Sara Young

Sara Young

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Head of Strategy & Operations
Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

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  • Personio
    Head of Strategy & Operations - Data & Systems
    Personio
    Sep 2023 - Current (3 years 1 month)
    Leading the Data & Systems Strategy & Operations function at Personio, driving organisational clarity, AI adoption, and scalable execution across a 70+ person department.



    Key responsibilities:
    • Drive AI adoption across Personio through structured enablement programs, cross-functional use case discovery, and company-wide automation hackathons focused on measurable business impact.
    • Partner with senior stakeholders to identify manual process friction and translate it into scalable automation and AI opportunities.
    • Strengthen data enablement, governance, and literacy through training, workshops, and internal programs.
    • Define and execute the Data & Systems strategy and operating model to support d
  • Deputy
    Senior Manager - Data Analytics
    Deputy
    Apr 2021 - Jul 2023 (2 years 4 months)
    • Lead a team of analysts delivering strategic insights across the business.
    • Designed and delivered company-wide data enablement training — covering data literacy, governance, and self-serve analytics — empowering non-technical teams to confidently interpret and use data independently.
    • Led the migration from Tableau to ThoughtSpot, running structured enablement and training programmes to drive adoption of self-serve BI across the business.
    • Drive team strategy, goal setting, and resource planning to maximize impact.
    • Oversee development of modern data models and products using DBT Cloud and Tableau.
    • Manage key stakeholder and vendor relationships to align data priorities company‑wide.
    • Deliver executiv
  • KPMG Australia
    Manager - Data Analytics
    KPMG Australia
    Jan 2019 - Apr 2021 (2 years 4 months)
    Health Care Client
    Agile project team, working to build a customised reporting solution. Role: Internal data product manager for the user story delivery

    Australian Retail Client
    Migrated the legacy data warehouse to a Snowflake cloud platform, built and showcased several Power BI reports that deliver key insights to multiple streams of the business and key stakeholders.

    Telecommunication Client
    Built a customised reporting solution to consolidate telecommunication asset information from multiple sources, transformed the multiple data sources through a series of business rules, visualised assets in a geo-spatial context and remediated data quality issues.
  • KPMG UK
    Assistant Manager - Data Analytics
    KPMG UK
    Aug 2017 - Jan 2019 (1 year 6 months)
    Sara spent 4 years at KPMG London, where she gained extensive experience in her role as an analyst on the Financial Modelling team. Technical/ Project Experience: Banking Remediation, Customer Due Diligence, End to End platform delivery, Excel Modelling, Data Modelling, SQL, SAS, Teradata, Power Bi, Tableau and several reporting tools.
  • KPMG UK
    Technology Consultant - Data Analytics
    KPMG UK
    Sep 2015 - Sep 2017 (2 years 1 month)
    Representative Clients.

    Customer Due Diligence - Retail Bank, London;
    > Identifying CDD data in a Teradata warehouse
    > Data gathering, analysis and visualisation using Teradata

    Remediation - Retail Bank, Milton Keynes;
    > SQL tool created to calculate remediation costs for retail bank customers
    > Data gathering, cleaning, tracking, automation and MI presenting using Tableau

    Remediation - Retail Store, London;
    > SQL automated calculator created to calculate remediation costs
    > PowerShell for automation, R for data input/extraction and GIT for version controlling

    End to End Database Management System – Global Consumer Manufacturing client, Amsterdam;
  • G
    Bar Tender
    Gibneys Public House
    Sep 2012 - Aug 2015 (3 years)
  • I
    Barista
    Insomnia Coffee company
    May 2009 - Jan 2013 (3 years 9 months)
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  • Trinity College Dublin
    Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science
    Trinity College Dublin
    Jan 2011 - Jan 2015 (4 years 1 month)
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    Cloud based information system
    Client:
    Ceoltas Ceoltoiri - an Irish cultural organisation.

    Overview:
    Built a CRM website to enable the organisation to control/store membership details and class schedules online. designed and developed front end using HTML, phpMyAdmin was used to connect to the MySQL database.

    See full Final Year Project as attachment in education section of my profile.
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