New finance and IT boss for BSP Consulting

East Midlands civil and structural engineering firm BSP Consulting has promoted James Payne to finance and IT manager.

He has been with the company for 16 years, having joined BSP straight from school in August 2001.

Payne has recently been instrumental in introducing a new project information management system at BSP’s headquarters in Nottingham and across its offices in Derby, Leicester and Sheffield.

BSP managing director David Sumner said: “James has been a loyal and valued BSP employee since joining us in 2001. He has recently spearheaded the introduction of Union Square across the business after putting forward the case to the senior team of the benefits of integrating and streamlining our management of information – something which has become increasingly important to the efficiency of the business as we continue to expand.

“We have a commitment to staff development and are delighted to have promoted James to this newly created position at BSP Consulting, which reflects his new role.”

The Union Square system is being used throughout the business, primarily for project accounting but also for internal processes such as HR.

“Union Square has only been in place for a short while but already it is bringing benefits to BSP in making our project accounting more efficient,” said Payne. “The prediction is that it will help us with our long-term forecasting and planning, and become an increasingly valuable tool in the future.”

Payne joined BSP as a civil engineering technician at the age of 16, before becoming civil engineering technician and IT manager in 2004 and subsequently IT manager. He is based in BSP’s Nottingham headquarters in Oxford Street but works across the group.