Charles Ainslie

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Associate Director @ Initium Corporate Finance
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EMEA, United States
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About Charles Ainslie

As a Strategic & Corporate Finance Specialist, CFO and professional coach, I bring the perspectives of having worked as a senior finance professional across various countries and sectors, as well as the skills of building strong growing organisations and their leadership teams in both the private and non-profit sectors. As an entrepreneur, I have co-founded two organisations: www.thelearningtrust.org - one of South Africa's most celebrated incubation and capacity development conduit funds; and www.thetrustconnection.co.za - a growing neuro-linguistic and change mindset coaching organisation.Today I work predominantly as a corporate finance specialist, CFO and professional coach.CORPORATE FINANCE I lead the Value Assessment team at Initium Corporate Finance. In delivering company Value Assessments, we offer value-add, impact partnerships to our clients based on building trust relationships.CFO ADVISORY SERVICESAs a fractional CFO, I specialise in supporting organisations in transition - either in growth phases or looking to restore core financial stability and then unlock long-term strategic financial planning. I focus on re-vamping finance teams; run finance recruitment processes; ensure management accounts are accurate and timeous; manage annual budgeting processes; create multi-year financial models to explore growth scenarios and run sensitivity analysis; manage accounting software change processes and external audits; I have a particular interest in coaching senior finance team members.PROFESSIONAL COACHING 🔹Certified NLP Practitioner and NLP Masters programmes, linked to the Association of NLP (UK) and the International Association of Generative Change🔹One on one Executive Coaching to improve performance, relationships and personal well-beingABOUT ME🔹Corporate Finance Specialist, CFO Consultant🔹ICF Coach, Certified NLP Trainer (trained by Sue Knight), Creative Mind Coach (trained by Stephen Gilligan)with broad, diverse country and sector experience🔹Cellist when my children give me time!

Charles Ainslie's Current Company Details
Initium Corporate Finance

Initium Corporate Finance

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Charles Ainslie Work Experience Details
  • Initium Corporate Finance
    Associate Director
    Initium Corporate Finance
  • Conservation South Africa
    Senior Director Finance And Business Transformation
    Conservation South Africa Jun 2023 - Present
    Head-hunted to rebuild the finance team, directly supporting both the CEO and senior leadership team. I led the restructuring of the finance team including recruiting new hires, re-dressing historic back-log issues and helping to create a forward thinking, responsive finance team that supports the exciting growth trajectory of this leading conservation organisation; also responsible for periodic Board presentations.
  • Centre For Analytics And Behaviour Change
    Chief Financial Officer
    Centre For Analytics And Behaviour Change May 2020 - Present
    The CABC www.cabc.org.za tracks mis and disinformation across social media platforms. As CFO I lead the finance team and am responsible for all aspects of creating, implementing and maintaining financial control and planning systems for this fast growth social entrepreneurial tech start-up. This includes strategic finance support to the senior leadership team; and overall responsibility for all financial reporting to donors.
  • Charles Ainslie Cfo Advisory And Operational Support
    Cfo Consultant And Coach
    Charles Ainslie Cfo Advisory And Operational Support Mar 2020 - Present
    Remote
    I am usually approached by organisations in transition - for example, a recovery or growth phase. They need their finance team to be ready to support their growth forecast and/or impact outcomes. My clients rely on me to embed strong financial control and financial planning systems into their organisations. Current clients include:*VillageReach www.villagereach.org; Role: Senior Financial Consultant & Coach; December, 2023 - present
  • The Trust Connection
    Business Coach, Co-Founder
    The Trust Connection Aug 2018 - Present
    Cape Town Area, South Africa
    We set up The Trust Connection because mental resilience and emotional intelligence capabilities are now part of the core skill set of any person wanting to excel and make a lasting contribution. As Director and Lead Coach, having trained with some of the world’s leading NLP & Generative Change trainers I use a range of behavioural change approaches to support people in achieving personal balance and useful mindsets to achieve successful outcomes for personal and professional growth.ABOUT ME🔺Certified NLP & Generative Change Trainer & ICF Coach with broad, diverse country and sector experience🔺Cellist when my children give me space!
  • Tsiba Business School
    Head Of Finance
    Tsiba Business School Aug 2022 - Aug 2024
    Cape Town
    As Head of Finance of this growing, private non-profit University, within a 2 year period, I supported the CEO and leadership team in stream-lining the organisation (30% reduction in cost base) and putting in place a three year sustainability plan. My role also included recruiting a new finance team, initiating and managing a change-over to a new financial accounting system, overseeing two successful external audits, providing quarterly finance presentations to all oversight committees and the Board and, as a member of the Executive team, advising on all aspects of building sustainability in the organisation.
  • The Learning Trust
    Co-Founder - Incubating Purpose-Driven Organisations
    The Learning Trust May 2010 - Jul 2018
    Cape Town Area, South Africa
    Together with a founding donor, we set up and established this successful philanthropic incubator, grant-making organisation that provides funding and long-term coaching to many hundreds of growing non-profit organisations in South Africa. This involved finding 'below the radar' After School support organisations, and working closely with their leaders to develop governance and impact systems.Over 8 years we built a strong, collaborative pool of international and local donor organisations as well as provincial government partners, committed to accelerating the development of these dynamic, community embedded organisations. The result was enhanced education support to over 100,000 previously disadvantaged children and youth. I handed the organisation over to a new Executive Director to demonstrate our own commitment to the importance of periodic rotation of senior leadership to build resilient, management teams.
  • Ernst & Young
    Assistant Director, Mergers & Acquisitions, Transactions Advisory Services
    Ernst & Young Jul 2005 - Apr 2010
    London, England, United Kingdom
    As a senior corporate finance deal-maker, I project managed complex transactions from start to finish in multiple countries around the world. This involved anticipating the strategic opportunities for growing businesses, and working closely with management teams to successfully translate these into realised value. I advised both corporate (private and listed) and private equity clients in transactions ranging from $30m - $200m, in the UK, Europe, Turkey, Canada, West & East Africa. The sectors I worked in mostly were Telecom, Media and Technology, Industrial Products and Business Services.Notable deals included advising:-The vendor in selling its majority shareholding in a listed Turkish Telecoms company.-The European Administrator on disposing its assets in Nortel’s global businesses (Nortel Enterprise sold to Avaya, $900m, Nortel Optical sold to Ciena, $500m) and Nortel GSM to Nokia/Kapsch, $100m and Nortel CVAS sold to Genband).-Various buy-side advisory assignments for American Towners including investments in Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania and South Africa.-The Cerberus Group on its c.£20m acquisition of the retail technology division of Alphameric.-The BBC on the disposal of its Outside Broadcast business to Satellite Information Services Ltd in a c.£25m deal.-Hutton Collins on their acquisition of a minority stake in the UK media company, Billington Cartmell in this sub £30m deal.-The shareholders of a body armour company in the disposal of its shares to the AIM listed cash shell, Base Group plc for £20m.-Inflexion Private Equity on its $25m Buy In Management Buy-Out of the market leader Aspen Pumps.-Primary Capital in its £20m Management Buy-Out of Haines Watts Insolvency Services.
  • Bdo Stoy Hayward Llp
    Executive, Corporate Finance
    Bdo Stoy Hayward Llp Jan 2004 - Jun 2005
    Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
    I worked in various small specialist teams, focused on generating value for the owners of small and mid-cap business. While most of this work was focused on activity within the United Kingdom, I also played a key role in business development internationally.
  • Credit Suisse First Boston
    Financial Analyst, Financial Control
    Credit Suisse First Boston Apr 2003 - Dec 2003
    London, England, United Kingdom
    Working as part of a core, critical financial control team, I signed off on and set up a series of accounting transactions that generated monthly payroll and accrued compensation payments for 1000’s of bank employees.
  • Ernst & Young South Africa
    Financial Audit Superviser
    Ernst & Young South Africa Jan 2000 - Mar 2003
    Johannesburg Metropolitan Area
    I was responsible for all aspects of these audit processes, including managing my teams and working closely with the Chief Financial Officers in each company. Besides needing to understand the financial risk trajectory of each client, we also provided strategic recommendations to senior management on how they might improve their financial risk control environment.

Charles Ainslie Education Details

  • South African Institute Of Chartered Accountants
    South African Institute Of Chartered Accountants
    Business/Commerce, General
  • University Of Cape Town
    Bachelor Of Business Science Honours (Economics And Law) And Bachelor Of Commerce Honours

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