• In consultation Project Managers/Directors, Project Finance Managers and other stakeholders evaluate business cases by reviewing business logic, and determining whether costs and benefits are accurately calculated prior to proposals being presented to the leadership team and (where relevant) DIRC/PIRC.• Assist in development of GSS Investment Slate, including the pipeline.• Develop and implement monthly reporting process of project benefit realisation, for inclusion in the performance pack.• Support development of GSS operating model with the calculate unit cost of service products delivered within GSS, including price and volume modelling for commercial outcomes. . Benchmarking against external organisations. • Work with members of the Leadership Team to achieve more commercial options and outcomes for their delivery streams.• Development and implementation of the processes to measure and report benefits harvested.• Management of FTE budget to target to assist management in achieving cost and FTE targets.• GSS Change Champion for Enterprise Desktop Upgrade, including successful role profiling pilot.• Designed Proof of Concept Costing Model (excel) for Reporting Centre of Excellence quoting managers, costing new reporting builds and ongoing run costs. Simple at front end (three key questions), with required costing complexities /drivers in the background.• Special project /audit reviews (e.g. Do Not Rehire, Overpayment investigations, Sourcing compliance with Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption policy).

• Lead team of 20 Project Finance Managers supporting 45 Australia Division projects (project spend of over $1b), providing mentoring, guidance and insight.• Responsibilities as role immediately below.

• Lead team of 6 Project Finance Managers supporting 19 Australia Division projects, providing mentoring, guidance and insight.• Business case development and updates to support submissions to the Steering Committee and PIRC/DIRC for funding requests, and engagement with all relevant stakeholders.• Lead and engage with Project Accounting team members to generate new processes, procedures, tools & templates.• Lead and engage with BAU finance colleagues to determine roles and responsibilities relating to project accounting.Finance support for Retail Lending Automation Programme (Budget $111m in costs, $25m in Revenue Benefits).• Monthly tracking of costs (CAPEX and OPEX), including variance analysis and reporting to the Steering Committee and the Business.• Create and maintain business case, which supports the programme, budgeted costs, and revenue benefits, consult and engage stakeholders for ownership and delivery.• Prepare detailed financial requirements when delivery is delayed and funding requirements increase. Update business case for NPV and provide analysis to Steering Committee and Investment Executive. Manage and communicate to the Business adverse variances to OPEX.• Provide RLA “Roadmap” guidance to Steering Committee on the benefit realisation profiles based on order of Programme delivery (eg exit MOS or CAP first). • Commercial management of two consulting suppliers against budget and milestone targets.• Work with Team Leads to identify timing and permanent savings of budgeted/forecast costs, to be redirected via Governance process to other non-forecast activities. • Prepare various financial compliance activities (e.g. justification of capitalisations of accumulated costs, half year reporting requirements).• Lead socialisation and formal endorsement/approval of the financial plans in support of the investment approval process.• Contribute to process improvement activities

Support the Business Improvement and Procurement Teams and Finance to ensure all cost reduction activities are accurately forecast. • Create and maintain business cases which support the key business improvement initiatives.• Work with the Business Improvement and Procurement Teams to ensure that delivery of cost reduction initiatives are not delayed.• Carry out post implementation reviews on all initiatives.• Coach the Business Improvement and Procurement Teams in respect to costing and financial review process in assessing new initiatives.• Coach the teams in their understanding of the working capital and cash flow impacts of the initiatives under review.• Report the actual achievement of all business improvement activities against forecast.• Prepare monthly 18 month rolling forecast inputs for the impact of all business improvement activities.

Part of small finance team to support IFA (Independent Financial Advisor) start up consolidating the IFA market in the UK.• Weekly preparation of Steering Group Financials (actuals, budget and forecast) for Target Operating Model (TOM) Build Programme.• Ongoing cost challenge and review of budgets and forecasts in line with timeliness of delivery of milestones for the TOM build programme. • Provide guidance to Programme Director/Management on all elements of Programme Financials including costing options, what if analysis, matching invoices to costs accrued and authorisation of invoices for payment.• Business case preparation for review of various contractual options for ongoing infrastructure run/BAU based on business requirements and capital /EBITDA flexibility in fitting in with bank covenant requirements.• Review of contracts to ensure that all costs are correctly budgeted (timing, amount), that fixed and variable elements (and associated dependencies) are understood, and that the contract reflects value for money.• Preparation of Operations and IT budgets for 2009, in transition from TOM build into run/BAU.• Preparation of Integration budget for the transition of 40 acquired businesses over two years onto the TOM.• Support quarterly bank covenant reporting, including analysis of capital/P&L split for capital expenditure to maximise flexibility contained within the bank covenants. Review of bank covenant reporting prior to submission.• Scenario analysis of various business strategies to review estimated costs against bank covenant model.• Benefit realisation and identification of cost savings as result of integration of acquired business onto the TOM, and testing against bank covenants.• Staff incentive calculations to determine entitlements based on various company valuations, and resulting charge to P&L.• Prepare Board Pack to brief members on financial commitment of signing 5 year IT Infrastructure contract.

IT Change Portfolio of £113m in 2007 (£145m in 2006). Achievements include:• Portfolio reporting in support of Governance forums operating in Change.• Provide financial input to allow portfolio / programme project prioritisation and financial decision support.• Business case preparation and challenge, during all lifecycle stages of project/programme, as part of Governance Gating release of funds.• Provide financial input to allow portfolio/programme project prioritisation.• Support implementation and delivery of the revised projects framework and finance structure, including presentation of finance governance model to project management community.• Customer relationship management.• Delivery of monthly reports for all programmes / project for reporting of costs and benefits.• Co-ordinate team of 13 in month end reporting of complete company IT portfolio of >£300m.• Regular update and confirmation of costs to complete projects, including ongoing cost challenge. • Coordination of the collation of Change Portfolio inputs into the business planning process.• Coordinate the collection of financial input to quarterly projections.• Monthly reporting to portfolio/programme managers including appropriate commentary.• Support of operational planning process and ensure clear management process for programme and project owners.• Ad hoc financial analysis and reporting/process development.• Monitored all financial aspects of a portfolio, including 2 programmes, at a cost of £15m.

Responsible for calculating, tracking, forecasting and reporting of integration costs and benefits following the acquisition of the RAC business. Achievements include:• Monitored all financial aspects of 2 programmes (IT and Property), ranging from simple merger and consolidation of departments/teams to complex transformations, delivering annual benefits of £17m at a cost of £35m.• Developed detailed project plans/benefit milestones based on high level business cases produced by external consultants during the acquisition process. Also involved liaison with consultants to ensure that standard group criteria were met and that planned deliverables had been correctly calculated.• Managed the production of the monthly tracking reports, incorporating the latest project plans, working closely with Project Managers, Stakeholders and Finance Business Partners to ensure timely and accurate reporting. Also involved the maintenance of auditable evidence relating to benefits achieved and the co-ordination/reporting of project forecasts through a strict change control governance procedure.• Designed and implemented a governance process for the IT programme to ensure accountability of Project Sponsors to deliver project outcomes on budget.

• Influence finance team and business planning teams to support benefits realisation objectives.• Ensure prudent and robust benefits forecasts through review and approval process.• Provide consistent advice and guidance on benefits cases across the business.• Review and tracking of budgeting and financial planning process to identify issues impacting benefits.• Support creation of benefits baselines for each programme.• Develop and maintain financial guidelines and rules for benefits analysis.• Develop and maintain financial audit trail for benefits.• Develop benefits reports for each programme area as required.• Support the benefits status reporting and management processes.

• Provide financial support and direction for projects falling within the remit of business project managers.• Preparation of financial justification for each project, including business case preparation and challenge.• Monthly project reporting, including costs and benefits monitoring against plan, and appropriate commentary.• Financial management within books of work / programmes.• Ongoing cost challenge to programmes / portfolio's.• Provide financial input to allow portfolio/programme project prioritisation.• Participate in the continual development of the project accounting (knowledge base).• Regular update and confirmation of costs to complete projects.• Input to business planning process.• Customer relationship management.• Ad hoc reporting/process development.