1. Bernard Denenga
ACCA Qualified Business Graduate with 10 years as a Finance Manager in. I have worked in various
industries including Health, Insurance, Media, Catering and Recruitment. I have worked across various
disciplines including Financial Management, Strategy, Capital, Financial Accounting and Investment
Accounting. I have excellent Accounting knowledge and systems skills, with high proficiency in Excel and
basic SQL.
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION
ACCA QUALIFIED - BBP London - Qualified Feb 04
B.A. (HONOURS) BUSINESS STUDIES DEGREE
Anglia Ruskin University - Sep 93-Sep 97
Included a full year work-placement
Gap Year
Travelled in South Africa, Kenya, Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe from Sept 1997-Oct 1998
Business Undergraduate Placement
Konica Business Machines
Jul 96 – Sep 96
Completed a year Business Placement in my third year and worked part time in final year for the same
company.
A & O Levels
Saint Johns Boys School
Jan 87 - Dec 92
A’ Levels: Business Management (B), Economics (A), Accounting (B)
O’ Levels: 6As, 2Bs and 1C

2. WORK EXPERIENCE
Care UK Health Limited July 15 – May 16
Regional Finance Manager
Hospital Director for two expanding private Hospitals, provided finance leadership, drove enhanced business
performance and helped in the successful implementation of new projects and solutions.
Part of the Senior Leadership Team that met every week, I Led on all commercial aspects of the business
helped by a large team that included Accountants, Information Analyst, Coders, Stores management.
Key responsibilities include:
• Management reporting for operating units including preparation of financial and non-financial
information along with detailed commentaries.
• Calculating Income and billing and held CCG/CSU meeting to discuss over-performance,
payments, pathway guarantee and General CSU contract meetings.
• Had ownership of management information, deep understanding of activities and drivers, helping to
uncover £1m worth of anomalies in the management accounts and also helped to implement Patient
Level Costing for the group.
• Identification & communication of risks & opportunities through general interactions with operations,
ad-hoc scenario analyses of commercial opportunities
• Responsible for ensuring good financial control within the region through the maintenance of a robust
controls framework; changed workflows and approvals to enhance accountability for heads of
departments and implementing agency control measures and drew up and implemented 2016
budgets and annual plan.
• Assisting in any commercial negotiations within the existing contract and new contracts
• Monitoring of KPI’s against contracted targets.
• Work with and lead operations and bid development with looking at and financially appraising new
business opportunities, including preparing necessary sign-off models/briefing papers and board
approval submissions Included costing and preparing financial schedules for the main contracts
bid.
• Managing and developing the Finance Assistants.
Business Partner
Bartshealth University Hospital trust
Renal, Diabetes, Rheumatology, Dermatology, Infections & Immunity, Community Health Services
July 14 to July 15 (£217m Budget)
• Headed a team of 8 Accountants and reported to the Clinical Group Finance Director.
• Provided Strategic Financial Support to the Divisional Directors whilst providing a Financial
Management Service and business support to budget holders and rest of the Division.
• Headed Financial and Activity annual planning including uploading budgets and 5 year plan.
• Attended Executive monthly reviews as Finance lead for Division and sat on Divisional governance
boards.
• Other duties included;
Cost Improvement Planning and reporting, SLR, Writing and reviewing business cases, advise on
Policy changes and subsequent financial impact, attending contract monitoring meetings, running
financial training sessions, Drawing up SLAs.
Divisional Finance Manager Cancer Services
University College London Hospital (UCLH)
Oct 13 to July 14 (£100m Budget)
• Provided quality financial management and business support service to the Head of Finance,
Divisional management teams, the Board and budget holders
• Co-ordinate the Cancer division’s annual financial plan and contribute to the development of the
division’s forward financial and service strategy and the development and implementation of
programmes to deliver the strategy

3. • Prepared papers and attended monthly executive performance reviews as Finance lead.
• I influenced developments within Service Line Reporting (SLR) and Service Line Management (SLM)
and Patient Level Information and Costing System (PLICS) on behalf of the Division.
• Support the achievement of all financial targets, including QEP, income and activity, and improvement
of Divisional profitability.
• Designed and developed new reports, metrics, others measures and tools to enable the Cancer
division to better understand and improve its historic and future performance including developing a
Finance Dashboard
• Provided strong professional leadership to staff within the Finance team at Divisional level and acted
as a role model and mentor to other Junior Finance Colleagues
• Managing Finance staff including, appraisals, absence and performance Management.
Reporting Manager
Ipswich and Suffolk CCGs May to Oct 13
Work-stream Reporting
• Reporting on work-stream initiatives for Integrated Community and Planned Care Work-stream
• Attending work-stream and network meetings.
• Monitoring work-stream progression and discussing progress with Providers
• Analysing work-stream activity for planning and monitoring purposes
• Writing SQL scripts to pull out Adhoc Information request.
Designing QIPP tracker
• Designing a new atomised QIPP tracker for both CCGs
• Meeting Work-stream leads to evaluate Schemes progression.
• Reporting QIPP achievement to stake holders
Divisional Finance Manager
Colchester Hospital NHS Trust Aug 12 to Apr 13
Women’s & Children’s Services Division (£40m Budget)
• Part of the Divisional Management team, I was the finance lead, advising on all matters finance.
• Attended most Divisional Boards and Committees as part of the management team whilst leading a
team of three Management Accountants, I reported to the Deputy Director of Finance.
• Led the Month end reporting process and supported the Deputy Director of Finance and Assistant
Director of the Division in preparation of executive reporting packs for Clinical and Trust Committees
ensuring key financial issues are reported in a form tailored to the recipients.
• Maintained an annual financial forecast and also attended Executive Performance reviews as the
financial lead.
• Lead the Business planning and budget setting process, reviewed business developments and Cost
Improvements Programmes (CIP) with Service managers and applied costings whilst monitoring and
reviewing current year developments and CIP programmes. Reconciled and Uploaded new business
plans/budgets into the ledger
• Liaised with Informatics department in analysing activity and benchmarking the services to explain
activity variations and costs variations to plan. Also used of Qlickview to analyse productivity with
clinical leads.
Divisional Finance Manager
Croydon Hospital NHS Trust
Mar 12 to 13 Jul 12
Cancer & Support Services Division (£40m Budget)
• Led a team of management accountants advising on all aspects of management accounting and
providing strategic financial support and advice to the division whilst keeping up with latest
developments and ensuring they were incorporated in the Division’s strategic plans.

4. • Led in the Business Planning and Budget Setting process from costing and drawing up the division’s
annual plan to uploading budgets on to the ledger.
• Costing and validation of Business Cases, Cost Improvement Programmes or recovery plans and
monitoring their achievement, costing Service developments and redesigns.
• Attending Divisional strategy meetings and putting together performance review reports and attending
Executive Performance reviews and Financial Scrutiny meetings as the finance lead.
• Putting together performance review reports and explaining variances whilst linking activity
performance to financial results for executive directors undertaking performance reviews.
• Conducting Finance training, interpreting SLR/SLM and giving financial advice to non-finance
managers.
• Ensuring robust controls are in place and prevention of fraud through strengthening controls.
• Recruitment, training and development of staff.
Divisional Finance Manager
Colchester Hospital NHS Trust
Dec 11 to Feb 12
Cancer & Support Services Division (£50m Budget)
• This is my second contract with Colchester, the first contract lasted one year starting November 2009.
• Divisional Finance Lead, providing financial leadership to the divisional management team, advising
on all aspects of financial management and taking responsibility for driving forward business
development opportunities, savings and recovery plans.
• Identifying, developing, implementing and monitoring strategic finance policies and guidance.
• Working with the divisional management team to ensure Service Line Management (SLM) was fully
developed, implemented and reported. I helped the division to interpret the implications of SLM
• Helped the division to identify and develop savings plans and be responsible for monitoring their
achievement.
• A member of the Divisional Board (or equivalent), I participated fully in its agenda and provided
strategic financial advice to the senior divisional managers and the trust’s executive directors to
ensure that the objectives of the Trust and Divisional Annual Plans are achieved.
• Ensuring rigorous financial control is in place across the Division for both expenditure and staffing
establishment.
• Provided and produced consolidated divisional monthly financial reporting and planning, preparing
forecasts, lead on the budget setting process for the division, costing and critical financial appraisal of
new service developments, business cases and tenders.
• Providing expert and specialist knowledge helping the division to interpret implement and develop
Trust and DoH financial policies and initiatives.
• Kept up to date with all developments and changes relating to NHS funding and costing and ensured
that updates were incorporated into the Division and Trust strategic plans.
• Prepared Monthly Performance Review Pack and took part in the Reviews conducted by Trust
Executives.
• I also undertook costings for Pathology Transformation and for a Cancer Strategy Review, which were
big pieces of work. I also kick started the budget setting, handing it over to the current incumbent.
Divisional Finance Manager
Whipps Cross Hospital NHS Trust
Dec 10 to Jun 11
• Cancer & Clinical Support Services and Women’s & Children’s Health (£61m Budget)
• A member of the Divisional Management board, I provided proactive and interventional financial
leadership to the division and executive directors to ensure the trust and divisional plans and
objectives were met.
• Provision of information, analysis & advice regarding Business & Financial Planning.
• Trust wide, Strategic & Financial Support to Operational & Corporate Directorates
• Monthly data production and reporting and analysis including variance analysis, forecasting and SLM.
• Helped the Divisional Management team identify and develop savings plan and monitoring their
achievement.
• Ensuring that there are robust financial controls for the division for both pay and non-pay related
expenditure.

5. • Management of financial Management team, Training and development of budget holders and other
no finance staff.
• Prepare reports and take part in Monthly Financial and Performance reviews.
• Undertook Costings for a Maternity Service review business cases. Also undertook budget Setting for
the division.
Divisional Finance Manager
Colchester Hospital NHS Trust
Nov 09 to Dec 10
Cancer & Support Services Division (£50m Budget): Duties & Responsibilities as present role above.
Senior Finance Manager
Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital
Feb 08 to Oct 09
• Reported to The Financial of Management and looked after the Cancer & Special Projects Division
(£42m Budget)
• Lead and managed a team of Management Accountants in providing a high quality Financial
Management service and Reporting to Clinical Units and Trust Board with a focus on identifying
trends, risks and opportunities to aid strategic and tactical decision making and act as the financial
lead for the Division.
• Produced monthly management Packs including forecasts for clinical and trusts boards and external
organisations such as DOH and SHA and attended Monthly Performance reviews leading on Finance
matters.
• Developed and monitored Cost Saving schemes and interpreted accounting guidance and DOH
directives in respect of accounting and funding mechanisms and to assess the impact and
recommend actions that ensure the service maximise their income and minimise the costs.
• Interpret the financial aspects of SLR and SLM for clinical managers to effect service changes.
• Advised and trained managers in respect of patient level costing. Lead on the financial aspects of
clinical services strategy, ensuring that plans take account of DOH priorities, NHS, charitable and IPP
funding issues as well as ensuring that plans are fully joined up with wider aspects of the Trust
including Foundation Trust, Financial accounting, capital limitations and estates and ICT strategies
etc. and sensitivity analysis, SWOT and other techniques.
• Work with the clinical units to benchmark their services from financial and non-financial perspectives
and to develop reporting mechanisms to monitor and assess relative performance.
• I undertook a review of the Pharmacy system and made some recommendations to which helped to
recouped lost revenue.
• Deputise for the Head of Financial management and attend meetings and prepared reports as
required
Senior Finance Manager – Women & Children
BHRH Trust
Jun 08 to Jan 09
• Reported to the Assistant Director of Finance - Financial Management.
• Provided robust financial control and the provision of timely and accurate financial performance and
other information, reports and advice to budget holders, clinicians, managers and Executive Directors.
• Ensured the production of timely and accurate monthly management accounts and that monthly
controls were undertaken to reconcile the ledger to internal records
• Ensured that financial policies and procedures were implemented across the organisation.
• Ensured the integrity of the coding structure and reporting hierarchy.
• Annual Business Planning and Budget Setting.
• Prepared monthly performance monitoring reports for the division, the board and Performance review
Panel.
• Provided financial advice and training to Clinical Directors, Associate Directors and Budget Managers.

6. • Provided input in the preparation of Business Cases and service developments, ensuring that the
financial implications and risks were fully identified.
• Costing of annual budgets, costing of Business cases, developments and turnaround projects.
• Liaise with Internal and External Audit, Counter Fraud and the Audit Committee.
• Lead a team of 4, Interviewed and appointed, drove, developed and appraising them.
• Deputising for the Assistant Director of Finance and scheduling workflow in the department.
• Assist in actively seeking out measures and efficiencies in the organisation.
Interim Finance Manager – Strategy & Capital
Mid Essex NHS Trust
Nov 07to Jun 08
• Reported to Assistant Director of Finance – Strategy
• Leading the development of systems and processes to enable the trust to effectively manage capital
investment decisions including funding streams associated.
• Lead in some Corporate Governance work, including creating and collated the Trust’s Assurance
Framework, identifying risks and rating them ready for use by the auditors.
• Manage processes to ensure that assets were correctly recorded on the balance sheet in liaison with
the shared service and produce weekly and monthly Capital Reports for planning groups and the
Executive Board.
• Accountable for the development and management of reporting systems for CRES / Turnaround and
associated analysis and interpretation including all the internal and external reporting.
• Lead and managed work streams associated with Foundation trust application and PFI.
• Lead on benchmarking and other efficiency measures work streams.
• Lead on financial projects and appraised Business Cases for the trust ensuring they represented
value for money and fit with the Trusts Strategic Objectives.
• Member of and informed the Capital Planning Group and The Procurement and IT Committees.
• Managed support staff and undertook some financial modelling
Interim Finance Manager – (Corporate Directorate)
The Royal Free NHS Trust
Apr to Oct 2007
• Reporting to Head of Management Accounts and heading a team of seven
• Led a team of Management Accountants delivering financial support to the Corporate Directorate and
the Private Patients Unit and completed a lot of the external returns to external bodies like MPET,
MADEL and SIFT.
• Managing and supporting a team of seven delivering financial support to corporate directorates and
the Private Patients unit.
• Supported Head of Management Accounts for ad-hoc roles, including writing board reports and
analysing different units of the organisation.
• Collated and provided financial management information and reporting, including a full directorate
variance analysis and commentary. Created and supplied additional schedules and models for better
analysis
• Responsible for financial planning and business case development, including undertaking financial
appraisals, providing tender information and taking part in tender interviews and scoring.
• Costing, reviewing and drawing up Service Level Agreements with the PCT.
• Managed 7 Management Accountants, including appraisals and personal development plans
Interim Principle Finance Manager
South Essex NHS Foundation
Trust Sept 2006 to Mar 2007
Reporting to Assistant Director of Finance (ADoF) and running a team of 7 Management Accountants
Providing a professional management accounting service including managing all corporate budgets and
undertaking most of the external returns.

7. • Plan and organise the workload of the team to a strict timetable and prepare monthly management
accounting information for Operational Services and Assisted with the preparation of yearend
accounts.
• Linked with the ADoF on the production of financial performance information presented to the Board
of Directors and.
• Liaised with both Directors / Senior Managers across the Trust on all financial matters and provided
advice on complex financial issues and policies including service changes, business cases and
savings plans.
• As part of the production of monthly management accounting information, undertook detailed variance
analysis and analytical review of budgetary performance and met regularly with senior managers /
Directors to identify reasons for financial variances, and ensure the outcome of these discussions
were reflected within the Trusts financial plans and forecasts.
• Provided and received highly complex financial information, and analysed and interpreted this
information to identify any potential impact on financial risk and future decisions of the Trust and
manipulated complex financial spread sheets into a format suitable for non-financial managers
• Prepared forecast financial information on a regular basis, on the basis of both financial and service
knowledge
• Assisted with the monitoring of the Trusts financial plans in conjunction with the Director and Deputy
Director of Finance, and ensured all potential risks and commitments were incorporated
• Developed new financial policies for the department and Trust and ensured they were kept up to date
• Undertake specialist financial training sessions to groups of junior and senior staff and on going
training of staff within the department. I trained three new Senior Managers one of which was my
replacement.
• Acted as an authorised signatory for banking arrangements, and internal processes
• Represented the Trust at some local and national meetings and provided cover for A D of Finance.
Year-end Interim Accountant
Benjys Group Limited (Cannon Street)
Apr 06 – Aug 06
• Balance sheet reconciliations
• Audit preparation
• Sun Accounts training of others
• Income analysis
• Monthly reporting and variance reporting
Year-end Interim Accountant
Insure and & Go Insurance (Braintree Essex)
Nov 05 – Mar 06
• Financial and Management Accounting duties included;
• Preparing Management Accounts pack
• Audit preparation
• Sun Accounts training of others
• Revenue analysis
• Monthly reporting and variance Analysis Inter-company reconciliations
• Fixed asset and stock journals
• Accruals and prepayments Preparing and settling bordereaux
• Claims reconciliations
• Cash and bank reconciliations
• Year-end adjustments
• FSA returns
• Supervision of two Accounts Assistants
Other Early Interim Assignments

8. Interim Financial Accountant
National Magazine (Soho London)
Jan 05-Oct 05
WRB Berkely (Europe) Insurance Brokers
Management Account Contract (London)
Aug 04-Nov 04
J K Buckingham Insurance Brokers
Management Account Contract (London)
Apr 04-Jul 04
Righthand Recruitment
Corporate Accountant (Essex)
Jan 03–Apr 04
Royal & Sun Alliance Property Investment
Corporate Accountant (London)
Oct 01- Dec 02
Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group
Insurance Accounting Technician (Essex)
Feb 99-Sept 01
Sedgwick Group
Group Assistant Systems Accountant (Essex)
Nov 98-Jan 99
COMPUTER LITERACY
MS Office
Pivots, Macros & Basic Visual Basics, SQL data retrievals
Access
PowerPoint (Presentations)
Integra, E-financials, ESR, Business Objects
SUN Accounts, SAP, Coda, Atlas