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London

Work closely with National Gallery Directors and Department Heads to update the 2018 Strategic Plan with detailed five-year budgets to deliver the seven key objectives. Listed below are three objectives I had opportunity to update.1. Grow income to be 50% self-funding by 2022/20232. Significantly expand Exhibitions programme and broaden our appeal with Museum learning to foster engagement with the public.3. Major infrastructure project to accommodate all staff on a single site -… Show more Work closely with National Gallery Directors and Department Heads to update the 2018 Strategic Plan with detailed five-year budgets to deliver the seven key objectives. Listed below are three objectives I had opportunity to update.1. Grow income to be 50% self-funding by 2022/20232. Significantly expand Exhibitions programme and broaden our appeal with Museum learning to foster engagement with the public.3. Major infrastructure project to accommodate all staff on a single site - the One Gallery Accommodation Hub Show less

London, United Kingdom

Key Achievements➢ Work closely with Fundraising Director and fundraising managers to develop a detailed five-year financial business plan by each product line to significantly increase income by product diversification and focus on profitable growth areas.➢ Work closely with Welfare Director and welfare managers to develop a detailed five-year financial business plan by each expenditure programme to significantly increase welfare to aging veterans and serving RAF… Show more Key Achievements➢ Work closely with Fundraising Director and fundraising managers to develop a detailed five-year financial business plan by each product line to significantly increase income by product diversification and focus on profitable growth areas.➢ Work closely with Welfare Director and welfare managers to develop a detailed five-year financial business plan by each expenditure programme to significantly increase welfare to aging veterans and serving RAF families.➢ Work closely with Finance Director to develop a high-level financial strategy aligning the planned Increased Income from the Fundraising strategy and planned Increased Expenditure from the Welfare strategy – to produce a ten-year financial projection of income plans, capital and revenue expenditure plans, and closing reserve positions.➢ Improved quarterly forecasting variance to within 5%-10% tolerance to year-end forecast by challenging directors/managers on how realistic ongoing plans are to close the variance gap by focusing on the YTD average income and expenditure monthly run rates.➢ Key member in finance systems project to invest £500k into a new enterprise-wide finance system – to introduce budget holder self-service of finance processes – purchase, expense and budget reporting. I was involved in identifying system requirements and IT supplier selection process. Show less

London, United Kingdom

Key Achievements➢ Finance plans in response to difficult charity funding conditions. Managed the robust challenge of financial forecasting and budgeting setting process - £23m income and £10m costs. Used forecasting and budgeting tools to drive out risks and capture opportunities. Successfully worked with directors to identify savings of £1m, 10% reduction in cost base by using lean process to identify effective staff structures and activity structures that add value in development and… Show more Key Achievements➢ Finance plans in response to difficult charity funding conditions. Managed the robust challenge of financial forecasting and budgeting setting process - £23m income and £10m costs. Used forecasting and budgeting tools to drive out risks and capture opportunities. Successfully worked with directors to identify savings of £1m, 10% reduction in cost base by using lean process to identify effective staff structures and activity structures that add value in development and delivery of new products.➢ Improved the transparency of profitable and non-profitable fundraising product lines by introduction of profit and loss reporting for each product line. The improved reporting focused managers to change the product mix for the new budget year into high cash generation markets and high financial returns on investment➢ Key member of senior management team to work on the new Fundraising strategy in response to saturated mature markets; declining legacy income; risk managing high level of media focus post Olive Cooke and changing and uncertain regulatory environment. Worked to develop a new performance tool – Life Time Value (LTV) to assess the profitability of customer groups.➢ Key member in finance systems project to invest £1m into a new enterprise-wide finance system with a planned pay back of 4 years. The target is to deliver £250k of savings per annum through efficient finance processes and introduction to budget holder self-service of finance processes – purchase, expense and budget reporting.➢ Successfully improved the quality of financial donor reporting by implementing a standard campaign/appeal code structure to each product line to improve product trend analysis. Show less

Key Achievements ➢ Extensive experience in successfully tendering and delivering commercial service contracts – through effective pricing and evaluating financial risks of tenders (managing entry/exit risks, staff TUPE risk, payment by results (PbR) risks, property risks, and managing third party risks in joint contracts).➢ Successfully executed turnaround plans for loss making Children Centres contracts (losses from £400k to £100k) to break-even by working with senior managers… Show more Key Achievements ➢ Extensive experience in successfully tendering and delivering commercial service contracts – through effective pricing and evaluating financial risks of tenders (managing entry/exit risks, staff TUPE risk, payment by results (PbR) risks, property risks, and managing third party risks in joint contracts).➢ Successfully executed turnaround plans for loss making Children Centres contracts (losses from £400k to £100k) to break-even by working with senior managers to restructure the service to deliver the contract targets and by hands on financial management of income and costs over the life of the contracts.➢ Extensive experience in managing the financial returns on annual £11m service delivery contracts; local authority children centres, central government grants/contracts and Big Lottery grants.➢ Successfully with senior managers restructured the projects into dedicated services to provide improve capacity to win contracts and streamline processes and reduce costs. Show less

Southampton, United Kingdom

Key Achievements ➢ Involved in UK government sale of NATS using Public Private Partnership (PPP) in 2001. Seconded to Corporate Finance to use my in-depth knowledge of company operations to work with government advisers in projections of income, expenditure, asset values by Customer and Product line in sale prospectus.➢ Managed the income and cost allocation reporting process using SAP Activity Based Budgeting. Used the tool to help management understand the complex income and… Show more Key Achievements ➢ Involved in UK government sale of NATS using Public Private Partnership (PPP) in 2001. Seconded to Corporate Finance to use my in-depth knowledge of company operations to work with government advisers in projections of income, expenditure, asset values by Customer and Product line in sale prospectus.➢ Managed the income and cost allocation reporting process using SAP Activity Based Budgeting. Used the tool to help management understand the complex income and cost drivers required to deliver air space service to customers (Civil and MoD customers) across the product lines.➢ Project Leader in SAP finance system project to invest £1m to manage income and cost allocation reporting module across the company operations. Key Responsibilities➢ Monthly management accounts by business area for each company, including variance analysis, commentaries, lead/lag financial and non-financial KPIs. Attendance at monthly divisional management accountability meetings.➢ Regular conversations with operational managers to review income and expenditure budgets and forecasts. Opportunity to help managers take early corrective actions against budget variances and make decisions to reforecast based on trend performance. ➢ Annual production of five-year business plans and sign-off with senior management of each company. Show less

Key Achievements➢ Set up a robust process for monitoring and recording capital project costs for Assets in Course of Construction (AICC) by working with asset managers (owners of assets) and project managers.➢ Acting joint head of Fixed Assets for twelve months until new Fixed Assets Manager recruited➢ First line management experience of managing three staff Key Responsibilities➢ Annual production of depreciation budget and quarterly depreciation… Show more Key Achievements➢ Set up a robust process for monitoring and recording capital project costs for Assets in Course of Construction (AICC) by working with asset managers (owners of assets) and project managers.➢ Acting joint head of Fixed Assets for twelve months until new Fixed Assets Manager recruited➢ First line management experience of managing three staff Key Responsibilities➢ Annual production of depreciation budget and quarterly depreciation forecasts for each company➢ Monthly depreciation charges for two operating companies➢ Assist in production of statutory historic current accounts (HCA) and current cost accounts (CCA) Show less

Key Responsibilities / Achievements➢ Production of annual income and expenditure budgets for 15 airports and MoD sites.➢ Monthly management accounts, variance analysis, commentary and quarterly forecasts➢ Assist in production of five-year business plans➢ Assist in production of statutory historic current accounts (HCA) and current cost accounts (CCA