Cathryn Hayhurst Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Manchester, England, Gb

Bradford, West Yorkshire, Gb

Bradford, West Yorkshire, Gb

Generating £600m profit from £1bn income Yorkshire Water balances investment in sustainable infrastructure and delivery of performance commitments. I lead the team of Finance Business Partners including those supporting our Modernisation Programme. Within my team of 28 we drive performance with insight led analysis, build budgets and develop PR24 (5 year plan to align with our Regulatory Requirements). We also publish our regulatory accounts (which sits alongside our annual accounts) and handle all insurance claims.

Manchester, England, Gb

Business Partnering the Retail Support Centre for Food Operations and Transformation Programmes. Develop and support delivery of the 4 Year Plan across 2,500 food stores and 65,000 colleagues to deliver £1.6bn profit for our members and charitable causes. Business Partnered Central Division (turnover of £2.2bn and cash profit of £0.6bn) after successfully improving the performance of the Large Division to be integrated into geographical divisions.Providing a finance business partnering service - initiating insightful Management Information in order to optimise financial performance by operations and linking together all areas of finance including investment appraisal, commercial, statutory etc. As Britain's largest mutual our Leadership team considers the balance of membership, community engagement, sustainable sourcing and financial return.Leading a cross-functional team to step change national Productivity reporting and Payroll accounting.

Kemble Drive, Swindon, Gb

Leading the North region's Finance Business Partnership service with an operating contribution of £7m per annum and repeat project investment of £20m per annum.Shaping the strategic and financial plans with the Regional Leadership Team. Business areas include mansion visitor attractions, retail, outdoors, catering and accommodation. Responsible for embedding the new finance model in the region including operational understanding, accurate operational & project forecast transfer, and detailed budget submission.Project board member for investments greater than £1m, bringing critical challenge to influence the board as appropriate.Cathryn also provided financial and commercial expertise to the Renewable Energy Investment Programme which will generate 50 per cent of our energy from renewable sources and halve our fossil fuel consumption by 2020. She developed the funding structures for the full £35m programme along with setting up a new subsidiary company. Ensuring the programme achieves commercial returns is a key element of success and as such she remained on the National Board. She attended The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S) Finance Leaders Seminar in December 2014. The course is developed with University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.

London, Gb

On joining the Risk team in September 2008 on secondment from KPMG Cathryn has managed and lead teams in the Debt Finance and Sales Finance Specialist Risk Units. She managed a team assessing covenants on specialist funding structures including Asset Backed Lending and Leveraged Finance.Cathryn’s role was to identify potential impairment earlier, recommend appropriate corrective action and engage with the key stakeholders (relationship managers, credit, business support and fraud control unit). The team embedded a system (RiskFactor) throughout the organisation which became integral to the relationship managers. Cathryn specifically delivered this to the large and commercial businesses.

New York, Ny, Us

Cathryn worked with Boards, Funders and Pension Trustees on business plans, forecasts and security arrangements for underperforming companies. She also managed the trading and sale of insolvent companies.Her other roles within the department included: development and maintenance of the compliance and review system for advisory assignments, writing and presenting a continuous training programme for the department,  interviewing potential candidates, and mentoring and appraising junior staff.

Chartered Accountant

Qualified Insolvency Practitioner

Bsc Hons, Environmental Science (With A Year In North America)

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