James Curtis Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, United Kingdom

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London, England, United Kingdom

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London, England, United Kingdom

Advising social impact start-up founders on financial modelling as part of Daring Capital's investment readiness process.

Have provided writing, analysis and other services for several clients:- Neuropool - Design of financial operations management tool- Face Equality International - Creating 2023 budget with CEO- Kindhaus - Financial Model Design- Area Noir - Financial Model Design- Better - Financial Model Restructure- Blueheart - Financial model design- Hattusia - Financial model design and Ethical ROI Calculator design (featured in FT)- LegalConnection - Financial model- Open Energy Labs - Financial model design- HCT - Modelling and project plan writing- FPA - Writing and strategy planning / business coaching- Mosaic Youth - Hosted 'away day' for charity trustees- The Bike Project - Business Plan writing and grant applications- Oubliette Escape Rooms - Profitability Analysis and Financial Review- Policy Network - Management Accounts Review- Ludic Gulls - Grant Application Writer (Successful win of Tranzfuser fund)

Self-Employed

Worked in event facilitating roles at various arts festivals:- UK Audio Fiction - Co-host of monthly audio fiction meetups (2020 onwards), panel speaker and moderator of community discord. Industry Rep at ComicCon and London Podcast Festival 2019- ERIC 2019 - Facilitator, programme proofreader and runner for Escape Room Industry Conference - Trajectory Theater - Facilitator for Hack and Slash 2019- ERIC 2018 - Escape Room Industry Conference Front of House/ runner- Oubliette Entertainment - Escape Room set-up and build support- Grassroots Jews 2017 - Planning and fulfilling operations for 500 person, 10-day festival- Unstable King - Facilitator for Eden Project festival 'Game On'- Playniac - EGX festival rep- NowPlayThis 2016 at Somerset House - Event Facilitator

Delivered various Business Writing and Analysis Projects within short deadlines:- Financial and operational modelling for optimisation of charity-wide trading activities.- Managing 2017 and 2018 Budget process including projected P/L and Cashflow, and supporting Head of Finance in 2019-2023 budget preperation.- Business Plan for Expansion of Income-Generating arm of charity- Several successful grant applications based on Business Plan work- Letter of Application for Advanced Assessment of Social Investment Tax Relief (SITR) to HMRC.

London, United Kingdom

An interim role setting up reporting processes for a new position and transition training for the new employee. This included:Preparing an annual budget pack presentation for review by FD and Group CEO.Performing ad-hoc cost analysis using TM1 and Dynamics AX.Creating templates of monthly variance packs for senior management and departmental heads.Providing monthly cost breakdowns for marketing, operations and facilities departments.

Farsk is a freelance web graphics network based in Montreal and represented by freelancers internationally. I have helped them with a couple of projects:Business Planning advice - Nov 2013 - Feb 2014Advising on operational structure for developing the company from idea to business start-up. This included one-on-one advice sessions and the writing of a short document outlining recommendations for operational management and growth strategy.Project - Contract Writing - Oct 2014 to Nov 2014Writing the terms and conditions for an IT maintenance contract and providing a document explaining the legal terms in simple English.

Sykes & Son perform construction and management work on cultural landmarks. I am working with the leadership team (Managing Director, Finance Director, Business Manager) to assess and perform different areas of commercial and financial due diligence and analysis. This includes:Creating VBA-driven financial reporting tools and training colleagues on their useReforecasting profitability of Facilities Management business for 2014 based on first five months of performance and information from business partners.Analysing 2013 revenue and profitability by client, industry and business stream.Writing financial variance models for budget v. actuals on monthly and YTD basis.Assessing liability write-off opportunities in sub-contractor ledger.Initiating processing of monthly bank reconciliations on accounting software.Determining potential of new software for optimising data integrity of customer contracts in contract and sales ledger and looking at opportunities to streamline contract process and budget entry e.g. simulating contract transactions to determine best fitting contract sales type with company invoicing processes.

London, United Kingdom

Owns the commercial control of services pricing, in order to maximise the margin contribution from both newly tendered contracts and renewals of existing contracts, and preventing the company from entering new contracts which marginally dilute margin performance.

Working with Finance and General management to prepare growth plan for 2013.Budgeting $1MM asset purchase for plant redesign project.Lead analyst on 2013 pricing review.Forecasting business growth by product line with business leadersAudit of asset register

Management of product portfolio reviewDrafting and implemention of strategic pricing changesEstablishing and cleaning business processesRestructuring new product creation in SAP system

Collating, analysing and reporting orders and sales data.Supporting monthly and quarterly closing activities. Cost tracking and categorizing. Reporting production opportunities and performance. Supporting Accounts Payable department. Assisting with ad-hoc projects e.g. stocktaking, margin analysis.

London, United Kingdom

General administration tasksStage management for touring author

Canary Wharf, London

Tax Documentation ManagementEdited Excel database and used workflow software

Entrepreneurship And Innovation, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

The Entrepreneurship and Innovation program taught by Francisco Santolo. Entrepreneurs learn how to create/reformulate profitable.

Ba, Viking Studies, Upper Second

Summer Field School (Module), Archaeology, First

Erasmus Exchange Program, Scandinavian Languages, Literatures, And Linguistics

Activities and Societies: Bartender at UiO humanities bar; Chess club; Hiking

A Levels, English A, Film Studies A; Mathematics B, History B, Classical Civilizations C

Education record

Python Self-Taught Course