Jon Watts Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Cornwall, England, United Kingdom

Also member of Eden Morecambe Steering Commitee and Board Affairs Committee.

Fenton and Co (online ethical jeweller) as advisor and NED (to 2020) and Dizzie (closed loop packaging grocery business) as part of the Mustard Seed impact investing fund.

Member of the steering committee and Chair (from 2021-22). Leading a cross functional peer learning and collaboration network with Chief Operating Officers of 15 foundations, including many of Europe's most important philanthropic funders. Led reorganisation of OPN governance to increase agility in decision making in response to the continuing growth of the network. Led the identification of shared strategic focus areas, enhancing the value of engagement to membership.

London, United Kingdom

Member of Executive Leadership Team; attendedall Main Board and Finance, Audit and Investment Committee meetings. Responsible for commercial/programme decision support, financial control, information technology including cyber security, impact investment and organisational development programme which supports grantee partners globally. Oversight of $6bn endowment assets.

London, United Kingdom

Member of Executive Committee; attended all Main Board, Audit and Finance Committee meetings. CFO of both the global Save the Children Association and Save the Children International, Chair of the Global Save the Children Finance Leadership Team. Responsible for the Finance, IT, Supply Chain, Risk/Assurance and Legal functions of Save the Children International (17,000 staff in c 60 countries) and functional lead for Finance for Save the Children globally (27,000 staff, of which c.3,000 in finance). Strategic transformation role, turning around finance, IT, supply chain and assurance functions for this complex global development agency, including digitisation of core finance, HR, supply chain, awards and project management processes across 300 field offices, 6 regions and global structures.

Woking, Uk

Responsible for design and stand up of a Global Business Services division for SABMiller to provide specialist analytical and transactional support services to serve all operating divisions as a new business unit within the group. Delivered value creating strategy and business case adopted by Executive Team.

Woking, Uk

No.2 to the Group CFO in this highly value creating, acquisitive global brewer and soft drinks business, which went from mid 30's to #9 in FTSE during tenure. Responsible for Group financial/business planning and target setting, including dramatically improving cash flow from working capital and lower cap ex post the global financial crisis; internal and external reporting (equity and debt market briefings and communications); finance policy, internal financial control; treasury control; risk management and insurance; admin functions and leadership in the corporate centre; development of finance functional strategy and capability.

London, Uk

Responsible for Group FP&A, Sarbanes Oxley programme (achieving s 404 compliance globally), Treasury Control, Information Management. Established global Information Offices network and programme to upgrade data quality and management information and led global implementation of Strategy Into Action business planing process - key enablers of a new operating model ('One Unilever').

New Jersey, Usa And Santiago, Chile

Responsible for finance management and business partnering for Latin America Foods Business Group (Eur 2bn) through integration of Bestfoods and Arisco into Unilever, including control of E 400m regional restructuring programme and E 400m disposal prorgamme. Included finaI last two years, chaired the regional Finance Leadership Team, responsible additionally for IT, Finance Shared Services and the management of Tax, Treasury and Legal matters for all Unilever business in Latin America.

Santiago, Chile

CFO of a flagship subsidiary (E500m turnover) during emerging markets crisis, integration of acquisition, disposal of non core assets and entry of global competitor into core domestic market.

Uk And Poland

Entered through Unilever Companies Management Development Scheme; Unilever International Audit (working in UK, NL, Ghana, Malawi, Kenya and Tanzania); BOCM Silcock (animal feeds, then subsidiary of Unilever); Unilever Polska (1992-94 including market entry into home care, personal care and ice cream sectors); Unilever Financial Group (including as the first head of Financial Planning and Analysis for the Unilever Group).

Ma (Cantab), Anglo Saxon, Norse And Celtic (Part 1); History (Part 2)

Fellow, Management Accounting