A CIMA qualified Head of FP&A, adept at creating robust financial management and governance capabilities for growing organisations, to protect cashflow and profitability. Proficient at analysing and interpreting financial accounts and business performance data to produce insights for business leadership that targets where business performance needs to be addressed or can be improved. Significant experience leading major finance change initiatives to improve customer services, financial management and reporting capabilities, delivering maximum value to the business at optimum cost. Achievements include• Head of FP&A at Bord Gáis Energy, over a period of intense competition in the B2C and B2B market; led a major change programme to rapidly improve insight reducing reporting timelines by seven workdays. Worked with FC to upgrade ERP within 9 months enhancing reporting to reduce FP&A workload by 30% as a result. Developed team to automate data flow from source customer, operational and finance systems into a cloud-based data model to improve management access to deeper customer insight• Automated management reports in Hive over a compressed timeline during a period of rapid revenue growth (from £42m to £67m). Unlocked new capabilities for executive oversight of financial performance by geography, channel and product profitability in line with month end close. Worked alongside management in strategic review and decision on existing geographic operations, and a more flexible customer offering to create revenue diversity.Experienced team manager, Business Intelligence and Management Information, Business and Financial Strategy, Systems, Data and Business Transformation, Influential leader and committed team player, Data analytics and visualisation, Programme and Project Management, Forecasting and budgeting