ResponsibilitiesFinance lead on major strategic initiative. Responsibilities included:o Leading the preparation of business case from zero base. Developing solutions to overcome issues with obtaining and validating management information. Heading up meetings with Senior external stakeholders;o Directing project team through various financing possibilities including profit sharing arrangements and equity financing options;o Preparation of detailed financial statements. Preparation of financials for business case including key financial metrics such as NPV and IRR;o Regularly presenting to senior stakeholders including CFO for Direct Line Group and other members of the Executive team to ensure their understanding of the key financial risks, issues and opportunities;o Working with Legal and Supply Chain team to ensure charging schedules in the contracts were fair and fit for purpose;o Regular contribution to and maintenance of core documents including Risk Log and detailed programme plan; • Finance business partner to Supply Chain and Procurement. Overseeing the preparation of financials for and advising on a number of key supplier contracts. • Responsibility for tracking, budgeting and forecasting for major spend area (c.£20m per annum).• People management responsibilities including line managing two analysts. Activities involve weekly work reviews, monthly one-to-ones, quarterly performance reviews and preparation of development plans. Achievements• Successfully identified and received recognition for devising alternative business rationalisation for a major initiative that was used as justification to the DLG Board as to why the business should pursue that particular strategy in face of changing regulatory environment;• Proposed a number of opportunities to mitigate VAT liabilities which were subsequently drafted into contracts with the supplier;• Finance Award and Chief Executive Award in recognition of work done on strategic initiative;

Responsibilities• Preparation of Cost-Benefit models for major strategic initiatives for inclusion in business approval papers for review by Insurance and RBS Group senior management.• Reviewing business critical supplier deals including heading up due diligence exercises to understand the financial position and performance of new and incumbent suppliers.• Developing and maintaining relationships with, as well as challenging the assumptions of key internal stakeholders including Sourcing and Supply Chain Management teams to ensure optimal financial results whilst ensuring customer service is not compromised.• Representing Finance on the Commercial Management Team and working with the team to devise annual benefit targets from a zero base.• Project managing smaller projects, using various project management techniques to generate solutions to problems; collating and presenting ideas to project teams; chairing meetings; delegating responsibilities and monitoring project performance. • Mentoring another member of the team, including regular one-to-one sessions; providing guidance on presenting and challenging with confidence; discussing modelling techniques and interview skills.Achievements• Winner of a Finance Award in recognition of the work done to support a major supplier deal; a major strategic initiative and my work with the Commercial Management Team.• Played key role in programme to increase revenues, supporting the renegotiation of the Legal and Mobility Supply Chain deals to deliver material P&L benefit over the contract term, for which awarded a Director’s Award.• Successfully challenged Commercial Management Team to deliver an annual savings plan where none had existed previously.

Responsibilities• Capital Expenditure and Fixed Asset Register, including opening, closing and capitalising projects; analysis of work done on major capital projects; authorisation of capital expenditure; and lease work.• Working with the Director of Asset management to prioritise projects in line with strategic requirements and budget constraints.• Preparation of annual Capital Expenditure plans and depreciation and amortisation forecasts across multi-million capital project portfolio.• Reporting to Head Office, including reporting monthly Selling Adjustments, compiling Profit and Loss Account, Balance Sheet and Trading Account and analysis of Current Account using Oracle and SCORE Software.• Review of systems to ensure compliance with Sarbanes Oxley requirements.Achievements• Streamlining of Work In Progress reporting system to improve efficiency and highlight variances in actual and target capital expenditure, whilst retaining flexibility to provide engineers in each area with information in a format useful in achieving management targets.• Improved communication with plant engineers, bridging gaps in knowledge through development of a Capital Expenditure Help Manual and regular ‘Question and Answer’ sessions• Overhaul of Physical Asset verification system to ensure compliance with Sarbanes Oxley legislation.• Gained recognition for work in local community projects.

Responsibility for:Preparation of monthly accounts of small company-owned quarry, including monthly result, analysis and presentation of results to senior management, forecasting using standard costing methodology and calculation of bonuses for payrollPreparation of weekly divisional result and commentary for review by senior managementPreparation of weekly KPI reports, gathering and collating information from across the various business functionsCompilation of monthly cost centre reports through interrogation of the purchase lesger system for use by the Services accountant in determining and managing cost centre budgetsAchievementsPromoted at earliest opportunityOverhaul of financial models used to produce quarry accounts to improve efficiency and ensure output information enhanced value