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Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Commercially focused role establishing and managing the finance function for the newly separated Hygiene business, with responsibility for all brand/customer P&L’s from Gross Sales to Operating Profit· Setup the operating model, recruited and embedded a new finance team· Influenced the business to be focused on gross margin growth· Transformed finance to be commercially focused to co-pilot the business to achieve it's strategy· Transferred the business from the old entity to the new legal entity smoothly

Sydney, Australia

Part of the leadership team managing the demerger of the Hygiene business- Provided structure, thought leadership and drove consensus on how to run and govern the new entity- Defined the organisation design and role profiles for the new finance team post the legal entity split- Designed and established the operational and strategic governances- Scoped & prioritised requirements and project managed a finance transformation plan to create an effective and efficient function- Transformed the finance reporting from manual Excel to automated PowerBi dashboards

Manchester, United Kingdom

Created a new business expansion strategy to establish a new £2bn turnover wholesale and franchise business- Developed the strategy, researched the market, provided detailed analysis and business cases- Gained alignment at board level for the strategy shift- Prepared the organisational design, fee model and created the finance processes/ systems- Built strong relationships with potential partner's boards- Reviewed sites and tested the concept - Managed the £200m acquisition of an existing wholesale/franchise operation

Luton, United Kingdom

Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Finance board member for the £3bn turnover Tesco Uk & Ireland's market-leading Ecommerce sites (food, non-food and clothing). This role focused on building sustainable business expansion strategies. Engaged & influenced the Tesco.com CEO and UK board to revise growth strategy to balance the market growth ambitions with the need to be more cash neutral.

Budapest

2IC to the CFO with responsibility for day to day management of the finance function including board reporting.

Budapest

Budapest

London, England, United Kingdom

Certified Safe® 5 Practitioner, Project Management

Cpa Qualified Accountant

Green Belt, Project Management

Qualified Charted Management Accountant

Bsc, Mathematics & Accountancy