Nick Carroll Email & Phone Number

London, GB

London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Chichester, UK

• Responsibilities Led Surrey’s financial strategy, planning and budgeting, including: working with Cabinet, Corporate Board and finance teams to facilitate effective business and financial planning; extending and.
• Jointly led multi-disciplinary Lean thinking project team to review and improve business and financial planning.
• Implemented first phase of improvements to business and financial planning, making it more transparent, engaging, collaborative and robust.
• Completed Surrey’s Medium Term Financial Plan and relevant Cabinet and Council reports.
• Briefed senior officers and members and prepared Surrey CC’s input into reviews of local government finance, business rates pool and pilot bids and responses to financial settlements and other funding proposals
• Reviewed and improved operation of Investment Panel that approves over £100m capital spending annually.

London, United Kingdom

• Responsibilities
• Provide technical information and guidance on accounting, auditing, value for money assessments and other audit reporting across six sectors, including to audit firms.
• Plan, draft, commission and edit technical guidance to maintain its currency and utility.
• Ensure auditors receive clear, accurate and timely responses to their technical queries.
• Proactively communicate technical news and practical directions to 1,200 auditors weekly.
• Design, co-ordinate and manage programmes toPRINCE2 principles to deliver professional training.

• Responsibilities
• Lead on financial management and financial reporting knowledge and manage regional advisors.
• Represent the Commission as a speaker at conferences and workshops.
• Secretary to Local Government Financial Management Advisory Group, bringing together senior officers from the Commission, local and central government, and the profession.
• Expert advisor to national reports, including World Class Financial Management.
• Develop quality assured audit guides to support improvement and raise income. Achievements

• Responsibilities
• Provide technical research, advice and guidance for subscribers across all of IPF’s Best Value Advisory Services, covering legal, professional, procurement and performance issues.
• Lead and manage IPF’s Best Value Advisory Services for finance and corporate services by providing practical workshops, guidance, bulletins and subscriber helpline.
• Support colleagues providing services to other subscriber streams. Achievements
• Ensured client satisfaction to grow and maintain subscriber numbers and exceed income targets.
• Developed and ran a series of ten practical, interactive workshops, each for around 70 delegates that helped ensure councils prepared a new statutory report with under a year’s notice.

• Responsibilities
• Develop local government financial policy, standards and technical advice.
• Liaise with government departments, other professional bodies and ASB about CIPFA’s professional standards and guidance for local government.
• As Secretary to CIPFA/LASAAC Joint Committee, liaise with ASB, LASAAC, CIPFA Council and Local Government Committee to keep the Local Government SORP up to date.
• Provide practitioner support and guidance on accounting, financial management, public procurement and other legislation affecting local government.
• Support practitioners by: designing, organising and promoting conferences and seminars, delivering presentations, drafting, commissioning and editing publications, preparing bulletins and press releases and responding.

Worked as a trainee accountant in the three main professional sections of the Treasurer's Department of: Accountancy, Audit and Technical. Passed all professional exams first time.Managed the revised estimates, accounts closure and audit liaison for central service departments.Managed a small team to provide the full range of financial support to Surrey's.

Management Development Programme

Cipfa

Department, Electronic And Electrical Engineering

I carried out postgraduate research into biosenors. I published two academic papers: - Thin-film antimony–antimony-oxide enzyme electrode.

Bachelor Of Science - Bsc, Biochemistry, 2:1

Bsc Hons (2:1), Biochemistry

Education record