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I worked on ... RBS's biggest transformation project.

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Vincent

Start date Summer 2011 End date 2013 (maybe extended)

I began working towards the CIMA qualification after arriving at Ulster Bank (part of the Royal Bank of Scotland), having worked for the US bank State Street since 2002. I found that Ulster Bank, where I started in the financial planning and analysis department, was the ideal place to undertake the CIMA training as it gave me the necessary study leave and funding.

The CIMA qualification put me in an ideal place to work on the Ulster Bank's part of the finance transformation programme--which I believe is the largest integration project ever undertaken by the parent RBS. The main focus is to integrate financial systems across the bank to establish a "golden source" of information.

For such a big bank it's a very difficult process, because of technical issues such as the possibility of systems not working and softer issues such as people believing the system will render their role obsolete. I'm concentrating on the area of budgeting and forecasting. The CIMA qualification gave me a good grounding as it gave me a technical mindset and made me familiar with processes.

The vendor chosen to work with the bank was Oracle, as it allowed for a considerable degree of customising compared with the...

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