Nucleus strengthens financial leadership team with two new roles
Nucleus Financial Platforms, the largest independent adviser platform group in the UK, announces the appointment of Jenny Woods as Group Financial Controller and Jennifer O’Brien as Commercial Finance Director.
Both roles are newly created, strengthening the Finance team as Nucleus continues to invest in its leadership talent to reflect its growth.
Jenny Woods joins from aberdeen group plc, where over 20 years she held various finance roles including Interim Chief Financial Officer of Americas and Head of Group Financial Reporting.
Jennifer O’Brien was most recently Commercial Finance Director at ClearBank, a rapidly growing innovative challenger bank. In her 20 years' experience in financial services, she’s held senior roles at Deloitte, Aegon, the NatWest Group and M&G plc, where she was CFO of the Wealth division.
Alan McDonald, Interim Chief Financial Officer said: “We’re pleased to welcome Jenny Woods and Jennifer O’Brien, both bringing a wealth of experience and expertise in the financial services sector. These roles were newly created to further develop our finance capability as we support the group's continued growth, serving our customers in helping make their retirement more rewarding.”
Commenting on joining Nucleus, Jenny Woods, Group Financial Controller said: “I’m delighted to have taken on this new role to help the senior team drive the business forward. The group has had an impressive growth trajectory over the last few years and I’m excited to be part of the next phase of its development.”
Jennifer O’Brien, Commercial Finance Director, added: “I’m excited to join Nucleus at such an important period for the business. I look forward to working with our talented team and to playing a significant role in supporting its continued success.”
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About Nucleus:
Nucleus Financial Platforms is one of the UK's leading independent groups for investment platforms, products and wealthtech software.
It’s the only large-scale group with a comprehensive range of bespoke platform solutions to meet the needs of advisory and wealth management firms of all sizes.
It operates the Nucleus Wrap and James Hay Online retail investment platforms, and through Curtis Banks and Talbot and Muir is one of the UK’s largest administrators of SIPP and SSAS products.
With the wealthtech experience of Third Financial and Dunstan Thomas, Nucleus now powers some of the industry’s leading product providers, advisory firms and consolidators, discretionary investment managers and institutions, with enterprise-wide, platform software solutions.
Working exclusively in partnership with over 5,300 financial advisory firms, the group now administers £100 billion of investments on behalf of over 230,000 UK customers, seeking to deliver great service and financial outcomes for them, and ultimately help make their retirement more rewarding.