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London, United Kingdom

• Set-up finance function.• Commercial contract negotiations.• Implementation of professional service contracts.• Partnering with CEO to minimise business risk.• P&L, board packs and cash flow reporting.• Managing HR and IT.• Cash flow management.• Meeting clients to manage budgets, forecasts and planning.• Steering committee meetings.• Resource allocation globally.

Property Developments (Various management roles) • Managing building projects of several successful developments from land acquisition to completion.• Dealing with architects, planning officers and third party specialists.• Negotiating commercial contracts with builders, consultants and interior designers.• P&L responsibility, JCT contracts, health and safety processes.

• Appointed Rep to Sesame Ltd -mortgage advice - FRN 491191.• Providing mortgage advice to clients, insurance and group health insurances.• Appointed Rep of Openwork - FRN 472736.• Managing a financial services business with a team of advisers.• Creating sales pipeline for the business and allocating leads for advisers to close.• Relationship building with large corporate financial service companies.• Mentoring and training advisers.• Compliance control

To provide commercial, financial and strategic support to the vice president and country managers in order to maximise revenues and profitability within the region. (Region: UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark and Finland).Commercial and Strategic, Finance, IT, Facilities and HR.Commercial and Strategic Responsibilities/ Achievements:• Working closely with divisional directors to ensure their business is in line with local and corporate goals and providing financial and strategic support to maximise profits.• Working with VP to establish territories, quota, and financial structures in conjunction with the annual business plan and company policies.• Implemented new commercial contracts within the region together with external lawyers and the functional input of divisional directors.• Negotiated contracts face to face with several top 100 customers. (Qualifying contracts from a legal and revenue recognition perspective).• Developed strategies and policies to maximise company support revenues.• Providing guidance to sales teams on complex pricing and deployment timescales within proposed contracts.• Assisting sales management in the preparation of proposals/presentations to customers.• Developed key relationships with our Partners and a partner sign up strategy together with policies and procedures to ensure the correct partners were signed up.• Ensuring all contracts signed in accordance with US GAAP and revenue recognition guidelines.Financial Responsibilities:• Providing an effective finance function, enabling managers and directors to have access to meaningful reports to measure their division financial performance.• Responsible for the co-ordination and development of the annual business plans in conjunction with US head office.• Responsible for consolidated forecast within the region, conducting meetings with country managers and directors and assessing risks associated with the content.

Providing commercial and finance support for the group worldwide. This includes some of the following countries - UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Africa and Middle East.Achievements:• Due diligence of several acquisitions and new business opportunities.• International business reviews, (South Africa, Middle East, Singapore and Hong Kong).• Recommended closures and re-structuring of certain countries to improve top line sales and profitability.• Preparation of flotation document and taking Tetra to flotation.

Bsc(Econ), Economics And Accounting

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