Regarded as an accomplished finance professional by peers, boards and clients alike - known for being pro-active and results oriented, streamlining and implementing robust financial controls to ensure swift, accurate reporting within strict and extremely tight deadlines. With over 20 years’ skills and experience across multiple industries within PE backed, owner-managed and growing SME’s. Developing and surpassing required finance objectives, full accounting and financial management and shaping business and financial strategies to produce the required stakeholder value, leading to sustained business growth and profitability. Extremely strong financial acumen, performance and hands-on experience, successfully evaluating business and investment opportunities, quickly assimilating companies and their markets and conveying these to finance and non-finance departments as well as Board members - backed by recommendations.Financial & Management Accounting, Mergers, Capital Reduction, Company Formations UK & Overseas, Start-Ups , Change Management, Negotiations, Venture Capital, Contract Research, B2B, Strategy, Operations, KPI’s, Corporate Finance, Investor Relations, System Improvements, Company Secretary, Audits, Banking, HR.