Derek Marchant Email & Phone Number

Glasgow, Gb

Glasgow, Gb

London, Gb

Providing commercially focused FD and NXD services to SMEs across all sectors on full and part time assignments.Sector experience includes services, biosciences, manufacturing and contracting.

Finance and Commercial lead on one of the largest Covid Testing Labs within the UK National Pandemic Response. Oversaw contractual arrangements for rapid set up during early 2020 and provided the subsequent financial management required to take the lab to its current capacity of over 85k tests per day.

Glasgow, Glasgow, Gb

Head of Finance of the largest College within the University. The College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences is home to over 2,000 staff and 5000 students and has an annual turnover of £205M. We cultivate a wide range of strategic partnerships with public and private stakeholders.Specific areas of responsibility include: - Budgetary responsibility for teaching, research and commercial activities across 11 Schools and Research Institutes - Member of key Project Boards and Working Groups within the University and jointly with key partners such as NHS, Scottish Enterprise. - Oversight of the College's commercial enterprises with annual turnover exceeding £30m.

Finance Director of Lambert Contracts, an investment of Maven Capital Partners. - Embedded work to report upon and address under-performance. - Development of alternative strategies to restore value. - Treasury management within challenging parameters including refinancing. - Ground-up development of finance and reporting function

CFO of Smart Parking (formerly Town and City Parking), a subsidiary of the Australian listed company Car Parking Technologies. - Restructuring of loss-making business into profitable subsidiary - Business planning, forecasting and treasury - Introduction and maintenance of financial controls. - Responsible for Shared Service Centre comprising Finance, HR and Procurement functions

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