New appointments to the Finance team

Overview

As we noted in our August update, the Finance Directorate’s new structure took effect from early August.  While we are still recruiting to fill all posts we have made some recent appointments.  We’re pleased to announce that Romesh Wijeyekoon is our Management Accounting Manager (from November) and Aidan Cooley is now our Financial Accounting Manager, and they will both join the Finance Management Team. We have also appointed Karen Samuel as our interim Research and Innovation Project Accountant.

Structure

Our teams are structured as follows:

Procurement: Led by Mark Reed

Financial Planning and Strategy: led by Melanie Nye, with sub sections of:

  • Management Accounting- led by Romesh Wijeyekoon (from November)
  • Financial Strategy & Budgeting- led by Garry Beesley

Finance Operations: lead to be appointed, with sub sections of:

  • Payroll and Pensions- led by Gordon Vernon
  • Insurance- led by Gordon Vernon
  • Payments Office- led by Gordon Vernon
  • Finance Systems (UBW)- led by Steve Lawton
  • Financial Accounting, including Research & Innovation Services- led by Aidan Cooley
  • Student Financial Services (Income Office, eCommerce, Financial Aid, Scholarships & Foreign Loans and Tuition Fee Services)- led by Odette Collard Woolmer