• Promoted to manage higher risk projects, providing strategic insights & updates to senior management on key issues.• Leading two high-risk project areas (hubs) within finance systems and processes for Making Tax Digital for Income Tax Self-Assessment, acting as the primary liaison between project teams and financial departments to address specific scenarios, issues and feature requirements.• Directly managing and mentoring junior staff, improving team performance through targeted training, support, and managing HR responsibilities as well as retaining oversight of their projects to ensure compliance and timely completion.• Evaluating future project impacts for the programme board, assessing financial implications, dependencies, and legislative mandates to ensure strategic alignment with departmental goals.• Accredited high-risk change programs, assessing financial impacts and challenging any proposed processes lacking robust financial controls.• Represented finance areas as a key stakeholder, ensuring change requirements were delivered and tested to high standards.• Representing Financial Accreditation at programme board meetings to propose adjustments to project timelines & scopes, optimising resource utilisation and risk management.

• Providing assurance of Finance Systems for HMRC projects in the Income Tax Self Assessment and Penalty Reform areas within the Making Tax Digital service, ensuring financial impacts are thoroughly assessed and challenging any proposed processes that lack solid financial controls.• Conducting risk assessments on proposed changes in accordance with Financial Accreditation Design Standards.• Advising project managers and other stakeholders on the implementation of financial requirements, ensuring alignment with IFRS standards, HMRC Finance Systems Blueprint and HMRC Data Framework.• Ensuring successful delivery of change and alignment to financial systems and processes with Accounting Standards, Data and Internal Controls.• Creating financial journey process maps for the proposed IT solutions.• Maintaining accurate and up-to-date Financial Accreditation Design Standards (FADS) document across all projects by recording core change information, risks, decisions, and outstanding issues throughout the project lifecycle.• Managing and tracking live service issues (LSI) within project hubs, ensuring we have enough information to know why an LSI is finance impacting and what the proposed solution and timeline is.

• Managing, co-ordinating and reviewing financial and systems change processes and procedures; responsible for overseeing any developments to boost operational efficiency and optimal performance. • Responsible for overseeing any developments to boost operational efficiency and optimal performance.• Developing, designing and testing BI Reports and Dashboards using Qlik Sense; collaborating with cross-functional finance teams to gather detailed specifications for data and report requirements.• Working in alliance with financial system users to identify and drive system changes and improvements through to implementation.• Sharing, presenting and modelling best practice across government; working in coalition to influence meaningful multi-client changes.• Managing publication of financial guidance internally; liaising with Subject Matter Experts to ensure relevant material is up to date, and technical concepts are expressed clearly and concisely.• Establishing standard user access profiles for different categories of users of the financial system.• Reviewing and monitoring cross-departmental changes, arranging recharges accordingly.• Instrumental in assisting with the management of shared services contracts via tracking of Service Level agreements and Key Performance Indicators.• Significantly reducing the level of debt by working in conjunction with our shared services and internal requisitions team to resolve underlying issues swiftly.• Creating training materials in form of text guides as well as a series of ‘How To’ videos to allow new users to make full use of new software implemented such as Qlik Sense – a business intelligence tool.

• Provided comprehensive financial support, advice and information across the Trust• Managed, created and presented monthly performance reports to the board of Senior directors • Ensured proper management of debtors and creditors to vastly strengthen the Trust’s liquidity position.• Supported the Trust in improving and maintaining its BPPC target; minimising legal claims by swiftly resolving queries relating to aged creditors. • Assisted with annual accounts as required; liaised with shared service providers, ensuring robust and accurate information for year-end debtors and creditors.• Managed charity investments accurately through preparing month-end and year-end charity accounts.• Developed and sent monthly charity statements to Fund Managers; proactively assisted with any queries raised by Charity Auditors.• Filed monthly CIS returns, ensuring compliance in accordance with HMRC guidelines.• Project Lead for internal and external audits; managed and oversaw all audit requests, analysed internal processes to meet audit requirements and collaborated fluidly with key stakeholders.• Ensured that the Trust had apt internal controls systems in place to minimise risk exposure; by working closely with the LCFS, Internal and External Auditors. • Project Lead on the implementation of new financial software focusing on financial reporting, forecasting and Budget setting; liaised with finance colleagues to determine their requirements/needs from the software as well as our IT department on the technicalities of the rollout. • Systems Accountant responsibilities included creation of reports using XML, Macro and SQL; ensured that users have the correct level of access to the various different functions in our Financial Management System.

• Provided seamless financial support to collate, prepare and interpret reports and budgets in a timely manner.• Investigated invoicing/purchasing variances; inputted information onto the financial information systems accurately.• Raised non stock requisitions and liaised with the financial shared services to discuss payment queries raised by Trust suppliers.• Raised invoices and recharges to service users and/or external organizations as agreed by service lead.• Created comprehensive spread sheets and leveraged financial data within to reflect required timescales accordingly upon request of the trust or outside agencies under The Freedom of Information Act 2000.

• Assisted with and completed self-assessments for company directors and other clients (using CCH software).• Managed bookkeeping for small to medium sized companies (using VT Transaction+ and QuickBooks) and executed basic payroll duties (using Moneysoft - Payroll Manager 100).• Created detailed spread sheets and manipulated data within to provide any information required easily upon request.• Processing sales invoices and taking client payments.• Coordinating the on boarding of new clients ensuring where appropriate HMRC authorisation codes are requested and closing clients where appropriate.• Submission of Companies House Confirmation Statements.

• Creating user accounts by giving them appropriate level of access to the RiO clinical system. • Resolving clinical issues, reversing incorrect appointment outcomes, correcting user mistakes such as removal of documents from the clinical system and searching for patients missing NHS numbers on National Spine. • Data entry and cleansing for data quality purposes, working on both Mental Health and Community versions of RiO clinical systems.