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London, United Kingdom

Daiichi Sankyo in the 2nd biggest Japanese pharmaceutical company. Its key drug in the UK market is in the cardiovascular space, and its product pipeline includes a further cardiovascular drug entry and multiple Oncology products including a joint venture arrangement with Astra Zeneca. DSUK is currently ranked as the 2nd fastest growing company in the UK Pharma industry.Business partner to UK affiliate in building the back office infrastructure and decision making insight and performance management to support a 700% growth in the net revenue of the business.Key Deliverables• Full financial and statutory accountability for the UK affiliate, significantly improving the controls and processes to manage the exponential top-line growth.• Drive enhanced performance management and decision support capability in the company.• Deliver a new business partnering capability in the function to support the growth of the current portfolio, through innovative new-to-industry Tenders with the NHSE, as well as the business cases for the product pipeline, including creating the joint venture construct with Astra Zeneca.• Create an enhanced Supply chain and customer service structure to support the supply of the UK patient.

Weybridge

Business partner to Global CIO, in the controlling and driving of more than £1bn of annual IT spend across Opex and Capex.WBA is a US-listed Fortune 20 company made up of the Walgreens US retail pharmacy business, Boots UK Retail and Alliance Healthcare pharmaceutical wholesale businesses with operations across 25 countries across the world and over 400,00 employees.Key Deliverables• Full financial accountability to Shared Service entity spanning 40 countries with £0.2m of annual spend.• Support the creation of a new Shared Services operating model structure to expand the sphere of cross-divisional spend and improve the governance of the function.• Business partnering reporting and development of business cases across the £1bn of annual Global IT spend • Install a new cost management system – ComSci - to drive greater visibility of cost drivers and improvement of the cost allocations across the organisation.

London, United Kingdom

Hovis Limited, the No 2 Bread brand in the UK, is a vertically integrated baking and flour milling business operating across multiple sites jointly owned by The Gores Group (51%) a US private equity group and Premier Foods plc (49%). Brought in to set up and drive new Business Performance processes and business partnering activities on behalf of the Hovis Executive and the Private Equity house, with the business having recently been carved out of Premier Foods Plc. Reported into the CFO of the business, with direct reports of FP&A Manager, Head of Commercial Finance and Head of Supply Finance. Key Achievements• Re-built, with the PE house, an integrated 3 year strategic plan and cash liquidity model with scenario sensitivities to pressure-test liquidity pinch-points based on a significant shift in pricing and distribution in the market. This included review of adjustments of the supply footprint based on differing production levels.• Designed and implemented a new Reporting and Risk and Opportunity process linking the Commercial and Operations S&OP and the financial budget together.• Worked closely with the Financial Controller to fix process and system issues on the transfer of the business to a standalone reporting system.• Drove the analysis of the innovation pipeline, new Marketing activity, and various customer tenders.• Drove various profit and cash enhancement processes, as well as deep dive support on Overhead costs.• Recommended the required steady state structure of the FP&A team including my replacement.

London, United Kingdom

ARM is one of the 21 market/region groupings which make up the Diageo Group. 2014 Plan metrics ~£400m Net Sales Value (NSV) and Trading Profit (TP) of ~£80m. The ARM region is made up of >40 countries in sub-Saharan Africa split into 6 market clusters led by local Exec teams, with ~2,500 employees, and various ownership, manufacturing and distribution structures. Led the creation of the new regional market structure which included the prioritisation of strategic options; drove short and long term business performance cycle; set up the governance structure to ensure strong controls; and coached and drove functional strategy through the in-market Finance Directors, as well as being the key business partner to the GM of ARM.Key Achievements• Devised and implemented a strategic prioritisation matrix to establish the key investment brand/market leading to more polarised choice of options across the region.• Initiated the development of an integrated Shared Service and ERP strategy for the region to drive a cost effective back office solution and enabled flexibility and scalability to enter new markets at pace. • Drove profit enhancement initiatives (Cogs, Overheads, Advertising and Promotion, and balance sheet and asset engineering) across the market clusters leading to a profit improvement of £10m in F14.• Governed key Business development projects in the region with CAPEX spend of >£200m including major production expansions in Ghana and Ethiopia• Oversaw the successful integration of new brewery acquisition in Ethiopia (purchased for ~$250m in 2012) with talent, system and control interventions.• Established a proactive talent strategy to significantly improve the short, medium and long term strength of the finance team across the region, and drove the functional strategy across a team of > 100 people.• Oversaw funding, capital structure reviews and transfer pricing and risk reviews with Tax and Treasury across the region to ensure optimal to needs.

Douala

A key Executive leader in a business recognised as “the most admired business in International region” and received an “International Finance Merit Award” in 2011 by leading significant value-creating performance interventions and driving an exemplary control environment whilst sponsoring a large change program.Cameroon Hub was one of 6 markets reporting into the Africa region, NSV ~£130m, TP ~£34m supporting around 20 countries in West and Central Africa from a main production HQ in Cameroon. Over the 3 years of the role the business NSV grew by >60%, and TP by 50% with significant value market share growth.Key Achievements• Sponsored the implementation of a new Route to Market (RTM) and commercial trade terms the key catalyst in driving the market share growth in the business.• Drove the integration of West and Central Africa business into Cameroon and integration of the Beer and Spirits business in Cameroon creating cost savings of £1m per annum and enabling the business to leverage the established back office structure to grow.• Delivered the business case to expand the local production facility capacity by 50% which resulted in improved Gross Margin by more than 10 percentage points within 2 years.• Sponsored a successful SAP implementation in 2011 and delivered the first ever “first-time” Internal audit pass in the history of the Cameroon business.• Restructured the capital structure of the business unlocking £8m of trapped cash to return to HQ.• Strengthened and integrated a team of 60 across Finance, Order-to-cash, IT and Procurement.

London

Led and oversaw projects across Europe and Corporate as part of an “internal consultancy” team covering high-value at stake strategic, change management and commercial finance decisions for Diageo Group and Europe region. Examples included • Coordinated streams on a Diageo-wide project to enhance Gross margins and which delivered >£100m of value to Diageo and which acted as a significant catalyst in shifting the Trade Terms and Cogs agenda within the Group. • Led the team, on behalf of the Group Sales Director, which delivered an approved business case for a SAP-based integrated Global Sales system solution for Diageo Executive.• Coordinated the agenda, pre-read and presentation for the Group Strategy Director for the Annual Strategy Conference with the main Diageo board, rated by attendees as the “best ever conference”.• Oversaw RTM projects in Russia to expand the distribution footprint and a simplified structure in Turkey

Shanghai

Hand-picked to be the Finance Director during the key strategic start-up of the Diageo business in China. During the 3 years of tenure the NSV of the business grew by 400%, headcount moved from 10 to 250, which led to a significant reversal of the previous decline in market share in our key brand. • Created a dynamic performance and control framework to help deliver the key strategic objectives.• Sponsored a successful SAP implementation and first ever outsourced Shared Service Centre in Diageo.• Drove business case to create new distribution company for several of our brands and led of the negotiations with our JV partners which enabled significant volume growth.• Set up a new corporate structure, Transfer pricing policy and Treasury funding which underpinned the growth and profitability of the business. • Recruited and coached a new finance team from scratch to drive the business.

Santo Domingo

Led the finance, logistics, Procurement and IT team and was a member of the local Executive team. During the 3 years the business grew strongly beating Plan TP in each year despite significant tax and economic shocks to the business. Implemented a local ERP system change, including significant process simplifications which changed a Deficient control rated business to Satisfactory.

London, United Kingdom

As part of a team of 6 delivered Group reporting for the UDV part of the Diageo business through the merger of Guinness and GrandMet. Roles included preparing the Board pack, a month secondment to Miami to manage the Latam region more directly; supported the accounting process on the sale of key brands as part of the merger.Became lead FP&A support for the Venture markets region supporting the President and dotted reporting line to the FD of the region. Delivered budget and reporting processes for the overall region and managed the planning and reporting integration of Guinness and UDV businesses.

London

Various FP&R and accounting roles in the Diageo GB business including supporting commercial finance decisions in the Sales and Innovation.

Acma

Passed Finals

Ba Hons 2:1, European Finance And Accounting, 2:1

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