Richard Cottrell Email & Phone Number

Reading, GB

• This role is responsible for leading a team of financial controllers and their teams to ensure the business accurately plans, forecasts and measures its performance. It is critical within this role to identify business.
• Responsible for providing accurate information to the business… Show more This role is responsible for leading a team of financial controllers and their teams to ensure the business accurately plans, forecasts and.
• Responsible for providing accurate information to the business functions, ensuring decisions are made from clear and robust data and analysis
• Responsible for translating business plans into the annual budget. Coordinate and support the planning within business functions, as well as meeting the requirements of Regional and Global Finance
• Secure and maintain a high level of technical expertise in accounting, internal control, planning, budgeting and forecasting
• Supporting the business to improve product and customer yield, through analysis and decisions on customer pricing, and services and surcharges, as well as cost improvement initiatives

Slough, United Kingdom

• Supporting the UK&I Finance Director, and acting as FD for key projects, I developed, modelled, coordinated the delivery of a three-year business transformation strategy, evaluating strategic initiatives for long-term.
• Strategic evaluation and top-down modelling and long-term target-setting – to mitigate a £68m profit gap to the do-nothing case
• Senior Leadership Group Lead, communicating and embedding strategy and… Show more Supporting the UK&I Finance Director, and acting as FD for key projects, I developed, modelled, coordinated the delivery of a three-year.
• Senior Leadership Group Lead, communicating and embedding strategy and culture
• Finance due diligence on four merchant acquisitions
• Acted as FD, delivering a large transformation and complex route-to-market change project

Slough, United Kingdom

• Responsible for driving the performance of the business in the professional channel (£350m Revenue). This involved full P&L, OWC and capex responsibility from involvement in target setting to target delivery; building.
• Key member of the finance leadership team responsible for setting strategic priorities and inspiring the function to grow. Developed the finance functions own brand and identity ‘Strength in Numb€rs’ which drove a new.
• Managed, inspired and developed a team of decision support business partners as they completed tasks, such as the assessment of return on investment, IRR, payback and deal profitability sensitivity analysis. Recognised.
• Forged strong relationships to influence Managing Directors, Sales and Marketing leadership teams and became a trusted partner, running key projects with autonomy
• Influenced key stakeholders in the decision-making process to drive added value activities, resulting in the delivery of all EBIT and OWC target 4 years in a row
• Owner and gatekeeper for pricing defensibility and promotional offers, ensuring legal pricing whilst maintaining continuous profitability growth

Slough, United Kingdom

• UK Finance lead for 2 key organizational transformation projects. These included the standardization of SAP system structures to enhance EMEA management reporting, as well as the implementation of a European wide.
• Successfully led and managed total project workstream timelines and deliverables for 2 major… Show more UK Finance lead for 2 key organizational transformation projects. These included the standardization of SAP system.
• Successfully led and managed total project workstream timelines and deliverables for 2 major EMEA wide projects
• Established strong project management control environment, resulting in the project being delivered on time with implementation strategy blueprint being adopted in other regions following UK success
• Forged strong relationships to influence and engage key stakeholders in multiple countries and different levels within the organization
• Key member of the finance leadership team responsible for setting strategic priorities and inspiring the function. Show less

Slough, United Kingdom

• Provided consistent and insightful management information (both forward looking and retrospective) to UKI Management Team and commercial leadership teams and ensure UK sales and marketing functions have the information.
• Led, motivated and coached a team of commercial analysts and Cognos systems analysts
• Provide monthly insight and reporting packs on the UK… Show more Provided consistent and insightful management information (both forward looking and retrospective) to UKI Management Team and commercial leadership teams.
• Provide monthly insight and reporting packs on the UK, Retail and Trade business results to help drive accurate decision making at all levels of the business
• Finance lead of the monthly, full year forecasting process, for the UK business ensuring that there was clear visibility of all forecasted full year results to enable business planning and continuity
• Full UK budget responsibility, ensuring robust budgets were set to drive business activity

Sassenheim, The Netherlands

Slough, United Kingdom

International consolidation of the former ICI global decorative paints business through Hyperion Applications.

Reading, United Kingdom

Gained experience whilst auditing a wide range of different type and size organisations whilst gaining ACA qualification.