Ben Nice Email & Phone Number

Haywards Heath, Gb

Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mx

Reporting to the CEO of this privately owned, award winning creative business in Mexico this role was heavily focused on bringing order to the chaos of an incredibly fragmented group, with a complex structure and accounting / reporting being undertaken by several different teams. Data for decision making was unreliable and unpredictable in its timing.Key Achievements included:- Successful restructure of finance teams (both Internal and Outsourced - UK and Mexico based) to deliver financial reports according to an agreed timetable.- Alignment of accounting policy regime across the group, with a particular emphasis on revenue recognition.- Roll out of finance support for Bidding and Pricing Teams, with historical data and trends to support pricing decisions and strategies- Successful first year UK Audit, demonstrating progress made with financial control environment- Lead on group restructure, managing multiple teams and external advisors across different geographies to complete on time.

Santa Monica, Ca, Us

Operating under a very commercially focused CFO, acting as the de facto Head of Finance for the group. During an intensive period of aggressive M&A activity, working to highlight skill gaps in a historically underinvested in finance team and securing the right resources to support the ambitious growth.Key highlights included:- Managing a growing finance- Implementing ERP (Netsuite)- Onboarding of M&A Finance Operations- Managing migration of global banking facilities to single corporate platform- Leading IFRS conversion project for the group, including detailed IFRS15 assessment for all revenue streams- Transfer Pricing policy development for the group- Successful submission of first time UK R&D Tax credits with HMRC

London, Greater London, Gb

Acting as the Finance ‘No1’ after the departure of the CFO to support the chairman, CEO and board with their needs and the future direction of the business. Managing a small finance team to bring some standardisation and simplification to the finance operations, support the business in its growth aspirations.• Treasury management and implementation of rolling cashflow forecast, day to day operational management and long-term forecast ensuring that sufficient transparency and notice is given to the board of upcoming cash need.• Ownership of cap table and option processes, developing a consistent Incentive Option Policy with RemCom and managing all aspects of compliance. Including Valuation and reporting requirements. • Maintain complete and accurate statutory records for all legal entities.• Attendance and documentation of board meetings.• Supporting CEO and Chairman in fundraising activity, along with external counsel in order to manage documentation and records associated with any transactions.• Maintaining relationships with investors, developing and supporting standard quarterly investor reports and running update calls. Managing all information and reporting requirements.• Maintaining external relationships with Advisors, including Payroll, Legal Counsel, Tax and Accounting, Auditors, Lenders, Banking and Insurance.• Ensure Business is in constant state of DD readiness, through addressing processes, risks and by maintaining external data room for the purposes of current and potential future investors. • Develop and maintain an adequate framework of financial controls across the business, including liaison with the wider business to ensure that these are appropriate, understood and adhered to.• Ownership of all aspects of operational Finance, including Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Payroll, Management Accounts preparation and delivery, Tax and statutory reporting across all subsidiary entities.

Brighton, East Sussex, Gb

Promoted by incoming CFO, in his first CFO role and became very much the 'number two' in the Finance function. Supported the CFO extensively, and as he said when asked 'who runs the Finance function when you travel? The same person who runs it when I don't, Ben'.- Managed a c. +15 strong global team in Brighton, New York, Boston and Berlin. - Led on an initiative to deliver high quality management information across a dynamic, high growth, multi-currency SaaS model rapidly transforming the data utilised to support business decision making.- Supported two acquisitions, winning an argument with the UK National Technical Panel at Deloitte regarding acquisition accounting along the way. The second a transformative deal, acquiring our closest competitor, US domiciled Crimson Hexagon, transforming Brandwatch into a US$100m revenue run rate business. - I led the integration of the Finance functions, was first man in the Boston office and managed a complex Netsuite/Zuora integration project.

Brighton, East Sussex, Gb

Brandwatch, a global, enterprise SaaS business delivering social listening and analytics functionality in a B2B setting, delivering revenue growth +40% YoY.I managed the FP&A team driving the concept of true business partnering across a rapidly growing organisation, working closely with functional heads to measure business performance and ensure financially optimal growth. Led the budget process, and helped the business move towards a growth centric and truly accountable culture.

Waltham, Massachusetts, Us

● Working as part of the Site Leadership Team, including all functional Directors● Ownership of Monthly Divisional reporting pack, and presentation to Divisional Leadership Team on a monthly basis.● Ownership of budget and forecast process and related reporting to division. Consolidation of departmental budgets, including capital and investment plans.● Manage and develop team of five analysts.● Redesign of FP&A model to align analysts to areas of responsibility, along with development of strategy for and roll out of business partnering structure to better support operational partners in business units.● Global strategic pricing project - leading international sub-team to develop price measurement and reporting capabilities consistently across the division with multiple accounting systems to track effectiveness of price strategy implementation.● Project lead for roll out of upgraded HFM/Essbase environment in UK.● Development of KPI’s and basic rule-sets to assist the business in pro-actively managing resource in times of significantly growing / declining revenues.● Targeted analysis to identify and recover significant amounts of revenue leakage, recovering over £0.5m in 2014.● Use of PPI tools to improve efficiency within the Finance team, eliminating 10% of the departments workload, allowing 2 FTE’s to be reassigned to more value creating roles.● Covered for the vacant FC role during restructure. I managed much of the wider finance team on a day to day basis, learning and improving the core month end processes and reporting. Liaison with both Internal and External Audit team

Waltham, Massachusetts, Us

● Recruitment, management and development of team of three analysts.● Management and coordination of annual budget and related reporting.● Development of reporting suite for budget holders to understand performance v budget and to drive accountability.● Development of a rolling forecast model with inputs from budget holders.● Led cross functional team in assessing new invoicing system, including current and future state process mapping, engaging with vendor to develop specifications and project plan.● Implementation of SaaS planning and driver based budgeting tool.● Collaboration with major customer to address information deficiencies in our invoicing process.

Havant, Hampshire, Gb

● Part of the BL decision making team, meeting monthly.● Prepare and present financial KPIs and P&L.● Working closely with sales, marketing and development teams as new products are brought to market.● Responsible for implementing financial controls around the new products and services, and for educating wider finance team.● Prepare monthly/quarterly revenue and margin forecasts for BL based on sales pipeline.● Part of multi-functional bid response teams on high profile bids to recommend pricing Process improvement, to continue to deliver high quality.● Coach junior members of the team.● Ensuring correct accounting for revenue and material margin data on top customers.● Preparing monthly/quarterly revenue and margin forecasts for top customers.● Presenting forecasts and results to VP Finance, VP Sales and CFO monthly.● Developed standard cost and pricing model across three manufacturing geographies.● Developed pricing model and strategy for major new product family.● Participated in engagement of third party support solution for new product family. Successfully delivered cost reductions to deliver profitable service revenue stream.● Preparing and maintaining price lists on a quarterly basis, supporting account team with data to assist in pricing negotiations.● Migrated all customer price lists into SAP.

Havant, Hampshire, Gb

● Preparation of annual budgets/forecasts for the corporate functions. ● Developed standard templates for budget setting process.● Preparation of quarterly SEC filings, Press release data, UK statutory accounts and SEC 20F filings.● Project work including Internal Audit / SOX secondments and SAP data migration.

London, England, Gb

● Daily cash control for the new geographies as they were brought into the service centre, including reconciling and reporting any discrepancies. ● Documentation and training out of the role.● Close liaison with the regional managers, SAP team, EPOS team and Banking teams to provide closed loop feedback of problems experienced ahead of next wave.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

● Capital forecasting for the division, quarterly budgets and forecast for R&D group.● Monthly spending reports against budget.● Developed model to estimate full cost to bring new products to market.● Support on the development of new products and cost impacts of engineering changes.● Monitoring balance sheet reconciliations and preparing the quarterly balance sheet review.● Secondment to global internal audit team.

Paris La Defense, Fr

New York, Ny, Us

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Mphys (Hons), Theoretical Physics

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