• Senior Finance leader with 12 years of experience working with a range of companies from large listed multi-national groups in multiple geographies to smaller privately owned businesses.• Strategic thinker with the ability to make considered decisions and follow through on the execution of the decision, including both commercial and financial aspects.• Trusted operational business partner with a hands-on approach to working with stakeholders across an organisation, executive teams, and boards. • Good experience of long-term financial planning, budgeting, investment appraisal, capital allocation, risk management and monitoring internal control effectiveness.• Excellent analytical skills, quickly able to assimilate key messages from complex detailed information and determine appropriate strategy, which drives a creative approach to problem solving.• Flair for building excellent business relationships with people of all levels of the organisation as well as external stakeholders. • Excellent written and oral communication skills, able to deliver clear messages on complex subjects. Capable of working on own initiative, but also a good team player; stimulated by new projects and challenges.• Broadened experience through seconding overseas to Australia with Ernst & Young LLP.• Active in grassroots rugby for over 15 years as a player, coach, referee and administrator.