I am a CIMA qualified Head of Finance with 15 years post qualified experience in high growth private equity businesses with turnovers of up to £300m. I have worked with 4 PE Houses across a diverse range of sectors: Cloud Technology and Import Procurement, Online Media, E-Commerce, Residential Care, Automotive Manufacturing and Agricultural ProductionAs well as producing, analysing and presenting strategic information at board level, I have led process improvement projects within both commercial / operational finance functions; I have managed, structured, transitioned, coached and integrated teams of up to 30 heads. I have also been the finance lead in system integrations and transitions, chart of account and data conversions and my work has contributed directly toward a £88m private equity exit sale to industry, as well as a £388m initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange. Key Skills• Board level analysis and presentation of financial information, including budget re- modelling• Change Management: business process re-engineering and system migrations• Team Management, coaching and improvement• User of SAP, SAP B1, Sage, Hyperion, MS Dynamics, Xero, Sun, Agresso, JDE, SPSS, Cognos. Key Achievements• Presented to Board for a finance team restructure and integration proposal of an acquisition• Created and presented to the board strategic dashboards consolidating 200 operational sites;• Design and Installation of first principles FP&A function, feeding directly to director level; • Presented financial review to 500 employees at the Company Annual Conference• Reduced month end reporting period from 3 Weeks to 3 working days (within 3 months)• Reduced month end reporting from 15 to 5 working days (within a 6-month period)• Reduced finance team costs by 10% within 12 months (to £630k 2014)• Reclaimed £1.5m of VAT in support of a landmark winning tribunal against HMRC