Nicholas Chapman Email & Phone Number

Harpenden, Gb

London, Gb

Privately owned UK-based Energy Services group with £350m revenue. Significant double-digit organic growth year-on-year (3-year CAGR: c.20%). Former AIM listed Plc acquired by Private Equity in Jul-23.• Leadership of Group-wide finance teams • Workstream leader for end-to-end M&A activities• Improving working capital management and cash generation • Overseeing financial operations • Transitioning from Public to Private environment

London, Gb

AIM listed international Energy company. £200m revenue, primarily from Western Africa operations. Market capitalisation approximately £350 million.• Leadership of global Financial Planning and Analysis teams (including Business Intelligence)• Workstream leader for SAP SAC implementation planning • Workstream leader for M&A and integration activities (including RTOs)

London, Greater London, Gb

Directed FP&A activities for businesses generating >£10Bn combined annual revenues within Natural Resources, Chemicals and Automotive sectors, including precious metal trading. Influenced divisional/ Group decisions as a business partner, helping to secure delivery of key financial objectives. Steered Finance strategy and operations as member of Finance Leadership Team, as well as guiding investment decisions, including >£30m of R&D.• Strategic Planning: co-led annual cycle to deliver divisional targets in line with Capital Market Day expectations. Improved quality of financial outputs and negotiated targets owned by business leads• Scenario and Sensitivity Analysis: transformed large datasets into dynamic models, aiding strategic planning and key decision-making. Led Finance stream as member of Covid-19 response task force• Multi-Year Budgeting: negotiated business-owned targets, securing improvement in ROCE• Management Reporting: created one-truth/no surprises reporting framework, overhauling executive reports to provide early warning of emerging issues and facilitating better/faster decision-making• Performance Analysis and Forecasting: promoted an “outside-in” mindset, challenging businesses to reassess targets using market expectations. Focussed efforts on key business drivers, significantly improving forecasting accuracy and generating challenging but well-reasoned full year projections• Investor Relations: established efficient and effective links with internal stakeholders, improving external communications by predicting shareholder expectations and pre-empting incoming questions• Business Partnering: collaborated with business leads to drive improved profitability and cashflow. Part of a cross-functional delivery team, securing a £33m permanent benefit in working capital • Business Intelligence: reformed data analysis and visualisation capabilities via digital solutions

Paris, La Défense, Fr

Group FP&A responsibilities for N. America and UK (>€7Bn combined revenues). Partnered with global stakeholders working in complex, matrixed organisational structures to drive profitability and cashflow. Based in Paris global HQ, collaborating with C-suite and business leaders to execute €4Bn strategic asset rotation programme, pivoting from thermal energy generation into renewable energy and energy services.• M&A: evaluated and gated target investment proposals >€5m as Second Line Review Finance lead. Participated in >100 Group Investment Committees as Secretary, alongside Group C-suite and local executive management. Several notable wins, plus two files >€1Bn approved for Main Board reviewo Co-ordinated all financial components of binding bids, often working to challenging deadlineso Composed Finance Memo including my recommendation to Group CFO for each investment fileo Verified compliance with governance processes and financial hurdle rates. Rejected assorted bids• Acquisition integration: integrated Group financial reporting framework and working practices into several successful acquisitions• Strategic Planning: provided guidance and financial modelling in the annual Strategic Review cycle • Budgeting: led annual six-year budget cycle and negotiated financial targets with local management• Management Reporting: ran monthly cycle, including detailed analysis and insights. Contributed at business reviews, constructively challenging results/forecasts while retaining local accountability• Forecasting: challenged business forecasts based on year-to-date results and external market factors• Business Partnering: collaborated with budget holders to analyse profit and cashflow improvements• Cost management: consulted with N. America management to achieve €60m replatforming savings • Investor Relations: drafted press release materials and Group CFO notes for Earnings Release Q&A

Paris, La Défense, Fr

Overseeing Business Control activities for the UK and North America Business Units, which in 2015 returned a combined total of 6.5 BnEur in Revenues and 0.8 BnEUR in EBITDA Key responsibilities / experience:- Challenging and validating the overall multi-year budgets and forecasts for the Business Units- Supporting monthly consolidated management accounting cycle and providing analysis and commentary- Partnering with key business stakeholders to deliver improvements in P&L and Cashflow performance- Providing information and guidance to the Investor Relations teams- Performing bonus calculations for the top executives of the International Business/Reporting Units - Undertaking special projects, primarily regarding financial systems and user training

Having managed the FP&A team on an interim basis from Aug-10, this was made permanent in Apr-11 when I was promoted to the position of Senior Commercial Finance ManagerManaging a team of 3 Commercial Finance Analysts to provide insightful analysis and commercial decision support to the key stakeholders within the business. Additionally acting as the primary contact for the Corporate FP&A and Investor Relations teams in the US parent companyKey responsibilities:- enabling the FP&A team to provide decision making support via use of analysis and insight, while adopting an appropriate degree of skepticism / challenge- managing and co-ordinating the long range planning, budgeting and re-forecasting processes while ensuring resulting targets are challenging but achievable- preparing presentation material for quarterly forecasting submissions and quarterly business reviews - furthermore, delivering elements of these presentations to the key stakeholders within the business (eg Group CEO and Group CFO)- delegating planning and forecasting activities within the FP&A team and ensuring that appropriate stakeholders are involved in these processes on a timely basis - prioritising the workload within the FP&A team, and additionally developing and coaching the team to improve the quality of decision support within the business- providing regular trading performance reports and ad hoc management information to the senior stakeholders within Ebookers

Working directly with the senior leadership team and other key business stakeholders to provide commercial support and insights to help grow profitable revenues and improve EBITDA. Additionally responsible for managing 1 team member dedicated to planning and analysing the business overheads and capital spend.From Aug-10 to Nov-10 I was responsible for managing all of the processes within the FP&A department while the Director of FP&A was committed to special project work. This included leading the 2011 budget cycle (which involved presentation to the CEO and CFO of our SEC-listed parent company); preparing the 3-year strategic plan and the quarterly reforecast cycle.Revenue / Contribution responsibilities:- Working with the Regional MDs and their product and marketing teams to forecast revenues streams on both a cash inflow and revenue recognised basis - Presenting monthly results to Senior Leadership Team- Chairing the weekly pan-European trading meeting with senior leadership team and delivering trading performance commentary and insights- Providing quarterly submissions and commentary to group Investor Relations- Undertaking commercial analysis to provide options and recommendations to improve trading performanceCost / Overhead responsibilities:- Managing the SG&A budget and forecast cycles from end to end- Presenting / explaining complex financial issues to non-Finance management- Improving effectiveness and efficiency of outsourced services ($5m+ spend per annum)- Redefining and automating the cost reporting processes by creating dynamic reports- Presenting cost performance to the Senior Leadership Team on a monthly basis

Providing commercial decision-making support and analysis for the Northern European markets (8 points of sale)- Forecasting financial and non-financial drivers for multiple markets and currencies on a quarterly basis- Regular interaction with Sales, Product and Marketing directors/managers to understand recent performance trends and internal/external factors affecting the forecast - Advising on strategy for growth markets and supporting with analysis- In depth variance analysis / commentary on monthly / quarterly results - Determining phasings of KPI targets by market for daily performance reporting

Working closely with the Programme Management Office to provide investment appraisal and business case support for new platform developments- Special Projects: supporting the divestment of Travelbag Ltd and the subsequent Orbitz Worldwide IPO process- Preparing investment analysis for all IT software development cases - Calculating NPVs; Discounted Cashflows; IRRs; impacts to P&L and Balance Sheet- Identifying savings opportunities and supporting impact studies- Presenting executive summaries to the Senior Leadership Team

London, Gb

Working with the heads of the support function units to provide analytical and strategic financial support. - Providing business insights and Finance support to six separate directors- Annual budgeting for the support functions (combined costs >£150m with >1,000 FTEs)- Monthly forecasting and variance analysis- Leading ad hoc project work and providing options and recommendations to senior management- Presenting monthly performance (up to BT Wholesale board level)- Key team member in the BT Openreach carve out project (creation of a new £15bn business unit)- Working with Investor Relations to provide support function insights / commentary - Finance signatory for expenditure up to £1m

London, Gb

An integral member of team assigned to respond to Invitations to Tender / Requests for Price from third parties. Responsibilities included analysing complex customer requests; identifying commercial risks and opportunities and provide competitive pricing parameters whilst satisfying stringent internal hurdle rates While in the bids team I was dedicated for several months to a multi-billion pound bid for a government contract- Providing financial analysis for commercial bids / ITT’s / RFP’s to 3rd parties (required advanced modelling in Excel)- Maximising profit and optimising cashflows from customer requirements / affordability while providing competitive pricing to the customer- Pro-actively managing a portfolio of complex bids simultaneously (frequently working to challenging deadlines)- Challenging decisions/terms not aligned to corporate strategy and proposing alternative solutions- Providing Finance support during customer negotiation meetings

London, Gb

Directly supporting the Chief Information Officer, providing investment appraisal and business case support for BT Wholesale’s most strategic information system developments- Advising on prioritisation of projects based on available resources / funding- Investment analysis of main strategic system transformation cases- Preparing Finance Briefs including options and recommendations- Finance signatory for sub-£250,000 system development cases- Preparation of presentation material for senior management

Gb

As part of my time in the Audit department I was involved in a 2 month engagement for Tesco plc, where I was responsible for leading the preparation of the statutory accounts for their subsidiary companies. After qualifying, I undertook a seven month secondment to the Business Regeneration team supporting the turnaround of underperforming businesses.- Involvement in several plc audits- “In-charge” for various audit engagements reporting directly to the audit partner- Coaching junior team members- Managing client relations - Drafting and presenting client deliverables