Claire Nye

Claire is the Director of Finance and Section 151 officer of the City of Wolverhampton Council. Prior to this, Claire was the council's Chief Accountant where she was Head of Service for Strategic Finance. In this role, Claire was the lead for technical accounting and strategic financial advice and support to the Council and preparation of the Medium Term Financial Strategy.

Claire is a CIPFA qualified accountant and has over 15 years of post-qualification experience. She enjoyed several years providing accountancy support to the council's capital programme and took the lead finance role on a number of significant regeneration projects. Claire has a proven track record in technical accounting and the preparation of the Statement of Accounts.

Claire is a Director of the Council's wholly owned recruitment agency, Yoo Recruit and has previously held the role of Director for WV Living, the Council's housing company. Claire sits on the Audit Committee for the West Midlands Growth Company.