Experience

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  Bdo uk llp

  Sept 1986 - Nov 1993

  Chartered accountant
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  Cantor fitzgerald

  Nov 1993 - Jan 1999

  Financial controller
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  Td securities

  Jan 1999 - Jan 2009

  Finance director

  • Transformed finance functions, automated and streamlined processes, creating more rewarding roles and more consistent, accurate and timely information• Recognised as a Valued Business Partner, representing Finance on the Senior management team, Audit Committee & Risk Committee and being the go-to person for financial knowledge & expertise• Built and strengthened finance teams and nurtured direct reports who have become CFOs in their own right

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  Investment start-up

  Oct 2009 - now

  Chief financial officer (owner)

  Investment start-up with fast growth in the residential BTL property sector. Strategic capital growth through maximising leverage, minimising tax implications and investing in researched emerging high growth markets.

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  Havebury housing partnership

  Oct 2019 - Sept 2021

  Financial controller

  • Valued Business Partner: representing Finance on the Senior management team, Operations Committee, explaining finance to non-finance professionals• Leverage: £210m Refinancing of property portfolio (8000 properties), liaising with valuers, solicitors, lending agents, banks, etc.• Stakeholder engagement: Improved quarterly reporting to funders by overhauling the reporting package, presentation, content and information generation.• Increased profitability: increased cost recovery through development of more efficient service charge process, ensuring all rechargeable data captured and developing macros to enable variance analysis by property scheme and cost category type, enabling better decision making.• Process improvement: Significant improvement by maximizing underutilized finance system, identifying opportunities for automation of manual processes, improving staff proficiency in MS Excel, implementation of a new budgeting, forecasting, and reporting tool, d/EPM (dynamic enterprise performance management) and built automated system-generated reports, to reduce staff time spent regurgitating data to eliminate human error and reduce review time.• Built high-performing finance team: rebuilt team following a finance restructure, through individual staff development, succession planning, cross-training, cross team collaboration, implementation of KPIs and addressed lack of procedures documentation.• Data quality: resolved issues that arose from decentralisation of keying purchase data following implementation of new purchase to pay system, by identifying source of problems and implementing tighter systematic controls and more regular reviews. Show less

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  British women pilots' association

  May 2020 - now

  Director & treasurer (voluntary)
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  Uk endorsement board (ukeb)

  Feb 2023 - now

  Project director