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Nine Elms, England, United Kingdom

• Senior financial role operating as a Finance Director, reporting directly to the Board. Key responsibilities included providing strategic financial leadership, overseeing financial operations and modernising finance.
• Review the monthly management accounts, ensuring accurate insight on financial performance is provided to the Board and senior management team.
• Maintain and coordinate the management / financial accounting, management reporting and budgeting activities.
• Monitor overhead expenditure and evaluate business cases for investment decisions.
• Oversee the core financial operations including accounts payable, accounts receivable and payroll.
• Oversee the cash management of the organisation, including cashflow forecasting and working capital management.

Reading, United Kingdom

• Senior Finance & Commercial Business partner to the Senior Leadership Team within the Digital, Strategy & Transformation function.
• Oversee the monthly reporting, forecasting, and budget cycles, challenging the budget holders on performance variances, and driving understanding of operational cost drivers.
• Ensuring expenditure governance controls are in place, align to corporate policies and are appropriately adhered to.
• Support the IT function in the negotiation of strategic contracts, delivering data analysis, insight, and commercial awareness to support business decisions.
• Primary point of contact for financial and commercial link into wider Group functions
• Managed a team of eighteen, with five direct reports, with responsibilities for Contract Management, Commercial Negotiation, Accounts Payable, and Financial management & reporting.

Reading, United Kingdom

• Accountable for preparation of operational and capital budgets and forecasts, including unit cost and development of appropriate output metrics enabling.
• Define and implement a control environment that meets corporate governance requirements on operational and capital expenditure.
• Business partner operational teams to analyse spend and provide insight into key cost drivers.
• Review investment cases, ensuring all costs appropriately considered and forecast, including investment benefits and operational cost impact.
• Ensure financial controls, such as balance reconciliations, accruals & prepayments reviews and cash flow forecasts are performed monthly.
• Managed a team of eight, with three direct reports.

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for agreeing Value of Work Done (VOWD) and forecast on Thames Tideway Tunnel programme and three other major capital programmes, following review and challenge of key variances to budget.
• Collaborating and jointly delivering the monthly & quarterly performance reporting packs for the Major Projects function. Commended by central capital finance teams for the quality and clarity of the submissions.
• Ensuring all project costs and revenues are correctly accounted for in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and Regulatory Accounting Guidelines (RAG)
• Managed a team of three direct reports

London, United Kingdom

• Key liaison on strategic programme to the central strategic planning team, responsible for delivering the Thames Tideway Tunnel (TTT) elements of Thames Water’s Price Review to Ofwat
• Thames Water representative on the TTT Information Systems (IS) Portfolio Steering Board reviewing, challenging and approving funding requests for all IS projects.

Reading, United Kingdom

• Developing strong stakeholder relationships with the Senior Leadership team to understand their business objectives and risks to those objectives. Working with them and their teams to provide support and guidance on.
• Accountable for the delivery of audit assignments across multiple business areas, through supporting the audit seniors in the identification of risks, development of appropriate audit programmes and reporting of key.
• Identifying and delivering continuous improvements within the function through post audit appraisals, learning from each audit assignment and discussing proposed changes with the whole team.
• Identifying development opportunities for the senior auditors through the personal performance appraisal process following each audit assignment, supporting them in their personal development.Key Achievements
• Assisting colleagues in the delivery of a new audit management system, specifically reviewing the fieldwork aspect of the audit process, identifying and documenting the different stages in the process, key milestones.
• Completed the Foundation Leadership Programme.

Reading, United Kingdom

• Developing and implementing new governance processes and guidelines for the delivery of data tables to Ofwat as part of the August and December PR14 submissions.
• Leading the working group meetings, discussing progress of each of the business areas against plan, highlighting risks to the delivery of the data tables, and agreeing items to be escalated to the steering group for.
• Creating & presenting update summaries on progress, risks and proposed action plans to the PR14 Steering Group and Corporate Planning Steering Board and written reports to the Executive and main Board.Key Achievements
• Establishing the governance processes for the data tables submissions, which included the development of a RACI (Responsible, Accountable, Consulted & Informed), set-up of a RAIDO (Risks, Assumptions, Issues.

Reading, United Kingdom

- Developing a good communication network with the Leadership team to understand key risks and concerns, manage expectations and promote audit objectives. - Planning and leading risk-based audits in key business areas including, Capital Delivery, Economic Regulation, Supply Chain and Customer Service. - Understanding the end-to-end process through planning.

Bracknell, United Kingdom

- Managing clearance meetings with the European leadership team.- Leading and managing a number of audit assignments involving coordinating other members of the audit team. - Performing risk assessments, analysing and identifying key risks and applying it to audit planning.- Identifying the key areas for investigation, preparing reports on findings and.

Newbury, United Kingdom

- Responsible for managing the complete audit process on behalf of companies with a turnover of up to £400 million, including audit planning and routine fieldwork involving verifying financial reports to ensure compliance, calculating corporation tax liability and VAT compliance. - Gaining invaluable and extensive experience in specialist audit work in the.

Oxted, United Kingdom

- Project managing the design of innovative solutions tailored towards specific requirements of clients including coordinating vital engineering resources.- Additionally responsible for researching and recommending new products for inclusion in the company portfolio.- Writing high impact sales proposals as well as preparing and delivering educational.

Oxted, United Kingdom

Responsible for the maintenance of the core in-house IT systems, managing the client support helpdesk and providing full training on all products within the X.COMM portfolio.