Educational Charity - Limited by Guarantee, with trading subsidiary Limited Company - Turnover £2m Recruited, as Finance Director, to introduce commercial awareness, financial and operational processes, systems and controls that would allow the effective and efficient management of the charity’s trading, investments and charitable income. In September 2016 I was promoted to Managing Director to control all internal operations and resources.Achievements: - Continuously improved operational and financial reporting to provide visibility, and accountability for the Senior Management Team; monthly financial and operational reporting, Investment Management, cash flow forecasting model, pricing model, control pack, comprehensive Management Information pack, customer focused KPI’s, MI dashboard, bottom up budgeting. - Jointly responsible with the CEO, to the trustees for strategy and development. - Responsible for the acquisition and integration of the respiratory charity REUK, a charity based in Liverpool. - Increased visibility and identified weaknesses in key operational and financial processes. The resulting, focused business improvements reduced waste. - I have implemented continuous improvements in financial and operational processes to aid financial management, and as a result no audit issues have been raised since I joined the charity in 2007. - I developed a short and medium-term cash management process, to maintain and maximise liquidity. The process proactively changed employee culture with all expenditure, questioned before being placed. - Implemented bottom-up budgeting where the senior management team accepted their personal responsibility to deliver the targets implicit in the budget. - Implemented a new investment and reserves policy, maximising revenue and capital growth whilst limiting market exposure. The value of the charity’s portfolio is £3.0m and is currently providing a return of 6% per annum.

Security Services - Turnover £12mA new position created to establish internal financial control and reporting. As head of finance I reported directly to the Managing Director.Achievements: - Creation of a management accounts pack which identified the true financial state of the company at company, region and contract level, explaining variances and enabling commercial decisions to be made. - Creation of budgets at company, region and contract level. - Establishment and production of all financial data required by venture capital companies. - Establishment of weekly cash flow monitoring and forecasting

Educational Charity - Turnover £2.5mA new position created in response to the need to commercialise the business in an increasingly competitive market.Achievements: - Delivered an effective method of reporting management information to enable business decisions to be based on timely and accurate information. - Initiated and delivered a regional approach to commissioning and contract performance including contract negotiating. - Developed positive working relationships with providers of funding - Introduced a robust monitoring framework to ensure compliance with contract requirements - Established an effective invoicing and payment process, including credit control

Finance House of HSBC - Group fee income £400m profit before tax £35mGroup Asset and Liability Manager (1991-1992)Achievements: - Developed & implemented a transfer priced money cost system. - Writing of a treasury policy manual. - Introduced process to measure interest rate sensitivity and liquidity with a view to taking action as required to remain within limits.Manager Group Reporting (1991)Achievements: - Following divisionalisation I designed packs for completion by the businesses to enable a new format of MI to be produced. - From this MI a more commercial method of measuring the performances of the businesses on an equivalent basis was developed. During this time paper packs were replaced with disk transfer. - This process required bringing the chart of accounts into line with Midland Bank’s - Preparation of monthly management information, and ad-hoc MI required. - A further achievement was the audit and agreement of an acquired company’s earn out calculation and statutory reportingGroup Management Accountant (1990-1991)Achievements and Responsibilities: - The systems were not divisionalised. while this work was carried out it was my responsibility to prepare management accounts by allocation of costs which were acceptable to the divisional FD’s, thus enabling the performance of the businesses and their boards to be measured. - Full responsibility for management information including commentary and analysis of variances against budget - Monthly management information for main board - Ad hoc reports - Control of in house database used for MI analysis - Third party returnsManager Group Accounts (1988-1990)Achievements and Responsibilities: - Monthly packs to parent company - Year-end statutory accounts and VAT returns - Control of nominal ledger to ensure all accounts reconcileFinancial Analyst (1987-1988) - Audit and agreement of an acquired companies earn out calculation

In addition to systems audit work I had three secondments: - - Internal audit of ICI Plant Protection Division - Walsall Small Firms Advisory Unit - Rabjohns – a small practice in Worcester