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Millennium Consulting’s Elite Partner Status Reconfirmed by Unit4 for 2022

Millennium Consulting’s Elite Partner status reconfirmed by Unit4 for 2022.

The Unit4 global partner program operates across three levels focused on capabilities, contributions, and customer satisfaction. Elite level partners have achieved the highest level within the Unit4 partner program. This level is awarded to partners that have consistently demonstrated the ability to meet the highest level of success with Unit4 and our joint customers.

Jeremy Lucas, COO at Millennium Consulting, “We are all delighted by the continued recognition of our Elite Partner status by Unit4. Last year presented plenty of challenges, but the whole team went above and beyond to ensured we continued to best serve our customers and offer them the excellent service we’ve become known for. To be re-awarded Elite Partner status is a fantastic way for Millennium to start the year.”

Millennium Consulting Awarded FSQS-NL Registered Certificate

Following our recently renewed ISO 27001 & 9001 certification, we are also proud to announce our ongoing relationship with FSQS with validating body Hellios.

FSQS is a cross-sector collaboration solution that reduces the time, cost, resources and duplication needed to provide information for a community of financial institutions including banks, building societies, insurance companies and investment services.

For our existing clients this qualification adds an extra layer of assurance and for new prospective companies, this means a significant amount of due diligence has already been performed through the standardised FSQS process ensuring business onboarding with Millennium is a smooth and easy process.

Millennium Consulting is pleased to announce that they are now an official registered provider with the CPD Certification Service. Established in 1996, The CPD Certification Service is the largest and leading independent CPD accreditation organisation working across all industry sectors.

This means finance professionals undertaking courses run by Millennium Consulting count towards annual professional development requirements set by professional regulators. Any delegate attending the future courses will be issued with an accredited CPD Certificate of Attendance, which they can subsequently use within their formal CPD record for a professional body, institute or employer.

Millennium is currently submitting courses for approval, and these will soon be available to book via the CPD Service.

Jeremy Lucas at Millennium Consulting said, “I am pleased to announce that Millennium Consulting is working towards being able to offer CPD certified courses to finance professionals. This is not only further confirmation of the high quality of our services but also endorses our view of the importance of good assessment practice. Our CPD programme will allows you to keep up to date with the latest industry trends and best practice, learn new skills and develop existing ones.”

Our accreditation can be verified by clicking this link: https://cpduk.co.uk/providers/millennium-consulting

Unit4 Financials Elite Partner Millennium Consulting and Unit4 ERP Premier Partner Hennessy IT Consulting have today announced a strategic alliance to deliver Unit4 ERP and FP&A software and services.

Founded in 1995, Millennium Consulting is a Unit4 Financials software and services company with offices in the UK, Italy and the United States whilst Hennessy IT Consulting has offices in Scotland and Ireland delivering Unit4 ERP software consultancy and was established in 2010.

Millennium Consulting CEO, Philip Keet states that “The Millennium and Hennessy alliance will combine the strength of our companies, allowing us to be a focused delivery implementor, combining the Millennium’s expertise and customer centric capabilities currently provided for Unit4 Financials to drive excellence in Unit4 ERP software and services delivery“.

The alliance will subsequently be formalised in a Joint-Venture company which will enable each party to contribute fully to enabling customers to successfully deploy software from the Unit4 product suite.

Joining forces and sharing expertise, that is what the partnership between Millennium Consulting and the Dutch consultancy Diesis is all about.

Separately both companies have more than 25 years of experience with Unit4 Financials. The companies already meet regularly in the field and share experiences and knowledge around Unit4 Financials. With this agreement, the co-operation between the only two Global Unit4 Financials Elite partners is confirmed.

Jeremy Lucas, Chief Operating Officer of Millennium Consulting said: “I am delighted about the partnership agreement with Diesis. We are looking forward to working together and using our extensive experience and combined knowledge to greatly enhance the support of Unit4 Financials clients globally.”

Tino Wendriks, Managing Director at Diesis added: “We have known Millennium for a long time since we both have been operating on the Unit4 Financials (Coda) market for more than two decades. Just like Diesis, Millennium can also call upon many years of knowledge and experience, both functional and technical. Our co-operation will lead to a further strengthening of both our positions in the Unit4 Financials market. Whereby we can help each other in supporting our international clients!”

We look forward to a successful partnership and continuing and deepening our support of the Unit4 customer base.

Next week on Monday 29th March, Millennium Consulting will be moving to new head-quarters in the former NatWest Bank building in Hythe, Kent, England. Since 2017 the building has been empty following the closure of the branch however an extensive refurbishment/modernisation program has taken place in recent months and the building is now ready for occupation.

“We are looking forward to moving to this beautiful Grade 2 listed building at the heart of the local Hythe community. Our Kent employees live in Hythe and the surrounding areas and we expect the new office will become a dynamic collaborative hub for the business. We are excited about the team and infrastructure we are putting in place as we prepare for the post-pandemic era.” Philip Keet, Millennium Consulting CEO.

In 2020, Millennium Consulting celebrated 25 years supporting clients with Finance Transformation and Regulatory Change programs. Having started out in 1995 as a specialist finance systems consultancy, the wider challenges of Y2K were soon recognised and attention switched to transitioning a diverse range of clients to new Y2K compliant software. Based initially in the City of London, the company relocated to Hythe in 2009.

Today Millennium Consulting is an international management consultancy that supports clients with the deployment of next generation financial and operational technology. The company works globally across multiple industry sectors and has teams located in Italy and the US.

In 2020 Millennium was awarded Elite Partner status by Dutch ERP software vendor Unit4. The Unit4 global partner program launched in June 2020 operates across three levels focusing upon capabilities, contributions and customer satisfaction and Elite status is the highest level within the partner program.

Millennium Consulting is delighted to announce the appointments of Sam Guilding, Jeremy Lucas, Adam Leach, Chris Peall, Lucy Keet and Sam Keet.

Sam Guilding has been appointed Head of Marketing with responsibility for on and offline. She joined Millennium with over 10 years experience working within PR and Social Media across multiple sectors.

Jeremy Lucas has been appointed Director of Professional Services & Consulting and has assumed overall responsibility for client program delivery. He is a senior financial market professional with over 20 year’s Banking and Management consulting experience.

Adam Leach has been appointed Principal Technical Consultant to play a key role in developing the Insurance market sector consulting operation with particular focus upon accounting rules engine technologies such as Aptitude to support IFRS17 regulatory compliance. He is an experienced Senior Developer and Data Analyst with a successful record working as a consultant within the Insurance, Banking and Telecom sectors.

Chris Peall has been appointed Project Manager with responsibility for managing cross- industry projects across multiple technology platforms. He joins bringing a successful record of project delivery focussing upon data science and supporting businesses modernise their data landscape.

Lucy Keet has been appointed Social Media Manager with responsibility for delivering the Millennium message across multiple social media platforms. Previously she worked as a Marketing Executive within the Retail sector.

Sam Keet has been appointed Client Services Executive within the marketing department to enhance client communications.  Prior to joining Millennium, Sam worked within recruitment in the City of London.

We are excited about the team emerging at Millennium as we put the foundations in place to prepare for the coming post-pandemic era.

Daisy Keet to run SPAR Budapest Marathon

We are delighted to announce that Daisy Keet has signed up to take part in the Budapest Marathon this October and is fund raising for one of the UK Autism Charities.

Fundraising for the National Autistic society: https://www.autism.org.uk/

NAS are the UK’s leading charity for people on the autism spectrum and their families. Since 1962, they have been providing support, guidance and advice, as well as campaigning for improved rights, services and opportunities to help create a society that works for autistic people.

They help the 700,000 autistic people in the UK and their families. Be it running specialist schools, campaigning for improved rights or training companies on being more autism-friendly, they are dedicated to transforming lives and changing attitudes.

Daisy is fundraising by hand painting prints and selling them via Instagram.
@daisy_print https://www.instagram.com/daisy_print/

Every print is unique and hand painted, you can request which size you would like from A5 to A3. Prices range from £12 to £20. All profits going towards the National Autistic Society.

Daisy has launched a JustGiving page to help reach her target of raising £990 for the National Autistic Society, which helps transform the lives of people living with Autism, through providing support, guidance and advice for them and their families.

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/daisy-keet 

All donations will be greatly received and will make a huge difference to the lives of many.

Millennium Consulting Elite Partner of Unit4

Millennium Consulting has achieved Elite Partner status from Unit4.

The new Unit4 global partner program launched in June 2020 operates across three levels focused on capabilities, contributions, and customer satisfaction. Elite level partners have achieved the highest level within the Unit4 partner program.  This level is awarded to partners that have consistently demonstrated the ability to meet the highest level of success with Unit4 and our joint customers.

Partner levels are determined through product certification, client references, successful new business sales including SaaS, plus client feedback via Raven Intel which analyses recent Unit4 Financials implementations and associated support. Aspects such as customer satisfaction, team quality and performance, scope and precision in the implementation process are evaluated. Additionally, Unit4 evaluates whether each partner is a specialist in their respective market.

To date, there are only ten organisations with elite status globally (only three of them in the UK) and we are one of only two Unit4 Financials Elite Partners globally.

Malc Coton, Partner Manager UKI at Unit4 congratulated the Millennium team:

“Well done for achieving this in just over 4 months since programme launch, it’s quite an accolade and a badge to wear with pride for sure! It’s a huge milestone for Millennium in the UK and I’m proud to have been your Partner Manager on that journey with you.”

Beata Wright, Global Head of Partner Ecosystems at Unit4, successfully introduced the world class Global Partner Program to give partners the resources to transform the way people work and help their clients deliver an exceptional people experience to their customers. This program was part of the strategic concept of “People Experience”. Connecting and transforming all aspects of the work experience is key to personal inspiration and organisational success was a vision, from the champion of People Experience, Mike Ettling CEO of Unit4.

With Millennium, for 25 years, we have built a reputation for quality, value, and delivery. We provide global finance transformation and data management consulting, solutions, and services across the world’s most demanding industries, with customers in finance, logistics, construction, and manufacturing.

We call it the Millennium advantage…

Millennium Million Step Challenge

Please support us with this worthwhile initiative! You are invited to take part in the Millennium Million Step Challenge to help us reach our combined overall target of 100 million steps by the end of the year whilst raising £10,000 for UK charity Shelter UK.

The COVID-19 pandemic has reduced funds raised by most charities this year and we expect that UK homeless people will be particularly affected this coming winter. We are now asking volunteers to support us by taking part in the Million Step Challenge to raise funds at the Millennium Million Step Challenge “Shelter” Just Giving page.

Download the ‘Move Spring’ app and join our challenge using this link: https://app.movespring.com/signup/confirm-organization and connect your fitness tracking device.

We have set a deadline of Sunday 13th December 2020 – join us today and you’ll need to walk an average of 13,700 steps per day to reach 1 million (73 days!) Walking 20,000 steps per day will take 50 days. The app will record yours and overall group steps so progress can be tracked towards the overall target of 100 million steps.

Ask your friends and families to sponsor you at our Just Giving page and/or also take part.