I am an experienced professional providing excellent financial analysis within a complex and constantly changing Finance environment. I have worked within multiple sectors during some extremely challenging times. I am skilled at communicating complex information in an easy to understand format, particularly to non-Finance colleagues and offering insightful solutions.Abilities: • I have worked within highly regulated travel and banking sectors during COVID-19 and the integration of Lloyds TSB and HBoS.• Managing and developing small teams of part qualified assistant managers.• I present complex commercial information in an easy to understand format at all levels of business.• Strong analytical skills, understanding real requirements and finding pragmatic solutions to identify & mitigate financial risks and driving continued improved business performance.• Budget/Forecast cycles – leading the appropriate processes and ensuring continual operational input/acceptance and manage difficult conversations or providing challenge. • Competent and experienced in all aspects of Financial Management Account reporting: budgeting, forecasting, report production, reconciliations, data review, providing/presenting timely and insightful commentary. • Building good relationships across teams with a large geographical stretch.• Project Business Cases – Working closely with Project teams as sole Finance expert involved in the preparation of complex and successful funding for programmes delivering successfully material cost benefits.• Reporting of all ongoing Project costs impacting supported business areas, providing regular detailed analysis of actual spend and forecast expectation to highlight potential operational risks. • Due Diligence activity with cross-functional colleagues to mitigate all risks and capture of subsequent benefits.• Many years varied experience of different systems and particularly with the system upheaval generated by the Integration of LTSB and HBoS have become very adaptable at picking up new system tools very quickly.