Private Equity

Food-tech platform, enabling recipe-based grocery shopping fulfilled by existing grocery delivery infrastructure.

Technical Accounting

Periods spent in Global Reporting & Accounting and Financial Planning & Analysis.Latterly in Technical Accounting.

Global Reporting & Accounting

Working in a small team within Intermediary Protection Proposition, the role focused on finding and highlighting improvements that supported RLi’s market offerings and position. Given the traditional market structure and reliance on IFAs, the team aimed to improve upon the customer journey at key stages to support IFA’s sale of products. My contribution entailed development of key enhancement papers; the most significant centred on improving the state and usage of digital analytics on the application extranet to better measure and understand user interactions. This entailed cooperation with a number of key stakeholders and development of a business case in order to secure resource.

Based upon a simple observation of a labour market friction in local deliveries, worked to develop a software solution that aimed to solve the key market challenges. Starting with a core concept we performed market research to understand what functionality might be sought-after by potential customers. From this we moved to understand the costs involved with software development and general business start-up and worked to build a business plan with which to approach investors. The project eventually stalled due to growing presence and pressure of large players in that market segment.

Predominant focus was to enable and develop UK based growth given awareness of British golfing culture and how it differs from that of the Netherlands/Germany. This involved research into and creation of opportunities to increase awareness of the brand through both marketing and development of relationships with UK-based golfing media outlets.