Helen Oates

Finance Director

Helen joined Gatenby Sanderson in August 2005 to head up the Finance team. She is now the Finance Director and has overall responsibility for some of the key operational areas across the company including Finance, HR, Talent Group, Business Support, Legal and IT.

Helen has over 15 years’ finance and business experience. She spent nearly 8 years at Deloitte in Leeds where she qualified as an accountant working with different business from owner managed businesses to large companies. She was also involved in graduate recruitment, training and cross selling at Deloitte.

For a different challenge she moved to ASDA Head Office in Leeds where she worked for 3 and a half years. Helen worked on the Head Office budget, forecasting and planning and then headed up the Corporate technical accounting team reporting to Wal-Mart in the US. In addition she was involved in recruitment, training and charity work.

In her spare time she is musical, playing the piano, organ and guitar.