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Basingstoke, England, United Kingdom

• Key Responsibilities:
• Opex Spend – Revenue £800m, Opex £380m, Capex Spend £900m.
• Direct Reports 24. Key Achievements:
• Reduced Board monthly reporting from in excess of 60 pages to 2 pages (more detailed in Quarter)
• Managed two entities with two systems with reporting as if one organisation
• Budget process established to meet industry and company challenges

Basingstoke, England, United Kingdom

• Key Responsibilities:
• Opex Spend - £120m, Capex Spend £65m.
• Direct Reports 8. Key Achievements:
• Established trusted partnership with the business.
• Identified and created newly formed team, now performing at a high level.
• Improved monthly reporting with business ownership.

Basingstoke, England, United Kingdom

• Sovereign Housing Association looks after in excess of 60,000 affordable houses with a core mission to be a leading landlord, providing great service to residents. In addition it is a major developer with one of the.
• Direct Reports 78 – Core Finance (A/P, A/R, Rents, Service Charges), FP&A, Reporting, Business Partnering
• Signed audited accounts within 4 months of arriving with no material adjustments, no major concerns and all outstanding issues closed. Dealt with new audit team and resolved key issues effectively.
• Annual Report improvements made and published to deadline.
• Improved “Value For Money” Report published – produced internally.
• Effective presentation of Monthly Financial and Non Financial Results to Executive Board and Main Board.

Newbury, Berkshire, England

• Gandlake is a is a leading supplier to government organisations with online customer accounts, secure authentication, secure web transaction and distributed print and mail management systems.
• Direct Reports – Finance, Strategy, Commercial, Sales and Operations - 52 headcount
• Budgets and Forecasts and Long Term Financial Projections. Building the associated strategy for the company.
• Monthly Report - P&L, Balance Sheet, Cashflow and key financial KPI's
• Balanced Scorecard - Developed and used by the SMT.
• Sales Projections and Pipeline Management - Weekly review and communication to MD

Theale UK

• Acision is a global software company that operates in the B2B telecommunications space specialising in messaging software. The Turnover was $300m and it was a Private Equity business (now called Mavenir).
• Full P&L responsibility for Europe & Russia (Turnover $90m and Opex $24m)
• Exceeded cash collection target by $2.2m for first time in 4yrs by introducing an improved process involving sales which then enabled more influence within the sales team
• Commercial approval of all bids (8 bids per week ranging from $40k to $20m) and presentation of key bids to CFO for approval o Pricing dependant on such factors as key accounts (eg Telefonica), size order, country risk.
• Introduced detailed financial analysis to identify cost reduction initiatives, drove initiatives to enable savings of $2.1m
• Drove Financial focus through introduction of monthly management pack and key presentations to sales team

• Finance Director for the Business Division of Vodafone UK.
• Full P&L responsibility reporting directly to the Enterprise Managing Director
• Revenue £1.6bn, Headcount 1,500, Opex £120m
• Led commercial actions in response to economic downturn such as tariff plan modifications and partner promotions which resulted in flat revenue from a position of revenue decline of 9%.
• Strategically Led the closure of 2 underperforming companies and FTE reductions saving £4m in Opex
• Finance lead for Central Telecommunications acquisition (£20m)

• Set up finance support for the new Global IT Director. Headcount 350, Opex €123m, Capex €98m
• Commercial lead for Application Development & Maintenance Global Outsourcing Deal. Led commercial workstream for feasibility, vendor selection (IBM & EDS) and vendor negotiations. 5yrs savings €830m
• Led commercial finance team for Global Data Centre consolidation. Delivered €136m pa savings
• Review of all Operating IT spend (Opex €846m Capex €673m) for budgets and forecasts

• Established support for the Global Supply Chain Managing Director
• Commercial lead for Global Handset strategy, Yr1 savings of €47m
• Commercial lead for the Global Network strategy, Yr1 savings of €32m
• Enabled Financial information consolidation for first time on global basis by vendor

• Setup all Financial Reporting & Analysis (Budgets, Forecasts, Monthly Results) as newly acquired Vodafone Subsiduary
• Reported to CFO and work closely with CEO as both were new to Vodafone
• Completed Budget in Vodafone format after 8 weeks within the company
• Established Balanced Scorecard which was used as Monthly Management Pack

• Financial Support for MD of Southern Region (Italy, Greece, Netherlands, Sweden & Malta)
• Prepared Vodafone Main Board Papers for Greek acquisitions and licence bids
• Managed cash issues minimising cash injection to Infostrada (Italy Fixed line Company)

Achievements and Highlights: 1. Finance lead for the integration of two Customer Care divisions2. Finance lead for the integration of the Technical and Operations divisions. 3. Preparation of IPO information.

Achievements and Highlights: 1. Substantially increase the involvement by the Business in Budgeting and Forecasting process2. Systems and process improvement to enable quicker and more effective budgeting and forecasting.

Achievements and Highlights: 1. Introduced control of capital expenditure. 2. Introduced reporting and analysis of capital expenditure. 3. Developed budgeting tool for capital expenditure.

Achievement and Highlights. 1. Manager in the startup this Telco. 2. Developed and introduced financial controls, reporting and budgeting for Capital expenditure whilst the network was being rolled out. 3. Established the finance team to support Capex management.

Logistics analyst, financial accountant (P&L, balance sheet, cashflows, stock takes) and Management Accounting.

Commerce Law, Finance, Law

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