Claire Hafner
Chief Financial Officer

Claire Hafner

Claire joined VocaLink in August 2009 as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), and is responsible for all aspects of the company's financial management, including the accounting, commercial, procurement, and risk and compliance functions, as well as corporate strategy.

Claire joined VocaLink from Eversheds LLP where she was Finance Director (FD). In this role she was instrumental in turning around the financial operations of the company and running the IT, facilities and procurement functions. She also introduced a new global account management system that helped the company to win the FT Innovation Award for its billing and fee offering in 2008.

Prior to Eversheds, Claire worked as the acting FD of LCH Clearnet, and before this as the first FD of the IT and Operations division at Barclays Bank. In this position she set up the division's financial strategy and led large outsourcing and cost reduction initiatives across the business. Claire also held several finance director divisional roles at British Telecommunications as well as holding various board positions in BT's international joint ventures.