Andrew Megson

Finance & Business Systems Lead @Scottish Land Commission

Directing FP & A, budgeting, and forecasting, overseeing financial planning for annual operating and capital budgets, and enabling effective resource allocation.• Leading reporting, producing regular management reports to support decision-making while ensuring the timely and accurate preparation of statutory reports.• Leading the budget management process, defining budgets for all departments, programmes, and projects, and slashing costs while ensuring full value is unlocked from spending.• Establishing and maintaining a robust framework of policies, procedures, and best practices to ensure strict compliance with financial regulation and standards.• Managing and evolving the organisation’s system infrastructure, ensuring systems and applications are functional, reliable, secure, and support long-range organisational goals. • Leading cybersecurity, developing policies and protocols, handling threats and incidents, and coordinating security audits and risk assessments to remediate critical vulnerabilities.• Heading strategic sourcing and procurement, managing RFI and RFP processes, and negotiating contracts with vendors to evolve strategic capabilities and source new technology.• Planning and orchestrating high-impact digital transformation and change initiatives, including an enterprise-wide conversion from remote desktop server to a cloud-based finance system.• Overseeing health, safety, and environmental management, driving a culture of compliance and wellbeing by implementing robust safety frameworks, conducting risk assessments, ensuring regulatory adherence, managing incident response and emergency preparedness, and embedding best practices across all operations.