Executive director
Emily Yule
Interim chief finance officer and S151 officer
Alistair Rush
Functions:
- Section 151 responsibilities
- Strategic finance
- Revenues & benefits
- Procurement
- Commercial strategy and acquisitions
Heads of service
Robert Mayes – head of finance
Functions:
- Finance business partners, transactions and systems
- Corporate finance, treasury management and tax
- Procurement
- Internal and external audit
- Risk management
Dawn Bradshaw – head of HR and organisational development
Functions:
- Human resources
- Workforce management and strategy
- Learning and skills
- Organisational development
Julia Medler – head of customers, IT and digital
Functions:
- Customer services (incl revenues and benefits and customer service advisers)
- IT and digital
- Service improvement
- Data protection
- FOI enquiries
- Complaints
- GDPR
Jan Robinson – head of legal and governance (monitoring officer)
Functions:
- Monitoring officer
- Nplaw contract lead
- Democratic services
- Member development
- Elections
- Procurement
- Major contracts
- Executive support
- Civic team
Tanya Bandekar – head of revenue and benefits
Functions:
- Billing and collection of council tax and business rates
- Administration of housing benefit
- Administration of council tax support scheme
- Prevention and detection of fraud
- Lead on debt recovery across the council
