CIPFA CAREER CONFERENCE

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CIPFA CAREER CONFERENCE

• My CIPFA Career
• Hilary Daniels

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AGENDA

• Work Career - 3 stages
• CIPFA Involvement
• Personal perspectives and thoughts
• Lessons learnt
• Key themes
• Where next?

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WORK CAREER - Local Govt

• Graduate trainee, L B Barnet
• Qualified for CIPFA at Barnet
• Various roles, Barnet
• Chief Accountant, LFCDA
• Deputy Treasurer, South Somerset
• Director of Finance, Cambridge City

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WORK CAREER - Health

• Director of Finance and Information, Health
  Authority
• Chief Executive, PCG
• Chief Executive, PCT
• Interim CEX, PCT

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CIPFA CAREER - CIPFA South East

• Students Society - Seminar Secretary
• Support for Hon Treasurer
• Organising Weekend Schools
• Chairing Weekend Schools
• Chairman 1993/94
• Hon Treasurer

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CIPFA Career - Nationally

• Elected onto Council 1994
• Member of Various Committees
• First Chairman of Health Panel
• Vice Chairman, Technical Committee
• Chairman, Education and Training Cttee
• Vice President
• President 2003/04

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OTHER ACTIVITIES

• Hon Treasurer roles
• Auditing Charity Accounts
• Lecturing
• Mentoring

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PERSONAL PERSPECTIVES

• You get back what you put in
• Opportunities arise - take them
• Identify what you are good at and what you enjoy
• Finance as a corporate role
• Understand what the organisation wants to achieve

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KEY THEMES

• I am ambitious
• I am not afraid of challenges
• I dont do maintenance
• I believe passionately in doing the best I can in
  any role
• I am determined to get things done

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WHERE NEXT?

• Creating a third career as a consultant
• Involvement in London 2012
• Member of Professional Oversight Board
• New opportunities

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SUMMARY

• Public Sector Finance has provided me with a good
  career
• Becoming involved as a student got me where I am
  today
• CIPFA involvement has helped my career and
  developed friendships
• You get out of it what you put in