Group Finance Director

• Jun 2021 - Present

Head Of Finance

• May 2017 - Jun 2021

• Manage and develop a team of Finance Professionals ensuring delivery of Financial Reporting, Planning and Analysis across several contracts.• Support and challenge Operations Directors and Contract Leadership teams to maximise and sustain contract profitability through insightful governance.• Conduct an agile Business Plan process, covering P&L, B/S, Working Capital and Cash Flow management.• Ensure adherence to current accounting standards, including the implementation of any policies at a contract level.• Engage with external auditors to ensure sign off of all financials for contracts within remit.• Continuously review all team outputs ensuring that demonstrable value add is exhibited across the team.• Offshore process orientated workload to continually ensure capacity across the team for process improvement and value add finance partnering activities.• Manage cost out initiatives across contracts both in delivery and financial reporting.• Act as an interface for client escalations, managing both operational and financial challenges. Show less

Finance Business Partner

• Apr 2016 - May 2017

• Produce accurate and timely reporting across a portfolio of clients.• Ensure accurate representation of the P&Ls and B/S• Review reported performance against flexed targets, ensuring that the key drivers of variances are explained.• Build and maintain strong professional relationships across the business to influence financial performance and understand contract, price and cost drivers, challenging assumptions where necessary.• Produce accurate forecasts of revenue, costs and margin by liaising with & challenging the Sales, Operations and Planning teams• Review forecast against Business Plan and previous forecast targets, ensuring key drivers of variances are explained.• Liaise with the client to minimise and resolve queries with billing.• Deliver monthly scheduled and ad-hoc reporting to tight deadlines.• Streamline existing processes, and designing new reports to adapt to business focus.• Regular meetings with relevant contract stakeholders to discuss opportunities, performance and trends. Show less

Business Finance Manager

• Mar 2014 - Apr 2016

• Provide the various business areas within the BBC with support and advisory and act as a key contact for business critical decisions. • Impart analysis and recommendations on investment decisions across Technology and local programming for BBC Scotland. • Deliver regular feedback on financial performance to business genre leads, ensuring expenditure is within available funding and consistent demonstration of value for money metrics. • Liaise with operations teams, ensuring staffing and facility availability for external productions to generate revenue Show less

Finance Manager, Corporate & Structured Finance

• Sep 2011 - Mar 2014

• Provide the link between the front end business and Finance, and maintain a strong relationship with the GM in a decision support capacity• Responsibility for reporting aspects of the P&L and Balance Sheet, inclusive of Expenses, Income and also Lending/Deposit volume and margin performance• Presentation of detailed performance analysis and insight to the GM and direct reports• Provide interpretation of financial position, inclusive of trend and variance analysis, highlighting key performance metrics and any areas requiring additional focus• Authorise all relevant accruals, prepayments and journals ensuring accurate monthly management accounts• Preparation and distribution of Management Accounts across several diverse business units.• Orchestration of business planning and forecasting through liaison with relevant stakeholders, collating and challenging business assumptions to provide a consolidated view of future expectations.• Built and maintained a network of key contacts enabling successful delivery of ad-hoc requirements from the business• Spend time coaching and developing staff within the wider Finance teams, sharing best practice and process improvements• Extensive involvement in project based work and organisational design Show less

Senior Finance Analyst

• Nov 2008 - Dec 2011

• Worked as part of an experienced Senior Analyst team, providing support to Finance Partners• Responsibility for preparation of Monthly MI packs for distribution to Finance Business Partners forming part of the month end process• Implementing process improvements, creating additional capacity to undertake other tasks• Preparation of monthly accruals, prepayments and journals for inclusion within the Management Accounts• Perform variance analysis, suggesting key focus areas for Finance Partners• Facilitate the planning and forecasting process through provision of detailed management accounts and transactional reports to the cost centre managers• Deliver efficiencies across the team through sharing best practice, and removing duplication of effort• Prepare balance sheet reconciliations for review and sign off Show less