I am the Director of Finance at the University of Reading who have been a Financials customer since 2004. My previous roles have been at the University of Bristol (2014-2017) & Southampton (2005-2014) which went live with Agresso in September 2007 as part of a University-wide programme to improve back-office information systems. Both are Unit 4 customers. As Reading is a large research-intensive University, we also use the new Agresso research Costing & Pricing module.
My background is in research and education (both further and higher) after qualifying as an accountant in practice and working in New Zealand post qualification for a couple of years. My interests outside work are sport (I am a big supporter of Welsh rugby) and getting to grips with my son who is a teenager.
I have worked for Unit4 since 1998 in various Sales and Marketing roles within the organisation and I am part of the Sales Team. I now work with the Business World User Group and Unit4 on a full-time basis running the day to day activities for the group.
The Unit4 Business World UK User Group is keen to engage with Business World users and aims to continue to grow its membership through an active calendar of events, social networking and on-going two-way conversations with Unit4 and Partners.
If you have any questions relating to the User Group or Unit4 please contact me and I will aim to help answer them for you or I will be able to direct, you to someone who can.
In my spare time I love to travel I have a dog called Grace I also enjoy being creative by fusing and blowing glass.
I am the Head of Procurement at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) and have been in post since February 2000. The Procurement team at the ICR manage and support the application processes for requisitioning, stores & goods receiving, purchase order processing and invoice processing including requisition punch-out and electronic invoicing via the Parabilis marketplace.
The ICR has been using Unit4 Business World since August 2003 and currently on version 7.0.0(4).
I was on the project team for the selection and implementation of Agresso 5.4 which included Financials, Logistics and Project Costing & Billing (PCB). ICR went live with HR & Payroll in April 2015 and are implementing the Award Management and Research Costing and Pricing (ARCP) solution.
Prior to starting at the ICR I worked in life sciences initially as a microbiologist, then production management leading to specialising in procurement. I have a MSc in Procurement and am a member of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply.
Outside of work I enjoy cooking, golf, MotoGP & F1, music, bad karaoke and card magic.
I have been a member of the User Council since 2003.
I am employed as the Director of Finance for Cranfield University and I have has been with the University since 1994. I was the Project Manager responsible for the implementation of the Agresso Financials system into Cranfield and which went live on 1st August, 2003 and Chaired the Steering Group for the implementation of Field Force in 2010 and HR & Payroll in 2012.
To date Cranfield has implemented the following modules, General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, Bank Reconciliation, Budgeting, Project (including web time recording), purchasing (including the V1 scanning solution), sales orders, inventory management , workflow, Field Force, Human Resources and Payroll. Cranfield University are currently running Agresso 5.6 Milestone 5 and run on Oracle.
My hobbies include travel, golf and visiting the 19th hole!
I am the E-Business Team Lead, managing Unit4’s ERP, at Cairn Energy. I joined the team in March 2021 after Cairn implemented ERP in 2018. We use the GL, AP, AR, HR, Logistics, PCB, Planner, and Time and Expenses modules.
I was first introduced to Agresso while working with AGS Airports back in 2015. I was involved with the implementation of the system in December 2015 and the subsequent upgrade of the system two years later. I moved to Renfrewshire Council in 2018 to assist with their implementation, before joining Edinburgh Napier University in May 2019, where I upgraded their system from M5 to M7 and implemented Proactis.
I moved from Canada to Scotland in 2013 and love touring around the highlands and islands, eating tons of seafood and going on whisky tours. I enjoy cooking, running, crafting, and very slowly, completing my CIMA studies.
I’ve been the Finance and HR Systems Manager at Haymarket Media Group Ltd since 2014 and I am responsible for Unit4 ERP for our UK and US businesses. We use a vast amount of the product from core financials and fixed assets through to HR and payroll. We have interfaces with two sales systems (Salesforce and Eventsforce) and various software to manage things like training, security, benefits and big data reporting. For the UK I managed the tech side of the HR and Payroll implementation back in 2018 and before that the Unit4 ERP side of the Salesforce integration. For the US I delivered the ‘Purchase to Pay’ project that included spending a few weeks in New York and New Jersey which was a great experience.
I have supported and developed Unit4 ERP since 2005 within the NHS, HE and private sectors. In that time I’ve been key to upgrades, new installations, big process changes and the day to day management and support of the software. I like to think I’m very experienced with ‘Agresso’ however there are always new challenges and enhancements to keep me on my toes.
Outside of work I enjoy coaching my son’s football team and running.
I joined Magnox in 2005 as a management accountant, moved to project controls. In 2013 I changed direction and joined IT to head up the support and developments team for business systems.
In my current role I am responsible for the delivery of IT projects that support the Magnox Strategy. Magnox is embarking on a digital transformation journey, so exciting times ahead.
One of the things I’m most proud of is starting Magnox on the cloud journey, by migrating Unit4 ERP into Unit4 Cloud.
I believe that people are our core assets and try to always show respect to everyone I come across both in and out of work. I strive to deliver added value in what we do for our end users and the business as a whole. Simplification, automation and rationalisation are key.
I’m from Dublin and am married to Nick. We have two boys together aged 10 and 13. We enjoy going for walks with the dogs and rewarding ourselves with a well-earned pit stop at the local pub.
I have been a member of the Unit4 Business World User Group Council since 2012 this coincided with taking on the role of Chair of the Education Special Interest Group.
I have been working at UCA for many years in a variety of roles, including Payroll Manager, Finance Office Manager and part-time systems manager. In 2006 following a merger, I became the Finance Systems Manager, looking after the Agresso, WPM and Parabilis systems. We currently use Agresso Financials, Fixed Assets, and Logistics. Including P2P, Bank Reconciliation and Budgeting and will shortly implement Web Expenses. At UCA we are running version 5.5.3 on SQL.
I have been working at UCA for many years in a variety of roles, including Payroll Manager, Finance Office Manager and part-time systems manager. In 2006 following a merger, I became the Finance Systems Manager, looking after the Agresso, WPM and Parabilis systems. We currently use Agresso Financials, Fixed Assets, and Logistics. Including P2P, Bank Reconciliation and Budgeting and will shortly implement Web Expenses. At UCA we are running version 5.5.3 on SQL.
In my spare time I like to cook, walk my dogs and socialise with friends and family.
I joined DFID in 2004 as an IT systems administrator and have since taken on a range of different roles such as the Implementation technical lead for Agresso 5.5 SP1 back in 2008, Finance and e-procurement service desk manager and to my current role as Web Operations Engineer.
At present I manage our finance, procurement application, bespoke web integration to Agresso both in-house and cloud hosted. This includes Application support/upgrades and system enhancements to meet our user requirements. We currently use Logistics, P2P, Financials, budgeting, UK products and have an integration with Proactis for our e-procurement tool.
In my leisure time I like to race go-karts, socialise with friends and spend time with my family.
I am a member of the UK Business World User Group and have been a member of the User Council since November 2017.
I am employed as the Head of Exchequer Services within the Corporate Finance unit at South Wales Police. This role encompasses responsibilities for Payroll, Pension and Creditors.
I was a workstream lead responsible for the implementation of the Agresso Financials − HR & Payroll system into South Wales Police.
This went live on 1st March, 2014. To date South Wales Police has implemented the following modules, General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Bank Reconciliation, Budgeting, sales orders, workflow, Human Resources & Payroll including self- service expenses.
My hobbies include keeping updated on technology matters and playing golf (not enough!!!)
I am the Head of Business Systems at Square Enix working within Group Finance, we currently utilise Unit4 ERP as our primary Financial Systems and Unit4 FP&A for Sales and Financial Planning in all sites except Japan.
We have been using Agresso/UBW since 1996 utilising a single instance multi-client solution with approx. 500+ users accessing the system in some way or form.
I have been working with the product since 2006, developing my understanding at commercial partners like WSP Group and Best Western Hotels and hope to keep learning and improving for many years to come at Square Enix.
My spare time is spent trying to be the best dad I can and playing video games every chance, I get which is obviously surprising as I work for a software gaming company!
I am the Payroll Advisor for the Local Government Association (LGA) and its associated organisations. Between the organisations there are a total of circa 450 staff using employee self-service and we use Business World for our Finance, HR & Payroll and Expenses. We currently have the Experience packs for both Expenses and Absence.
I have been with the LGA since 2010 and have held a number of different roles with the organisation. I am now managing Payroll function and worked on the upgrade from MS4 to MS6 in January 2017 as well as the move to MS7 in October 2018.
My day job is mainly system focussed and I am keen that we use technology to best effect for HR and Payroll − at the LGA we currently have paperless payroll processing and continue to explore business advantages that we can obtain from Business World.
