Michael Willis Email & Phone Number

London, GB

London, England, United Kingdom

Financial accountability and business partnering for £1Bn investment programme.

London, United Kingdom

• Appointed to Senior Finance role, responsible for all Financial, Planning and Analysis aspects for a £1.5bn Smart Metering transformation programme, providing honest board reports and recommendations. Recruited a.
• Successful lead for ‘start-up’ enterprise, establishing business partnerships with every sector, providing disruption, benefits, incremental change and project impact explanations to UK and French boards
• Accommodated +650% rapid scaling over 4 years within a controlled forecast and no surprise framework
• Established innovative scheduling initiatives to improve productivity by 50% in unionised environment
• Optimised supply and demand resource model, saving £20m p.a. on negotiated contracts, and achieved £10m saving on £100m cost base benchmarking internal field capability with external providers

Greater London

• Responsible for delivering five year plan for a £5bn turnover business covering multi disciplinary activities to demanding deadlines. The process involved comprehensive senior stakeholder engagement and ownership of.
• Created a new Decision Support team to support and challenge the Board with key investment decisions. This team went on to win the prestigious Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) world-wide "Innovation.
• Achieved the turnaround of £100m a year loss through strategic and pragmatic B2C and B2B customer service, field services, marketing and project reorganisation, during an extremely volatile period
• Business case lead for off-shoring customer services, 25% cost reduction, no loss of service standards
• Rationalised 6 sales channels totalling £80m through P&L analysis, saving £10m p.a. whilst retaining business growth

Greater London

• Promoted to senior executive team, responsible for £200m OPEX, to devise and implement strategic new integration and business operations support for doubling of personnel to 4000+ and cost synergy savings.Successful.
• Saved £65m by leading cross functional team to slim down national contract portfolio

Greater London

• Appointed to head Financial Planning and Analysis, establishing new team for £100m new business in meter installation and reading, managing day to day financial activity during a period of substantial change and rapid.
• Became an integral element of EDF, successfully integrating 3 companies and achieving HQ synergies

Greater London

• Led teams to instigate upgraded / updated IT systems, establish new finance system, provide tight control and compliance management, and developed a data rich ‘routes results’ assessment frameworkAchievements:
• Headed contract tender bids covering all aspects of the rolling five year process, leading all financial aspects of the acquisition and integration of London bus company as part of growth strategy

Greater London

Built financial model and supported Finance Director through a successful Management Buy Out and eventual sale to a major industry player.Led financial due diligence on acquisition of another bus company.

Greater London

Created business cases, financial appraisals and impact statements for tech and infrastructure investment projects up to £250m.

Various Parts Of The UK

Gained valuable experience from six month placements in core financial disciplines at different operating sites.

Education record

Education record

Ba (Hons) Finance And Accounting, Finance, Law, Economics, Business.