Jack Myszkowski Resume

Freelance Management Consultant/Interim Manager specialising in areas of Payroll, HR, Accounting.

Predominantly having worked in Public Service, i.e. NHS, Central and Local Government, Police, Prison Service, Education, MOD, etc.

Comprehensive CV Attached


CURRICULUM VITAE

SURNAME: Myszkowski

FORENAME: Jack

TITLE: Mr.

MARITAL STATUS: Divorced

HOME ADDRESS: “Cotswold” 17 New Road, Shenley, Radlett, Herts. WD7 9DZ

TEL./FAX. No: 01923 859746

DATE OF BIRTH: 24.4.1946

NATIONALITY: British

SKILLS/EXPERTISE:
• The strategic and proactive organisation, management, and leadership of any size department and processes together with hands-on/delegational skills.
• Project Leadership/Change Management.
• Maintenance of Pay and Pension advisory service.
• Performance review of department and individual staff.
• Forward planning with regard to the Organisation and Department.
• Design, development, and review of systems and procedures.
• Implementation, parallel running and subsequent revision of systems and procedures.
• Education, training, and development of staff skills.
• Optimal integration of systems with those of other functions, i.e. H/R, General Ledger, Budgetary Control, etc.
• Payroll health checks, evaluation and best practice review.
• Computer/IT skills with high degree of literacy.
• Self-motivated with positive attitude and problem solving and decision making skills, and ability to promote a co-operative and teamwork approach.
• Dynamic, strategic and clear thinking and analytical with effective communication and influential skills and strong customer focus with ability to provide specific requirements.
• Total familiarity with NHS modernisation programmes, i.e. Agenda for Change, Electronic Staff Record and Shared Business Services.
• As an interim consultant manager I am also able to offer the following: -
 The performance of a specific task for a specific period of time.
 Help to meet a peak demand or implement a new project.
 Bring specialist skills that may not be available in-house.
 Provide cover for key managers who are unavoidably absent.
 The organisation and management of payrolls for outsourcing/in sourcing.

Associated with the above are the following important main standards of performance:

1. (a) Payroll systems and governance.
(b) Communication and consultation with all key stakeholders both internal and external.
© Accountability for the operation of payroll systems and implementing systems changes.
(d) Reduce the risk of payroll errors/malfunctions.
2. (a) Control and planning.
(b) Staff development.
© Leadership.
(d) Organisational development.
(e) General management.
(f) Self development.

PAYROLL SOFTWARE: SAP; Delphi Freedom (Midland Software); CMG; ADP; Unipay/Open Door/PS 2000 (Rebus/Northgate); Centrefile; Cyborg; PeopleSoft; McKeowns; Sage; Standard Payroll System (NHS) + multitude of in-house systems.




MOST RECENT MAJOR POST:
16.11.05- 13.12.05 Payroll Consultant University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust


PREVIOUS MAJOR POSTS:
25.04.05–30.9.05 Consultant Payroll Manager The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust

1.2.05 – 22.4.05 Payroll Consultant British Transport Police

17.5.04-31.10.04} Consultant Payroll Manager Wolverhampton City PCT
7.10.04-Nov. 04 } Payroll Consultant Eaton Electric

16.9.03-28.01.04 Consultant Payroll Manager UK Hydrographic Office (Ministry of
Defence)

18. 8.03-15.9.03 } Payroll Consultant Bedfordshire NHS Shared Services
23.10.02-9.01.03 }

August 2002 - Payroll Consultant National Institute for Biological Standards &
(as & when) Control

25.3.02-26.4. 02 Payroll Consultant HBOS Plc.

3.12.01-31.12.01 Payroll Consultant W.S. Atkins

1.11.01-ongoing Payroll Consultant/Manager Fulcher-Edwards
(as & when)

21.10.99-31.08.01 Payroll Consultant Barnet & Chase Farm NHS Trust

15.12.98-20.10.99 Payroll Consultant/Manager Fulcher-Edwards

30.3.98-30.10.98 Payroll Consultant Scottish Prison Service

18.5.98-22.5.98 Payroll Consultant Australian High Commission 1.10.97-25.3.98 Payroll Consultant/Manager Rebus (formerly Peterborough Software) 1.2.97-30.9.97 Payroll Consultant John Fischer Fashions 24.7.96-6.12.96 Consultant Payroll Manager Queen Mary & Westfield College
(University of London)
18.6.95-10.1.96 Project Manager BHB NHS Trust 1.11.93-16.6.95 Consultant Payroll Manager Eastbourne NHS Trust 29.7.93-29.10.93 Consultant Payroll Manager Lambeth College May 1993-June 1993 Payroll Consultant North London Blood Trans. Authority 17.8.92-19.3.93 Consultant Payroll Manager Mid-Staffs. Health Authority 4.2.91-30.6.92 Payroll Consultant London Borough of Hackney 22.10.90-1.2.91 Payroll Consultant East Surrey Health Authority 4.6.90-3.10.90 Payroll Consultant NW Surrey Health Authority} London Borough of Hackney}
16.10.89-13.4.90 Consultant Payroll Manager East Surrey Health Authority

October 88-Aug. 89 Payroll Consultant Hounslow & Spelthorne HA

March 87-Sept.88 Payroll Consultant Two private sector contracts

1.9.86-28.2.87 Payroll Consultant Ernst & Young

26.4.86-31.7.86 Director of Payroll RKH Consultancy Team, Saudi Arabia

1.1.83-25.4.86 District Pay Services Mgr. Barnet Health Authority








My career in payroll commenced in the late 1960’s when I joined the National Health Service as a junior wages clerk. I subsequently gained rapid promotion and after a number of years, I reached the highest and most senior position possible in my field.

Following my appointment to Barnet Health Authority in 1983, I played a significant part in co-ordinating the centralisation of Financial Services of three former Districts within the Authority. This involved organising and chairing meetings with management and staff representatives to discuss and agree that qualities of service would be maintained and indeed improved.

Earlier, I was responsible for installing new payroll systems and subsequent enhancements, which involved discussions with other departments to ensure proper interface with their systems.

For many years I was a member of the National and Regional Payroll Sub-Groups and also the Payroll Special Working Party.

In 1986 I left the NHS to pursue a career as an independent payroll consultant and following my immediate return from Saudi Arabia, I accepted a six-month assignment with Ernst and Young, where I was engaged as a project team member and whose brief was to examine the feasibility of implementing a common integrated HR/Payroll system to 15 Health Authorities within the North-West Thames Region.

My initial position at East Surrey was both a functional and advisory role. My primary responsibility was to recruit, train, and manage a totally new payroll department, and secondly, I was required to assist and advise the newly appointed Assistant Director of Finance for Paymaster Services.

My Local Government experience comprises of active involvement in a trouble-shooting and problem-solving role at the London Borough of Hackney. Here, there were many industrial type problems, specifically pay and pensions related, following the transfer of Education Staff from the then former Inner London Education Authority.

At Eastbourne, I was managing the service to the Trust, this also being a “provider” of services to a number of other organisations, both commercial and not-for profit, within the Sussex/Kent area.

My position with BHB was to institute and manage the smooth transition and outsourcing of the total payroll operation from a hitherto NHS agency to a new private provider.

My role with Barnet Trust initially comprised of identifying serious problems and deficiencies associated with the difficult implementation of SAP Software across the Accounting, Payroll and HR functions. Whilst this continued but to a lesser degree, from January 2001 I was also working on the implementation of SAP Upgrade. I worked alongside consultants from other organisations who were similarly responsible for other features of ongoing maintenance.

At the end of 2001 I undertook a short-term project with WS Atkins, an outsourcing company that provided managed services to many clients, including Health and Local Authorities. The terms of the assignment were to carry out a complete payroll health check comprising of structures, staffing, skill levels, business processes, systems, procedures, input/output processes, and relationships.

Throughout 2002 and 2003 I was retained by Bedfordshire NHS Shared Services, initially to evaluate the provision of Payroll and HR Services, and the quality of data to and from the external payroll provider. This task also included the scrutiny of internal and local processes. I was subsequently recalled to install a number of my original recommendations.

In 2003 I undertook an assignment with a MOD organisation, where I was responsible for a number of tasks, including the creation and constitution of a new in-house payroll department, the training of payroll personnel; bringing the payroll operation in-house, and simultaneously taking on SAP software for payroll production.

In 2004 I was charged with conducting and managing an in-depth review and subsequent cleansing programme of the payroll service as provided to its clients by the Wolverhampton Primary Care Trust, the principals being in preparation for NHS Agenda for Change and the ESR Project. Additionally, I managed all operational activities of the Payroll, Pensions and Expenses Service.

At the British Transport Police, I was responsible for evaluating payroll and HR hierarchy and business processes within the seven National Areas of the Force, where there were numerous fragmented and diverse systems and practises which did not inter-relate.

During 2005 I was working with the Whittington Hospital Trust where I managed the payroll and pensions service in addition to the A4C team, to the host Trust and four client Trusts.

Very recently, I joined the UHLNHST on a short term assignment in order to investigate and evaluate some serious processing/communication issues that have developed between the Trust and the external payroll provider. The Trust is subject to Wave 1 ESR implementation and my position was to prepare for this and to cleanse current processes.









ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

QUALIFICATIONS YEAR OBTAINED EDUCATION

GCE O Level English Language 1963 Clarkes Grammar School

GCE O Level English Literature 1963 London NW6

GCE O Level Mathematics 1963 1957 – 1963

GCE O Level Biology 1963

GCE O Level History 1963


HOBBIES/INTERESTS:

Equestrianism, Music, Theatre, Gardening.

OTHER:

Member of I.P.P.M. (Institute of Payroll and Pensions Management)

REFEREES:

Mr S. Bloomer, Mr. A Maidment,
Deputy Director of Finance, Chief Accountant,
Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust UK Hydrographic Office (MOD),
Bristol Road South, Admiralty Way,
Northfield, Taunton TA1 2DN
Birmingham B31 2AP

Mr. N. Deacon, Mr Steven Thomas
Director of Shared Services, Managing Consultant
Bedfordshire NHS Shared Services, Parkhill Audit Agency
Charter House, First Floor, 135 Greenford Road
Luton LU1 2PJ Sudbury Hill
Harrow
HA1 3QN
Mr. J. Murphy,
Head of Personnel
Headquarters-Scottish Prison Service,
Calton House,
5 Redheugh Rigg,
Edinburgh EH12 9HW

GCE O - Level
English Language
English Literature
Mathematics
Biology
History

Senior Manager with hands on/delegational skills managing between 2 and 60 staff.

Problem-solving, trouble-shooting skills.

Seasoned and highly experienced payroll manager.

English, some Polish

Clarkes Grammar School 1957 to1963
Shoot up Hill
Cricklewood

Many courses during career, including management, IT, payroll and related.

Member of IPPM, RHS./

Equestrianism, music, theatre, gardening.

Can be supplied on request