{"id":1968,"date":"2020-09-01T12:23:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T11:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2020-09-01T12:23:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T11:23:27","slug":"finance-restructure-and-staff-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/2020\/09\/01\/finance-restructure-and-staff-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance Restructure and Staff Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us in welcoming Lesley Macleod to the Finance Department. Lesley is our new interim Director of Finance who will be with us for an initial period of 6 months to support the CFO and her management team and to provide day to day financial leadership and management of the Finance function.<\/p>\n<p>We also have 2 members of staff retiring from the University: Neil Oliver after nearly 30 years of service and Joan Courtice after 15 years of service.<\/p>\n<p>We would like to thank both Joan and Neil for all their years of hard work and wish them a very happy retirement.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of Neil leaving us at the end of September, we will see a number of changes in Finance. These are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adam Pengelly and Paul Beckley from Ecommerce will be transferring across to Student Financial Services (Odette Collard-Woolmer).<\/li>\n<li>Steve Lawton, Paul Bootes and Bruce Hickmott from the UBW team will be transferring to Frank Richardson along with Ella Wood and Kerrin Terry.<\/li>\n<li>Emma Rowland, Nicola Bushell, Sam Thomas, Laura Grout, Abbey Hopkins and Alison Foster from the Payments Office will be transferring to Gordon Vernon.<\/li>\n<li>Vicky Gatward-Warner will be splitting her time between the Payments Office and Financial Reporting (Gordon Vernon and Melanie Nye).<\/li>\n<li>Richard Douglas will now be responsible for both the Income Office and PCI DSS compliance.<\/li>\n<li>Gordon Vernon will now be responsible for Payroll, Payments and Insurance.<\/li>\n<li>Odette Collard-Woolmer will now be responsible for Ecommerce and PCI DSS.<\/li>\n<li>Frank Richardson will now be responsible for the UBW team and Department administration.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us in welcoming Lesley Macleod to the Finance Department. Lesley is our new interim Director of Finance who will be with us for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/2020\/09\/01\/finance-restructure-and-staff-update\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67770,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[137346,722],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67770"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1985,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions\/1985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}