Solutions

SOLUTIONS OFFERED

Transformation & Programme Leadership

1. Programme Leadership: Expert guidance and leadership to ensure the achievement of successful programme outcomes and sustained growth.

2. Business Case Development: Creating robust business cases aligned to both your strategic and operational outcomes.

3. PMO Support: Structured PMO support for efficient governance, risk management, and adherence to the Board Assurance Framework.

4. Quality Assurance: Meticulous assessments to elevate project outcomes and ensure the highest standards of quality.

Consultancy

1. Business Intelligence: Unleash the power of data to produce insights and reporting to support informed decision-making.

2. Forecasting and Planning: Strategic forecasting and planning for optimised business trajectories. Analytical capability and a single source of data may form part of this review.

3. Shared Services & Outsourcing Lifecycle: Navigate shared services and outsourcing options with seamless lifecycle management.

4. Stakeholder Management: both internal and external stakeholders. We ensure project success with positive and open engagement.

Cost Improvement Programmes

1. Benefit Realization: Unleash the full potential of your initiatives, ensuring tangible and measurable results.

2. Governance: Establish robust governance structures to enhance transparency, accountability, and overall organisational effectiveness.

3. Quality Impact Assessment: Elevate the quality of your projects with our meticulous assessments, ensuring adherence to the highest standards.

4. Risk Management: Definition and implementation of effective risk mitigation strategies to safeguard the success of your projects and investments.

"No solution fits perfectly in a box, after all, you didn't find the issue in one either" - Casandra Daubney

OUTCOMES ACHIEVED

Transformation & Programme Leadership

Set up and led a finance team of 25 FTE to delivery PCR testing during Covid to cover the UK. Management of £5.4bn budget in year one, to reach 500k tests per day. Savings c£1.2bn.

Led the design of workstreams with SROs and set up PMO capability in NHS Trusts to ensure delivery of Transformation and CIP programmes. Presenting and reporting to SROs and boards.

Spearheaded the critical review and sign-off for several <£100m business cases, leading to c£1.2bn of in-year savings.

Oversaw the development of a turnaround plan critical for an organisation with working capital issues. Secured additional funding, proposed a redundancy plan, and significantly improved both the short- and long-term cash flow forecasts.

Five Strategy Business case for Estates land swap (c£100m). Enabling the sale of a hospital and subsequent reinvestment in mental health services.

Consultancy

Set up a new reporting and data collection structure to improve decision-making. Utilising and improving existing reporting to improve forecasting and contractual commitments.

Improved reporting accuracy against a budget of £5.4bn based on expected utilisation rather than contractual or funded commitments.

Review of a newly established outsourced finance shared service negotiating between the supplier and executives to a) improve collaboration and communication, b) rest areas of single points of failure and recommended solutions, c) improve quality of month end and reporting to budget holders and board members.

Implementation of Business Intelligence reporting, removing manual analysis and automation of financial reporting to board resulting in a staff reduction saving c£250k.

Interim Director of Finance & Performance

Provided executive support to implement Cash, Efficiency, Risk and QIA reporting to bring transparency to delivery, to review governance structures and compliance to standards and surface c£10m (24%) in-year cost reduction.

Reconstruction of NHS Trust estates budget c£30m including review of circular funding across Trusts and resulting in additional funding for the baseline budget

CIP plan to review of forecasted cash benefits and potential opportunities. Outcome confirmed c£20m further opportunities presented to the board.

Audit CIP prior year and in-year Programme to confirm cash-releasing achievement, gap analysis and options for further opportunities.

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