Jo Wright Email & Phone Number

London, GB

London, England, GB

London, England, GB

Non Executive Director and Chair of the Audit and Finance Committee at London & Partners, the Mayor's international economic and promotion agency.London & Partners promotes London internationally as a leading world city in which to invest, work, study and visit to secure inward investment and good growth for London

London, England, GB

Thought Machine is a growth stage VC backed fintech company whose product Vault is a cloud-native next generation banking platform, providing banks with a “Platform as a Service” alternative to the legacy platforms that plague the banking industry. Providing Finance leadership and hands on support and advice including building and professionalizing the.

London, England, GB

Private equity backed technology business operating a cloud hosted marketplace to 1,500 auctioneers and thousands of bidders for live and timed auctions across Art and Antiques and Industrial & Commercial sectors, facilitating £2bn of transactions. I joined shortly after PE house ECI’s acquisition in 2014.* Transformation of Finance Function: design and.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Nickelodeon is a children's and teenager's television network and is a joint venture between Viacom International Media Networks Europe and BSkyB. The company earns revenues from Advertising, Affiliates, Consumer.
• Reported to the Nick UK CEO and Joint-Venture Board of Directors
• Business partner to the CEO - Led Five Year Plan and annual budget processes
• Responsible for all financial matters - Reporting (UK and US), SOX Controls, Financial Planning and Analysis, Cash and Treasury
• Achieved record profit levels – grew OI by 39% and increased OI margin by 24% to 44%
• Twelve reports across finance and legal - Transformed finance function from an underperforming and remote team to a highly used value add embedded team

Middlesex, England, GB

Full financial responsibility for five entertainment channels including Sky One, Sky Arts and Sky Travel plus Sky's in house Creative Media Agency. Managed a team of 8 and programming budgets of £150M+. Provided commercial support and financial modelling for launch of SVOD service, content output deals and high profile commissions

Middlesex, England, GB

High Profile and demanding commercial finance role managing a team of 5 that supported the business team responsible for targeting prospective subscribers. Responsibilities included managing the costs of acquiring subscribers through complex pricing and discount strategies implemented across retail, digital, direct marketing and partnership affiliations.

Middlesex, England, GB

Newly created role, managing a team of 4, to support new business division with responsiblility for Sky's Digital formerly start up businesses including Sky Buy and Sky Bet. Role included performing due diligence and valuations of prospective investments in start up and established digital businesses.

Middlesex, England, GB

Full Financial Responsibility for Sky's Adverting Revenues of +£200M across TV, Digital and Sponsorship. Newly created role: Set up financial reporting and forecasting models including a real time daily sales tracker for use by the Senior Management team to track and manage sales targets.

New York, NY, US

Planning, coordinating and conducting audits and special projectsSupervision of teams up to 5Preparation of Board Level ReportsTeam leader for Due diligence and transaction services projectsAudit, Advisory and Transactions

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.) Honours, Accounting And Finance

Chartered Accountant