Barbara Garside Email & Phone Number

I have 19 years work experience in a finance capacity covering AP, P2P and Income roles in the Housing Sector/Shared Services. I have excellent experience of change management. I am an enthusiastic, energetic, and influential leader, experienced in managing and engaging teams.• A strong leader with a supportive and engaging style.• Proactive in driving high performance culture and teams. • Stakeholder and relationship management.• Performance management, coaching and employee engagement.• Transformational leadership / managing difficult change.• Manage and develop the Purchase ledger team consisting of 9 team members, whilst developing and coaching key AP skills and techniques.• Ensure timely and accurate processing and payment of purchase invoices, expenses, and related items.• Promote continuous process improvement, improving use of automation and system controls and ensure purchase ledger controls are operating effectively and following robust issue management techniques• Produce timely management information, monitoring productivity of team members and delivering KPIs at expected levels.• Support related project implementation, the continued roll out of new Finance systems and integration of acquired entities’ purchase ledger functions.• Implementation of No PO No Pay policy in 2020.• Developing key KPI’s to manage performance.• Operating effective internal controls for transactional processing.• Responsibility for accurate and timely reconciliations of key control accounts delivered to agreed standards.• A contributor to projects to deliver continuous improvement in the delivery of financial operations• Leading, developing, and motivated teams to ensure employee engagement.• Implementing a control Framework throughout AP.• End to end reviews and the creation of process documentation and process maps. • Managing service delivery which operate to strict contractual SLAs and KPIs.2015 Working on Projects to merge 5 separate Legal Entities onto one Single Core Finance System and onto Oracle V12.2021 during the Pandemic implemented Oracle Cloud Finance System and No PO No Pay policy while the team were working remotely from home, trained, and written standard operating procedures, supporting the wider business during the process.A member of the Shared Services Forum and Accounts Payable Association I have attended courses and workshops over the last 10 Years to share Best Practice with other companies.

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  Counthill Secondary School