{"id":2196,"date":"2021-09-30T14:38:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T13:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/?p=2196"},"modified":"2021-09-30T14:40:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T13:40:36","slug":"new-appointments-to-the-finance-management-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/2021\/09\/30\/new-appointments-to-the-finance-management-team\/","title":{"rendered":"New appointments to the Finance team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As we noted in our August update, the Finance Directorate&#8217;s new structure took effect from early August.\u00a0 While we are still recruiting to fill all posts we have made some recent appointments.\u00a0 We&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Structure<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Our teams are structured as follows:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Procurement:<\/span> Led by Mark Reed<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Financial Planning and Strategy: <\/span>led by Melanie Nye,\u00a0with sub sections of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Management Accounting- led by Romesh Wijeyekoon (from November)<\/li>\n<li>Financial Strategy &amp; Budgeting- led by Garry Beesley<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Finance Operations:<\/span> lead to be appointed,\u00a0with sub sections of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Payroll and Pensions- led by Gordon Vernon<\/li>\n<li>Insurance- led by Gordon Vernon<\/li>\n<li>Payments Office- led by Gordon Vernon<\/li>\n<li>Finance Systems (UBW)- led by Steve Lawton<\/li>\n<li>Financial Accounting, including Research &amp; Innovation Services- led by Aidan Cooley<\/li>\n<li>Student Financial Services (Income Office, eCommerce, Financial Aid, Scholarships &amp; Foreign Loans and Tuition Fee Services)- led by Odette Collard Woolmer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview As we noted in our August update, the Finance Directorate&#8217;s new structure took effect from early August.\u00a0 While we are still recruiting to fill &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/2021\/09\/30\/new-appointments-to-the-finance-management-team\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40601,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[137334,178704],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196"}],"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\/40601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2198,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions\/2198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}