Completing the Due Diligence and assist with Sale to new PE House and acquisition of new Company. • Managing staff: Accounts Receivable (1), Accounts Payable (3), Financial Accounting (2), Systems (2), Revenue Analyst (1) Taxation (1) and Remote (Australia/Bulgaria) (2) during homeworking – migrating to a hybrid office environment from July 2021.• Oversee financial operations in USA/Canada/France/Bulgaria/South Africa and UK.• Completing sale to Hg Capital in May2021, including finalisation of Due Diligence, managing capital distributions, post-acquisition accounting and new capital table. • Finalised acquisition of new US based corporation (June2021) with following project to integrate into Group.• Updating account system (NetSuite) to account for new Corporate Structure.• Brought rigour to project group managing selection of new Subscription Management / Billing System.• Instrumental in completion of Board Reporting pack, including incorporating new owners reporting modules.• Managing banking relationship with Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) and Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) including loan facility management and debenture adherence/reporting.

Drove improvement in operations and refinanced during impact of covid-19 lockdown. • Managing staff: Accounts Receivable (3), Accounts Payable (1), Financial Accounting (2) and Indian Shared Service Centre (4) both in office and when migrating to a homeworking model.• Amended structure to set up a VAT Group and implemented Partial Exemption (Direct Attribution) to enable successful claim significant rebate and reduce future liabilities by 40%.• R&D Tax Credit re-introduction: backdated claims for 2 prior years with significant reclaim.• Installed Accounting Seed: implemented new financial controls and updated working processes.• Created consolidation pack, Group Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Reporting/Forecasts.

PE Backed Software as a Service (SaaS) using Salesforce Data Engine. Turnover £36m.A project to manage and improve the finance function and provide cover between full time hires.• Drive improvements in timing of monthly reporting (reduce timeline from 35 days to 7).• Conclude annual audit, transfer pricing study and R&D Tax Credit claim.• Improve reporting systems and methodologies to reduce manual intervention.

Recruited to manage and improve the Corporate Finance function of an exciting SaaS company with activities worldwide and offices in London, Europe, USA and Australia.• Manage relationship with Private Equity investors (Scottish Equity Partners, Business Growth Fund) & bankers.• Refinancing; issuing and extending Loan Notes, renewing while increasing Revolving Credit Facility.• Restructuring UK finance team, rationalising the finance team into a lean UK office. • Building Data Room (Merrill) and managing Due Diligence process including designing waterfall model.• Contract Management: liaising and negotiating with customers and advisors, rewriting commercial documents (Master Sale Agreement, EULA, Click through Agreements, Terms of Trade, Non-Disclosure Agreements, etc.).• Managed annual audit, tax filings including large R&D Tax claims, preparing new transfer pricing study.• E-Commerce: Automating and integrating online Sales License renewals (Zuora) and sales tax filing (Avalara).• Improving Wages and Pensions administration and procedures. Resolving HMRC dispute.• Property Lease Management – negotiating hostile S.26 LTA lease renewal, reassigning US leasehold, closure of inefficient foreign offices whilst opening new serviced offices.• Secretarial duties: Board minutes, Companies House returns, Shareholder communications, etc.• Managing and increasing EIS Share Option Scheme – valuations, issuing options and filing annual returns.• Cash management, consolidation of bank accounts and credit card arrangements, reducing card acquirer costs.• Enhancing worldwide insurance coverage with substantial reduction in premium.

Provision of financial and commercial rigour to the Finance and Operational business sections.• Interrogated and rebuilt Accounting Records (Quickbooks), converting from cash accounting to accruals basis and correcting Revenue Recognition assumptions in line with correct Accounting Standards.• Presented financial data at Board meetings and acted as Secretary taking minutes. Redesigned Board Pack to be more informative and relevant, reduced time between month end and Board Pack availability.• Set up cash flow forecasting system, identifying short term cash requirement, negotiating payment terms with suppliers and creditors.• Prepared Information Memorandum for presentation to potential investors.• Prepared detailed budget for FY 2016/2017 incorporating plans for growth in revenues in excess of 350%, preparing detailed staffing assumptions/projections, new locations including overseas (Croatia).• Overseeing the introduction of new Terms and Conditions of employment including contracts, staff manuals etc.• Received, reviewed and submitted applications for Grants/funding from Innovate and Horizon2020.• Review of potential legal claim for submission to recover earnings unpaid by customers.

Overseeing and responsible for the group reporting function of a Private Equity owned digital technical agency. Improved reporting, streamlined working practices and introduced robust financial controls. Managed a team of 6 reports. Managed integration of merger with Velti and acquisition of ACT750 and closure of unprofitable subsidiaries in USA, Australia, Germany, Netherlands and Russia.• Reporting to IFRS; designed a new reporting pack to improve management information, improved working practices ensuring more accuracy and earlier timing; reduced board monthly reporting timetable by 60% or 9 days.• Formulated and presented mitigation strategy to board to address likely changes of legislation affecting tax treatment in domicile of group Companies. • Streamlined finance team globally from 19 staff to 10 comprising 3 qualified and 7 PQ/QBE staff located in UK (3), Italy (2), France (1), India (3) and Russia (1). Achieved annual wage saving of €400k. Mentoring and developing staff.• Arranging finance from and preparing reports to dual Private Equity owners: Francisco Partners and GSO Blackstone.• Managing €13m revolving credit facility including debenture reporting and bank relationship (HSBC). • Reviewed aged debt and improved credit control through intense cash management. Improved working capital and reduced debtor days by >25%.• Managed Deloitte local audit and Group consolidation to close within 3 months with a >30% cost reduction.• Introduced rigour and financial control introducing expense policies, delegation of authority and approval matrixes.

Managed the change from direct sale to a vertical distribution channel, holding commercial negotiations with suppliers and customers, reviewing terms of trade, drafting and signing new contracts and distribution agreements.Analytical review of Operations, migrating the transactional processing to a Shared Service Centre in Germany; reduced headcount by 25% in 2010 and 30% in 2011 and reduced stockholdings by 30% and stock losses from £250k to under £40k a year.Improving Group Margins by +10%. Defined and wrote revenue recognition policy for EMEA and ensured compliance with parent (Danaher) group policies.

Managed 44 staff reports in UK, Canada, USA, Australia, Hong Kong and Japan, improving the reporting and processing of the London Shared Service Centre. Negotiated with Japanese and Canadian customers and key suppliers including Boeing, Airbus and Honeywell. Managed a syndicated Asset Backed Lending facility of $500m. Installed invoice matching/scanning solution enabling efficiencies.

Instilling financial control and rigour in a group of entrepreneurial owner managed companies.

Introduced and championed segmental reporting and budgeting. Set up new mattress factory. Reviewed trade with key suppliers, negotiated retrospective rebates and volume related sales credits.

Britain’s third largest pharmacy with 850 outlets, a division of Alliance Unichem Plc latterly acquiring Boots and Walgreens. Managed a large team (>50) and successfully identified and reclaimed £1.1m vat overpayment.

Optimised store portfolio, arranged £1m finance and managed rollout of new EPoS/back office retail system.

Project Managed implentation of QAD (MFG-Pro) Accounting/MIS system in UK and Sweden, assisted roll out at remaining EMEA companies.

Preparation of Short Form for flotation of the British Data Management Group and installed new Accounting System (Sun Accounts).