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Lean consultancy S A Partners establishes Ireland branch
 
 S A Partners, the UK’s
longest standing Lean
Enterprise consultancy,
has opened a new branch
in Ireland.
  
   The company already
works closely with Irish
businesses including C&C
Group – producers of
Magners cider – which
appointed S A Partners
to help it not only to
implement Lean
principles, but also to
 
 develop a skilled
internal resource that
could sustain and build
on the improvements
made.
  
   C&C’s IT & Continuous
Improvement Director,
Shane Hughes commented:
“S A Partners has
provided leadership and
technical skills that
have helped us to
embrace and sustain a
Lean approach to doing
 
 business. We work with
them as strategic
partners, not
consultants, and this
subtle difference is the
key value they add to an
organisation.”
  
   S A Partners has also
established close ties
with the Irish Centre
for Business Excellence
and with Cork-based
online learning provider
Leading Edge Group.
 
   
   Director of S A
Partners Ireland, Chris
Butterworth commented:
“We believe we have a
distinctive offering
that goes beyond our
consulting expertise.
  
   S A Partners has
access to the latest
academic research on
Lean and offers learning
programmes that enable
our clients to take
 
 ownership of their
continuous improvement
going forward. We hope
that by establishing a
base in Ireland we can
develop our client
relationships further
and, if successful,
recruit local people to
join our growing
business.”
 
 
New KPMG hires to focus on infrastructure, government and health
 
 KPMG in the UK have
hired Jacky Ross as
Partner, Sheila Pringle
as Associate Partner and
Joy Voyle as a Director
to lead the firm’s
financial management
team which will focus on
the infrastructure,
government and health
sectors.
  
   Jacky Ross co-founded
the consultancy
Counterpoint LLP in 2006
where she worked with
CEOs and Board Directors
to translate
aspirational, high level
business strategies into
programmes to deliver
sustainable change and
real benefits to a range
of clients across the
public and private
sector.
  
   Ross’s previous role
was at PwC Consulting,
where she focused on
helping to build up the
 
 financial management
practice and
establishing and running
the pan-European
iAnalytics (business
intelligence) business.
Prior to that, Ross was
a Partner at Ernst &
Young where she built a
highly successful
pan-European finance
restructuring and
re-engineering division
focused on large
multinational clients.
In addition, she was CEO
of a new joint venture
between Shell and Ernst
& Young which she
developed the business
case for, and then built
and ran as a commercial
outsourced organisation.
  
   Sheila Pringle joins
from Deloitte where she
has spent the last six
years helping to build
their financial
management and corporate
services transformation
 
  
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Consulting business.
  
   Joy Voyle joins from
Counterpoint LLP where
she has delivered
Corporate Services
Transformations with a
range of central
government clients since
2007. Voyle has 12
year’s consulting
experience built on five
years in finance in the
insurance sector. She
has delivered a wide
range of large scale
corporate services
transformations,
particularly in the
Finance and HR
functions, in addition
to a number of financial
management related
programmes. Voyle brings
extensive Shared
Services experience to
the FM team from
strategic reviews to
their practical
implementation. Her
experience spans both
 
 the public sector and a
number of private sector
multi-nationals. Prior
to Counterpoint LLP she
worked for Cap Gemini,
Ernst & Young and Willis
Corroon.
  
   Scott Parker, KPMG’s
UK Head of Performance
and Technology practice
said: “I am delighted
this vastly experienced
team are joining KPMG to
boost our financial
management practice
within the hugely
important
infrastructure,
government and health
sectors. They will bring
their combined expertise
and ability to bear with
both our private and
public sector clients,
to help them re-shape
their businesses at a
time when short-term
economic recovery
continues to look
uncertain.”
 
 practices within the
Public Sector. Pringle
has worked across both
central and local
government and has
significant expertise in
shaping and implementing
shared services,
including a secondment
to the Government’s
Gershon team in 2004
where she was
responsible for defining
the central team to
drive cross government
collaboration in
connection with shared
services and securing
the first phase of
funding for them, as
part of the efficiency
review. Prior to joining
Deloitte she spent eight
years in the Andersen
 
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