• Managing the East Coast efficiencies portfolio for £287m of CAPEX efficiencies and £47m of OPEX efficiencies. Including audit assurance work to evidence the efficiencies for the ORR.• Leading a team to manage the Support Functions, Customer Experience and Operations OPEX accounts with a £90m annual budget. • Prepare and present the overall East Coast OPEX Results to the Regional Senior Stakeholders, circa £300m OPEX budget per year. • Business Partner with a variety of different areas in the business to create the Route Scorecard, including target setting.• Preparing and presenting the Route Scorecard results periodically to the Route Director and the Route Finance Director. • Managing cross industry relationships by working with LNER on the East Coast Partnership project.• Provide detailed analysis to management on Efficiencies, OPEX Results, Accruals, Training Data and any other ad-hoc reporting requirements. • Created Power BI Dashboards to monitor Modernising Maintenance, Training Wastage and Accruals. This has saved time by eliminating Excel manipulation and provides robust reporting to Senior Management to assist with decision making. • Taking the lead on the OPEX Re-Forecast process for the East Coast Route to aid my development. • Leading on the East Coast CP7 Efficiencies submission.• Taking a key role on the CP7 OPEX submission.• Covering for the East Coast Head of Financial Control & Analysis when they are on leave. • Statutory Year-End Account returns and submissions.• Continuous Improvement - Always looking for ways to work more efficiently.

• Leading a team to manage the Works Delivery CAPEX portfolio with a £100m annual budget and the OPEX accounts with a £2m annual budget.• Analysing and presenting the CAPEX and OPEX results to the Works Delivery Director on a periodic basis.• Collating all budget information for Works Delivery and presenting to the Route Finance Director and Route Financial Controller. • Leading the team to drive process improvements in reporting to drive efficiencies within the team. • Ensuring the team have all the tools and resources to complete CAPEX and OPEX budgets within strict deadlines. • Challenge project managers on their CAPEX & OPEX forecast profiles for both cost and volume.• Report efficiencies in individual route trackers in relation to Works Delivery portfolios.• FPM Reporting.

• Support and challenge Project Managers through periodic COWD reviews• Collating and understanding commentary against periodic CAPEX results for periodic reviews• Prepare and present periodic OPEX results to Management and Business Partners • FPM Reporting• Periodic Headwinds & Efficiencies analysis • Providing work cover for Band 3 annual leave• F4 Red and Amber analysis• Creation of new year projects in OP, enabling authority papers to be processed before the year-end• Managing the Track Change Control process for Works Delivery• Periodic Negative Accrual analysis • Converting reports into Power B.I to save staff time• Creation of Works Delivery cost variance file to enable a better understanding of periodic results• Ad-Hoc requests from Business Partners

• Preparation of monthly CAPEX & OPEX results for Track, Signalling and E&P• Present and explain periodic CAPEX results to SRAM and RAMs• Presentation of OPEX results to management• Support and challenge Project Managers through periodic COWD reviews• Support RAMs with annual Business Planning process• Produce monthly variance reporting for cost and volume• Periodic analysis of Contingency levels on CAPEX projects• Reconciliation of the OTM and Grinders • Manage Change Control for CAPEX projects • Delivering periodic analysis to the SRAM when managers post was vacant• Challenging deliverers on their COWD submission and collating commentary• Periodic review to manager of Track, Signalling and E&P across the route• Developing cost and volume analysis packs to improve understanding of overall position

• Prepare monthly management accounts for £55 million turnover entity.• Production of monthly M.I. for commercial activity.• Support & challenge traded services within the annual business planning process.• Lead on Budget & forecasting support for traded services.• Train Budget holders on Oracle Financials system• Train new staff members on financial procedures and mentor to student placement• Processing all journals within the management accounts • Assisting in the year end close down.• Assisting in statutory account preparation• Source tax planning advice from third party providers • Volunteering project with the Commercial Finance team working in the community

• Working on the implementation of the Procure to Pay system (P2P)• Designed and delivered training packages on the P2P system• Travelling to other bases in North Yorkshire to train Financial Administration staff on processing journals• Using LAGAN CRM system to distribute work to colleagues • Investigated and resolved a high number of financial queries from schools• Ordered equipment for disabled children at schools and managed the funding for equipment

• Working on the implementation of the new Oracle Financials R12 system• Developed and delivered training packages for the new Accounts Payable system• Involved in year-end closedown procedures • Regular bank reconciliations• Processing recharges• Producing budget monitoring reports• Processing VAT adjustments• Correcting Accounts Payable and Payroll errors

• Payment of invoices to external suppliers • Setting up supplier details and bank accounts on Oracle Financials• Answering both internal and external queries• Maintaining positive relationships with internal and external customers• Managing NYCC´s income and allocating correctly• Responsible for downloading daily banking data from Santander and Barclaycard • Successfully meeting year-end deadlines for the payment of invoices