Promoted to Finance Director for Rest of EMEA (high growth markets in EMEA region). A key member of the senior leadership team and Head of Finance for a £250m fast moving and dynamic business.Key responsibilities: - Manage and direct annual budget process, monthly forecasts, month end reporting and commercial performance reviews and bi-annual external audits. - Provide robust modelling and scenario planning to inform and challenge business plans / strategy and to respond to opportunities and risks. - Create reporting and KPI dashboard suite to monitor and challenge performance. - Overall financial lead for projects, investment appraisal and system change within the region. - Director of Polish legal entity. - Line management responsibility for 2 overseas members of staff. - Key stakeholders based in the UK, Denmark, Netherlands, Poland and South Africa.

Promoted to Finance Manager for RS Components’ global own brand offering, £275m global business with 65,000 products.Key responsibilities: - P&L responsibility across EMEA, APAC and the Americas regions for 5 year strategic plan, annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, external audits, month end reporting and commercial performance reviews. - Identified, appraised and managed commercial initiatives to accelerate growth. Year on year annual growth of 9% and 10% delivered whilst in role, along with improved gross margin contribution. - Primary sponsor for all RS PRO investments, with implementations including £0.5m overhead cost for global compliance solution and an engineering compliance laboratory in Shanghai, China. - Monthly update calls with Group CFO to showcase performance, risks and opportunities to help inform direction and external trading updates. - Key member of the RS PRO global leadership team, responsible for embedding the strategy, ways of working and sounding board to Senior Vice President of RS PRO and Margin Optimisation. - Key stakeholders based in the UK, Italy, China, HK and the USA. Number of international business trips completed in 2019: Italy (May), France (June) and China (November).

Management Accountant role to build on the experience gained in the previous role. Focussing on the large Corby, Northants Distribution Centre and Global Facilities Team.Key responsibilities: - • Annual budgets and quarterly forecasting for the £40m labour and overheads cost base as well as £4m capital investment. - Built new and improved working files, resulting in improved forecast accuracy. - Implemented suites of dashboard reporting to focus and drive business performance. - Responsible for the completion of the external audit pack and audit queries, with clean audit reviews. - Developed very strong relationships with Business Partners, often called upon for advice with valued input in strategic matters. - Implemented accounting of rent free periods on rental properties for the first time in the business with associated journal entries for the Cost Accountant to post. - Delivered “Finance for Non-Finance People” training to the Global Facilities team. - Played a key role in the contract renewal and negotiation for agency temporary labour resource.

Management Accountant role for the large and complex IT / Technology function of the business.Key responsibilities: - Annual budget and quarterly forecasting of labour cost and headcount, overheads and the balance sheet. - Monthly reporting and monitoring of key performance KPIs with IT leadership team. - Successfully completed a Yellow Belt CI qualification, culminating in the production of a finance paper to extend the useful economic life of a group of assets which was approved by the external auditors, resulting in reduced amortisation charge to the P&L. - Responsible for the completion of external audit packs and audit queries, with clean audit reviews. - Delivered project accounting training to Finance Leads and Project Manager communities.

First move out of practice, following 3 year training contract at Mazars LLP and 4 years post qualified experience, latterly at Grant Thornton.Key responsibilities: - Newly created role to provide greater focus and governance to project and capital appraisal. - Established monthly project reporting pack used for 'Project Performance Reviews' on c£20m annual capital business investment. - Competently dealt with Finance Lead queries, providing robust advice. - Quickly extended responsibility to monthly project uploads and the Capex Board Report, which was a key feature in the monthly management accounts presented to the Board.