CFO of leading humanitarian relief organisation with bases in USA, UK and France, working with communities in fragile settings across Africa, Middle East and Asia

Telos Consulting offers change management, consultancy and accounting services with a focus on the not for profit sector

Working with the Head Office of this exciting startup offering clean cooking gas to low income communities in Africa via an innovative smartphone app.

Led team providing programme and project management support to the two organisations pre-merger and post merger integration support.

Managing a transformation programme covering a number of projects across business strategy, systems & structure and culture

Managing Finance, Risk & Legal, Property, IT at AOHL, a £40m+ turnover national charity (formerly RNID)

Chairing Finance Committee and attending Trustee meetings for the leading UK equine education and participation charity.

Ongoing role offering strategic and financial advice and preparing budgets and management accounts for this successful social enterprise.

Interim role managing Finance, IT, Facilities and Hospitality. Achievements included improving internal controls and reporting, revised accounting policies to correct material errors in accounts, tendering audit and investment managers, strategic review of IT, leading strategy reformulation, running kennel refurbishment and office upgrade projects and delivering site redevelopment planning project which gained trustee approval for £5m site upgrade work.

Interim position covering all aspects of Finance. Focusing on forecasting, improving management reporting, preparing 2017 budget, VAT review and finance systems project.

Project managed add-on acquisition for a major department within UWL. Contributed to Board papers and assisted with contract negotiations with vendor. Completed acquisition planning including transition plan and communications plan.

Development, installation and testing of online branch accounting software for use by 200+ CAMRA branches.

Interim role covering the no.1 executive finance position at this leading UK campaign group. The contract was extended in order to put in place significant improvements in financial reporting, financial controls,budgeting and forecasting. During this period the audit was successfully put out to tender and the health and safety management improved.

Leading the team implementing the change from Sun Accounts / Proactis to Open Accounts / eBIS.

Led a consultancy team from Telos on a feasibility study for a PLICS installation at this NHS Foundation Trust. The project continued with work on a pilot project, business plan and implementation plan - the detailed work being carried out by a Telos associate.

Led a multi-functional change team in a transformation project, which involved setting up three programmes of work - reformulating organisational Strategy, agreeing future organisational Structure and agreeing on changes needed to Culture. The new structure was launched successfully with comprehensive employee consultation followed by assessment centres to select for new positions.This work drew on my strategic, organisational development and project management skills, using tools such as strategy mapping, change models and the Competing Values Framework.

This interim role commenced with a tight deadline for delivery of the statutory accounts with audit clearance achieved successfully. Subsequently created a full set of management accounts; wrote P&L and cashflow models for five year planning, proposed office move and new software investment; overhauled and renewed business processes; setup investment committee; restructured finance dept.

This was a complex project to reorganise the multi-employer pension provision: closing the DB scheme to future accrual and winding up the DC scheme, plus starting a new contract based alternative and rearranging the Group Life Assurance. It involved negotiations with the two sets of pension trustees and their advisers, consultation with employees, choosing a new provider and launching the new scheme. It also involved acting for the employers on the tri-annual valuation of the DB scheme, including setting up a contingent asset.

Director of £95m turnover national charity - with three major divisions: one of the largest veterinary practices in Europe, 180 shop retail chain and direct marketing. Responsibilities included Finance, IS, Procurement and Legacy Management and Internal Audit.Attended all Trustee meetings, committees and pension trustee meetings. Lead role in risk management, business development, legal and tax compliance, pensions and senior H&S role.Achievements included: moving finance towards business partner status, halving monthly reporting time, increasing fundraising margins by 1% pa through closer cost focus, identifying VAT savings of more than £1m, business and cash modelling for recession. In addition produced IS and web strategies and established a procurement strategy. Also jointly ran a major pensions project which saw the DB scheme closed to new entrants and a new Group Personal Pension scheme established.

Part time role at the UK's first food festival. This involved setting up managment reporting and budgeting and attending board meetings.

Member of Core Team of niche 'virtual' strategic consultancy working with FTSE 100 client base, specialising in Change Management and Organisational Development. Accountable for financial and strategic direction and consultancy, business strategy and financial planning, technical papers and standards. Projects worked on included restructuring project at a large BT division, management development at Boots and BT, change projects at British Gas and Geest.

Strategic finance role with operations in UK, France, Holland and Australia. Worked closely with Divisional CEO on strategic projects including acquisition investigations and integration in the UK and France. In addiiton to senior financial control and compliance role also responsible for divisional IT strategy, operational and ad hoc projects.

Accountabilities included group taxation and treasury, technical accounting, annual consolidation, acquisition integration, European financial control. This role brought experience of merger & acquisition work, company secretarial duties and banking and other advisory relationships.

This role involved running the finance department of a Fortune 500 subsidiary which made print finishing equipment. Experience gained included two acquisitions - one in UK and one in Germany. Acquired good business modelling experience including writing P&L and cash forecasting models and writing a financial planning system.

Mainly ran large audits for international subsidiaries or parastatals (nationalised industries).

Comprehensive audit and accountancy training working on a wide variety of client Head Offices (ie not referred work from London). Sectors included retail, manufacturing, shipping and financial services.The high quality training in Liverpool formed a lasting professional foundation for everything that I have done since.