Mark Fegan Fcca Cdir Email & Phone Number

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

County Dublin, Ireland

Reporting to the Managing Director, I am responsible for the Finance, IT, Customer Services, Marketing and Commercial functions (24 staff) and heavily invested in business partnering work with Supply Chain, Category Management and Sales as we transform and turnaround the organisation. • Turned around a struggling business, formulated a coherent strategy, introduced strong controls and governance, reduced headcount by 10%, led culture change and efficiency improvement initiatives doubling profitability and reducing working capital by 15%. • Led transformational change: o Used strategic analysis to understand our business and set a clear vision; process mapping tools to simplify our business to focus solely on this vision and financial controls and kpis to ensure that we achieved our vision. o Supply Chain efficiency improvements in stock holding, picking and delivery using technology, restructuring and process change resulting in lower stock levels, lower operational costs and improvements in serviceo Chief Profitability Officer: helping staff understand how the business makes money and how their roles directly affect profitability leading to cultural change and elimination of unprofitable business.o Re-organised our sales resource to match areas of high potential sales through market analysis and up-skilled our customer service staff into an internal sales team.

Armagh & Newry

Finance Director for two trading entities of Bunzl UK Ltd General Manager for the Catering & Cleaning business unit, restructuring the team to grow profit by 30% and improving service by 50%. • Faced with a Turnaround situation, I returned the group to profitability, increasing sales 63%, and ROCE to 40% with cash generated at 120% of profit. • Led a Shared Services Centre team of 20 staff (finance, credit control, IT).• Set up and integrated new marketing and commercial functions. • Introduced management & governance structure similar to private equity to drive growth• Introduced innovative IT training model that gives a proven return in skills on the shop floor. • Designed and implemented a new Sales structure, aligning teams to profitable growth as autonomous business units driving double digit growth. • Developed a specialist catering design business as a separate division.• Created a full business analysis service that allows the whole Bunzl group in Ireland sell ‘information as a product’ as part of its offering to customers. • Led strategic review of customer service team and implemented the restructure and re-skilling of team. • Reduced monthly accounts preparation to 3 days and year end accounts to 2 weeks.• Introduced Food Safety Standard, opening new markets and created an audit team to manage ISO 9001 and ISO 14001. • Initiated a long term strategic plan for the Northern Ireland businesses doubling profitability and expanding into £20m of new markets in Scotland and Ireland. • Designed a model that calculates profitability to invoice line level allowing the business’ profitability to be understood from every angle, educating managers and driving future tactical and strategic decisions.

Clarendon Dock, Belfast

Examination body and adviser to Government on curriculum (£30m, 300 staff, 3,000 contractors). • Managed 24 reports (finance and facilities). Cut absenteeism from 9.5 to 1.9 days average.• Shaped commercial strategy to export exams reducing funding requirement from tax payers. • Led change management programme to prepare for merger into single Education Authority. • Part of leadership team that led CCEA to an unprecedented triple win of EFQM Awards. • Improved completion of financial accounts from 6 to 3 months.• Secured £750k funding for IT improvements and modernisation of examinations process. • Increased the number of professional qualifications held by Finance team from 4 to 11.

Airside Business Park, Swords

Part of leadership team selected to restructure the ROI business (€80m turnover). • Grew market share from 2% to 5%, and grew profit from zero to €2.2m in 2 years.• Influenced strategy, governance and business improvement. • Set up systems and processes for a new business e.g. pricing strategy, reporting structure.• Helped shape strategy and general management policies. • Created new reporting on profit data to product level for sales area/customer within 5 days of period end. Improve margins, e.g. Tesco from €62 to €68 per brl, €100k increase in first year.• Devised and set up a ‘structured pricing’ system revolutionising our sales strategy.• Managed financial and systems side of a separate €25m private label business.

Glen Road, Belfast

Managed all Bass Ireland’s financial and management reporting and planning. • Acquisition by InBev occurred during my tenure, requiring 3 year ends in first 5 months and dual accounting and reporting systems for next 16 months. • Introduced a new method of financial control. Provided consistent approach to reconciling accounts, tighter controls for £80m balance sheet and reduced year end process from 5 to 3 weeks.• Introduced financial model to appraise key decisions, capital purchases and loan applications.• Integrated Interbrew’s manufacturing and financial systems into our business.• Produced financial accounts under UK GAAP and IFRS. • Reported financial information locally, for UK parent and for worldwide parent. • Initiated and managed cash flow reporting processes.• Prepared financial appraisals for plant/property and loan investments, part of £28m loan book.

Glen Road, Belfast

• Managed sales team overheads. Progressed to manage the financial side of manufacturing. • Set up and ran the financial, administration and systems side of a new £10m p.a. contract.• Led cost reduction programmes e.g. cut number of engineering suppliers, saving £60k. • Implemented reporting and control processes to cut losses by 15%.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Finance, 2:2

Activities and Societies: AIESEC - VP Projects, Queen's University Belfast Boat Club (QUBBC) Course Syllabus - Financial & Management.

Education record

A Levels • Computer Science • Economics • History