Claire Baker

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About Claire Baker

Experienced Finance Manager professional with over 20 years’ work experience in the not for profit sector in financial management and office administration. Highly developed admin and organisational skills with a keen eye for details and maintaining a high level of accuracy in all aspects of my work. A very presentable, hardworking, reliable and conscientious individual with a clear understanding of the importance of confidentiality. Demonstrates initiative, is proactive and offers a problem-solving approach. Adept at multi-tasking, pragmatic in decision making, exercises judgement, assertive and challenges non-conformance. Works with minimum supervision and proficiently manages competing priorities whilst meeting deadlines with a calm manner and maintaining a good sense of humour. Enjoys working alone or a part of a team. Results-driven, determined and accomplished professional with extensive experience in leading strategic financial planning operations. Demonstrated ability to analyse corporate financial status, analyse and interpret data, design risk management framework, direct economical calculations, and develop investment appraisals. Expert in reducing operational costs, formulating financial reports, establishing business departments, forecasting cash flow operations, and devising budgets. Proven leader with strong communication skills both orally and in writing – including numeracy. Strong people management skills, adept at motivating teams and building professional relations with stakeholders and internal management. Adept at updating financial records using Sage 200, QuickBooks and Xero and maintaining reserve records. Highly computer literate which include the MS Office Suite although keen to learn with the ability to grasp new concepts, new systems and assignment quickly. Experience of running and supervising payroll and all pension and HMRC related aspects of this. Setting up and implementing new payroll software along with processes and procedures. Extremely capable of using complex IT based systems for financial and budget planning and forecasting and holding direct responsibility for monitoring budgets. A valued and respected member of a management team. Confident in giving advice, guidance and recommendations to senior staff, management and boards/committees. Establishes effective working relationships at all levels internally and externally.