A Senior Finance manager with significant Specialist and Finance Management experience in large multinational agricultural equipment/ construction machinery manufacturing companies and with management buyout companies.Focused and solution driven, with the ability to negotiate, persuade, and achieve proven finance direction and results at all levels in those businesses, up to and including Board level participation, in a continuously changing global environment.Demonstrates strong financial analysis and profit planning skills in financial modelling within business strategic planning to manage and steer product margins and profitability towards short and long term company growth. Specialist in forecasting, budgeting, product profitability and tailored management accounting and reporting.Internationally experienced, including excellent in-depth manufacturing finance core skills applied within general operations and projects in UK, France, Germany, Brazil, Finland and USA supply/distribution unitsSuccessful management buyout and company turnaround experience, involving venture capital funding, through provision and negotiating of robust financial business plans to drive results and exit routes including business sale.Recent finance control of projects and farming initiatives in Africa including a significantly profitable Africa joint venture tractor supply and assembly business. Involved in the development of agricultural solutions in Africa and emerging world agriculture.Committed to, and facilitates, the promotion of team building and leadership skills that create outstanding opportunities to generate maximum positive impact within organisations.