Key skills gained in a management accounting role; employed by an international oil and gas consultancy company for 18 years. Experience in broad range of finance functions including budgeting, variance analysis, balance sheet work including group consolidations and inter group currency reconciliations; providing advice to departmental managers and reporting to director level.Following this - 16 years experience gained in the Third Sector employed by north Wales' leading drug and alcohol charity CAIS. Initially employed as management accountant and later managing finance function and staff team, a role which involved overseeing annual budgeting exercise, reporting monthly reporting of finances and key performance indicators to key stakeholders. Experienced in funding applications, business set up and social enterprise management. Follwing merger of CAIS with several key health and social care charities in Wales, I am now Director of Finance for Adferiad Recovery, leading on the financial strategy of one of Wales' largest charities.