CFO, Global Financial Executive and Embedded Advisor with expertise in finance function buildouts, business growth, transformation and restructuring. Primary focus is to act as the strategic advisor and financial business partner to the business leader. This includes:- Building and leading finance functions to align performance and strategy.- Implementing strategy and business model transformations based on analytics and performance.- Managing financial and business intelligence systems and providing actionable insights into business performance.- Driving finance function transformations by developing talent and improving processes and structures.- Leading M&A analyses and driving subsequent integration projects to achieve expected synergies.Industry experience has been across mid-sized and Fortune 150 companies primarily in:- Biotechnology- Early-stage pharmaceuticals- Consumer goods, e-commerce for B2C and B2B, and traditional retail- Light manufacturing- Consumer entertainment products- Real estateRecent key accomplishments: - Led the initial buildout of the FP&A function for a $250M synthetic biology company as part of their going public, and for over 3 ½ years as an embedded team member implemented enterprise planning management tools and processes, built internal and external reporting, and advised on financial and business strategy.- Built the first annual financial budget and workforce planning model for a biotechnology and pharmaceutical manufacturing start-up backed by $800M of venture capital funding.- Built a long-term scenario planning model for a $40M UK-based global SaaS fintech company while re-engineering their planning processes.- Led the mid-year re-forecast and 10-year long-term planning processes at a $140M pharmaceutical company.- Drove a 20% operating profit improvement in the $125M North American division of a global body and home products company by implementing aggressive cost savings, inventory management and store portfolio rationalization initiatives. - Turned around a $600M European online business, changing 30-50% annual sales and profit rate declines to sustained growth by improving analytics and transforming the business models.- Built the finance function for a $3.6B BU with thousands of SKU’s, contributing +300 bps of margin improvement and providing the parent company with a key brand driver.- Transformed a multi-national finance group to a centralized team of experts with improved processes.- Integrated a $2B European acquisition into local and multi-national business and finance structures.
Listed skills include Finance, Management, Leadership, Business Strategy, and 27 others.