James Anderton Email & Phone Number

Vancouver Island

Responsible for delivering First West’s annual budgeting process and reporting and assessing actual performance to budget.Management of business partnering function, acting as senior financial advisor to the executive leadership team, including IT, facilities, HR and the revenue producing banking divisions. Core focus on non interest income and expenses.Assessment of value add to the business for a range of initiatives including IT and software development projects, operational enhancements, branch strategy and ongoing investment in FTE.Responsible for cost management across First West through introduction of appropriate monitoring measures, processes and controls.Oversight of business cases, and the financial assessment of acquisitions and special projects.Providing leadership to colleagues at all levels by offering support, development opportunities and purposeful, constructive feedback as appropriate.

London, United Kingdom

Planning and conducting detailed reviews of hospital financial forecasts with a strong focus on assessing efficiency programmes.Coaching and mentoring hospital staff (from Board level executives to junior hospital staff) to provide direction and help improve their understanding of financial issues, their identification, monitoring and reporting of efficiencies and their reporting of financial and operational performance in order to meet regulatory demands.Planning, conducting and project managing detailed assessments of the financial performance, financial management and strategic plans of distressed hospitals and on-going monitoring of performance against agreed targets.Supporting distressed hospitals to develop new financial strategic plans to meet regulatory requirements and ensure wider strategic and operational objectives of the hospital aligned with new financial initiatives.Attendance at hospital Board meetings to assess Board performance and commitment to meeting efficiency targets.Use of professional judgment and integrity to report on hospital financial performance, adequacy of financial management and performance of senior staff to Board members at NHSI and Department of Health Ministers.

London, United Kingdom

Short term contract review of the bank’s Northern Irish loan portfolio, assessing the quality of the bank’s credit papers, the financial performance of customers, and providing specific recommendations for bank strategy in respect of each customer.Review of business plans and financial forecasts of the bank’s commercial customers and monitoring credit papers to ensure they followed bank policies.

Provided solutions and recommendations for directors, lenders and other stakeholders through leading multiple independent business reviews (IBRs), which were detailed reports that assessed the financial performance of organisations, their strategic plans, the quality of their financial management and provided commercial and strategic advice, supported by rigorous, highly detailed financial analysis.Review of complex model based financial forecasts included re-working financial models to undertake stress testing and sensitivity analysis.

London, United Kingdom

Worked autonomously on IBRs and as part of the team on larger scale restructuring projects including the review of a major UK sports retailer and a £70m turnover oil and gas business.Conducted and planned reviews of the financial performance of organisations and the strength of their financial forecasting to assess likelihood of meeting financial plans. Review of model based financial forecasts included re-working financial models to undertake stress testing and sensitivity analysis.

London, United Kingdom

Review of the financial performance of organisations and the strength of their financial forecasting to assess likelihood of meeting financial plans. Review of model based financial forecasts included re-working financial models to undertake stress testing and sensitivity analysis.Assessment of cash management policies and procedures and advice provided to improve current ways of working. Cash management crisis support.Managed the operations of solvent and insolvent reinsurance companies, subject to schemes of arrangement (court approved agreement with creditors), and the development of solvent schemes of arrangement.