Shane Stafford

shane stafford

Independent Management Consultant with cross-industry consulting experience in both strategy and business transformation.

Argentina

Bio Summary

Shane is a seasoned management consultant previously aligned to Accenture's CFO&EV Practice. Whilst at Accenture, he collaborated with the bank finance leadership team to plan and implement its strategic withdrawal from the Irish market and with a consumer goods business to design the strategy and operating models for managing its third-party manufacturers. Shane is willing to leverage his experience in new and challenging projects.

Employment History

Toptal

Independent Management Consultant

Toptal

November 2022 - present

Buenos Aires, CABA, Argentina

Designed the business model of a European based startup that includes a core product offering of SaaS solutions and consulting services.
Accenture

Management Consultant

Accenture

October 2019 - February 2022

Dublín, Irlanda

Worked with the finance leadership team of a large Irish bank to design a strategic plan for the bank's exit from the Irish market. Set up and ran the finance, compliance, and legal workstreams to implement the bank's withdra ...see more
Brown Brothers Harriman

Client Services Representative Fund Accounting Intern

Brown Brothers Harriman

January 2018 - August 2018

Luxembourg, Luxemburgo

Created internal processes and drafted process documents to streamline the management of the NAV oversight checks on a total return swap (TRS) for a large asset manager client. Liaised with processing units and performed dai ...see more
O'Gorman Brannigan Purtill & Co.

Accounting & Tax Intern

O'Gorman Brannigan Purtill & Co.

May 2016 - August 2016

Clonmel, Condado de Tipperary, Irlanda

Prepared client final accounts for review, including but not limited to the income statement, balance sheets, vat returns, and capital balances. Assisted partners in drafting client income tax returns. Assisted in the creat ...see more

Selected Project Experience

Project Description:
Led out on and designed an operating model playbook for managing milk sales during 'peak weeks' for a large Irish consumer goods business. The playbook was brought to and signed off by the client Chief Operating Officer.

Industry: Consumer Products

Topic(s): Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Manufacturing, Process Design, Operating Model, Business Unit Strategy

Project Description:
Lead out on and designed processes with the client for their TPM screening, quality approval and complaints processes as part of a separate playbook that outlined a high level TPM strategy and operating models on how to manage their current TPMs.

Industry: Consumer Products

Topic(s): Manufacturing, Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Process Design, Operating Model, Organizational Strategy

Project Description:
Led and managed the delivery of over 1,000 letters to the affected customers of a large Irish Bank for a major mortgage restitution.

Industry: Retail banking

Topic(s): Mortgage Loans, Business Transformation, Project Management, Data Analysis, Finance Transformation

Project Description:
PMO Programme Manager: Worked with the finance leadership team of a large Irish bank to design a strategic plan for the bank's exit from the Irish market, which was subsequently signed off by the bank's CFO. Set up and ran the finance, compliance, and legal workstreams as a PMO Programme Manager to continually replan and implement the bank's withdrawal. Directly responsible for the management and mitgation of critical risks, issues and dependencies of the aforementioned workstreams.

Industry: Retail banking

Topic(s): Strategic Planning, Finance Transformation, Project Management Office (PMO), Business Transformation, Change & Implementation

Project Description:
Designed the business model of the startup that includes a core product offering of SaaS solutions and consulting services. Collaborated with the startup founder to determine the niche and key decision maker in the firms of the target market and identified all problems/obstacles faced by target customers. Designed a framework for the startup founder to create core product offerings. Designed a separate framework of strategies to enhance the value of the core product offering. Created specific strategies to enhance the value of the core product offering, such as conditional guarantees and bonuses. Created leap-of-faith assumptions to be tested during the validated learning stage of the startup.

Industry: Providers & Services

Topic(s): Lean Startup Methodology, Business Modeling, Growth Strategy, Go-to-Market Strategy, Business Strategy

Certificates

Business Strategy - Competitive Advantage, The Wharton School AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Education

Bachelor of Business Studies - Accounting & Finance Major

University of Limerick

2019

Summer School Scholarship

Renmin University of China

2017

Language Skills

Country Experience

Ireland Luxembourg

Skills

Business

Management Consulting,

Business Strategy,

Business Transformation,

Strategic Planning,

Operating Model,

Project Management Office (PMO),

Process Design,

Business Modeling

Strategy & Planning

Finance

Industry Experience

Consumer Products

Technology

eCommerce (B2C)

Financial Services

Retail banking

Professional Services

Management Consulting