Katherine Watkins is a highly knowledgeable and experienced ex-big 4 FCIPD qualified HR practitioner. She brings with her nearly 30 years’ experience gained from a diverse background of consultancy and permanent assignments gained from a range of industries and sectors including Accountancy, Insurance, Banking, BPO, Legal, Civil Service, Military, Telecoms, Event management, Investigation & Disputes, Cyber and Property. Her expertise covers a wide range of areas ranging from HR strategy, compliance and data regulations; international mergers & acquisitions; HR transformation and integration; global employee relations and the running and setting up of global HR operations. In addition she has a strong skill set associated with the FCA/SRA/MiFID and ISO 9001 experience; large scale project management; TUPE; employment tribunals/Trade Union and Works Counsel; shared service modelling and RemCo & ExCo advisor.
Specialist areas:
- HR transformation
- Talent strategy
- Succession planning
- International mergers & acquisitions and the creation of M & A playbooks internationally
- International employee relations
- Global HR operations
- FCA/SRA/MiFID and ISO 9001 experience
- Large scale project management
- TUPE
- Offshoring & near-shoring
- HR practices
- Employment tribunals/Trade Union and Works Counsel
