Paul Beech Email & Phone Number

I am an accomplished, CIMA qualified Finance Director and Business Manager with a progressive career driving performance, profitability and financial results by embedding robust financial management, financial and operational strategies and delivering complex change across diverse sectors. Over the course of my career, I have demonstrated success in modernising and turning around underperforming finance functions to drive performance and financial stability, whilst providing strategic insights regarding financial impacts to guide effective decision making. I am recognised for my success in automating and modernising systems to streamline working practices, improve efficiency and reduce time spent on tasks, and am passionate about driving continuous improvement. One of my core strengths is my ability to build, manage and maintain trusted relationships with key stakeholders, and I have successfully driven performance by building, leading and developing high-performing, cross-functional teams. In addition, having both a strong finance and business management background, I am able to review and enhance working practices by developing and improving processes and procedures across the entire business landscape.Key Successes include:✔️Securing a reduction in VAT owed from £100k to just £1,200 for Aqua Air by providing accurate evidence through clear audit trails to support HMRC investigation.✔️Delivering significant cost savings for Aqua Air by ensuring all operations ran from a single site, which involved relocating existing operations to new location.✔️Minimising late payments, improving supplier relationships, delivering 30% cost savings and improving bottom line for Barry Bladon Hale by transforming accounting and finance activities. Key Skills:✔️ Finance and Operations Management | Finance Strategy | Business Strategy and Leadership | Finance Function Turnaround | Forecasting, Budgeting and Cashflow Management | Financial and Statutory Reporting | Policy Development, incl. Health & Safety | Cost Reduction Strategy | Process Design and Re-engineering | Systems Implementation and Automation | Data Analysis | Stakeholder and Board Engagement | Cross-functional Leadership

Listed skills include Forecasting and Budgets.