Interim consultancy company specialising in Commercial, Procurement, Programme, Project, Portfolio and Financial Management.Specifically focused on Cost Optimisation within the Financial Services sector developing and executing on strategic plans to manage third party IT supplier spend.

Engagement Lead at the Cost Optimisation consultancy, delivering significant cost savings for a number of banks and insurance companies.

Global IT Cost Management Lead specialising on supporting the Networks & Telecoms Business Unit and overall Programme Management responsibility for delivery of the Global Telecoms Efficiency Programme.Delivered over $130m of sustainable savings through a number of key initiatives such as; the consolidation, vendor rationalisation and upgrade of the global network, transformation and upgrade of the branch WAN across the US & UK branch estate, negotiation of an extension to a key outsourced maintenance contract and the selection and implementation of a new web conferencing tool.

Developed and owned a robust financial governance solution for the Transformation agenda, working hand in hand with the Transformation Director to ensure that the Transformation projects were fit for purpose, robustly managed, meeting targets through KPI analysis and ultimately delivery the planned growth and efficiencies.Finance lead for the largest Transformation project in Bupa Global's history (c£50m investment) that involved the migration of 3 legacy operational systems from around the globe into 1 single platform, enabling a number of key operational cost reductions through better 24/7 "follow-the-sun" and self-serve customer service capability as well as significant claims savings from a number of ancillary projects.

Senior Finance Business Partner, Claims - supporting the Network Fulfilment & Supply Chain area of claims, which looked after the major fulfilment channels and numerous supplier relationships across Motor, Home, Rescue, Pet & Travel that generated c£2.3bn of indemnity costs each year.Finance lead on a number of significant change projects such as; transformation of the motor accident and repair centres (c£18m cost), development of a new motor salvage operation (c£5m) and the launch of major new proposition led advertising campaigns to reinvigorate the Direct Line Brand (c£30m).Finance lead to a separate entity that was 16 wholly owned motor accident and repair centres, T/O c£120m and c1,000 FTE.Supervised, managed and developed a team of 4-6 qualified accountants.Finance Business Partner Decision Support, Chief Customer Office - providing decision support to the Chief Customer Office Transformation Programme.Finance lead on key Digital project (c£25m) to update and replace the entire quote & buy websites across all brands and categories. Responsible for developing the investment proposal by modelling projected benefit assumptions after consultations across numerous stakeholders and presented the investment case to the CFO, Deputy FD and Chief Information Officer.Developed and built business cases for numerous project initiatives ranging from mandatory regulatory projects such as the renaming of the FSA on all documentation to the potential use of new voice recognition technology in call centres to improve customer journeys.Project Governance Manager - responsible for the review, challenge and recommendation for sign-off of project business cases, ensuring costs and benefits were fairly stated, reflected commercial best practice and follow financial governance.Managed the work plan and correlated feedback from a number of stakeholders to develop and implement a new project governance framework post separation from RBS.

Specialised in Financial Services audit and more specifically the Insurance sector working on clients such as Aberdeen Asset Management, Virgin Money and Towergate Insurance Brokers.Key responsibilities involved carrying out the statutory audit, being the main audit contact on each engagement and leading a junior team of around 2-5 on each job.

Specialised in the recruitment of mid to senior level finance professionals into the global technology sector.

Specialised in profit recovery consultancy in the retail sector with clients such as Sainsbury's and Boots. Analysed historical data and financial records of promotional activity, pricing agreements and general transactions in order to highlight both systematic and human errors that resulted in lost revenues.Supervised a small team or direct reports and was responsible for implementing a graduate training programme.