Going independent and platform switches: Double award winner Henrietta Dymott talks big projects

New operational structure

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Winner of both the Administrator of the Year and Project Leader of the Year awards at PA's New Talent Awards 2020, Lathe & Co's Henrietta Dymott talks to Cherry Reynard about taking a firm independent and other major tasks...

On leaving school, Henrietta Dymott had no plans to enter the world of finance. ‘More English than Maths', but she nevertheless found herself doing administrative work for an ambitious group of financial advisers. The business grew quickly, laying new opportunities at her door. Two and a half years later, she's their operations manager with a number of major projects under her belt. Winner of Project leader of the year and Administrator of the Year, Dymott says: "After A-levels, I didn't have any desire to go to university. I wanted to get cracking in the world of work and get my foot in...

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