Colin Evans Email & Phone Number

Manchester, England, Gb

Manchester, United Kingdom

Treasury Project & Consulting professional, offering expertise to MME & Large global Corporates in banking, treasury and cash management and support for senior treasury management roles in organisations, leading challenging financing projects. Major clients served include ASDA Group, Valeo Foods, Eddie Stobart, Drax Power, Epsotech Group, Vita Group.Recent high profile activities included implementing standalone corporate treasury function of newly created EUR 200m PE owned business, migration of existing ABL facility, creation of 17 week cash flow forecast and a centralised treasury and cash management structure and processes. 'ad-hoc' banking and treasury projects, (e.g. leading corporate re-banking process, redesigning cash management structures and writing treasury policies); advising & assisting clients on a variety of complex banking and financing issues. My experience ranges from NYSE quotd, FTSE 250 and global private equity backed corporates as well as my time in banking providing solutions to clients from all industry sectors.Sample client (Vita Group) - Delivery €100m of receivables financing & RCF facilities to a EUR 1bn group, across 8 countries in Europe supported by diverse standalone financing facilities in countries Canada, Lithuania and Malaysia. Re-Banking of Pan-European cash management structure to a single provider and implementation of a cross border pooling structure.Training corporate company employees in many aspects of treasury and cash management; subjects include trade banking and finance, corporate refinancing structure, cash management processes and procedures, documentary Letters of Credit, FX and risk management. Etc.Please feel free to contact me via LinkedIn if you would like to discuss your needs.Our website www.elitetreasury.comOffice: 07770 683678

Rossendale, United Kingdom

Commercial management of a specialist Tier 1 UK wide warehousing and storage equipment distribution company, serving the UK industrial and commercial warehousing sector, as well as trade customers and SME's with smaller storage needs.www.westpenninestorageequipment.co.uk

United Kingdom

Co-Owner of Think Global Growth, an exciting new organisation created to help clients overcome the challenges faced in all major areas of being a global business, providing expert consultancy across a range of disciplines. The TGG team draws on their decades of practical experience in international markets, operating and improving existing businesses and building new ones. With a specific focus on global banking, treasury, cash management & trade banking, my role is to help corporates work closely with their financial providers and to build best in class internal systems and controls. TGG provides a single point of contact for a broad range of consulting services that were previously only available from multiple sources. TGG’s objectives are to help clients expand their business internationally - hence the name Think Global Growth.TGG's core offerings are:Global Market EntryGlobal Banking & Cash ManagementGlobal Cultural AwarenessGlobal OutsourcingGlobal Supply ChainGlobal Marketing StrategyOur website www.thinkglobalgrowth.comOffice: 0161 751 2611

Working in North West England Corporate Banking Team with responsibility for developing and managing corporate customer relationships; focussed on multinational companies operating into or out of the North West of England, with turnover typically of £50m-£1,500m. To promote HSBC globally; delivering solutions, products and service appropriate to meet client needs in each of the countries in which the customer operates, utilising HSBC’s structures, products and services both in the UK and Global market.Corporate Credit applications & Corporate refinancing requests for new and existing clients, across the areas of working capital, M&A finance, and leveraged private equity backed credit facilities.Sourcing and co-ordination of structured banking transactions, IPOs, leveraged finance, syndicated loans, private placements, bonds and securitisations and global capital markets as well as the standard suite of HSBC operational banking products.

Overall responsibility for non-US treasury operations of a $3bn private equity spin off group, serving the world's major motor manufacturers; with manufacturing operations in Europe, Latin-America and Asia.Managing Debt, cash & asset management within a financing structure consisting of both asset backed lending (ABL) and a receivables loan syndication, using an offshore special purpose vehicle (SPV). Maintain first point of contact in all relationship management issues locally in Europe with the banks, lawyers and loan administration agents for a complex set of LMA based facilities.Overseeing all Treasury activities in accordance with banking agreements and loan covenants; minimise debt, whilst achieving efficient use of cash, reduction in interest expense, together with wider treasury risk management objectives of the organisation. Optimise Tax efficient funding solutions for local operations across the globe.To formulate key policies, procedures & processes, including foreign exchange, credit & collection, intercompany flows, insurance portfolios and tax implications of treasury operations.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Group Treasurer of a UK Plc commercial & consumer lending bank.Provide and maintain adequate liquidity for the Group, using bilateral banking facilities, customer deposits and capital structures and manage all activities related to FSA regulatory compliance. Daily cash management, centralised payments, collections and all aspects of the bank's retail deposit product containing £160mm of investor's funds. Support business growth across all the Banks' divisions, through new or improved banking strategies, products or services. Responsibility for compliance with all mandatory Bank of England and FSA and related regulations, such as regulatory reporting, capital adequacy ratios, anti-fraud & money laundering etc. Advising the LSB Board of Directors on all group level treasury issues, such as funding policy, banking covenants, debt and equity finance structuring.

Manchester, United Kingdom

European Treasurer with overall responsibility for Ingersoll-Rand's European Treasury area. Managing IR's entire European Cash Management operations including corporate banking relationships, debt facilities management and designing and implementing IR’s treasury systems and structures. Designed & implemented treasury solutions for IR’s pan-European Shared Services Centre including a complex JP Morgan cross border liquidity structure, with a London based cash concentration hub; minimising fiscal and regulatory impact on the company in each collection location.Minimise bank debt using combined strategies of domestic and cross-border cash pooling & sweeping; remodelling debt, liquidity, capital and ownership structures minimising tax and foreign exchange risks in conjunction with the Global Tax departmentTreasury integration strategies for new acquisitions and exit strategies for divestitures including the European segment of a $900mm business unit sale in February 2003.Designed and implemented pan-European Citibank Visa travel and expense card program integrated with European web based Oracle "i-expense" electronic T&E management system.Established single bank cash management and pooling structures in Netherlands, Spain, Czech, Ireland & Turkey, from tender stage, through to award of business and final implementation.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Reporting to Worldwide Credit Manager of the Air Compressor Group (ACG), directing an aggressive collection effort for a monthly $20mm International receivable ledger of both distributor and direct customer accounts. Responsibilities included:Credit management, including credit limits, collections, management of payment terms of incoming orders, Ensuring adequate security of payment, using Letters of Credit, Bonds and Guarantees, and trade finance Providing creative export credit & trade financing solutions to support ACG Sales. Managing resolution of customer disputes with active involvement in corrective actions to drive continuous improvement of the credit function.

Multi functional role, working for manufacturer in the oil and gas and petrochemical heavy engineering sector, requiring broad and detailed financial and commercial knowledge, of treasury finance and credit, and commercial contracts.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Worked most recently in:Corporate insolvency and debt recoverySecurities, bonds and guarantees Foreign exchange.

Bachelor Of Arts Degree, Business Studies

BA Business Studies

Institute Of Bankers - Finance Of International Trade & Nature Of Management, Institute Of Bankers - Finance Of International Trade & Nature Of Management

Institute of Bankers professional qualifications

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Business Studies