The last 10 years of my career has been spent in senior finance roles. I’m fortunate to have experienced working in a consultancy, a FTSE 100 and most recently in the financial services sector. Together these roles have developed a broad set of skills, knowledge and know-how that has enabled my career to grow substantially. From 2003 I worked at Experian and fulfilled global roles in strategy, reporting and analysis. This exposure facilitated the development of a series of skills including my commercial awareness where I provided commercial support for new products by producing business cases with all relevant financial measures (IRR, Payback Period, NPV, etc) and led on all financial aspects of Strategic Planning in the Global Business Line (GBL) with the Strategic Plan being presented to Experian Board. In addition I managed the financial aspects of the Global Strategic Development and Consulting department which comprised 7 different cost centres across 8 global locations with $30m+ cost budget. After Experian I was keen to fulfil a head of finance role and joined Welcome Finance. Whilst at Welcome, the company ceased lending and transformed operations to collect out the outstanding book and sell key assets. This had a dramatic impact on my role and as a result has provided me with a set of unique challenges and achievements. For the last three years I’ve fulfilled the role of Head of FSCS Operations and Commercial. As a member of the Business Closedown Project team I was involved in the investigation, provided recommendations and implemented optimal strategies to close down the WFSL business in the best way for all stakeholders. Significantly, my role was to manage all FSCS negotiations and operations and I’m proud to have transformed the operational structure, cross skilled my department, boosted efficiency and managed a robust and collaborative relationship with the FSCS, resulting in over 27,000 claims being processed and over £45m total redress paid.