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Postal and registered address
The Association of Corporate Treasurers
51 Moorgate
London EC2R 6BH
United Kingdom
Main switchboard
T: +44 (0)20 7847 2540
(09:00 - 17:30 weekdays UK Time)
F: +44 (0)20 7374 8744
E: enquiries@treasurers.org
W: information request form
A company limited by guarantee in England. Company registration No: 1445322
Vacancies at the ACT
ACT (Administration) Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Association of Corporate Treasurers, postal and registered address as above.
Company registration no: 1713927
VAT no: 404 6672 59
All transactions carried out on this site are in English.
Chief Executive and The Executive
Ria Robinson
Director of Membership & Company Secretary
T: +44 (0)20 7847 2555
E: rrobinson@treasurers.org
The ACT team and contact details
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Chief Executive
Colin qualified as a member in the late 1980s. He has gained treasury, risk and corporate finance experience in a variety of industry sectors most recently in business support services as Director of Treasury, Tax and Risk Management, Rentokil Initial plc. He was also Divisional Finance Director of its City Link express parcels business.
Sandra provides administrative support for the Chief Executive and the Executive team. Her role includes proactive management of the Chief Executive’s schedule and is the first port of call for all enquiries to his office.
Administration
Melissa is responsible for the provision and review of office administration, facilities management, health and safety and personnel procedures in accordance with best practice. She is the first port of call for all recruitment and general HR enquiries. Melissa is an Associate member of the CIPD.
Katy provides support to the Head of HR and Facilities in dealing with all aspects of HR administration and assisting with facilities management, including daily afternoon reception duties.
Jenny deals with all telephone calls to the switchboard, general email enquiries and greets visitors to the ACT. She also ensures that essential office supplies are maintained and provides administrative support to the office. Jenny works from 08:30 to 13:30 Monday to Friday.
Communications and Marketing
Jim Benham
Head of Marketing & Communications (maternity cover)
T: +44 (0)20 7847 2588
E: jbenham@treasurers.org
Jim oversees the strategic and operational functions of ACT marketing and communications. With specific responsibility for strategic development and forward planning, he works centrally in the organisation to ensure effective two-way communications between the ACT and its members, students and other stakeholders.
Sharon Newell
Head of Marketing & Communications
Currently on maternity leave
Nikki assists in managing the marketing campaigns for ACT products and services. Her main role includes developing marketing campaigns to promote ACT qualifications. She also manages the day-to-day relationships with our marketing partners and suppliers.
Education
James co-ordinates the ACT’s qualification and training programmes and works closely with Marketing to communicate their strengths and develop new initiatives, both in the UK and internationally. He also contributes to the technical content for all the ACT’s Education activities and to publications, conferences and events. He is a chartered accountant, MCT qualified, and is a Fellow of the ACT. He has over 15 years’ experience in treasury, corporate finance and risk management, and prior to joining the ACT he led the treasury function of the Unipart Group in Oxford.
Sarah works with the Education team to provide technical support and input to the AMCT and certificate qualifications. As both ACMA and AMCT qualified, she has considerable corporate experience, most recently as Director of Treasury for Cadbury plc.
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Helena Coomber
Education Online Product Manager
T: +44 (0)20 7847 2582
E: hcoomber@treasurers.org
Helena project manages the design, development and construction of the ACT’s qualifications, as well as the updating process for all educational materials. She also looks after the maintenance of the e-learning websites.
Sarah oversees the delivery of the ACT’s education programme focusing on supporting student learning, educational technology and assessment. Sarah has extensive educational experience and ensures the quality of all the ACT’s qualifications.
Natalie manages the education operations team. She is responsible for the conduct of all processes and systems through the operations of enrolment, tuition and examinations. She also ensures accurate communications to students via a variety of media.
Caroline organises all ACT examinations, including student exam entries, exam venues and results. Caroline is Secretary to the Exam Boards and co-ordinates the production of the exam papers.
Holly is the course coordinator for the CertICM, CertFMM, CertRM, and CertCFF stand-alone courses. If you are currently studying for any of these qualifications, please contact Holly.
Manisha manages all aspects regarding tuition and revision on the AMCT diploma and stand alone certificates (not CertICM or MCT). She is responsible for the delivery of classes and their related budgets, quality and coordination of tutors.
Heather is the course coordinator for the AMCT diploma and the stand-alone stage one Certificate in Financial Fundamentals (CertFin). If you wish to enquire about or are currently studying for any of these qualifications, please contact Heather.
Rebecca is the course coordinator for the CertITM and MCT courses. If you are currently studying for any of these qualifications, please contact Rebecca.
Will is a Fellow of the ACT with extensive treasury experience. He lectures on behalf of the ACT, is involved in ACT training courses and works on the development and promotion of ACT qualifications with particular emphasis on the MCT Advanced Diploma.
Karen Wells
Exams Assistant
T: +44 (0)20 7847 2569
E: kwells@treasurers.org
Karen assists the Exams Officer with all administrative processes related to examinations, with particular responsibility for exam venues.
Events and Conferences
Pauline is responsible for commercial events at the ACT and with her team delivers in the region of 30 events per year. These events range from topical breakfast briefings and evening symposium through to the talkingtreasury series in Europe and beyond. The events team also look after the Annual Dinner and are responsible for the ACT Annual Conference which in 2011 attracted over 1000 attendees.
Marie is responsible for organising event logistics for ACT Middle East events, as well as assisting with logistics for ACT events in the UK, including the ACT Annual Conference exhibition.
Lucy is the first point of call for delegate enquiries and processes bookings. She also provides support to the event marketing function by way of database interrogation and analysis as well as executing some email and other marketing campaigns, as directed.
Jemma is responsible for marketing campaigns for all events as well as ensuring through its events the ACT develops good customer relationships with both its members and non members. She also maintains the events in-house database.
Cassie's role involves researching and producing conferences, forums and breakfast briefings within the ACT events portfolio. Events include the talkingtreasury international thought-leadership series and the ACT Annual Conference. Cassie is also responsible for producing the minutes for the Events & Publishing Committee.
If you would like to suggest a topic or be considered as a speaker for a future ACT event, please contact Cassie.
Bryony's role involves researching and producing conferences, forums and breakfast briefings within the ACT events portfolio. Events include the talkingtreasury international thought-leadership series and the ACT Annual Cash Management Conference. Bryony is also the administrator for the ACT's Events & Publishing Forum.
Natasha’s role involves researching and producing conferences, forums and breakfasts within the ACT events portfolio. Events include the ACT Annual Cash Management Conference as well as the Middle East event programme.
If you have any ideas for new topics we should be covering, would like to be a speaker at future conferences or would like more information about the ACT Middle East Network please contact Natasha.
Finance
John runs the finance department and manages the financial operations of the company. He provides financial information to senior management and the ACT's Council.
Anneke has responsibility for managing the ACT's sales and purchase ledgers, ensuring that all customer receipts and supplier invoices are properly recorded, posted and reconciled to the relevant cashbooks and bank accounts, and ensuring that all suppliers are paid according to terms. Anneke also assists the team at month-end and year-end with reconciliations and account preparation.
Paul is the Management Accountant, responsible for keeping an eye on the financials across all the ACT’s departments. He also offers enhanced Excel capability to the team.
Information Systems
Charles is responsible for all electronic information systems from our telephones to the office network and public websites.
Anna Corr
Information Systems Administrator
T: +44 (0)20 7847 2561
E: acorr@treasurers.org
Anna Corr has responsibility for setting internal data standards on our primary databases, producing data analysis which includes our website for all departments and managing website content.
Kumar is directly responsible for the development of the ACT’s website platform including the production of new systems and the maintenance of our existing online services.
Membership
Ria Robinson
Director of Membership & Company Secretary
T: +44 (0)20 7847 2555
E: rrobinson@treasurers.org
Ria is a member of the Executive Team and has overall responsibility for member services, HR and office administration. As the ACT’s Company Secretary she is involved with all governance and constitutional matters and works closely with Council and the Appointments, Remuneration and Audit Committee (ARAC). She is also Secretary to the ACT Educational Trust. Ria joined the ACT in 1993, originally as Finance Manager and then later as both General Manager and Office Manager. She was appointed Director of Membership and Administration in 2004.
Zoe manages the administration of the membership function including regional groups, and is the first point of contact for all Members following their successful completion of the ACT’s qualifications.
Juliet Tewungwa
Regional Membership Executive
T: +44 (0)20 7847 2587
E: jtewungwa@treasurers.org
Juliet is responsible for administering and developing member services across the UK and Ireland including regional group meetings.
Matthew is responsible for the administration of the membership function and is the first point of contact for all Corporate membership and Faculty membership applications.
Policy and Technical
The Policy & Technical team represent the profession to government, regulators and standard setters and promoters of industry standard terms and more generally, and seek to promote best practice in treasury and corporate finance.
The Policy & Technical team work with the Policy and Technical Committee and its working groups – virtual groups of treasurers and other interested professionals. The ACT’s approach to policy issues is set out in our Manifesto.
John is Policy and Technical Director. He has a wealth of senior-level treasury and finance experience, including being Director of Treasury at Cadbury Schweppes and Finance Director of the Global Confectionery division of Cadbury Schweppes. John is a previous chairman of the ACT’s Education Committee and Chairman of Council. He is a Chartered Secretary as well as a Fellow of the ACT. He is involved as a small business angel with a number of early stage companies.
Martin O'Donovan
Deputy Policy & Technical Director
T: +44 (0)20 7847 2577
E: modonovan@treasurers.org
Martin joined the Policy & Technical team in November 2003, where his responsibilities include provision of technical guidance and regular updates to members, as well as representing the views of treasurers to regulatory authorities. Prior to joining he was Group Treasurer of National Grid Group plc for 13 years where he was responsible for the creation and development of the Treasury function in the group as it came out from privatisation and grew into a major utility, active internationally. Two of his many capital markets issues won The Treasurer Deals of the Year awards. His career started by qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with Coopers & Lybrand. Martin is a Fellow of the ACT and previously served on the Programme Committee.
Michelle Price
Associate Policy & Technical Director
T: +44 (0)20 7847 2578
E: mprice@treasurers.org
Michelle joined the ACT Policy & Technical team after 14 years in Corporate Treasury Consulting at Deloitte. During this time she advised both large and small companies on a wide range of treasury areas including treasury restructuring, development of FX policies, management reporting and operational risk. Prior to joining Deloitte she worked in a number of large investment banks, including JP Morgan, SBC Warburg and Chase Manhattan. Michelle qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen in Australia and is an Associate Member of the ACT.
Publishing
Peter Matza joined the ACT in September 2006, was appointed Head of Publishing in May 2008 and Engagement Director in February 2012. Peter is responsible for the publications business of the ACT, as well as developing strategy to widen the ACT’s engagement with the global treasury community. Peter is a Fellow of the ACT and a member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers. Peter has over 25 years of treasury and banking experience.
Samantha deals with all the administration for publications and finance team.
Andrew is responsible for advertising sales across all ACT publications, primarily The Treasurer and associated supplements, the website and the International Treasurer’s Handbook.
Sponsorship
Denis is responsible for developing strategic commercial relationships and tailoring advertising and sponsorship solutions to the needs of individual customers.
Training
Samantha joined the ACT in November 2010 and is responsible for developing the ACT’s training programme. Her aim is to increase the current reach of the public course programme as well as develop an in-house training programme which will compliment other ACT initiatives.
Radmila is responsible for the administration and delivery of the ACT training course programme. Her responsibilities include the day-to-day management of the individual courses and involves responding to participant enquiries, processing bookings, liaising with trainers, collating their materials, all with the aim of ensuring the smooth running of each course.
