Responsible for all aspects of Finance & Business Operations for the four legal entities, shaping the policies, procedures and processes to provide the framework for ongoing growth.Advice and mentoring to the management team in areas such as HR Policy, Customer Contracting, Financial Operations and Reporting.

Responsible for enabling a global on and offshore team to provide the operational and finance support required to manage 600+ consultants across 13 business lines in 30+ locations delivering nine figure revenue per annum.Developing and deploying the required technology, policies, procedures and systems in partnership with the COO to ensure consistent and efficient forecasting, budgeting, management and reporting.Work with COO to visualize and prepare pesentations to both internal and external customers regarding business performance, capabilities and prospects.Working with the business line managers to ensure alignment of revenue and labour forecasts with planned headcount, accounting for voluntary / involuntary attrition and expected recruitment lifecycle duration.Ongoing review and assessment of problem projects and businesses - identify opportunities for enhancing cashflow and reducing cost.Deploy automated BI tool (Jedox) to provide on-line forecast collection and processing from 250+ project managers along with performance reporting (utilization, realization, headcount, financials) sliced and diced to meet the needs of the business, replacing multiple inconsistent and inaccurate excel spreadsheets previously produced by multiple interested groups.Responsible for financial control of a problem business line, assessing over 10 month period and providing extensive data leading to decision to exit business.

Responsible for all aspects of FP&A for the global consulting business.Recruit, train and mentor offshore teams in India, Serbia and Tunisia to assist with operational management of the consulting business.Intial financial assessment of Mindwell as a potential acquisition target at the direction of the SunGard Group President. Development of post integration financial models to determine synergies between existing SunGard business and a professional services function that would grow overnight by 100%.Initiate R&D tax reclaim process, working in partnership with Deloitte to obtain seven figure refunds for UK based expenditure.Deploy and control timesheet, expense and project management system in systematic and structured manner across multiple business units allowing streamlined and consistent reporting. Ensure ongoing support and maintenance by offshore teams complies with therequired standards for timeliness and accuracy.

Management of budgeting and forcasting for professional services and Bpaas revenue streams, initially for Adaptiv (Risk Management) expanding to also cover Front Office and Securities Processing business groups.Initiate monthly management reporting, focussing specifically on the health of large fixed price engagements, allowing the management team to prioritize resource deployment and improve profitability.Develop job costing models to enhance profitability of subsequent engagements, work with the sales and professional services groups to ensure relevant terms and protection included in customer contracts.Part of finance team assigned to assess various acquisitions (e.g. GL Trade) - develop assessment models to provide range of outcomes post acqusition & challenge information provided by the target.

Integration of six diverse software acquisitions across private wealth risk management, investment administration, portfolio accounting and post execution straight through processing (STP).Establish standard polcies and procedures to govern the acquired businesses in a standardised manner. Rationalize accounting systems to allow standard and systematic reporting of financials. Establish standard monthly management reporting for investors monitoring financials of each product, risks of each major project and cashflow.Negotiate contracts with new customers - license, maintenance and professional services.http://www.corfinancialgroup.com/

110 Limited developed Salerio, an exception based, fully automated, multi asset, post execution matching and settlement solution.Cost & Revenue forecasting for the business through a period of rapid growth - 35 to 135 employees in less than 18 months.Responsible for deployment of timesheet management system allowing maximum client billings to be made, monitor health of 20+ significant simultaneous implemetations with major financial institutions in London, Frankfurt, New York, Singapore & CaliforniaInitiate R&D tax reclaim, providing required data to HM Revenue & Customs to obtain six figure cash refunds of research expenditure.Negotiate client contracts in conjunction with the sales team to deliver required revenue, cashflow and customer satifaction.Develop divestment financial forecasts facilitating sale of the business to COR Financial.