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London, Gb

CFO of the world's leading fine art materials business, transforming into a creative lifestyle business. Responsible for global finance, legal and regulatory organisations spanning multiple brands, markets and geographies. Driving professionalisation of the finance function through selective recruitment, training and empowerment. Rebuilding finance systems, processes, and resources and the key role they play in controlling and driving business growth, from the ground up. Alongside the CEO, navigating a path through the clean-up of legacy financial, commercial and operational challenges, at the same time as driving strategic change as the business repositions its products, services and markets. Successfully steering the business through the challenges provided by the pandemic and post-pandemic economic uncertainties.Managing the dual governance structure of a Non-Executive Board of Directors and a privately owned overseas parent company.

Hampshire, Sp10 5Aq, Gb

Commercially and strategically focused finance director charged with driving value-add decision making in addition to responsibility for financial reporting, forecasting and controls of an international, geographically diverse business unit. Finance lead to an extend team of 20 professionals, located across 4 international sites. Success measured in doubling sales and more than doubling profit over seven year period. Growth driven in both developed and developing markets through, inter alia, new market entry, product development business model changes, advertising/brand building and Route to Market changes (including factory build).

London, Gb

Responsible for all aspects of the financial management of a global procurement function controlling £2.9bn of external spend, spanning Supply, Demand and IS. Key business partner to the Global Head of Procurement.• Establishment of a monthly business performance management process, tracking, managing and driving over-delivery of the financial plan• Responsible for the development and control of the function’s annual financial plan• Upweighted and embedded governance and risk management agendas• Management and development of a team of twelve international finance professionals• Management of a £28m functional overhead budget

London, Gb

Led strategic alliance strategy in Africa and subsequently co-led acquisition strategy in China, influencing at regional and global Executive Committee level.• Extensive experience of negotiating strategic alliances with international brewers• Implementation of all aspects (strategy, valuation, structuring, commercial negotiations) of the China spirits strategy and Eastern Africa beer M&A agenda

London, Gb

Delivered strategically important, high value creation/value at risk assignments. Key project deliverables included capability building of finance and non-finance professionals.

London, Gb

• Management responsibility for integrated treasury business support and operational risk management. Extensive liaison with business leaders and the Finance Committee, raising the profile of the team and its business issues• Delivered a wide range of value creation and protection FX and capital allocation solutions to both First World and Emerging Market operating units• Led the operational Treasury-related aspects of the Pillsbury disposal ensuring all subsidiaries were correctly capitalised and the efficient flow of value/funds

M&A lead advisory services on mid-market private equity transactions and private company/private equity disposal mandates. Deal origination, valuation, structuring, marketing and negotiation. Included a successful one-year secondment to Singapore office to provide deal support and to build local capabilities.

Public and private company audits, including flotation and due diligence work, leading to ACA qualification.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Aca

Bsc Hons, Biochemistry