Dan Giles

Experience

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  Safeguard World

  Jan 2007 - Oct 2007

  Business Development Manager
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  Robert Walters

  May 2008 - Aug 2010

  Investment Banking Operations Consultant

  Providing recruitment consultancy services to investment banking and broking clients from multinationals such as Goldman Sachs, Santander, Shell and BP to niche brokers and banks.Acting as an intermediary between organisations wishing to recruit staff (clients) and professionals (candidates) seeking a career/job change. Managing the recruitment process – from candidate sourcing and generation to screening, interview coaching, performance feedback and offer negotiation.Working as assistant manager of a team of 9 chairing weekly team meeting, providing MI to the Managing Director, developing, training and providing ongoing guidance to junior consultants.Developing new and existing client portfolio’s through; face to face meetings, client entertainment, telephone, email and mail.Working closely with senior management to advise clients on budget issues, candidate flows and competitor activity.Developing and implementing short-term and long-term recruitment / marketing campaigns on behalf of clients primarily through writing and reviewing marketing material for web based adverts.Achievements included:Generating over £300k of new business with new clients to Robert Walters Becoming the top revenue generator on the specialist operations contract team Show less

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  PwC

  Sept 2010 - Jul 2015

  Assurance Manager
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  NATS

  Aug 2015 - Feb 2018

  Commercial Business Support Manager (Assurance & Improvement)
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  Inchcape Fleet Solutions

  Feb 2018 - Apr 2019

  Financial Controller / Head of Risk, Assurance and Compliance
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  NATS

  May 2019 - now

  ▪ Lead and manage portfolio delivery services for the capital change portfolio to ensure NATS successfully delivers the change required to achieve our strategic objectives and benefits▪ Day to day portfolio management enabling selection, prioritisation and control of NATS projects and programmes to deliver benefits in line with its strategic objectives and capacity to deliver▪ Provide the Portfolio Progress Group (PPG) and Portfolio Approvals & Review Board (PARB) with the right information (business cases and portfolio reporting), in the right format at the right time to give them the confidence they need to make timely and effective decisions that allow the continued progress of the portfolio.- Perform regular reviews of portfolio demand to ensure business areas own and manage their resource demand and supply appropriately, giving the Portfolio assurance that those demands are credible, deliverable and the data can be used to make efficient and informed decisions▪ Provide scrutiny, challenge & oversight of business needs originating from different business areas and assess their impact on the overall portfolio to provide actionable insights to decision makers (including service owners)- Responsible for maintaining a portfolio management framework, processes and outputs to ensure all stakeholders understand how we manage the portfolio (including portfolio delivery plan & schedule, portfolio reporting, business case template, portfolio database / prioritisation framework and stakeholder engagement plan)- Provide support to programmes, project delivery teams and business areas to help mitigate risks and issues in order to improve confidence in achieving delivery of the governed portfolio baselines of cost, time, scope, benefits and strategic objectives▪ Responsible for enabling management and control of the portfolio through scrutiny & challenge of business cases Show less Provide scrutiny, challenge, and oversight of NATS c£700m Investment Portfolio per 5-year Regulatory Period through governance, assurance, and reporting, to ensure we deliver the expected Portfolio benefits and strategic objectives▪ Lead reviews on projects or programs that have run into challenges, and provide recommendations (e.g. health checks, special measures / gate reviews)▪ Responsible for our ability to conduct Programme gate reviews, health checks, process audits and other Programme assurance (e.g. quarterly desktop reviews and benefits assurance activities) including the reporting of regular measures and metrics▪ Provide key inputs to the Portfolio Approvals & Review Board (CEO, CFO, Technical and Ops Directors) with the right information, in the right format at the right time to give them the confidence to make timely and effective decisions through production of the PARB reporting pack▪ Design and implement efficient and effective P3 assurance to deliver evidence-based reporting to improve the likelihood of delivering portfolio benefits within time, cost and quality▪ Measure, monitor and assure Portfolio performance against Destination 2030 strategic objectives, KPIs and financial metrics, intervening as needed to improve delivery confidence▪ Develop, manage and resource the 12-month rolling Portfolio Assurance Plan with a balance between prevention and detection activities designed to identify any shortcomings early enough for them to be rectified without an unfortunate impact on NATS reputation or regulated position▪ Lead on the provision of Portfolio Governance and Business Case process, training and guidance to enable production of assured documents to meet Governance quality requirements and timescales▪ Lead on the provision of Portfolio Governance and Business Case process, training and guidance to enable production of assured documents to meet Governance quality requirements and timescales Show less - Lead reviews on projects or programs that have run into challenges, and provide recommendations (e.g. health checks, special measures / gate reviews) - Provide scrutiny, challenge, and oversight of NATS c£700m Investment Portfolio per 5-year Regulatory Period through governance, assurance, and reporting, to ensure we deliver the expected Portfolio benefits and strategic objectives▪ Responsible for our ability to conduct Programme gate reviews, health checks, process audits and other Programme assurance (e.g. quarterly desktop reviews and benefits assurance activities) including the reporting of regular measures and metrics▪ Provide key inputs to the Portfolio Approvals & Review Board (CEO, CFO, Technical and Ops Directors) with the right information, in the right format at the right time to give them the confidence to make timely and effective decisions through production of the PARB reporting pack▪ Design and implement efficient and effective P3 assurance to deliver evidence-based reporting to improve the likelihood of delivering portfolio benefits within time, cost and quality▪ Measure, monitor and assure Portfolio performance against Destination 2030 strategic objectives, KPIs and financial metrics, intervening as needed to improve delivery confidence▪ Develop, manage and resource the 12-month rolling Portfolio Assurance Plan with a balance between prevention and detection activities designed to identify any shortcomings early enough for them to be rectified without an unfortunate impact on NATS reputation or regulated position▪ Lead on the provision of Portfolio Governance and Business Case process, training and guidance to enable production of assured documents to meet Governance quality requirements and timescales Show less

  • Principal Portfolio Manager

    Apr 2022 - now

  • Portfolio Governance & Assurance Manager

    Oct 2020 - Apr 2022

  • Portfolio Improvement & Assurance Specialist

    May 2019 - Oct 2020