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 Responsibility for driving financial position of the school, analysing and identifying opportunities for cost savings and improving financial position. Development and consistent monitoring of annual budget, ensuring tracking as required, making amendments following sign off as necessary, to make certain budgets are met. Collaboration with new suppliers forming stakeholder relationships and negotiating to deliver value for money on new contracts and resources. Implementation of proposed changes to procedures and systems, ensuring adherence to DfE financial regulations and guidelines as stipulated by Local Authority policies and procedures. Leadership of entire project, collaborating with the Headteacher and providing advice and guidance on all business -related aspects of the work, solving any issues in a proficient manner. Provision of an electronic payments process for the school, resulting in high accuracy and improved efficiency. Management of the negotiation and securing of school funds for building improvements. Management of all non-teaching aspects of the school, including IT, Finance, HR and Health and Safety.

 Leadership of project support teams responsible for MI, cost monitoring, systems access and governance for multiple projects, ensuring all requirements were met in line with policies and regulations. Ensured final completion stage of projects were effectively managed and closed as per agreed contracts. Management of a case review team, data controllers and developers for remediation systems, providing assistance and direction where required and making certain all duties were carried out to timescales agreed. Reporting of financial analysis to stakeholders, highlighting any possible issues and reviewing spend to ensure tracking as per forecast. Responsibility for the maintenance and growth of existing stakeholder relationships and development of new, liaising closely to understand requirements and working to develop and implement changes and new solutions to processes. Provision of support to various projects as required, developing user end applications and assisting in the development of tracking and remediation tools. Analysis of data from extracts providing proposals on best methods to move forward. Development of efficient and easy to use MI reports which subsequently were used for project and operational planning, tracking productivity (for over 200 colleagues) cost forecasting and budget control. Production of concise and easy to read reporting packs for governance meetings in the provision of project updates. Analysis of the ‘new starter process’, implementing changes to improve overall process and ensure new staff were operational from day one. Responsibility for solving IT issues, implementing solutions to improve case review for 250 users. Development of new software and upgrades, dealing with any issues swiftly and efficiently to ensure no impact on project operations.

 Responsibility for leadership of new team following establishment of a cross-site function providing business intelligence in the form of regular and adhoc reports, resulting in a smooth transition between the 2 sites. Creation of a new data warehouse to transform report production, alongside the use of existing software. Development of new stakeholder relationships, increasing work load and resulting in the team being key in the integration of the businesses.

 Management of the team involved in the support of the Halifax and Clerical Medical brands providing MI. Development and analysis of reports, identifying customer integrity issues and raising to the relevant team member for rectification. Provision of support for operational planning projects with customer information following legislation changes, ensuring all subsequent practice was in line with new regulations.