Ben Jay

AD Finance and Technology (Deputy s151 Officer), Shropshire Council

I joined Shropshire in May 2022 and was quickly thrown into the frontline of trying to sort out the finances! This was not a surprise, and not new for me – I have worked in a number of pressurised situations before, securing strong financial outcomes (including both NHS and LG settings). The opportunity to link up colleagues across my portfolio has been really productive. More widely, working to secure an organisation-wide approach to ‘challenging times’ is always difficult, but headed in the right direction. I don’t have all the answers – but I have some ideas about how to find them!