I provided financial insights for operational strategies to enhance business performance. My key responsibilities and achievements include:- Data-driven decision-making: Collaborated closely with lab staff to leverage their operational insights, gaining a comprehensive understanding of lab processes that informed cost-reduction strategies. This partnership positioned me as the primary resource for lab-related financial queries and issue resolution.- Process improvement initiatives: Assisted operations and transformation teams in mapping and analysing testing processes to identify critical areas for process reengineering consideration. This commitment to process optimisation has led to more efficient workflows and significant cost savings.- Business case development: Prepared and reviewed business cases to support investment decisions, ensuring comprehensive and relevant information was presented for stakeholder approval.- Cross-department collaboration: Facilitated collaboration across departments, serving as the primary finance contact for national clinical, procurement, logistics, and operations teams. This initiative improved information sharing and fostered holistic decision-making.- Automation and reporting enhancements: Enhanced project reporting mechanisms by implementing macros to automate monthly reporting processes, significantly improving efficiency in disseminating updates to project managers.- Field-driven financial analysis: Successfully sourced, connected, and manipulated data to generate actionable insights, including groundbreaking analyses for discipline gross margins and pathologist productivity, contributing to informed C-Suite strategy development.

As a team member at PwC - Deals, I worked with clients to restructure businesses across various industries, each necessitating a unique strategy. My primary focus was on medium to large companies, where navigating regulations, structures, and unforeseen challenges honed my ability to comprehend processes in fast-paced environments, make swift decisions, and implement profitability improvements. I worked on multiple engagements at a time with varying team sizes and reported directly to a director or partner.Most of the work at PwC is split across three types of engagements, summarised below. - Advisory engagements with businesses, lenders, shareholders or other stakeholders. - Trade-on appointments, in which we took control of company assets with little to no knowledge of the company's operations before the appointment. - Settlement correspondence, litigation and court proceedings where directors or companies breach their fiduciary duties. My key responsibilities included:- Managing numerous engagements, ensuring tasks were completed on time and within budget.- Created, reviewed and enhanced financial models - Managed sale campaigns for sale of the business and assets, plant and equipment, real property, and sale of various other assets- Managed forecasting of internal billings and ensured prompt cash collection- Conducted investigations into the company's acts and dealings - Liaising with solicitors regarding various matters, including briefings and reviewing legal documents such as affidavits, statements of claims, and other processes- Supervising, training and mentoring junior team members