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Stephen Pink

Stephen Pink

Director of Finance & Resources (Section 151 Officer) at Havant Borough Council; ACCA-qualified accountant with public sector experience including NHS COVID vaccination programme leadership.

Jun 30, 2026

1:33
Can you tell us exactly what happened and what led you to become an accountant?
1:38
Yeah.
1:38
So, I mean, I spent a lot of time in private industry, mostly around manufacturing engineering roles.
1:45
And I got to a point where whilst I had a good career and a good job and a reasonable wage package and producing some good work, I sort of sat there and thought, I've got a limitation to what I'm doing.
1:57
And if I'm not to get to a senior level role or I wanted to make a management role, I'm going to struggle to do it from where I've been with the qualifications I had at the time.
2:07
You know, I had GCSEs, but I didn't have A levels.
2:10
So I kind of took a calculated decision that I needed to go and find something which had a professional career and qualification behind it.

7 MINS LATER

9:43
It's quite an amazing and scary time to live through, I'm sure, let alone having to have been in control of so much as well.

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