{"id":2897,"date":"2024-01-17T11:40:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T11:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/?p=2897"},"modified":"2024-01-18T09:51:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T09:51:59","slug":"staff-update-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/2024\/01\/17\/staff-update-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melanie Nye, our Assistant Director of Finance (Strategy and Planning), is leaving the University on Tuesday 23rd January, to return to working in the NHS, after a long time with us in Higher Education.\u00a0 She will be very much missed and we wish her well in her new role.<\/p>\n<p>We will be recruiting a replacement for Melanie in due course.\u00a0 In the meantime, Andrew Brown is providing cover for Melanie&#8217;s role and supporting the Management Accounts and Budgeting teams.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mel will be on site on her last day and we&#8217;re planning to have some drinks in K Bar with her to celebrate her new role. Please do join us from 4pm on Tuesday 23rd.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Graham Mason from the Insurance Office has retired and would like to wish Graham a long and happy retirement. The University has appointed Naren Lathigra as an interim to maintain the Insurance Function whilst we recruit a permanent successor. Please direct queries to the Insurance Office in future at <a href=\"mailto:insurance@kent.ac.uk\">insurance@kent.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We would also like to wish Vicky Gatward-Warner, our Finance Business Partner (PSD), all the best for the future as she will be leaving the University after 17 years. Vicky&#8217;s last working day will be Thursday 25th January.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Following the restructure within the Finance Directorate, we would like to welcome all new members of staff to Finance and the new teams that have been created. Please <a href=\"https:\/\/livekentac.sharepoint.com\/sites\/Finance\/SitePages\/About-Us(1).aspx\">follow this link<\/a> to our new organisation chart.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melanie Nye, our Assistant Director of Finance (Strategy and Planning), is leaving the University on Tuesday 23rd January, to return to working in the NHS, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/2024\/01\/17\/staff-update-19\/\">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":[262269,232,722],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897"}],"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=2897"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2936,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions\/2936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/finance-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}