Nicky Thomas Email & Phone Number

Exeter, England, Gb

Exeter

Designing and leading the students’ skills development, assessment and support for the “industrial experience” element on Exeter Business School’s four year WIE programmes (currently 1000 students enrolled).Close collaboration with the careers team to design support and employability skills development opportunities for 1st to 3rd year students. Managing a team of academic tutors from across the business school to support students during their placement year. Designing and implementing placement year assessments to provide a valuable opportunity for students to reflect and learn from their experiences.

I lead undergraduate and master’s level UK taxation courses at the University of Exeter. I have won awards and have been praised for my innovative teaching and assessment techniques I use to enable the students to learn how to apply UK tax law and policy to a variety of real life situations. During my UG course students find themselves giving advice to an “executive” in a lift, representing a client at a tax tribunal, researching a target client for a tax department and evaluating tax policies in the UK and elsewhere.

South West, United Kingdom

Early in 2014 the Business School Dean invited me to take over the Programme Director role for BSc Accounting: a tripartite undergraduate programme between the University of Exeter, ICAS and KPMG. The 160 students on the programme studied a four year degree programme, whilst being employed and working for KPMG and also studying ICAS professional accounting examinations.Leading the BSc Accounting programme I had full responsibility to maintain the academic integrity and student support for 160 students, with 20 staff involved with teaching, four cohorts on the programme, professional accreditation and teaching/examinations outside the normal University timetable. To help manage information and communication between all involved in the programme, I established regular monitoring of results and student/academics feedback to identify issues, following up to ensure issues are resolved and promoting areas of ‘excellence’ between academics.

Tax technical proof-reading of annual editions of "Taxation Policy & Practice", written by Professors Andy Lymer and Lynne Oats, published by Fiscal Publications.

I led the Bristol tax compliance team for the Lloyds Banking group which involved managing a team responsible for preparing and reviewing for the Bank; company tax returns, quarterly management reporting, financial reporting, forecasting and advising on technical tax issues.During my time at Lloyds a big project I took responsibility for was the capital allowances – which included working closely with the property team to design and get HMRC approval for an IT system to identify and code qualifying expenditure on a programme of branch refurbishments. I also prepared all the capital allowance claims for the main trading company in the group.

I trained and completed my ICAEW Chartered Accountancy exams with KPMG. I worked in audit for 2 years then transferred to tax where I advised corporate clients and prepared company tax returns and financial reporting.

Chartered Accountant, 1St Time Passes: Aca Chartered Accountant

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Economics & Accounting