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London, Gb

London, England, Gb

London, England, Gb

London, Greater London, Gb

Working with the Chief Product and Commercial Officer to support the sales, customer success management and marketing teams on Vorboss' go to market process, culminating in a major launch campaign in London. Involved in:• Undertaking an in-depth pricing analysis and benchmarking exercise, with both in-depth modelling and analysis based on industry data, running primary research surveys with connectivity buyers and communicating key insights and recommendations to the senior leadership team and board.• Using the full product management skillset to identify strategic opportunities, design delightful customer experiences, ruthlessly prioritise solutions and relentlessly focus on execution while managing diverse stakeholder groups to deliver a customer facing web platform ahead of launch as part of a cross-functional development squad with members of our software engineering team and our customer success management team.• Designing the commercial teams’ organisational structure and commission plans to ensure properly aligned incentives between the sales team and fibre delivery teams.• Coordinating a brand refresh ahead of launch with the Head of Marketing, including undertaking extensive market research in conjunction with NewtonX to identify critical shortcomings of incumbent providers, refining our brand and go-to-market strategies with a leading venture studio and defining a PR and Investor Communications strategy.• Strategically analysing scope and impact of regulatory changes implemented by Ofcom to understand changes required to our sales and customer success management processes.• Creating alignment across sales, marketing and customer success management teams and a relentless focus on execution through implementing 4DX, including leading weekly ‘WIG’ stand-ups to ensure transparency and foster accountability and alignment around critical goals.

London, Greater London, Gb

Promoted after six months on the basis of exceptional performance, as a Senior Analyst in the Special Projects team I supported the CEO and Head of Strategy on a number of critical strategic initiatives, including:1️⃣ Conducting extensive financial modelling, including scenario and sensitivity analysis, to support a recommendation to the board of a strategic realignment, and subsequently supporting the CEO and Head of Finance in preparing a revised operating budget for the new business model.2️⃣ Built and implemented a document automation system built using no-code tooling to allow for one-click automation of employment contracts and other HR documentation, saving >6 hours in manual work and review per employee onboarded.3️⃣ Led go-to-market preparation process for the new business' product offering, including conducting extensive market analysis, customer development work and value proposition design.In addition, I managed hiring of new analysts into the team and coached junior team members on how to deliver higher quality work product.

London, Greater London, Gb

Part of a high-impact CEO's Office/Special Projects team, I reported to the CEO and worked with other senior leaders, including the CFO, on a range of strategic projects. These included:1️⃣ Led the sell-side M&A process for divesting a legacy business unit, including preparation for a pre-sale reorganisation, legal and tax structuring, valuation modelling, preparing information memoranda and conducting pre-sale due diligence on the sale portfolio to provide recommendations to the CFO and CEO.2️⃣ Managed preparation of monthly board level reporting on behalf of the CEO including drafting all board papers, monitoring and reporting against KPIs and conducting ad-hoc research and analysis for preparing position papers on strategic issues.3️⃣ Led procurement and implementation of an automated pre-employment checks system to replace a manual process and support the hiring of 250 employees, saving >2,500 person hours of work by the HR team.

London, Gb

In 100 days, between 23 March and 30 June, Meals for the NHS grew to >100 volunteers and served 300,000+ meals to NHS staff in 125+ acute hospitals across all 4 nations of the UK, using £1.8 million of public donations and the support of 220+ local food providers.Responsible for order management and managing delivery logistics to 34 hospitals across four UK regions from a network of local providers.December 2020: Executed a special 'Christmas Meals' delivery of 14,000 meals to 90 hospitals around the country over 2 days.January 2021: Co-authored a bid for £3m+ in funding from NHS Charities Together at pace (< 1 week) including running a supporting survey across 128 hospitals nationwide over three days and running associated analysis to identify key trends.💙

London, Gb

Defined fundraising and growth objectives by conducting a 360 review of business and product strategy. Conducted in-depth evaluation of operational debt in the organisation to identify key risks and implemented a robust action plan prior to investor due diligence. Oversaw end-to-end financial management, including regular board-level and investor reporting. Supported sales growth opportunities by structuring and negotiating key channel partnerships.Spearheaded preparation for a £2m bridge financing round, including creating investor pitch documentation, investment case financial model development and overall project management.

London, England, Gb

One of the senior management team and Ops Lead. I quickly developed and executed an agile operational strategy to support the rapid scaling of the business to 25 staff in the first year and its expansion to an international customer base (150% MRR growth in <12 months).• Product managed development of new AI tools with grant funding from Innovate UK (£0.5 million budget). Managed multiple workstreams and reporting lines into Innovate UK, engaged with stakeholders to determine MVP requirements and recruited key machine learning hires. • Implemented a data strategy to obtain improved management information/analytics, including revenue and cost data, adoption and relationship management metrics and customer support information for SLA tracking. Also designed and built a management information system from scratch in G-Sheets to deliver real-time, impactful analysis to the C-Suite enabling risk-based decision making. • Developed and executed a new hiring strategy alongside the CEO. Developed a RACI analysis to map out key functions and requirements for hiring. Designed and implemented an end-to-end process for efficiently sourcing, screening and managing candidates, including building a semi-automated applicant tracking system based on Trello. Re-engineered onboarding process to support the increased scale and pace of hiring. Outcomes: Development team grew from 3FTEs to 10FTEs in 6 months and the overall company grew to 25FTEs in under 1 year.• Responsible for internal finance and accounting processes. Managed invoicing and reported on financial performance to C-suite. Responsible for preparation of annual accounts and tax returns, R&D tax credit claims and for managing supplier payments. Re-engineered accounts receivables processes and reduced average debtor days by more than two-thirds.• Created robust processes to manage Legatics’ compliance with ISO27001:2017 and guided the company successfully through two ISO surveillance audits without non-conformities.

New York, Ny, Us

• Advised a major UK fund manager on the UK tax consequences of a complex reorganisation of multiple Irish retail funds and worked closely with the deal team to minimise tax risk.• Delivered strategic guidance to private equity consortium on tax structuring for a cross-border investment into distressed industrial assets, ensuring the return of profits to investors in multiple jurisdictions free of withholding taxes.• Advised on the tax aspects of a £10bn securitisation through a bespoke multi-issuer structure. Efficiently identified and resolved multiple problems in the transaction within tight deadlines.

London, Gb

Associate in the Corporate Trustee & Agency Services team in the International Capital Markets practice group. ● Designed and implemented an improved workflow on a £X00m liability management and remediation project through developing process maps, identifying bottlenecks and training a team at the firm’s legal services centre in Belfast to undertake routine tasks, resulting in >500 impaired transactions being renegotiated in 10 weeks and under budget.***The team advises on the full range of transactions, including:- new issues – including domestic and cross-border MTN programmes, ‘plain vanilla’ standalone corporate bonds, regulatory and hybrid capital issues, equity-linked corporate bonds, covered bonds, securitisations and all other forms of asset backed and structured finance- 'after sales' advisory work – including in relation to defaults, restructurings, waivers, modifications and the general exercise of trustee powers and discretionsMuch of the current 'after sales' service is concentrated on downgrades, collateral postings, restructurings, enforcements, defaults, receiverships and related matters – the team has extensive experience of the restructuring of debt issues and also accelerating debt issues and enforcing security (including liquidating assets) both at the trustee’s discretion and on direction from its beneficiaries with respect to both English and New York law transactions.

London, Gb

Led a deep-dive review of a global pharmaceutical company’s compliance processes, identifying key risks. Delivered recommendations to C-suite on process improvements, reducing risk of regulatory fines (£X00m in potential fines mitigated).

London, Gb

- Conducted reviews of a number of EMTN Programmes and syndicated facility agreements from a Tax perspective (covering withholding tax, stamp duty issues and disclosure of tax risks).- Involved in reviewing transaction documents for a number of securitisations and structured finance (CLO) transactions.- Responsible for managing stamp duty filings with HMRC on a number of M&A transactions. Also drafted applications for s42 group relief and s77 relief.- Undertook research in a number of areas, particularly on the changes to the Bank Levy, FATCA and CRS disclosure obligations and the new UK hybrid rules.- Involved in coordinating multi-jurisdictional surveys as part of a number of client's equity and derivatives trading compliance requirements.- Involved in a number of tax investigations and was responsible for managing disclosure and drafting ancillary court documents.

London, Gb

Second Seat: Corporate - Competition and Antitrust- Involved in a high profile leniency application to the European Commission.- Conducted jurisdictional and market analysis as part of the Merger Control process for a number of international M&A transactions. Highlights include coordinating the multi-jurisdictional filing process for the joint acquisition of Tui's B2B bedbank and other intermediary services businesses by Cinven/CPPIB and working as part of a team to plan the merger control process arising out of the acquisition of IPIC by Mubadala Development Company. Also involved in an acquisition in the water sector involving the water merger control regime.- Researched and drafted numerous pieces of advice, particularly in relation to the Motor Insurance sector and in the payment systems infrastructure sector.

London, Gb

First Seat: International Capital Markets - Corporate Trustee and Agency group- Assisted as part of a team advising the Security Trustee, Facility Agents, Cash Manager and Account Bank in the multi-facility syndicated financing underpinning the record-breaking £13bn sale of former Northern Rock mortgage and loan assets from UKAR Limited to Cerberus Capital Management L.P.- Assisted as part of a team advising a Trustee in a Loan Participation Note programme during the various stages of the default and insolvency of the underlying Ukrainian borrower.- Assisted as part of a team advising a Trustee in the contentious Indonesian insolvency proceedings of a Guarantor of a bond issuance.- Part of a team advising on a multi- €bn Finnish power network project financing, structured with both loan level and note level financing.- Part of a team advising on the first ever ECA backed bond financing of ATR aircraft.

London, Gb

Engaged closely with senior stakeholders (incl. Head of Trading Risk & Compliance, senior legal counsel) across multiple business units within Credit Suisse as part of a multidisciplinary team delivering a legal IT and business transformation project in the bank’s derivatives trading division within a tight regulatory timeframe. Project managed deliverables and reported on progress and risks to the global project steering committee (including the bank’s General Counsel).

During the course of my internship, I assisted the Events Director in organising a varied programme of fringe events at the Liberal Democrat Spring Conference involving key stakeholders and senior business and government officials (including the Chief Secretary to the Treasury and representatives from BVCA), as well as a number of policy events in London. I also spent time helping researchers on a number of projects relating to employee share ownership, leasehold reform and scrapping Trident amongst other things.I was able to develop skills in database management, proofreading and developing promotional material.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Ba (Hons) History, History

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Graduate Diploma In Law, Law

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