I've spent more than 40 years working inside school systems — first in Pakistan, where I worked my way from finance assistant to regional accountant overseeing payroll, HR, and operations across 22 schools, and later in the UK, where I moved in 2004 under the Highly Skilled Migration Programme and built a second career starting as a bursar. Today I serve as Director of Finance & Resources at Hammersmith Academy, where my focus is financial controls, sustainability, and strategic resource mana...