Alex Skailes

Alex Skailes is a senior lecturer within the faculty of management and Director of consulting and professional development at the Cass Centre for Charity Effectiveness. http://www.cass.city.ac.uk/research-and-faculty/centres/cce

Alex is an experienced strategy and finance director with a successful track record of advising and leading clients in the nonprofit and private sectors. She believes passionately in the power of cross sector working. Alex has combined the first class skills and expertise gained from her earlier senior career with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deutsche Bank with a period of post graduate academic study and consulting work focusing specifically on the nonprofit sector. As a result of her cross sector experiences, she is able to harness best business practise and strong commercial experience with leading edge thinking for a sector that is currently undergoing transformation.

Alex specialises in strategic and business planning, feasibility and options studies. She teaches and co-leads the core module 'Resource Management in the Voluntary Sector' on the MSc Charities programme. She has a particular interest in mergers, collaborations and sustainable business models.

As Director of the Cass Centre for Charity Effectiveness (Cass CCE) consulting and professional development practice Alex leads a team of twelve consultants. The Centre is the leading nonprofit and philanthropy centre in the UK and delivers a world class blend of postgraduate Masters, research, consultancy and leadership development programmes both in the UK and overseas. . Alex is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (FCA), holds their post graduate diploma in charity accounting and has an MSc with distinction from Cass Business School in Voluntary Sector Management. She holds a BA from University College, London and is a Freeman of the City of London. Alex is a fellow of both the Royal Society for Arts, Manufacturing and Commerce and the Royal Geographical Society. She is on the finance and audit committees of the Seckford Foundation and Community Action Suffolk.

Qualifications

• Diploma in Charity Accounting (DChA), Insitute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, Oct 2010
• FCA, Instiute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), Jan 1992
• MSc (distinction) Cass Business School, City, University London, London, United Kingdom
• BA Hons, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Fellowships

• Fellow, Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, Nov 2016 – present
• Fellow, Royal Geographical Society, Nov 2016 – present
• Fellow, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW)

Memberships of Professional Organisations

Freeman of the City of London

Expertise

Primary Topics

• Business Models
• Change Management
• Corporate Governance
• Financial Accounting
• Management
• Management Consulting
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Voluntary Sector Management

Industries/Professions

non-profit & voluntary sector