- Manage the Operations cost base that entails people, property, market data and outsourcing costs.- Review capex and project recharges with project managers.- Monthly Flash & commentary – Review with CFO.- Collaborated across all of Operations to improve forecasts.- Quarterly balance sheet review ensuring all tangible assets are correctly treated.- Built strong relationships with CFO and COO (Operations cost base sits under COO function) influencing key decisions and delivering ahead of budget.- Review finance packs and present to each business unit/Head of COO post month end.- Lead the continuous improvement forum driving change and efficient processes.- Rebranded business reporting to improve productivity and produce better insight driven from COO feedback.- Established and maintain strong financial controls over the Operations division.- Support business on mitigating budget risks and deliver cost opportunities.- Fortnightly business updates tracking upcoming events to improve commerciality.- Lead financial controllers through shared best practice measures enabling the appropriate empowerment, delegation, offer feedback and recognition.- Prepared business insights to create strategic plans with commercial options.- Budget - working collaboratively with business units ensuring the strategic plans are adopted and understood and key risks/opportunities identified.

- Support month end close.- Monthly Flash & commentary – Review with Head of Finance.- Built strong relationships with the Change Executive, Change business units and Customer Service Group Executive influencing key decisions and delivering financial results.- Assist senior executives with strategic plans by analysing financial/market trends and internal improvements. ​- Coordinated the implementation of performance management reviews providing better insight to business units/Exec.- Capture monthly capex costs working with PMO team.- Support business on mitigating budget risks and deliver cost opportunities.- Authorise FTE changes requested from business units.- Lead business support teams through shared best practice measures enabling the appropriate empowerment, delegation, offer feedback and recognition.- Budget - working collaboratively with business units ensuring the strategic plans are adopted and understood and key risks/opportunities identified.

- Manage the Global Payments cost base that entails cheque, cash and payment services costs.- Developed strong relationships with Global Payments Exec and business leaders influencing/ challenging key decisions and support the delivery of financial results.- Monthly Flash and commentary.- Present finance packs to all business units and Exec team.- Provide trend analysis supporting the business strategy.- Financial management, optimisation and control of the cost base.- Coordinate structure change and ensure all changes were compliant with Group change procedures and processes.- Produced timely and insightful ad hoc financial analysis, scenario analysis and MI supporting BAU plans that influenced strategic and operational business decision making.- Support business on mitigating budget risks and deliver cost opportunities.- 5 Year Operating Plan - working collaboratively with business units ensuring the strategic plans are adopted and understood and key risks/opportunities identified.- Simplify and improve existing financial processes.

- 5 Year Operating Plan – prepare Insurance and Wealth division budget reviewing business data, understanding cost drivers and challenge from a cost saving prospective.- Support delivery of month end.- Monthly Flash & commentary.- Produce and present the Insurance Executive Committee budget pack providing insight of budget and cost saving initiatives.- Relationship/stakeholder management across the Insurance & Wealth finance team.- Liaise with Insurance & Wealth business teams understanding costs drivers throughout month end.- Prepare month end finance packs and review with business units.

- Month end reporting.- Cost saving programmes driving initiatives to reduce costs within the business (e.g. travel free week).- Rolling Forecast – Liaise with business on outturn and challenge budget risks against strategic plan. Review with head of finance.- Month end flash review with Head of Finance.- Franchise allocations – apportion business costs across the franchises.- Monthly one-to-ones with India team.- Lead Global Finance Services India through shared best practice measures enabling the appropriate empowerment, delegation, offer feedback and recognition.- Graduate induction - Collaborated with graduates on 6-month programmes developing their skills, working on stakeholder management and build their finance knowledge.- Legal Entity reporting – apportion business costs to each of the entities across the bank.- Executive finance pack.- Support business on mitigating budget risks and deliver cost opportunities.- Project reporting and reviewing progress of projects with technology teams within my function.- Budget - Prepare budget for business which involved receiving business data and understanding the drivers behind the detail and challenge from a cost saving prospective.- Balance Sheet review – Review accruals, prepayments, and provisions with financial control at month end close.

- Prepare regulatory reporting returns to external organisations such as the Bank of England, UK Government and the British Bankers association.- Identify trends and points of interest datasets and reviewing with head of Regulatory Reporting.- Create controls within the packs reducing risks and avoid inaccurate data to the Bank of England.- Continuous improvement – identifying and improving current processes/developing new processes.

- Prepare monthly reporting for the Finance Transformation Programme business units.- Provide daily movement reports throughout month end for each project and review with project managers.- Produce and present monthly finance/project pack to head of Finance Transformation Programme.- Balance Sheet substantiation.- Produce/review capitalisation and amortisation balances ensuring they are adhering to company policy.- Regularly review processes ensuring they are conducted efficiently and accurately.- Prepare and process Accruals, Prepayments and month end journals.

- Preparation of monthly cost statements detailing material variances to Head of Group Communications.- Accruals and Prepayments for all sponsorship contracts.- Prepare monthly finance packs and review with all business units and Head of Group Communications.- Process accruals, prepayments and other journals.- Monthly Flash & commentary.- Supply senior stakeholders with MI data.- Suspense Account bank reconciliation.- Invoice processing in cover of absence.- Building relationships with all Comms business units/Exec of Group Communications.