Areas Of Expertise:

• Large Program PMO team setup & remediation
• Financial management
• Governance frameworks
• Resource planning
• Executive & Regulatory reporting
• PMO processes & templates
• Scheduling
• Data analysis
• Agile & traditional methodologies

Education:

• SAFe 5 Certified Agilist
• Prosci Change Management Certification
• Australian Financial Markets Operations Accreditation

About Hayley Weir

Hayley joined Seven Consulting’s Sydney team in May 2019. She is a PMO Manager with 15 years of experience in leading Enterprise PMO & Program PMO teams. Hayley brings strong financial markets product knowledge, large IT program experience and good exposure to various bank & vendor IT operations within Australia, New Zealand, UK, and Singapore.

What Hayley brings

• Rigorous analytical ability, process improvement skills.
• Highly experienced in project governance, frameworks, principals and tools plus end-to-end financial reporting & analysis, risk, and issue management.
• Skilled in building and managing relationships with key stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience in management, coaching & development of highly skilled project professionals.
• Skills and experience gained in several large-scale banking, finance & regulatory programs.

Key Clients:

• Coca-Cola Europacific Partners
• Macquarie Group
• AMP Limited
• Australian Stock Exchange (ASX)
• Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA)
• Thomson Reuters, Singapore
• Dell EMC and OpenText, Singapore
• Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Edinburgh
• Citibank, London
• National Bank of New Zealand, Wellington

Key Achievements:

As Project Manager at Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), Hayley led a SAP project which changed the way NZ CCEP transacts with The Coca-Cola Company, moving from a fixed transact model to charging a percentage of the Net Sales Revenue (NSR) and ensuring that there is one source of truth for the Incidence calculation. This improved reporting allows greater provisioning accuracy, provides time saving efficiencies, and reduces calculation and master data errors through ERP automation.

As Project Manager at Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), Hayley led a SAP Fiori project which enhanced the existing contract management system to provide a unified solution for all trade channels, using Vistex functionality to ensure compliance and governance of CCEP contracts. The project increased speed to market which will result in revenue growth and efficiencies. All customer contracts are now able to provide graduated volume, graduated growth and lumpsum contract anniversary rebates. Sales teams are now also able to create different contract types for Licensed Alcohol customers.

As PMO Manager at Macquarie Group, Hayley worked within the Group Treasury E2E Transformation Program PMO team. The >$400m multi-year GT E2E Program is an organisation wide initiative impacting process, people and technology across Banking Financial Services, Commodities and Global Markets, Corporate Operations Group (Technology), Macquarie Capital, Macquarie Asset Management and Risk Management business units. It is one of the largest programs of work ever undertaken by Macquarie Group and will transform the Capital and Liquidity management functions within the group by reducing costs, providing scalable platforms for future growth and help meet Capital and Liquidity APRA requirements and expectations. The role included supporting the Head of PMO and Program Director in budget & resource management, preparation of materials for steering committee, internal assurance reviews, external program health checks performed by PwC and coaching other PMO team members.

As PMO Manager at AMP (CloudX, Employee Digital Experience (EDX) and Network transformation Program (NETX), Hayley led a team of five responsible for all PMO functions of the >$50m portfolio of three transformation programs. The team supported the Project Directors & Program Managers in improving execution of the Programs in the areas of Reporting and Governance, Financial Management, Resource Management, Scheduling and RAID Management plus Scope Control. The team aligned the program operating rhythms and controls with the governance and processes of AMP Transformation Office (EPMO) and Group Technology Cyber and Data (GTCDO Portfolio), while also centralising, standardising, and communicating the PMO processes, tools and templates across the Programs.

As PMO Manager at ASX, Hayley remediated and enhanced the existing program management office function of a >$200m Distributed Ledger technology program. This included setting up & oversight of RAID management & financial management processes plus delivering a consolidated master project plan. Hayley also uplifted program reporting for Executive Steering Group & Board reports, provided submissions for responses to the Regulators (ASIC, ACCC, RBA & Treasury) and prepared the program for internal & external program governance Audits.

As PMO Manager at Thomson Reuters, Hayley managed a $100M program and set up the PMO Governance structure implementation including strategy, right sizing & process development of the PMO team. She centralized the program payments and invoice function and implemented a time tracking & cost model with finance. Consolidated the master project plan, set up the resource management process and coached IT & business project managers in SDLC & PMLC methodologies.

As APAC Business Operations Manager, Consulting Services for Dell EMC and OpenText Singapore, Hayley led a team of 8 project accounting analysts, based in various countries across the Asia Pacific region, to support the APAC VP of Professional Services. Hayley’s role involved in-depth liaison with Worldwide Finance, Worldwide Sales & Professional Services Operations, Vendor Management, Accounts, Revenue Recognition and Procurement teams.

As PMO Manager for CBA on the Aegis Program, a $70m security IT Risk Transformation Program, Hayley led a team of 5 to support the Aegis Program in all PMO governance, administrative & financial support functions.

As PMO Manager in the Core Application Delivery Division at CBA, Hayley implemented PMO governance across the programs within the wider portfolio. Set up a process to enable the CAD Project Support team to raise all Ariba Purchase Orders centrally for the division, ensuring that these were seamlessly reflected in the project financials and defined & developed a standard Service Offering for SDLC Project Officers.

As Project Officer/Analyst on CBA’s $1.6b Core Banking Modernisation, Hayley worked on Demand Deposits, Commercial Lending, Customer Nexus & DDS Decommissioning Projects. She proactively assisted in project management processes, status reporting, timesheet management, resourcing, and benefits tracking. Chaired EAC meetings; presented financials, providing insights on the latest information and challenging PMs/SDMs on EAC, over burn or under burn and ETC variance week on week. Hayley provided Scope Change Management support and timely and accurate reports for management, the EPMO and other program and project governance groups.