The Committee
The committee hold quarterly meetings to plan future events, collate feedback on products and communicate with Bottomline. To find out about becoming a committee member email bottomlineusergroup@bottomline.co.uk
The official user group committee as elected by the users is as follows:
Stephen Walker, Trinity Mirror - Chair
Steve Shipp, TDG - Treasurer
Tim Eustace, Bottomline Technologies
Helen Storey, Pearson Shared Services
Stephen Walker
Committee Role: Chairperson, Bottomline User Group
Company: Trinity Mirror plc
Job Title: IT Director, Trinity Mirror Shared Services
Biography: Steve has worked in numerous roles in IT, including Operational Management, Consultancy, Project Management, Systems Auditing and Information Security, over a period of 25 years. He is currently responsible for deploying and supporting Finance, Procurement, Payment and HR / Payroll systems across Trinity Mirror. Bottomline products form a key part of the Trinity Mirror application portfolio; WebSeries, Formscape, Covus and Tranmit products are all used to support the purchase to pay process and the transmission of all collections and payments files to BACS.
As Chair of the User Group, Steve is committed to seeing the Group grow by demonstrating the benefits of membership e.g. through knowledge sharing, running Special Interest Groups and the provision of constructive feedback to Bottomline regarding services, support and software.
Steve Shipp
Committee Role: Treasurer, BUG
Company: TDG plc
Job Title: Corporate Applications Manager
Biography: Steve is a qualified accountant and has held a number of accounting positions in various organisations and moved in to a systems development role about 15 years ago. He joined TDG from a software house in 1997. His current responsibilities centre around the management & development of TDG’s Corporate Applications portfolio, which now encompasses some 22 applications and utilities covering both financial and non-financial functions including CRM, Finance, payroll, HR and Health & Safety. TDG are currently users of Bottomline’s Webseries, Create!form and Handsfree Finance products and these are considered integral to TDG’s P2P and document distribution processes.
Steve is keen to see an Independent User Group become integral to helping drive product direction and development by acting as a focal point for the agreed prioritisation of enhancements for all product lines.
Tim Eustace
Committee Role: Bottomline Liaison
Company: Bottomline
Job Title: General Manager, Service Delivery
Biography: Tim manages the Implementation and Support groups at Bottomline Europe, which comprise 55 people working in the field and 3 Bottomline UK office locations. Tim has been at Bottomline for 5 years and started the User Group in 2006, with the help of Eddie Saunders (Telewest), Steve Walker (Trinity Mirror), Steve Shipp (TDG) and Diane Beddingfield (CIS).
Helen Storey
Committee Role: Member
Company: Pearson Shared Services
Job Title: Accounts Payable manager
Biography: Helen is the Accounts Payable manager for Pearson Shared Services based in
Harlow Essex, she has been with the company for 9 years. Helen’s team provide
the accounts payables for 5 Pearson companies. The main operating companies they work for are publishing businesses with large production departments.
Over 5 years ago Pearson Shared Services started to look at ways to reduce the data entry
within their processes due to the large volumes of invoices coming through, they implemented Scanning and OCR extraction with Bottomline in 2005.
Helen is new to the user group and is looking forward to working alongside other users to share ideas and experience of the Bottomline products.
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