dr alf oldman recent interim management & business turnaround assignments

Program Director, Party Gaming (Gibraltar). (PartyGaming). Reporting to the Deputy Finance Director, provided overall leadership for a global back-office improvement program, covering financial, procurement & HR processes, rolling out Oracle applications in Gibraltar, UK, India, Bulgaria & Israel

Transition Executive, UK, HMRC. Rescued Estates & Support Services financial management from widely perceived crisis, and rapidly regained confidence of all stakeholders. Saved SAP implementation from failure for Estates & Support Services procurement to pay cycle, avoiding reputation damage and payment delays to high profile

Chief Financial Officer, ONS (London), (Office of National Statistics - 5,500 employees). Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer (COO), seriously raised the profile of financial management in ONS, robustly challenging all plans & performance for value-for-money, risk management & strategic fit. Initiated Financial Performance Improvement Programme (FPIP), using the Treasury's benchmark, providing stretch targets, and a roadmap for next CFO.>>

Programme Director, Financial Performance Improvement Programme, Remploy, non-departmental UK Government body. Leading project managers responsible for re-engineered Baan databases, consolidating service centres, overhauling management information systems, developing business intelligence capability, enhanced supply-chain management capability, enhanced customer fulfilment process and change management group-wide, across ninety manufacturing sites.

Programme Director/CIO, Alliance Holiday Inn (Paris), 85% owned by Whitehall (World's largest property fund, managed by Goldman Sachs). Successfully led multiple international project teams responsible for overhauling front & back office systems, infrastructure and processes in seventy hotels across Europe. Personally, led web-based reservations and business intelligence projects.

Project Director, Stoves plc. Led "big bang" AS400 ERP implementation. Chaired the project board and facilitated implementation and self-improvement teams. Project implemented on time, within budget and without impacting upon customers.

Finance Director, Stoves plc. Stood in (for the second time in ten years) as Stoves' finance director. Turnover > £100m. Core responsibilities included: finance; IT; warehousing and logistics. Turned around a twice aborted bespoke warehousing system.

Best practice advice: involvement over three years in the financial management aspects of the Tavistock/ MOD/ Laings/ AMEC project which was to build two recreation centres for the MOD at 70% of the current best practice cost for the specification required. Pioneered new cost management process in construction industry.