Finance Transformation, Bain Hogg, Bain Clarkson Peter Braganza, Director in Finance, Bain Clarkson and Bain Hogg
Jackie Pritchard has exceptional skills in delivering substantial improvements in processes, procedures and systems, creating a well controlled business environment, and developing systems that provide highly relevant information on a timely basis to assist senior management. With all his projects, Jackie provides excellent training programs and ensures that staff uses the new systems effectively. One of Jackie's many strengths is providing innovative and effective solutions to difficult business problems and, in particular, for business mergers and transformations.

Process Re engineering, Marsh Lynn Harley, Operations Director Marsh Scotland
Jackie quickly analysed and suggested changes to the bespoke processes of 2 niche operations to help the managers of very successful teams, each tightly constrained by resource and already operating at their limit, to demonstrate efficiencies in their processes. He worked comfortably with, and was well received by, all levels from regional board directors to managers and individual staff members. He was acutely responsive to individual needs and concerns and very quickly delivered innovative and effective solutions. I can thoroughly recommend his work.

Cost Savings: Aileen Croft, a director at Winchester White managed John at Royal Liver Assurance  

John has an unmatched ability to unravel complexities and represent the true picture concisely and clearly. His team working and driven personality enabled us to achieve much in a difficult environment.

Recovery: Paul Massey, Director  Finance & Actuarial Manager at Liberata Financial Services

John undertook a very challenging project to address some operational improvements needed to address FSA regulatory requirements. He delivered all requested improvements (and more), he worked with a mixture of specialists in the organisation and brought all parties through the change programme with complete success. John is an expert in his fields, particularly in using data extraction and manipulation to improve financial processes and controls. But he is first and foremost an excellent communicator. He is very comfortable with senior mangers, subject matter experts and most notably the people he works closely with as he ensures they are able to grow and develop alongside him.

Transformation: Trevor Willcock managed Jackie at Microfocus

Jackie was asked to kick start the proposed transformation of a finance function to best practice. He succeeded.

He quickly provided the extra impetus and skill the function needed at the time and involved the department fully while mentoring key individuals, passing additional skills to them as required. He refined a proposed group IT project cycle to embed the process within the wider organisation and implemented its first instance to drive a programme quickly through its initiation, needs analyses, software and vendor selection and project planning.

Transformation: Kevin Paterson, CEO at Winchester White, managed John at NFU

John played an important role in ensuring best advice to a client in relation to a significant strategic decision faced by the business. He has an incisive approach and is able to get to grips with the issues in complex situations and establish credible, workable solutions. He is a seasoned professional with significant experience of the financial operation of organisations - John is equally at ease operating at senior level or within the operations of a business. I highly recommend his work

Recovery: Nick Pond Ops director at Liberata 

Jackie has a comprehensive understanding of risk and controls and assisted me to resolve a complex problem with a data corruption in a large Oracle system. He then instituted a series of controls to ensure the clients data would not be put at risk in the future.

Recovery and redesign:Chris Tyler, Project Leader at HCL Insurance BPO Services

Jackie and his team at SP Affiliates sucessfully delivered a number of vey successful projects for the Actuarial and Finance Divisions at Liberata Financial Services. In particular, a suite of sophisticated automated and manual controls which are still at the core of daily financial processes.

Transformation and recovery: Ralph Snedden, Board Director, Insurance

John has a keen analytical mind capable of finding solutions for apparently complex financial problems. He has saved companies millions of pounds through the analysis and reconciliation of vast volumes of financial data.

Chris Burgess,  Managing Director of Bain Clarksons newly merged UK Retail business

Jackie managed the programme that helped to consolidate the merger by taking the best from the two very different finance operations in the merging businesses and incorporating both in a third finance operating model that was a better fit for our new business.

He ran a programme that fully involved influential people from each of the merger partners. Together he, and they, designed the processes that supported our new system and the training that we needed to support them. They suppported his approach and his plans and he and his team delivered them, on time and on budget