Chris Steele Email & Phone Number

London, GB

Control Risks is a global risk consultancy of c.4,000 employees across the globe. Its services range from traditional risk consulting and high growth technology services through to to physical security and transportation in hostile territories such as Iraq.Business remit $55m revenue across Consultancy, SaaS, Commoditised product Due Diligence and tech.

London, GB

• Developed a Global Commercial Finance team operating model including recruitment of key senior hires and lead a team of 35+ including 10 at HQ plus 25 dotted-line global Commercial Finance team.
• Led the Global Strategic Planning exercise global business successfully implemented a new “stretch” objective
• Implemented a Global Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting Platform (Tagetik) which led to a higher degree of cost control, data and metric driven approach and moved the finance team away from offline spreadsheets
• Lead a Commercial Health Check on the Consultancy business to diagnose revenue leakage and team efficiencies and subsequently developed a new operating model for optimised performance for the business based on.
• Lead a Commercial Improvement Change management programme across the consultancy business to address issues identified from Health Check
• Implemented global commercial tools Pricing Models, Project Profitability and Utilisation Dashboards in order to enable Partners and Business Leaders to track, measure and manage their commercials using dependable KPIs.

London, GB

• Corporate finance role for capital restructuring, complex transaction transition from Limited Company to Employee Ownership Trust, fundamental group restructuring. 2 year project, $150m debt and equity raise.
• $142m Joint Venture divestment including leading with the Banks on Plan B Funding arrangements
• Managing the Group’s financial reporting requirements to provide accurate, timely and relevant reports including monthly consolidated management accounts and annual consolidated statutory financial statements
• Management of the Group Treasury function including coordinating, aggregating and reviewing the group’s cash flow forecasts, hedging arrangements, monitoring compliance with bank covenants, and forecasting compliance.
• Ensuring that local statutory accounts for subsidiary companies are filed.
• Initiated and adopted new group tax planning strategies including successful implementation of new Group Transfer Pricing Strategies

London, GB

London, GB

London, GB

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London, GB