside the US, which encompassed 65 countries. This included directly managing a team of 25 in London, 15 in Amsterdam as well as indirectly nearly 250 heads located in the Bangalore off-shore centre (outsourced to Capgemini) and 10 payroll heads (outsourced to ADP). Major projects delivered included: Digital: • Originated and implemented digitisation strategy alongside Capgemini for key operational systems. This included deployment of Robotics/RPA (“Robotics Process Automation”) with over 100 robots transacting within key systems and generating significant savings. Developed in-house ‘COE’ to assess and implement RPA across multiple operational functions. • Developed predictive/machine learning analytics solution within O2C to improve collections forecasting accuracy and reduce ‘revenue leakage’. Lean/Six-Sigma: • Complete LEAN overhaul of the UK payroll systems (1,000 staff). This removed 15 man-days of effort from the monthly cycle time and much improved the accuracy of payroll to virtually no error status on key KPIs. Acquisitions: • Provided operational support during the acquisition of DreamWorks studio by NBC Universal. This included setting up 20 new payrolls across 8 countries to extremely demanding timescales and transition of critical DreamWorks entities onto new financial systems.

BaxaltaDirector Business Transformation

Oct. 2015 - Jun. 2016London, United KingdomI worked and led the EMEA piece of two large transformation projects for the Baxalta Group, which had spun off from the Baxter Group in mid 2015. Both projects were time critical and necessary to enable Baxalta to come of Transition Service Agreements ('TSA's), namely in 2016; - Establishing a new finance shared service centre operation to replace the Baxter "SSC" that is located in Dublin (> 300 heads) - Replacing and upgrading the Baxter ERP system (JDE) and other finance technology platforms (>100) across EMEA.

IntertekHead of Finance Transformation

Oct. 2012 - May. 2015London, United Kingdom★ Transformation: I was brought in to help oversee the establishment of a global outsourced delivery centre "SSC" in India (circa 200 heads.) This covered all finance processes and covered 11 in-scope countries across the group. I also led, built and developed a Group Transformation team into an 8 person function over the last 2.5 years. Other deliverables I was responsible for included: supporting the creation of 2 captive SSC centres in China. delivering the establishment of an RTR/financial accounting centre in Southern China. developing the target delivery model and business case for a new captive SSC for continental Europe. supporting the development of a captive SSC in Latin America. ★ Operations: I was also responsible for day to day operational delivery for all finance operations for the Group. From a low base, I established operational performance standards and procedures as well as a reporting framework. This included SLA definition and establishment of balanced scorecard KPIs. ★ Strategy: I designed the Group finance transformation strategy for the next 7 years. This strategic framework consisted of a hybrid BPO and captive portfolio of SSC delivery centres, supported by 4 global transactional hubs and a local hub and spoke finance network. The business case generated savings per annum > £5m. ★ Process Improvement: I was also responsible for all the Global Process Owners' "GPOs" activities across the Group. This includes ownership of all Group processes covering RTR, P2P and O2C. As part of this work we designed the methodology and drove the adoption of a global finance process standardisation project. This delivered new policies, procedures and KPIs across the P2P, RTR and O2C towers.

CapgeminiFinance Transformation Lead

Jan. 2008 - Oct. 2012★ Strategy & Transformation: I developed the strategy and target delivery model to undertake a second wave of off-shoring from several Eastern European delivery centres (SSCs) to one Indian SSC. This encompassed moving more value-add finance activities such as high-end controlling activities and business partnering, project accounting and contract analysis. I developed the proof-of-concept and business case via an initial feasibility study. We then conducted a successful pilot which concentrated on moving high-end activities for a number of UK business units. On the basis of the pilot we then widened the scope to then encompass 5 additional large European locations which were successfully transitioned into one global delivery centre.

Capgemini UK plcDirector of Finance

Jan. 2001 - Dec. 2008London, United KingdomDirector of Finance for UK Shared Services Transformation: I initiated and established a captive SSC in India moving RTR, P2P and O2C activities from an outsourced BPO partner back in-house generating significant £m savings per annum. I also led numerous transformation projects within an overall programme: successful implementation of Oracle ERP system with extensive customisations. implemented treasury and cash collections best-of-breed tool within O2C tower. developed in-house T&E tool used by 8,000 employees. delivered e-invoicing solution that reached 80% adoption. developed OCR invoice processing and matching solution that reached 75% STP rate. Operations: I was also responsible for managing operational delivery against SLAs and KPIs for all finance operations and established with key stakeholders a framework for monitoring performance against agreed benchmarks.

CSCAudit Team Lead - Europe

Jan. 2000 - Jul. 2001FarnboroughI specialised in conducting due-dliligence and earn-out reviews for a number of CSC acquisitions across Europe e.g, CSC acquisition of big four consulting practice in France as well as acquisitions/earn-out in Italy.

KPMG UKAudit Manager

Jan. 1995 - Jan. 2000London, United KingdomI was an Audit Manager for a portfolio of external audit clients within the Healthcare sector e.g. BUPA.