Jakki Burnett

Jakki is an experienced Senior PMO with many years of exposure within the Financial, IT, Media, Retail, Insurance and Consultancy fields. She has supported large scale and high profile, multi-million-pound programmes of work such as IT and data transformation, software upgrades, and financial and business process improvement projects. She has excellent Stakeholder Management skills and is confident, able to make independent decisions and has good communication and networking abilities. Jakki is adept with various project planning and reporting tools including MS Project, Jira, SAP, PPMA etc, as well as company inhouse time tracking and reporting systems. With her years of project management experience, Jakki can make and execute process improvements within a programme/project, which have been proven to enhance its success, delivering on-time and on-budget. Jakki has experience of supporting multiple workstreams both within a Prince 2 and an Agile environment. With strong oral and written skills, Jakki can present information in a precise and appropriate way. She can work independently in a confident, professional, and discreet manne

Extensive knowledge of project planning (MS Project, Excel), SAP, Jira, Confluence, as well as inhouse time tracking and reporting mechanisms
• Strong RAID development and management skills
• Good understanding of project governance and extensive experience of dealing with senior
stakeholders effectively
• Excellent communication skills with ability to present clear, precise, and timely flow of
information
• Excellent understanding of project economics including costs, operational dynamics, and budgets
• Complete self-starter, pro-active and can work unsupervised
• Strong financial and billing/invoicing skills and practised in internal financial procedures
• Strong and effective negotiation skills
• Methodical and a complete finisher whilst ensuring accuracy with ability to work well under
pressure
• Experience of working closely with internal and external teams including IT, Business Analysts,
Developers, Testers, Suppliers and external third parties
• Trustworthy and discreet when working with confidential, sensitive, financial and personnel data

2019 CTC Cleared
2015 PRINCE2 Foundation in Project Management
2005 Dutch Language 1 Breakthrough Diploma Studiocentrum Talen Eindhoven BV
1984 North Star College of Higher Education, Swindon
Royal Society of Arts Secretarial/Business Diploma I/II / Business Studies, Communications, Typing, Audio Typing, Shorthand
1982 Park Senior High School, Swindon
O Levels - English Language A, English Literature A, Maths B, Commerce, French C, Geography D