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Gerrards Cross, GB

Edinburgh, Scotland, GB

Cambridge, England, GB

• CFO and Company secretary in a venture capital backed TechBio start up, linking digital technology and drug therapy to optimise patient outcomes
• Executive team member with direct operational responsibility over Finance, IT and Company Secretary duties
• Driving clarity and context on business strategy and assessment of business development opportunities
• Supporting CEO on external financing activities including investor engagement and diligence processes
• Streamlining board content and meeting structure to improve efficiency and alignment.
• Review of internal processes and optimisation based on company requirements

Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, GB

• Overall responsibility across all areas of finance for this small niche pharmaceutical company, specialising in rare diseases with 250 employees across 9 international locations serving patients worldwide
• Played a pivotal role in the successful sale of the business from private equity to a listed Italian pharmaceutical company in 2021
• Member of the senior leadership team, reporting directly to the CFO with end-to-end Finance leadership including Finance Business Partnering, FP&A, Financial Accounting, Taxation and Statutory compliance, Financial.
• Managing a team of 17 with full HR responsibility including recruitment, selection, and career development
• Strategic partner to multiple functions across varied business issues including Brexit preparedness, M&A, commercial business case assessments, supply route optimisation and tax strategy
• Leading and embedding process and systems improvements, accelerating the financial close process, strengthening the control environment, and implementing a new ERP platform

Brentford, Middlesex, GB

• Financial leadership of Consumer Healthcare R&D managing a global budget of £250m across 6 sites and 1000 FTE
• Responsibilities include team management, actual reporting, compliance and internal control framework, FP&A, strategic resource allocation & capital investments
• Leading the R&D Integration and Synergy financial planning as part of GSK and Pfizer JV
• Co-ordinating inbound due diligence process across multiple functions pre-signing (R&D, Supply Chain, Quality, Finance)
• Active member of Global R&D Leadership team sponsoring broader non-financial R&D initiatives

Brentford, Middlesex, GB

• Based in Belgium, Finance Partner to the VP, Global Commercial Lead and a core member of cross functional Global Brand Leadership team supporting products with turnover in excess of £1bn
• Leading the development and financial assessment of a range of strategic investment cases from €50-€300million including commercial, manufacturing, R&D, and business development
• Managing full financial analysis of actual results, financial and supply planning, risk, and opportunities identification enabling optimal supply allocation and financial performance in a constrained environment
• Providing strategic input to pricing strategy for Global brands including profitability assessment

Brentford, Middlesex, GB

• Leading, negotiating, and executing key projects for the CEO, CFO and Chief Strategy Officer, supporting a mixture of global and regional strategic opportunities across Consumer Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals and.
• Delivering entity and product valuations for a multibillion global 3-part transaction with another major pharmaceutical player
• Negotiating 180 legal entity valuations across the Consumer Healthcare and Vaccines businesses
• Delivering £20 billion IFRS3 purchase price allocation for Group accounting purposes
• Central accountability for independent review of major capital investments across the Group requiring Senior Executive and Board approvals

Brentford, Middlesex, GB

• Advising on the implications of external M&A and third-party partnering transactions from an accounting, cash flow, tax, and Shareholder return perspective
• Projects include highly complex JV buy out, supply chain enhancement, profit share arrangements
• Providing financial modelling, technical accounting and valuation services for projects including internal restructurings
• Managing dividend policy and distributable reserves
• Forecasting future dividend obligations and managing the reserves position of the parent company to allow payment
• Preparation of Board papers detailing payments and revisions to policy

Brentford, Middlesex, GB

• Providing accounting and reporting services to the ViiV management team
• Creating the ViiV Group consolidated actual results for internal and external reporting
• Providing analysis between statutory and management accounts
• Managing complex accounting areas between ViiV senior management team, external auditors, and other GSK support functions (e.g., technical accounting, Treasury)

Luxembourg City, LU

• Investment appraisal for new centre openings providing recommendations to the investment committee
• Development of variable intercompany loan pricing model based on internally calculated credit scores including methodology documentation
• Finance partner to global department heads including finance, marketing, sales, and IT
• Ensuring consistent analysis from external results and board reports
• Providing support to the head of financial reporting on technical issues including the preparation of position papers for external auditors
• Issues covered include disposal of subsidiaries and share options

London, GB

• Executive, Restructuring
• Internal research secondment identifying distressed debt business opportunities
• Financial Review of major UK bank and administration of Icelandic bankExecutive, Audit & Assurance
• Contributed to the external audit delivery on a variety of companies ranging from small, limited companies to large multinationals including Xansa Plc (now Groupe Steria SCA), Invensys Plc and Thales SA

New York, New York, US

2:1, Bsc Medical Biochemistry

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