Councillor Andrew Wood
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Councillors are only supposed to be part-time - working 10-15 hours a week. For the last three years I have been doing the job nearly full time. But when my Special Responsibility was reduced this year the finances no longer add up (I receive £15.9k a year in Allowances) especially as I do not receive any pension and I need to rebuild my pension contributions. So I am looking for a role in Finance, Strategy, Public Relations, Governance or Policy with an:

  • Easy commute to & from Canary Wharf
  • Full time or part-time 3 or 4 days a week
  • Flexible working if possible

Or a temporary project role

In summary I have the following experiences::
  • Qualified Management Accountant CIMA with 20 years PQE experience including in large global commercial organisations
  • Four Financial Controller roles including promotion to acting FD in an e-commerce organization
  • One Head of Finance role for a multi-million-pound organisation
  • Extensive FP&A and technical accounting experience plus month end consolidations, multi-year planning, statutory accounting, tax, treasury management, business partnering, AP, AR, audit, risk & project management, audit and general finance advice – full end to end ownership of all aspects of finance
  • Experience of education, telecoms, manufacturing, transport, market research, ecommerce, local government and construction industries in the private & public sector
  • Have worked on one of the largest projects in the UK, the London 2012 Olympic building programme
  • Have established and developed from scratch finance processes, systems, procedures and teams. As FC grew a start-up organisation within 18 months to a turnover of £128 million.
  • Led the implementation of and then managed IT systems like SAP, Oracle & Hyperion
  • In nine of my roles I have been the first person to fill the role usually in fast growing organisations so have extensive change management experience
  • Managed global operations from a London base as well as working abroad 

For the last four years I have been working in non-financial roles in Tower Hamlets which has brought me a whole new set of skills within the areas of:
  • Governance of a £1.2 billion public sector organisation
  • Audit, Grants and Pensions (on Committee overseeing a £1.5 billion pension fund)
  • Planning and development in the fastest growing place in the UK, Canary Wharf
  • Policy development – writing planning policy 
  • Social media – set up and manage a Facebook group with 14,000 members
But it is time for me to return to a mainstream financial role in east or central London as I will need to attend evening meetings in east London occasionally.

My LinkedIn profile is here www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-wood-9899b817/ 
​My CV is here. I can be contacted by email on andrewwood17@me.com & by phone on 07710 486 873
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