Brian Smith Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

I first joined the Audit Committee in 2016, becoming Chair in 2019 and at the same time becoming a trustee of an organisation with over £300m assets.I was credited with having transformed the Audit Committee during my term of office, despite this being a period of intense change in the Finance function.I focussed particularly on the financial strength of.

I supported development of a new strategic plan with a view to the broader planning and control cycle, reviewed the College's standing committee structure and was catalytic in ensuring that the Board received regular management accounts after a change of constitution.While originally appointed for 4 years, I was invited to stay on the Trustee Board for an.

United Kingdom

During late February 2020, I took the lead in flagging up the College's exposure to Covid, at a time when the pandemic was having serious effects in Northern Italy,

United Kingdom

The church is a C14th Grade 1 listed building. It faced a £37k cost for an urgent project to repair a leaking roof. I ran a grant campaign which ultimately reduced the impact on church funds to £7k.

London

Mobius Life was an independent institutional pension platform with £6bn funds under management, sold by Alexander Forbes Group in 2013 in a management buy out. I was a member of the management team responsible for transitioning to independence.Following the buy-out, I successfully designed and implemented a planning and reporting process with monthly.

London, United Kingdom

From May 2012, I acted as Divisional CFO, reporting to the Divisional CEO. I led the delivery of the Strategic Plan, Three Year Plan, interim results and managed the transition during a period of internal reorganisation. I was personally responsible for €20m pa profit improvement by the French Group Risk business, premium income €150m, by analysis of.

I developed and embedded management information to support Divisional management, together with formal quarterly reviews of performance for the Group CEO and CFO. I continually emphasised importance of sales, expenses, lapses and mortality as profit drivers. I also briefed Group representatives on local boards to ensure management were challenged.

I completely reworked 2008 economic capital consolidation at short notice, reconciling it to IFRS and re- engineering the entire process. I then accelerated production of the key results by four months at 2009 year end.I also reinstated the planning cycle and introduced quarterly reporting.

I was recruited to strengthen Group Finance after the £4bn acquisition of the Swedish group Skandia, which doubled the size of the Group, making it a top 50 FTSE company, with insurance, banking and asset management businesses.

I was Financial Controller for the European life and general insurance businesses. As such, my role included leading the divisional approach to IFRS conversion and European Embedded Value, while introducing a pragmatic approach to Group reporting for smaller businesses.