A senior strategic leader specialising in finance with seventeen years’ experience of working in the NHS, across Acute, Community, and Commissioning sectors’. I am currently the Associate Director of Finance at NHS Lewisham CCG, working with my Executive colleagues to develop and sustain an Integrated Care System within the London Borough of Lewisham. I have successfully laid the foundations for this next stage of development for Lewisham, through an enviable record of overcoming a severely challenged financial environment. This has included the provision of financial leadership delivering circa £20m QIPP programmes, to achieve financial balance with ‘clean’ audit opinions over consecutive years at NHS Lewisham CCG, and also previously at NHS Wirral CCG as Deputy Chief Financial Officer.Key skills:• Effectively communicating complex financial information to large groups including clinical and non-clinical members of Boards/Governing body and partner organisations.• Natural leadership skills with significant experience of leading and developing finance teams to raise standards, and ensure teams are outward facing to support budget holders in the delivery of corporate objectives and services to patients.• Provision of strategic financial leadership as evidenced in delivery of Long Term Financial Models and service development strategies to underpin two successful foundation trust applications, and development of five year sustainability plans – including triangulation of finance with service developments and co-ordination of strategic plans with those of partner organisations.• Developing robust systems of financial control and ensuring compliance within local teams, and providing assurance on delivery of efficiency savings and value for money to support achievement of organisational key statutory financial duties.• Skilled in team and matrix working demonstrating the ability to cover multiple work streams each with different and independent lines of accountability, whilst also autonomously being accountable for individual CCG performance and achievement of statutory financial duties.• Skilled in developing corporate governance and reporting arrangements for autonomous local management boards, ensuring local freedoms to act are supported, but also compliant with governing body statutory financial controls and regulations. • Assessment of complex business cases and advising on financial implications.