Nicholas Smith Email & Phone Number

I'm an ACA- qualified strategic and operational finance leader with over a decade's experience across financial services and technology in both listed, and some of the fastest P/E backed growth businesses in the UK. A natural communicator, with excellent interpersonal skills accompanying a strong academic background, I have high AQ and EQ and believe these to be central to success. I’m intellectually curious, resilient and enjoy challenging, collaborative and fast-paced environments, where I have the opportunity to work with colleagues who share my motivation to build a solutions that do social good. I am comfortable building and leading high-performing specialist and cross-functional teams to deliver tangible performance improvement and systems/process transformation in line with business objectives. I regularly engage directly with C-suite, Board-level, Audit and Risk committee stakeholders on both technical and strategic issues.Able to quickly identify opportunities or risks, and deliver value-adding solutions, I am a natural problem-solver and strategic thinker, comfortable with both the technical detail and bigger-picture. Supported by broad experience of FS disciplines, including M&A and integrations, strategy and finance objectives, commercial, Finance change and transformation and technical finance (including technical accounting, internal and external reporting, payroll, cashflow management and treasury).

Listed skills include Auditing, Income Tax, External Audit, Ifrs, and 14 others.