David Lill ACMA GCMA

Duties Include: Being a member of the Senior Leadership Team and ensuring, as a Company, Sefton New Directions operates as a professional, modern, and fit for purpose organisation by taking the lead for: • Managing financial policies, planning, procedures, and practices effectively and efficiently to support the activities of the business. • Managing the up-to-date and accurate use of financial management systems and the timely reporting of budget monitoring information to enable the Senior Leadership Team and the Board to make financially viable and sustainable business decisions. • Preparing and submitting statutory accounts in accordance with regulatory requirements and liaise with the Company Auditors. • Lead in managing Information Technology (IT) for the company to ensure it can deliver effective and efficient care services and maintain business continuity; and • Act as the strategic led for the Company’s performance dashboard.

Duties Included: • Working to strict reporting deadlines publishing weekly, monthly, quarterly and year-end information, including narrative, to both a finance and non-finance audience for 20 plus profit centres • Management of key staff in Head Office, with remote support to ten Finance Officers in key UK locations • Preparation of the annual budget and forecast with subsequent half-yearly re-forecasts • Profitability analysis by customer, together with sales and margin analysis by product to inform and improve in efficiencies and cost effectiveness. • Presenting results to the FD / MD (including Board packs), dealing with any ad-hoc queries and reports • Maintenance of financial ledgers ensuring robust accounting processes • Contribution to year-end accounts and the preparation of corporation tax returns as well as quarterly VAT returns • Credit Control Monitoring and Reporting, Cash Management and Treasury duties • Ensuring appropriate systems and internal controls are reviewed, implemented and maintained • Regular site visits to partner with operation teams, identifying cost savings and sales opportunities

Duties Included: • Assisting in the formation and set-up of the company enabling it to extend and consolidate the success of the previous regeneration agencies • The production of financial monitoring information, monthly management and year-end financial statements and the consolidated company accounts • Acted as primary contact for all external and internal auditors • Prepared, reviewed and amended budgets and forecasts to meet the company’s aims and requirements • Managed a wide range of internal and external grants including appraisal and monitoring • Prepared regular reports and advice for the Board, its stakeholders and sub Audit Committee on corporate, financial and administrative matters • Primary contact for all finance related matters for staff and both internal and external stakeholders • Managed the finance and administration teams establishing work priorities and monitoring performance • Overseen the payroll process including data preparation, all statutory returns and liaison with HMRC • Pension Liaison Officer representing company’s membership in Local Government Pension Scheme • Supervised a variety of income streams and both grant receipts and payments Outline of key achievements: • Tender and award of operational contracts (including the negotiation of audit services, banking, insurances, IT and telecommunications) • Author of finance manuals for both finance and non-finance staff • Managed a wide range of grants including EEC Objective One funding (for example, the £42m grant towards the construction of the hugely successful Liverpool Arena and Convention Centre) • Achieved unqualified audits for both the company’s own finance statements and the grants which were managed and monitored by it • Managed change process for self and staff as organisation navigated through national and local political changes affecting its remit and resources • Reporting to a high-profile Board of non-executive directors (both political and non-political)