Director of my own business. Recent work has been with the NHS.

Contracts since 2004 (latest first)

Interim Head of Finance – North Nottinghamshire tPCT Provider Services, Mansfield
• Involvement in development and preparation of Board Report
• Involvement in Provider/Commissioning split
• Preparation and development of finance element on tenders
• Review and development of business cases.
• Development, testing and conflict resolution of new SLR system
• Office management of 12 staff.

Interim Project Manager – Sheffield PCT Provider Services, Sheffield
• Analysis of equipment in provider services arm of PCT
• Verification, enhancement and reconciliation of non-medical assets on asset register
• Consultancy advice and proposal for maintaining asset register controls and developing a procedure for the way forward
• Advice and development work to split ledger between commissioning and provider arms.

Interim Planning & Strategy Manager – Leicester City PCT, Leicester
• Monitoring and reporting on Investment activity and reviewing finance on business cases.
• Development of WCC reporting procedures, 5yr strategic plan commissioning intentions.
• Development of contract reviews (financial).
• Advice and development finance considerations in IT strategies.
• Review of PbR procedures.
• Strengthened controls on monitoring and developed collection procedures for LOP.

Interim Costing & Income Manager – North Nottinghamshire tPCT, Mansfield
• Development of National Reference Costing data collection process.
• Preparation of National Reference Costing data for PbR
• Budget Cluster Analysis

Financial Project Consultant – Coventry and Warwick Partnership NHS Trust, Coventry
• Undertaking and developing financial element of business cases for the Trust prior to FT application.

Financial Accounting Consultant – NHS Connecting for Health, Leeds
• General financial management & accounting duties incl cash flow, capital
• Interim year end financial management role – updating tangible and intangible capital assets controls, balance sheet reconciliations between systems, preparation and submission of reports to DH.

Financial Information Manager – East Midlands SHA, Nottingham
• Responsibility for collection, consolidation and verification of FIMS reports from PCTs and submission to DH
• Attending and presenting reports to DDoF meetings
• Preparation of LDP collections for presentation.

Financial Project Consultant – Hull & East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Hull
• Undertaking finance lead position and developing bids for various business cases for the Trust prior to FT application.

Financial Project Consultant – NHS Connecting for Health, Leeds
• Successfully combined three fixed asset registers operated by different agencies and developed these to one easy to maintain system for the tangible assets of the organisation
• Created, developed and maintained a reconciliation process for multi-billion pound intangible assets of the NPfIT project
• Provided consultancy advice, ad hoc investigations, accounting and projects.

Capital Accountant - University Hospital of Nth Staffs NHS Trust, Stoke-on-Trent
• Initiated reconciliation of 12 months asset additions with general ledger in readiness for input
• Developed and managed capital budgetary control programme, prepared capital programme reports and presented to monthly performance meetings
• Managed programme of asset validation, recommended ways of improving control whilst maintaining purpose and reducing the burden of the procedure
• Active involvement in planning and developing bid strategy for new build PFI business case
• Managed change management procedures with turnaround team in various financial areas including capital and budgetary procedures.

Senior Finance Manager - South Yorks Strategic Health Authority, Sheffield
• Reported on period finances and controls of around 50 education and training projects and initiatives (NMET, MPET, Other) including commissioning meetings with budget holders.
• Involved in discussions re effects of PbR
• Prepared computations for revenue allocations, discussed with non-finance managers
• Developed financial systems to improve efficiency and savings in account production time
• Managed and developed benchmarking project on commissions in various contracts..

Senior Management Accountant - Barnsley Hospital NHS FT, Barnsley
• Prepared monthly accounting reports (General Surgery, Special Surgery and Orthopaedics), resolved queries, applied budgetary control and presented accounts at Specialty meetings
• Updated reference costs and developed financial systems

Project Accountant - Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS FT, Chesterfield
• Analysed and interpreted requirements, made judgements and took decisions of complex financial information
• Interpreted requirements of complex financial models and managed several projects relating to the submission of the Trust’s successful Wave 1 application for Foundation Trust status

Project Auditor - Network Rail, Stoke-on-Trent
• Managed audit based project assessing impact of various issues arising from labour, materials and subcontracting supply to maintenance contracts identifying errors resulting in the recovery of several million pounds.

• Prepared management accounts including capital reporting, review of balance sheet accounts, review of accruals and prepayments, journals, monitor and report on external funding.
• Developed systems to introduce self-controlling spreadsheets, and recorded procedures.
• Advised on criteria for new finance system and discussed details of controls, reports required.

Training under Dept for Employment scheme

• Maintained/strengthened accounting systems and procedures
• Sole responsibility for payroll, currency payments, invoice factoring procedures, maintaining ledgers, and capital accounting using Access Accounts and MS Excel spreadsheets.
• Managed recovery of funds from old credit accounts totalling approx £15000.

• Reviewed and installed accounting systems for charitable trust
• Prepared and presented periodic accounts to board.
• Offered and held finance discussions with non-finance board members.
• Recovered own costs (for the full term) within first week of contract.

• Managed or enabled various accounting/computing projects across the firm.
• Project managed Belgium partner firm’s integration to a full DLA firm re-engineering accounting solutions for statutory and local taxation purposes
• Created and developed dedicated accounting solution for the DLA training business.
• Developed systems to improve the speed and quality of existing reporting procedures relating to client account to meet requirements of specific external clients and individuals within DLA.

• Responsible for all accounting and finance processes
• Reduced reporting times from 15 to 6 working days, facilitating earlier report transmission and enabling time for financial control.
• Instigated cash flow management, which, with credit control, enabled view of likely future cash flow, appropriate action taken.
• Two successive clean audit reports resulted in reduced audit time, with consequent savings about £50k in audit fees.

• Analysed administration and accounts methodology, assessing requirements for new fully integrated IT system, installed and completed within budget, improved data access, laid foundation for management information and met criteria agreed by Board.
• Developed working relations for negotiations with bank, pensions and insurance businesses

• Created, developed and installed new spreadsheet based asset register meeting board and audit criteria, completed within time, saved company all the budgeted £10k.
• Revised and developed departmental accounts reporting procedures, which reduced times from two days to less than one hour.

• Conducted internal fraud investigation to prove authenticity of all financial balances.