About / Consultant Profiles - Gillian McCleary

Gillian McCleary
info@procept.com

Gillian McCleary is an Associate with Procept Associates Ltd. She is also a full time IT consultant for KPMG, a professional services company that provides audit, advisory and tax services across Canada. Gillian has 14 years of business analysis experience.

As a consultant for KPMG, Gillian provides both business analysis and project management services on a wide variety of projects. These include an ERP financial system one-year implementation working with forty team members. She focused her efforts primarily on Project Costing and Engagement Reporting and had full responsibility for developing the conversion strategy and overseeing the actual conversion.

Gillian also has experience with the design of a contact and Relationship Management System, an-Learning VoIP distance learning system, and the conversion of all servers from Windows NT. She is currently developing a three-year strategy for the HR department which involves a process review of about fifty processes, an assessment of each process, and a review of the current technologies' integration. She has experience with many business improvement projects including the complete development of a work intake process and supporting database tool.

Gillian has completed numerous assessments to determine the feasibility of bringing in new systems and if feasible, she has gone on to create the proposal documentation and to facilitate vendor evaluation reviews. She also provides project recovery services to assist project managers and other business analysts when projects need assistance meeting their original objectives.

As a business analyst prior to joining KPMG, she obtained experience on the requirements development for a biometric smart card for social services recipients and completed requirements for a family court tracking system.

She currently mentors, coaches and guides all new business analysts at KPMG as well as providing input to numerous colleagues via a 360 degree feedback program. Gillian has chaired and facilitated many meetings, workshops and focus groups.

Gillian holds an honours Economics degree, she is designated as a Project Management Professional, and she is an active committee member in the International Institute of Business Analysis