James Henry

Progressed from Analyst to Consultant Analyst following strong performance across financial modelling, diagnostic analysis, and client‑facing delivery. Work spans commercial analysis, investment case development, financial diagnostics, and operational insight generation for both public‑ and private‑sector clients. Frequently work directly with senior stakeholders, translating complex analysis into clear commercial implications.

Key Experience & Achievements

• Led multiple financial diagnostic workstreams, analysing business drivers (demand, cost, utilisation and spend) to generate insights that informed senior‑level strategic decisions.
• Built and maintained complex financial models used for investment evaluation, cost assessments and business case development across multi‑million‑pound programmes.
• Delivered activity and spend analysis across large organisations, identifying trends and cost pressures to guide future financial planning.
• Developed economic and financial modelling to support major capital investment cases, including sensitivity analysis and scenario planning for Board‑level decision‑making.
• Designed Excel‑based tools and dashboards used by senior stakeholders to monitor performance, financial controls and key operational indicators.
• Created reference pricing models for 1,000+ pharmaceutical products, enabling robust market benchmarking and supporting government negotiations with industry.
• Built a workforce controls model used across several organisations to track expenditure, identify cost drivers and support CFO‑level decision‑making.
• Supported MasterCard Transaction Services on a cross‑border payments risk assessment, evaluating operational controls, transaction flows, and compliance gaps across five major product streams.
• Navigated differing viewpoints between Product and Compliance teams, facilitating alignment and shaping a set of recommendations now being implemented.
• Regularly presented analytical findings to senior stakeholders (CFOs, Directors, Heads of Service, 1–2* military leadership).
• Led client workshops and chaired briefings of 30+ stakeholders, including senior officers and executive sponsors.
• Acted as primary interface for financial modelling discussions on major investment cases, ensuring clarity, alignment and buy‑in.

Delivered data driven insights, stakeholder engagement and programme management across multiple initiatives, contributing to measurable improvements in partner performance and client engagement.

Key Experience & Achievements:

• Led the Law Firm Diversity Programme (LFDP), analysing multi-firm workforce data to identify trends, gaps and opportunity for improved diversity outcomes.
• Produced clear, insight-driven reporting and communications for partner firms and senior internal sponsors, increasing transparency and programme visibility.
• Facilitated discussions that enabled the introduction of a monetary incentive scheme to drive improved D&I performance across partner firms.
• Delivered product optimisation demonstrations to enterprise clients, improving adoption and usage of Microsoft technologies.
• Planned and delivered multiple student outreach events, coordinating senior contributors and ensuring smooth execution to promote careers in technology.