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Edinburgh, Gb

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

CFO, leading the Finance function in support of the Adviser CEO and leadership team (c.£75bn AUA and c.£120m profit).Board and Risk & Control committee member. Business and Finance leadership team member.Delivery of 3 year business plan, forecasting, management accounts, insight analytics and investment appraisals.Project activity across a business disposal (c.£120m), Finance reporting enhancements to drive insight improvements and process efficiencies, organisational design and cost reduction initiatives.Culture team lead, rebuilding in the post-covid environment.

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Head of Finance providing business partnering to abrdn's Adviser Platforms and Wealth business CEO's and their leadership teams (c.£300m revenue)Leading and delivering monthly management reporting, 3-year business plan, reforecasting, insight analytics, cost reduction initiatives and restructuring.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Building and leading a business partnering team through restructuring, recruiting and developing a new team of c.30 colleagues to support stakeholders across the investment, adviserplatforms and personal wealth businesses together with the central functions.Finance Transformation steering group member and workstream lead across the 18-month implementation of new reporting, planning and allocations technology whilst also leading a stakeholder engagement groupDelivering new investment appraisal models to drive enhanced decision making across the investment product teams and change portfolioEnhancing the business planning process, establishing greater granularity and understanding of the revenue and cost drivers to support ExCo and Board insight and decision makingDriving reporting improvements to support more focused stakeholder discussions and actions and subsequently leading a number of cost reduction activities (c.£70m)Investment Management Committee member, managing the investment business and establishing effective stakeholder relationshipsCompletion of PWC future CFO programme

Edinburgh, City Of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Building and leading a high performing team of business partners (17 FTE) across a number of teams; Insurance commercial, Change, CIO, Digital, Marketing, Customer Service and Central Functions.Delivering timely, accurate and insightful management reporting and analysis. Leading the 5 year business plan process and rolling forecasts.Member of the Insurance and CCO Executive committees shaping strategic directionFinance lead on a transformational Insurance acquisition, preparing ExCo and Board papers on strategic options and working with external consultants to deliverManaging the Bank cost base c.£500m and leading the delivery of significant savings. Finance lead on a cross-Bank strategic ‘2020’ programme delivering significant benefitsBuilt strong relationships with the leadership teams, influencing key pricing and investment decisionsDeveloped a risk and control frameworkEstablished and ran the Finance Graduate programme

Edinburgh, City Of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Business partnering the Insurance commercial team

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Leading and coordinating the Bank 5-year planning process and annual reforecastsDelivering the Bank monthly management accounts and Executive/Board reporting. Providing meaningful and timely insight to the Executive and Board. Process efficiency improvements and insight & analysis suite developmentCommunicating the Bank’s performance to key stakeholders both internally and externallyStakeholder management of Tesco GroupBank wide balanced scorecard and competitor analysis suite development and productionBuilding and developing a new team of 5 qualified accountants

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

London Area, United Kingdom

Finance analyst working across a number of business units including corporate, supply chain, commercial and treasury over a 4 year period. Deliverables included monthly reporting, planning, forecasting and project support. CIMA qualifications completedPrevious to this role I spent a year travelling around the world