A commercially focused Chartered Accountant, with operational and hands on experience, partnering with business leaders to provide accurate, insightful and timely management information to support decision making. Successful record of ensuring effective financial stewardship, leading and coaching teams, implementing robust financial controls, seeking opportunities to improve systems and processes to enhance services. Key achievements include leading the harmonisation and standardisation of the end to end process of the full contract lifecycle Europe wide. As a result of business growth and policy changes, led the continuous evolution of system solutions. To improve customer offerings and local requirements, merged separately located finance teams, achieving cost savings, process efficiencies and improving teams’ motivation and performance.