Kathryn Trower Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Working on producing a turnaround budget for 23/24 and a medium-term financial plan.Provide mentoring and coaching support to the Head of Finance and assurance to the trustees.Revamped the management accounts and reporting packs to the Finance, Audit & Operations committee, and the main Board of trustees.

Key Achievements;- Delivered the organisations first medium term financial plan- Enabled the distribution of £10m of Emergency Funding during lockdown- Developed a resourcing plan to accompany the budget- Implemented policies, procedures, templates and how to guides across all ears of the business. Generating toolkits enabling managers to 'self-serve'- Secured several high value commercial contracts for services- Sourced and onboarded a new IT support firm- Achieved Cyber Essential accreditation in June 2022

Key Achievements;- Turned the charity around from a £4.2m forecasted deficit to deliver a small surplus at year-end in the first year (Finance Director, Action for Children).- Drove down the cost of support services by 25% (c. £5m), reducing the number of accounts payable invoices by over 50% (c. 25k invoices) and the aged debt by 50% (c. £1m), increased rebates from suppliers, and increasing the use of self-service activity (Finance Director, Action for Children).- Achieved the takeover of 42 children’s nurseries from a failing charity in a six-week period. Designing a commercial model to turn them around financially. Moved from a £0.7m loss to a £0.3m profit after a full year of trading (Finance Director, Action for Children).- Delivered c. £2m savings per annum from procurement tendering activity (Finance Director, Action for Children).

Key Achievements;- Carried out a full priority-based budget review of all funded areas. Resulting in achieving cost savings and the ability to re-invest in high priority activities (Head of Strategic Finance, National Counter-Terrorism HQ).- Achieved a vastly accelerated budget setting and approval timetable, bringing it forward by six months. Improving business planning for central government and local Police forces (Head of Strategic Finance, National Counter-Terrorism HQ).- Secured £70m of funding for a 10-year ICT project and £20m for a multi-occupancy building during a period when funding especially capital was difficult to obtain (Head of Strategic Finance, National Counter-Terrorism HQ).- Designed and rolled out the funding allocation model, monitoring and reporting processes. Delivered a first-class financial function from a high-performing team. Resulting in enhanced financial control (Head of Strategic Finance, National Counter-Terrorism HQ).

Sussex, Uk

Sussex, Uk