Roles – managing consultant, led Insurance practice within financial management solutions

Skills – Financial management, regulation and compliance, corporate performance management and finance business architecture.

Employment Summary
Led the team in Financial Management Solutions focussed on delivering projects to the CFO’s of the country’s major Insurers. This included developing relationships at board level with these Insurers, ensuring that we were responding to the agenda of the CFO’s at these Insurers and that our solutions were relevant to solve their problems. Led the team, in the UK, who contributed to a European wide Compliance survey which was well received by the Industry. Led a project in the UK to establish the impact on the finance function of compliance initiatives using a benchmarking approach.

Roles – managing consultant

Skills – Financial management, regulation and compliance, cost reduction, business transformation, performance improvement.

Employment Summary
Senior member of team at IBM focussed on developing and delivering business transformation projects for middle tier insurance companies, retail banks and insurance brokers, working with them to reengineer finance processes, deliver compliance solutions, claims and other back office processes including focussing on organisational restructuring and performance improvement.

Roles – managing consultant

Skills - Financial management, regulation and compliance, cost reduction, business transformation, corporate performance improvement.

Employment Summary
Senior member of team at PWC consulting focussed on developing and delivering business transformation projects for middle tier insurance companies and retail banks. I worked with them to reengineer finance processes, deliver compliance solutions, credit and other back office processes including focussing on culture change, i-analytics and balanced scorecard. Led a team to redevelop the PWC finance transformation methodology to better fit with the requirements of the middle tier players in the insurance and retail banking sectors – major thought leadership piece.

Roles – programme and project management

Skills – cost reduction, business process re-engineering, corporate performance management

Employment Summary
Managed many projects across many industries including insurance, central and local government, healthcare, retail banking, mining, manufacturing and electricity utilities working with them on cost reduction, overhead optimisation and enterprise wide performance improvement.

Roles – audit manager

Skills - accounting, auditing, financial management, insolvency and administration advice

Employment Summary
Managed external audit assignments for many leading clients – in retail banking, clothing retail, computing and manufacturing industries, for a 3 year period post qualification as an accountant

Roles – audit team member

Skills – accounting, auditing, financial management, insolvency and administration advice

Employment Summary
Worked on many external audit assignments as a trainee accountant in retail, construction, banking and plastics distribution industries for 3 years whilst completing the exams to qualify as a chartered accountant.