The document is a curriculum vitae for John Adrian Lunn that summarizes his career history and qualifications. It details that he has over 30 years of experience working for Kirklees Council in roles of increasing responsibility, including Accounts Payable Manager, Financial Systems Manager, and most recently Financial Services Manager. It lists his skills and achievements in areas like SAP implementation, process automation, team leadership, and financial reporting.

1. CURRICULUM VITAE
PERSONAL DETAILS
NAME: John Adrian Lunn
VISA &/OR WORK PERMIT:
RESIDES: Huddersfield
EDUCATION:
1983: Honley High School
11 GCE “O” Levels including Mathematics and English
PROFESSIONAL STATUS:
SYSTEMS EXPERIENCE: SAP, Microsoft Office, Access developer, Excel (V
Lookups, Pivot Tables, Macros)
SKILLS:
Key Achievements
• Design, build and test sap finance in 10 months
• Recruit team and successfully implement in organization with in excess of 1000 users achieving
business as usual operation in under 2 months
• Business process saving through transformation of business processes
• Business process re-engineering
• Macro automation of labour intensive processes and functions
• Designing and programming and implementing add on functionality to support process automation
• Redesign of existing process to improve productivity
• Experienced people manager
• Experienced coach and mentor
• Conflict resolution and mediator
• Staff development and appraisals
• Financial process design and delivery
• Payment of 8-10k invoices per week, 99.2% on time
• Migrated over 50% of all customer billing to up-front payment to reduce risk of bad debts and
maximize cash flow
• Automation bank statement loading and reconciliation to SAP
• Ensured correct recording of expenditure and income in the general ledger by implementation
controlled process to auto code transactions
CAREER HISTORY:
2013 – April 2016: Kirklees Council
Position Held: Financial Services Manager
• Managing a team of 15 staff
• SAP design, implementation and rollout
• Systems review and re-engineering
• Liaison with IT to ensure optimum processing
• VAT and CIS tax compliance
• Circa 8000 invoices per week
• Reduced new team from 23 FTE to 15 through through process and efficiency savings
2002 - 2013: Kirklees Council

2. Position Held: Financial Systems Manager
• Directly managing a team of 9
• Converted General Ledger reporting to paperless and auto distributed e-documents into
nominated network directories
• Created off-line, database supported copies of General Ledger and Accounts Payable data,
updated daily via OLEBD links to background tables in financial system, for high volume, bespoke
reporting in order to resolve issues with financial system resourcing and performance
• Wrote OLEBD macro Database complier that generated the councils VAT returns in circa 3
minutes
• Wrote visual basic macros to automate invoice uploads and bulk master data changes direct to
the financial systems GUI interface
• Wrote HTML macro to auto load CIS tax returns direct to HMRC website.
• Reduced size of team from 9 FTE to 5 through process and efficiency savings
1995 - 2002: Kirklees Council
Position Held: Accounts Payable Manager
• Input to implementation of new devolved accounts payable system
• Liaison with IT to ensure optimum processing
• Implemented Bacs payment (previously all cheque)
• Managed staff reductions from 15 to 4 through natural wastage, voluntary redundancy, strategic
use of temporary staff and transfers to service departments
• Merged remains of team with payments support office of 14, saving 2 further posts through
generic working practices and generating new team of 10 staff
• Amended working practices to paperless activities (emailed reports as word documents direct from
financial system. Produced database repository for work in progress which only generated E-
documents.
• VAT and CIS tax compliance
• Circa 8000 invoices per week
• Reduced new team from 10 FTE to 5.5
• Submitted business case to senior manager to merge remains of team with general ledger support
team to create Financial Systems Admin team
1985 - 1995: Kirklees Council
Position Held: Accounts Payable Officer/ Clerk