John S. Email & Phone Number

Manchester, Gb

United Kingdom

Knutsford, Cheshire, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Operating cross functionally in a turnaround , I created a new finance team whilst managing the turnaround and cash shortage of the business.

Warwick : London : Surrey

| Acted as head of financial control managing a small team| Head of special project that directly impacted business margins by 20%

United Kingdom

| Mobilisation of a new company start-up| Propose and arrange funding strategies on and offshore| Develop the organisation chart crossfunctionally | Provide template for site aquisition| Provide insight and strategic analysis in regard to general infrastructure

London, United Kingdom

| Turnaround of an existing financé and procurement team.| Creation of a new organisation chart then recruit the team whilst building an effective TOM| Stabilise BAU| Create and establish robust reporting and commercial MI| Manage teams - AP/AR, financial/ management/ commercial/ procurement| Manage working capital | Manage cross-functional business partnering

United Kingdom

| Business partner the CFO to create a best practice TOM and finance infrastructure| Provide analysis and insight in regard to the usage of current technology| Strategic report and insight on how to manage and implement change | Restructure the MI and BI functions

Cheshire

| Reduced cost base by 3% by renegotiation of existing supplier contracts| Completed financials and submissions to HMRC YE 2012| Renegotiation of all commercial contracts and supply chain

Uk / Emea

Interim Commercial FD @ L&M Healthcare UK, IOM, EMEA2012 to August 2014 T/O approx. £30M | New systems implementation| Creation of board level reporting packs| Employment of a new exectuvive team| Due dilligence and M&A facilitation| Funding strategies on and offshore managing all external relationships| Managing banking and infrastructure relationships | Business planning for banks and funders

Uk/Iom

|M&A activity| Due diligennce pre and post aquisition|Reduced supply chain costs by 9% |Successfully negotiated funding in excess of £25M via PE, and VC backing|Implementaion of management reporting and cashflow|Procurement/supply chain rationalisation and robust internal controls

United Kingdom

|Negotiated eight new lease contracts for retail concessions within stores nationwide|Rationalised and consolidated existing to new processes/ procedures across business functions|Developed standard accounting and functional reporting by entity and consolidated franchise MI|Standardised / rationalised the supply chain function through UK/Europe and China – creating |Improved gross margins on average 3%|Implementation of 12 monthly rolling supplier and commercial contracts

United Kingdom/Emea

|Implemented and updated the UK financial and MI reporting to a lean systems based function|Re-negotiated external contractors/engineers terms, reducing costs by 5%|Reduced the annual overheads by 9% after 12 months through office restructuring||Increased GP by 4% after contractual re-negotiations of supplier T&C’s |Successfully co-ordinated an insurance contract worth £6M T/O through business diversification|Developed a consolidated European financial reporting function

|Planned, managed, integrated and implemented departmental restructuring and change transformation across finance, compliance, IT and marketing functions to mitigate identified areas of risk relating to consumer policies and external bank accounts|Developed and led work-streams and training initiatives via workshops across multiple functions to embed the BPR and rectification to mitigate areas of assessed risk

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

►Successfully appraised and identified through an end to end project within customer services affecting 700 staff the root cause of identified balance sheet and financial processing issues►Managed the identified change process and rolled out training and initiative programmes via workshops►Strategic alignment of staffing, roles and responsibilities mitigating further processing issues►Reduction of unprocessed cash from over £55M per day to £15M per day

United Kingdom

►Identified and reported areas of weakness via end to end project methodology (team of 8)►Implemented a new reporting pack and relevant KPI’s to address and deliver on control weaknesses►Developed a strategy for controlling and analysing data then implemented procedures to remove current issues along with mitigating the potential of a similar occurrence►Completed the project within the timeframe to allow successful PWC signoff of audited accounts

United Kingdom

Working on: implementation of pan-European shared service centre and new accounting systems

United Kingdom

Working on and helping to create a new European service centre and new accounting systems – based in UK and Europe

United Kingdom

Interim Systems Consultant: implementing new BaaN computer systems