SECTOR ADVISORY
Skills & Training Sector Advisory
Apprenticeship and skills training providers have to adapt as priorities change. Decisions about when to start new cohorts, which apprenticeships or skills programmes to offer, and where to grow affect funding, compliance and what your team can deliver. I help you assess current performance, test your plans and decide what to do next.
FROM THE FOUNDER
I have operated within and led a training provider through change.
I’m a Chartered Accountant with over 20 years’ experience, including 10 years at PwC and 13 years with an apprenticeship training provider. I joined in a finance role and established the finance function. Taking on audit, compliance, data and management information gave me a close view of how learner records, delivery and funding affected the business. As Finance Director, I also became responsible for HR and quality, before taking on operations.
As Managing Director, I had to turn the board’s priorities into decisions the team could deliver. That meant judging where to invest, making sure we had the people to deliver, and responding when recruitment, funding or delivery moved away from plan.
How we can help
Provider performance
Compare planned and actual starts, then look at breaks, withdrawals and completions by cohort. I help pinpoint where the gap opens and what the delivery team can investigate before the next intake.
Funding exposure
Trace a gap between forecast funding and receipts back to the underlying records. I help distinguish income that has moved into a later month from amounts that need correcting or may be at risk.
Growth and programme strategy
Considering a new programme or market? I help you test demand, compare routes to learners through employers, partners or direct recruitment, and work out what it would take to fill and deliver a viable cohort.
Forecasting and cash
Test whether your plans can carry the cost of delivery. See what happens to margin and cash if starts fall short, an intake moves or tutors are hired before the funding comes in.
Launchpad Intelligence
Change the assumptions. See where your income is heading.
Move an intake back a month or reduce expected starts. The income forecast updates straight away, showing which months are affected and by how much.
I help you judge which assumptions you can rely on, what’s behind the movement and which decisions it should inform.
