Emma Irons Acma,Llb (Hons) Email & Phone Number

Shipston-on-Stour, GB

Finance Lead for a Strategic Cost transformation programme, involving multiple high profile projects to deliver structural, cost reduction and cultural change.

Coventry, England, United Kingdom

• Responsibility for embedding and delivering Strategic Cost performance, and culture with a focus on driving value and efficiency across the Board, Executive and wider Society. Part of the leadership team for a.
• Creation of a Strategic Cost Roadmap that interlocks KPIs, efficiencies, transformation and IT resilience strategies, with the Society’s Strategic Objectives.
• Lead for the monthly Executive cost forum providing greater ownership, cost culture, governance, and insight into Society cost performance with focus on value, risk and opportunity monitoring.
• Finance lead for the Strategic CIDO transformation programme (Change, IT and Data) to pivot from a Waterfall to a scaled agile operating model, to improve efficiency, and drive member value.
• Part of the Finance leadership team and Tower lead for a strategic three-year finance transformation including system change, automation and definition of a new target operational model and control framework to deliver.
• Proposed and project managed the transfer and wind up of the Society’s DB Pension Scheme to a Master Trust securing longer term self-sufficiency and achieving improved resilience and governance. Included achieving.

Coventry, England, United Kingdom

• Established a new team to provide greater focus on transformation, implementing a Finance Business Partnering function, achieving increased Stakeholder accountability, commercial challenge, and insight.
• Delivery of significant MI KPI dashboarding, automation whilst upskilling team capability
• Provision of Cost reporting and models for the Executive Monthly and Quarterly Business Reviews improving visibility of cost trajectory, benefit tracking allowing earlier realignment action.
• Transformation of Change portfolio Revenue and Capital Reporting, Assurance and Governance to enable optimum prioritisation of investment funding and value delivery across the Society.
• Transformation of the Treasury Back Office function to ensure clear segregation, compliance, and control.
• Early Careers development via the implementation of a Finance Graduate Scheme and a Level 7 Apprentice scheme to build future capability and talent. Achievement of CIMA accreditation to enhance candidate attraction.

Coventry, United Kingdom

Responsibility for the provision of commercial insight, planning and forecasting to the Executive and Board to allow transparent tracking of performance against Strategic KPIs. Ownership of the financial Budget and Five-Year Strategic Planning Process, including delivery of Board and Executive papers. Responsible for coordinating all financial aspects of.

Stratford Upon Avon, Warwickshire

Responsibility for the provision of commercial insight and challenge for the Life business to enable effective monitoring of business performance against strategic objectives. Finance representative on Governance committees, Life operational management committees and Strategic project boards.Responsible for all aspects of Life Division monthly.

Stratford Upon Avon, Warwickshire

Led the Planning and Analysis Team with oversight of Monthly Board and profitability reporting for Group, and analysis and support for strategic projects and individual business divisions and units. Responsible for the design and implementation of a Business Partnering function within the Group to further support and challenge the business in the meeting.

Stratford Upon Avon, Warwickshire

Responsibility to integrate and improve effectiveness of existing financial reporting and planning teams by capability assessment, process imporvement and review. Oversight for Group Planning process, Board reporting (P&L) as well as Statutory and Management reporting.

Stratford Upon Avon, Warwickshire

Additional responsbilities for operational areas of the Group FInance Department as well as Management and Statutory reporting and compliance. Overriding purpose of appointment was to improve team performance, process controls and communication with the wider business.

Stratford Upon Avon, Warwickshire

Responsbility for wider Finance Technical team covering statutory reporting, regulatory reporting, Tax, Compliance and systems.Successes included a Navdynamics systems implementation and creation of a sefl serve reporting environment for expense management.Lead annual accounts process implementing FRS29 and conducted a review of IFRS.

Stratford Upon Avon, Warwickshire

Management of the Group and Subsidiary Reporting Functions including: Management, Statutory and Regulatory reporting, balance sheet reconciliations and controls.Initially recruited to reduce down Month End process and establish a clear year end consolidation process. Achieved a 50% reduction in time spent.

Coventry, United Kingdom

Management of the European Finance function for the Electronic materials division of the US owned group. Responsible for the legal and tax accounting, for both US and Local GAAP, month end and year end consolidation and shared services for 7 countries.Role included leading the restructuring of the European Division and a Global implementation of SAP and.

Coventry, United Kingdom

Management of the European Tax and Secretarial function. Responsbilities included Customs duty and VAT and company tax structures.

Responsibilities for all aspects of Financial Accounting and Management reporting

Warwick

Financial accountant responsible for reconciliation, month end consolidation and systems migration for a Joint Venture client.

Post Graduate Diploma In Strategic Leadership, Strategic Leadership, Pass

Diploma assessing strategic leadership through change and reasonings for corporate failure in change.

Diploma In Russian, Russian

Postgraduate diploma in Russian from Univerisity of Surrey. Course included 6 months ERASMUS scholarship to Vilnius University in Lithuania

Llb Hons, Law

A Levels