News
September 25, 2014
Deputy Chair and Members Appointed to the
Accounts Commission for Scotland
The Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Employment and Sustainable Growth
today announced the appointment of Ronnie Hinds as Deputy Chair, and Tim McKay
and Stephen Moore as Members, of the Accounts Commission for Scotland.
The main purpose of the Accounts Commission for Scotland is to hold local
authorities to account and assist them in achieving the highest standards of financial
stewardship and the economic, effective and efficient use of their resources. As a
public body, a main role of the Commission is to ensure that the policies and
priorities of Scottish Ministers are implemented.
Mr Ronnie Hinds - has over thirty years’ experience in local government,
culminating as Chief Executive of Fife Council. He is a former Chair of the Society of
Local Authority Chief Executives and currently chairs the Local Government
Boundary Commission for Scotland. He is a qualified public sector accountant and
has held senior positions in local government finance including Director of Finance
for North Lanarkshire Council and Head of Financial Services for the City of
Edinburgh Council. He also served as Controller of Audit and Deputy Auditor General
for Scotland from 2000 to 2003.
Mr Tim McKay – Tim McKay graduated from St. Andrews University and then
qualified as an accountant with Coopers & Lybrand in 1984. He then took on a
variety of Financial Services jobs before moving to an academic post at Napier
University. Whilst at Napier he was for several years Head of Accounting and
Finance and also lectured in Finance and Investment in the UK, Europe, Cayman
Islands, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong and mainland China.
More recently he served as a councillor for the Inverleith ward in the City of
Edinburgh and as part of the ruling administration took on several roles including
Vice Convener of Economic Development, Vice Convener of the Regulatory
committee, a director of the City's property development company and Chair of
Lothian Pension Trustees (who were responsible for nearly £4bn of assets across
three defined benefit pension schemes and nearly 100 charitable funds.) Mr McKay
is a Member of the CFA Society of the UK and a Fellow of the Institute of chartered
Accountants in England and Wales.
Mr Stephen Moore - Mr Moore brings to the Commission over 34 years’ experience
working in health and social care both nationally and internationally with his work in
America and Romania where he advised on the welfare of children with disabilities
within orphanages. He graduated in 1980 and worked in Health and Social Care in
Northern Ireland for nine years before taking up a number of senior management
posts in England and Scotland. His career includes 14 years as Director of Social
Work in Fife and in East Ayrshire. Mr Moore joins the Commission from his most
recent post as Interim Director of Health and Social Care Integration in Fife.
These appointments will be for four years and will run from October 1, 2014 to
September 30, 2014.
The Deputy Chair appointment is part-time and attracts a remuneration of £262 for a
time commitment of four and a half days per month.
The Member appointments are part-time and attract a remuneration of £262 for a
time commitment of two days per month
Ronnie Hinds is the Chair of Local Government Boundary Commitment for Scotland
with a time commitment of two days per month.
Tim McKay and Stephen Moore hold no other Ministerial Public Appointments.
This appointment is regulated by the Commissioner for Ethical Standards in Public
Life in Scotland.
All appointments are made on merit and political activity plays no part in the selection
process. However, in accordance with the original Nolan recommendations, there is
a requirement for appointees’ political activity within the last five years (if there is any
to be declared) to be made public. Ronnie Hinds and Stephen Moore have had no
political activity in the last five years. Tim McKay was Councillor for Inverleith Ward
in Edinburgh (Lib Dem party) until 2012, and he stood as UK Parliamentary
candidate (Lib Dem) in Edinburgh South West in 2010.