Victoria FitzGerald ACMA MBA

Victoria has over 20 years experience as a professionally qualified accountant with a Masters in Business Administration (MBA). She focuses on getting to know each customer, finding out what’s important and helping senior teams make crucial decisions.   

One of Victoria’s unique strengths is that she’s approachable and friendly and presents figures in a way that everyone can understand. She frequently gets feedback that people haven’t understood finance ‘until now’. That’s what makes her smile. With these skills, she gets to the root of any situation quickly and helps organisations move ahead with practical recommendations. She’s passionate about making financial planning easy and thrives on helping organisations succeed. 

She has recently provided strategic financial consultancy to an outstanding multi-academy trust in Bristol during a key stage of its growth. She has worked with a unique new multi-academy trust in Wiltshire during and after conversion. She then supported the trust in the next stage of growth.

She has worked with a new primary phase multi-academy trust in Leicester in the set up stage.
Victoria is experienced in Integrated Curriculum and Financial Planning (ICFP) and has recently been accredited by the Department for Education as  Schools Resource Management Advisor (SRMA). 

From 2014 to 2015 Victoria was Chair of a multi-academy schools trust in South Gloucestershire, working with the executive leadership team. Her influence and positive challenging style resulted in a significant impact on their organisation’s performance. 

Looking back over her career, she started out in the NHS, moved to private industry and then into public and charity sectors. She has held Chief Financial Officer and Finance Director roles in both the commercial and not for profit sectors. Her strategic and operational business experience is drawn from a range sectors including, multi-academy trusts, higher education, independent schools, the arts, manufacturing and aerospace. This diverse experience gives her unique business insights, which proves invaluable to clients. 

As a non-executive board member, Victoria uses her extensive business expertise to influence the strategic direction of boards. She is currently a Member of a Bristol multi-academy trust, and Trustee of a Bristol cultural charity. 

Outside work Victoria enjoys the theatre, opera, stand up comedy and travelling throughout the US.