Having taken a 6 month career break following redundancy I have started in February 2019 in a new contractor position as a Commercial Finance Analyst at Prudential Working on a key strategic project. Prior to that I worked at Prudential for 30+ years in a variety of roles from administrative to managerial (including project management), and latterly in IT finance / commercial roles. For the last few years worked as an IT Finance Business Partner reporting directly to the CFO of the shared Technology division. I am qualified by experience - skilled in financial management (particularly IT) , planning & budgeting, reporting and business partnering senior management . Have managed a wide range of cost saving initiatives and played a leading role in championing cost transparency and service line based charging using Apptio SAS to help achieve that. My key experience and competencies are:-• Self sufficient and very delivery driven with excellent organisation and planning skills. I am good at understanding what’s important and delivering priorities and am hands on in getting that delivered• Good general administrator and general manager. Experienced practical user of MS Office (Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Outlook• Common sense and pragmatic approach to my work• Have very good communication skills and am a personable individual which has helped me become very good at relationship building (used to working with both people “on the ground” and senior people)• Very good at analysing data (particularly financial), getting underneath complex subjects and articulating them simply• Building my own business awareness / knowledge to allow me to understand how what I do impacts in context to the business