Michael Jones

Michael Jones has extensive experience in the field of finance and consulting. Michael is currently working as a Senior Anaplan Consultant at Vuealta since March 2019. Prior to this, they worked as a TM1 Principal Consultant at Simpson Associates from May 2012 to February 2019. Before that, they owned their own company, Four Five Ltd, from March 2007 to October 2012. Michael also worked as a Consultant at National Savings and Investments from 2008 to 2012. Michael served as an Interim Systems & Reporting Manager at Vertex data Sciences Ltd from January 2010 to July 2011. Michael was a Cognos Planning Consultant at Aurora Fashions Ltd from October 2008 to January 2010. Additionally, they worked as a Consultant at Shop Direct Group from 2007 to 2008 and as an FP&A Consultant at Co-Operative Specialist Retail from October 2005 to January 2007. Michael's earlier roles include being an Interim Group Finance Controller at Homestyle Group PLC from 2004 to 2005, a Finance Systems Project Manager from June 2002 to June 2004, and a Finance Director at Homestyle Contracts from 1992 to May 2002.

Michael Jones completed their Bachelor of Science degree in Finance & Accounting from The University of Salford, where they studied from 1980 to 1983. Prior to that, they attended Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, but no specific degree or field of study information is provided for this institution. In terms of additional certifications, they obtained the following:

- IBM Planning Analytics - Dimensions and Cubes - 2017 from IBM in November 2018.

- IBM Planning Analytics - Modeler - 2017 from IBM in November 2018.

- IBM Planning Analytics - Rules and Feeders - 2017 from IBM in November 2018.

- IBM Planning Analytics - TurboIntegrator - 2017 from IBM in November 2018.

- Introduction to Structured Query Language (SQL) from Coursera in November 2018.

- Survey of Music Technology from Coursera in December 2014.

- Economics of Money and Banking, Part Two from Coursera in September 2014.

- Economics of Money and Banking, Part One from Coursera in July 2014.

- The Data Scientist's Toolbox from Coursera in June 2014.

- Financial Markets from Coursera in April 2014.

- Level 3 Anaplan Model Builder from Anaplan in March 2020.

- Anaplan Certified Model Builder from Anaplan in March 2020.

- Certified Solution Architect from Anaplan in September 2020.

- Anaplan Level 1 Model Builder from Anaplan in October 2019.

- Anaplan Level 2 Model Builder from Anaplan in October 2019.