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• United Kingdom
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Finance & Operations

  • Jan 2023 - Present



London Sport

• United Kingdom
• Sports and Recreation Instruction
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Finance, People & Governance

  • Jan 2017 - Jan 2023

  Lead the day-to-day management of the organisations finances. This includes the preparation of monthly management accounts, management of the finance system, monitoring cash flow, lead the annual audit and manage all financial aspects of donor reporting.Fully supporting the Director of Finance, People and Governance in the preparation of Finance Committee reports, monthly financial reporting, annual budget setting, quarterly reforecasting and all other financial reporting.Setting direction for the day-to-day HR function and associated procedures. Oversee the delivery of the HR function including all recruitment, onboarding, general enquiries and continuous process improvement.Supporting the development and implementation of policy improvements and procedures where necessary.Provide leadership and support to the London Sport team on key aspects of financial management, human resources and governance.Manage projects from inception to delivery, ensuring they are delivered within budget and on time. This includes creating and communicating project plans, scopes and schedules; assigning tasks and deadlines and quality assuring project deliverables. Provide leadership and management to colleagues.

• Programme Manager (Youth Participation)

  • Sep 2011 - Dec 2016

  Project Manager for London Sport delivering a number of externally funded projects and currently successfully delivering the Sport England funded programme Sportivate, a £56million lottery funded legacy programme for England, across East London.I manage and monitor over 100 Service Level Agreements with a wide variety of partners to ensure successful delivery of the projects receiving funding and manage the programme budget of over £1.4million across the four years of the programme.I am leading the management of the organisation’s annual budget of over £1million which includes monitoring the budgets for all externally funded projects as well as the core funding awarded by Sport England, completing all financial claims and reports to funders and producing annual accounts.



University of East London

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Development Manager

  • Mar 2004 - Sep 2011

  Developed and delivered a wide portfolio of externally funded projects and activities around economic, cultural and social regeneration. Programme and project management of a variety of externally funded projects. Created and implemented project development and management processes and provided support and guidance to managers of externally funded projects. Played a leading role in internal evaluation and monitoring of projects, helping to identify both good practice and adverse variances against project plans. Monitored 13 of the 27 projects funded by the £5million HEIF funded UrbanBuzz programme in the area of Building Sustainable Communities. This included initial contract negotiations, monitoring delivery of the project outputs and milestones, managing project budgets and providing instruction and guidance to the project managers.