Daniel Bonney is a highly experienced business operations professional with over 25 years of experience in resource planning and deployment. He has held roles at several large consulting and contract research organizations, where he specialized in optimizing resource utilization, improving business processes, and driving efficiencies. Currently he is an Associate Director at EY, where he oversees resource deployment across 540 staff members and 2000 engagements.

1. DANIEL BONNEY
37 MARSHFOOT LANE, HAILSHAM, EAST SUSSEX, UK
M: 0044 (0)7342701130
DANBONNEY@HOTMAIL.COM
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A highly experienced business operations professional, with a track record of crafting and implementing
strategic business process improvements. Strong business acumen & problem solving skills. Extensive business
operations knowledge, specializing in Resource Planning & Deployment. Highly developed organizational and
planning skills accompanied by the ability to forge alliances and business partnerships with clients and a wide
variety of internal stakeholders.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
EY, LONDON & UK HOME BASED (JUNE 2019 - Present)
Accounting & Professional Services. Approx. 270,000 employees. Revenue (2019) >$36Bn
Associate Director - Resource Deployment Manager (June 2019 - Present)
Highlights
Established resourcing processes and creatednew reporting structure to drive business success through
individual accountability of leadership. Improved staff utilization and broadened engagement opportunities for
junior staff.
Key responsibilities
 Overseeing resource deployment across a sub service line of approx. 540 staff working across a large
portfolio of around 2,000 separate engagements per week.
 The go-to person for Resourcing. Partnering with leadership and partners, finance, recruitment, HR, and
Business Operations.
 Key member of the sub service line operational management teamleading all resourcing matters in the
weekly/monthly business reviews
 Manage optimal demand and supply management for resourcing projects, and advising on appropriate
commercial drivers for engagements.
 Escalation point for decisions on conflicting demands
 Provide insight to leads and partners on strategic resourcing and business performance, understanding the
future workplace landscape, and driving change.
 Budget planning and forecasting, and weekly and monthly monitoring of business metrics.
 Strategic workforce planning.
 Controlling headcount, bench management, managing on and off boarding of staff
 Ensuring diversity & inclusion across workforce
 Development of junior staff
 Overseeing merger of departments and aligning resourcing process and systems
PAREXEL INTERNATIONAL, BERLIN, GERMANY & UK HOME BASED (2006 – May 2019)
A life sciences contract research organization (CRO). Approx. 18,000 employees. Revenue (2016) >$2Bn
Contract Manager (2018 – May 2019)
Highlights
Quickly established within role, providing additional breadth and depth of business knowledge to the contract
team. Successfully optimized a key contract format resulting in improved process and driving efficiencies for
both client and business.
Key responsibilities
 Primary client point of contact for all contracts across a multi-million dollar account.
 Provide business oversight of account both internally, and client facing
 Leading a team of contract specialists based in India, to deliver timely, accurate contracts
 Crafting the more complex contracts within the client portfolio
 Developing client relationship through close and frequent co-operation
 Negotiate key contractual decisions with client
 Collaborating with client to drive improvements, and optimize business processes

2. DANIEL BONNEY
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AssociateDirector / Global Resource Planning Lead (2014 – 2017)
Highlights
Resource & business process optimization and set-up, resulting in improved utilization of staff, and improved
alignment of forecasts, budgets and costs. Driving short and long term forecasting techniques, identifying skill
gaps and strategic staff recruitment needs. Leading, guiding and motivating a high-performing team of global
resource planners.
Key responsibilities
 Responsible for leading the resource management function of a highly commercial, dynamic, client facing
organization
 Overseeing assignment of 600+ employees to over 500 projects with a cumulative contract value in excess
of $200M
 Ensuring availability of appropriate resources to meet business demand across 5 cost centers, over 5 world
regions
 Providing strategic recommendations to functional management team and wider department leadership
 Ensuring alignment of budget and resources to achieve optimal project and department gross margin
 Managing the transition of resource planning systems from Lotus Notes to Plan View, and led continuous
improvement of ERPsystems and Resource Planning services
 Managing international stakeholders ensuring project and department level goals were achieved
 Provide cost center leadership with consultation of financial analysis and reporting for a yearly budget in
excess of $50M
 Improved near term resource forecast variances by around 10% to 20%, with a resulting average variance of
around 1% per month
 Lowering of department cost base through transition of activities across geographies
 Produced Excel based analysis and reports which drove gross margin improvements in the region of 5% per
year, and informed pricing algorithm decisions
 Development and implementation of an Excel based strategic KPI tracking system. Identification and
introduction of technologies and tools to improve operational excellence.
 Business change management and continual improvement of business processes through strong
collaboration with stakeholders
 Deputized for Global Director of Business Operations supporting wider business support including proposal
and contract development, and leading pricing activities
Operations Manager (2009 – 2014)
Highlights
Global business operations support, providing financial guidance, resource planning, data optimization &
business information reporting for international functional management team and wider department
leadership.
Key responsibilities
 Led a team of resource planning specialists reducing staff assignment times by around 20%
 Developed a process to support resource management needs
 Provided financial consultancy and oversight to leadership at project and department level, including
training of a new functional leadership role
 Generated Excel based financial analysis and reporting
 Provided Ad-Hoc Business Operations support including optimization of business planning data
 Reviewed proposals and contracts to ensure alignment with pricing and client expectations
Senior Financial / Senior Project Analyst (2006 – 2009)
Highlights
Managed finances for a portfolio of over 40 projects with a value in excess of $50M, proactively investigating
financial issues.
Key responsibilities
 Project & Department level Controlling providing management accounting and analysis, including audit
attendance

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 Business partnering with project leads & department leadership to ensure accurate revenue recognition and
forecasting of backlog for projects and department, including variance analysis
 Managed Medical department Profit &Loss report acting as financial advisor to Medical department
 Planned and managed the department budget process with revenues in excess of $40M
 Ensure monthly and quarterly Sarbanes Oxley reporting compliance
 Reviewed proposals & contracts, including raising Change In scope
PRA INTERNATIONAL (NOW PRA HEALTH SCIENCES), READING, UK & MANNHEIM, GERMANY (2001 – 2005)
A leading multinational contract research organization (CRO). Approx. 13,000 staff. Revenue (2016) $1.8Bn
Project Analyst
QUINTILES (NOW IQVIA), BRACKNELL, UK (1997 – 2001)
A leading multinational contract research organization (CRO). Approx. 50,000+ staff. Revenue (2016) $6.9Bn
Project Finance Administrator / Project Analyst
TEST SOLUTIONS LIMITED, ALDERMASTON& HIGH WICKHAM, UK (1996 – 1997)
A manufacturing company, developing circuit board testing solutions.
Office Administrator
THE DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT (1994 – 1996)
National government department processing employee payments
Pay Liaison Officer
EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS
Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt - Go Lean Six Sigma.com (2017)
BA Honors Degreein Business Studies 2:1- The Open University, UK (2013)
AAT Level 2 Certificate in Accounting - Association of Accounting Technicians (2001)
IT SKILLS
Multiple in house systems, Microsoft suite including strong Excel skills, Teams, Salesforce, Lotus Notes, SAP
Business Objects reports, PERFORM & Oracle Financial reporting. Planview ERP system, Hyperion Essbase
financial data analysis, Tableau, Python, Power BI
LANGUAGES
English - native
German - intermediate
LINKS
www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-bonney-resource-deployment-manager
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