In this role I manage the Business Compliance Team, reporting into the Health Care Compliance Director:• Line management of the Business Compliance Team.• Setting of teams annual goals and objectives and regulary reviews to ensure successful completion.• Providing day to day support for all areas of the business ensuring all activity is completed in line with all compliance requirements.• Devise and manage training package to deliver to all new starters to the business to provide an overview of the compliance requirements.• Devise and manage all training for the business, ensuring all staff receive the compliance training required, relevant to their roles and all annual renewals are roled out and completed.• Part of the training development team, developing, producing and amending new training packages to ensure compliance within the business.• Manage the training database, to ensure all staff have completed all areas of their training in a timely fashion.• Devise and manage a testing and monitoring system. Complete monthly monitoring of all activity requests submitted and approved. Produce reports on findings and work with the business to identify solutions to ensure full compliance.• Management of the compliance Management Action Plan, liaising with the business and implementing any changes needed.• Testing and Monitoring of external partners to ensure they are delivering work in line with our compliance requirements, producing reports on findings and working with them to implement any changes required.• Produce a new KPI reporting structure and system to allow streamlined collection of data. Provide regular reports on activity to be presented to the executive committee.• Managing the roll out & implementation of the Due Diligence process. • Liaise with all internal departments on all contract development.

A fixed term contract to work as part of a team to reduce the company’s financial risk following an external audit.• Review the audit findings and devise systems and procedures to reduce the error rate• Collate evidence to support the errors identified with budget balancing of all findings• Liaise with external contractors to obtain additional evidence and perform audits to identify any potential risks, producing reports of errors and suggesting recommendations for improvement.• Analyse and report on any findings and anomalies• Prepare reports and present findings to external bodies (Government Office and Central Local Government) and for the attention of internal directors• Review current internal systems and identify new systems and procedures to ensure successful delivery of current contracts• Devise new systems and procedures to collect and store evidence for all funded projects to ensure minimal risk at all future auditsAchievements: • Successfully reduced an identified error rate of 14.3% to 3%, ensuring muti million pound savings to the company.

A three month fixed term contract, which extended to five, to look at how the company could expand and develop from the DWP training contract they had obtained. I was asked to:• Explore other contract potentials and write bids where applicable• Register the company on contracting websites• Review current contract delivery systems and procedures, implementing changes and devising new working practice to streamline current delivery• Perform an audit on the current contract to ensure all contractual requirements are being adhered to.

During my time on the Business Link wind up team, I was offered the position of Head of Development Projects at one of the sister companies, reporting directly to the Executive Director, whilst still providing support for the closure of the Business Link contract. A small company, requiring multi level skills and responsibilities: I managed the central administration function that managed four centres based around West and South Yorkshire, responsible for a number of staff working in a variety of roles. A key part of my role was to develop bids to be submitted to a variety of funding bodies to capture additional funding to enable expansion of the companies key delivery models. I undertook Project Management responsibility for all successfully obtained contracts, devising and implementing systems and procedures to enable us to evidence all outputs and expenditure in line with contractual requirements. Systems were also implemented to control budgets to ensure that all expenditure was claimed within the contracted budget headings, whilst also ensuring the company maximised funding available and recovered all costs incurred.I worked closely with the Quality and Audit Manager to set up systems and procedures to enable tight controls on project delivery and to ensure all claims were fully evidenced in line with funding requirements.I implemented a new contracting procedure and developed contracts and service level agreements to be used with a number of sub-contractors working with us on project delivery.

When the Business Link Contract ended, I was offered a position on the wind up team, to work over all areas of the business ensuring all contractual obligations were met and all company contracts were completed, evidence and archived as appropriate. As part of a team of only three individuals, a number of new roles were added to my portfolio. My main responsibilities were:To ensure the successful completion of all externally funded projects (a total of £30m of contracts), producing final claims, collating all supporting evidence, liaising with external auditors for sign off of all projects and working with funding bodies to archive all documentation in line with contractual requirements. I produced final reports on the company's progress against delivery and financial obligations which I presented to the board for sign off. During the wind down period I also undertook management of all premises and utilities contracts to ensure successful closure of the company.

As Audit Manager, my main duties were to manage an effective and well respected audit team, as well as assisting the company in ensuring all contracts were completed successfully, with all funding claimed, whilst being fully evidenced in line with funding body requirements. During my time with the company we achieved 100% success in audits performed by all external funding bodies. All areas of risk management were covered within this role, with all company activities logged and reviewed on a regular basis. I was part of the Senior Management Team, reporting to the Director of Finance with a direct link to the Audit and Finance Committee.• Approached by Business Link to set up an audit function for the company, devising all systems, procedures and paperwork • Managed the day to day running of the audit team, conducting regular appraisals on staff.• Devised and implemented the annual audit plan and presented this to the Board.• Reviewed and signed off all audit reports produced by the audit team.• Carried out non-standard audits outside of the audit plan.• Presented findings of audits to the Executive Team and the board.• Liaised with external auditors, negotiating budgets for annual audit sign off.• Liaised with all funding bodies to co-ordinate all external audits, reports and audit responses.• • Assisted with bid planning and writing, ensuring bids were viable and cost effective.• • Part of the contract review committee who reviewed and approved all contracts both internal and external• Produced and managed all contracts issued and received• Attended quarterly contract review meetings with senior management and executive team members, reviewing achievement against contracts for outputs and finances.• Worked closely with contract managers reviewing budgets and achievement against targets.• Reviewed and signed off all internal and external contracts. • Attended regular regional meetings with external regional partners.

I was approached by LMU to manager closure of an existing contract, write bids for new funding and implement new programme, systems, procedures and paperwork. By restructuring of project management systems I ensured consistency in all project reporting. This helped identify an underclaim of £40k of eligible expenditure. I was responsible for the implementation and satisfactory delivery of the West Yorkshire Targeted Export Support Programme, all systems and procedures implemented are still being used in delivery of the project, now run by Yorkshire Forward. I monitored and evaluated financial applications to a number of funded projects with budgets in excess of £7m with a £3.5m grant allocation. I reviewed and revised budgets for the project, ensuring all budgets were maximised whilst also realising all the project outputs. I ensured that all grant funding was allocated in line with funding body regulations, and evidence held to support the work undertaken by the companies assisted.I assisted companies in their applications and provided a financial and regulatory information service to Business Link Trade Advisors. I devised and maintained documentary systems on behalf of the International Trade Steering Group, and led on Steering group meetings where all company grant bids were evaluated. I was responsible for producing the monthly claims for submission to Business Link for West Yorkshire.

I was approached by PKF to set up an audit function to audit systems and contracts for Training and Enterprise Councils closure procedures, to ensure Government Office regulations were adhered to, producing reports to tight deadlines. I audited ongoing externally funded projects for ERDF, ESF and SRB for submission to Government Office and also assisted GO on Article 4 and Article 10 Audits commissioned by the European Union.