Simon Ellender Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Managing a departmental budget of £1.8million and a team of 22 colleagues to manage all estate transaction appraisals, financial modelling and new business or procurement opportunities. • Finance Transformation, saving 2000 days in property transaction processes, resulting in a improved cost and time-effective process by enhancing a centralised company compliance and governance procedure to review and approve all estate transactions, through thorough financial appraisal, risk documentation and legal documentation. • Creating Value, securing £1million in additional property income by assessing and evaluating current revenue streams for assets and services and identifying and driving revenue assurance opportunities and new incremental income opportunities.• Business Leadership, advocating across numerous key strategic programmes, consulting and providing expert insights on cross-business risk management and mitigation, and delivering effective, tailored solutions to financial challenges. (Steer Co Member: Vacant Space/Greener NHS/Asset Survey/Smarter Buildings)• New Capex Funding solutions. Facilitating and leading strategic and tactical discussions to identify funding sources and opportunities to gain new funding streams for capital investment, to enable our new build, environmental and sustainability targets key to ensuring effective execution of organisational aims and objectives. • Board Member management and support, contributing as a standing member of multiple company-wide steering groups for strategic change projects and regularly invited to attend and present at key committee meetings, including the Strategic Investment Committee. • Leadership and Development, Achieving the best colleague engagement scores across NHSPS Finance function in 2023 due to my collaborative and coaching-led approach to leadership, establishing a brand-new team with identity and purpose.

London, United Kingdom

Business Partner to the COO and Director of Asset Management. Leading a team of 35. Financial ownership of P&L (£700m T/O), related Balance Sheet responsibility and delivery of Capex Investment (£150m). Ensuring delivery of related annual financial targets through driving financial control, business planning and performance across asset/property, facilities and capital projects. • Creating Value, increase net income by £1.5million by leading a working group to reduce vacant and company-occupied space. • Financial control and assurance delivered incremental £4.7million in income YoY (2022) by identifying and driving revenue assurance opportunities across the property rental and service fee income portfolio. Consistent delivery of P&L and Capital targets in each year of role.• Management Information transformation, improved business decision making, through Integration of financial, operational and asset data by leading a property/finance visualisation tool, enabling insight and streamlined decision-making.• Commercial Leadership, Developed and implemented standard pricing and costing methodology, creating £5m incremental recurring income and creating consistency, clarity and ease in monitoring billing for over 5000 frontline staff.

London, United Kingdom

Led and oversaw the restructuring of the FM Business Partnering team, creating specialised team to drive financial control/performance, improving planning outcomes and driving cost savings and change initiatives. Financial ownership of P&L (£350m T/O), related Balance Sheet responsibility and delivery of Capex investment (£100m) ensuring delivery of related annual financial targets. • Financial control and assurance, Formulated the financial strategy, delivering a clear framework, setting and communicating vision and cultural tone to provide consistency, control and accountability for the financial results relating to profit & loss and construction expenditure.• Creating Value, generated £26million in annual cost savings by providing financial support to a business transformation project, bringing previously outsourced services back in-house. • Leadership and Development established and developed two new teams to improve management information to drive financial rigour across Business Operations and Capital Management, a separate team to support business decision making and driving value from optimising delivery method for service delivery.

London, United Kingdom

Overall ownership and responsibility for company financial performance P&L (£700m T/O), all elements of Financial Planning and analysis for Company, Strategic and Property level delivery of financial metrics and capex investment (£100m).• Financial planning and analysis, established central FP&A function to drive short-, medium- and long-term financial accountability and understanding of Company (£700m T/O) and Property (3000) level financial performance, through building the team, driving accountability and building trust with wider business stakeholders• Finance Transformation assembled a cross-functional finance and business task force to successfully deliver the short-term Billing Recovery Project, implemented plan to turn around working capital impact, through improving billing delivery, accuracy and consistency.

London, United Kingdom

With an annual turnover more than £400million, Experis is the professional arm of ManpowerGroup, a US-based Fortune 500 company and the third largest staffing company in the world. Full P&L accountability for Experis UK &Ire (£400m T/O £30m GM – 6,000 day rate contractors – 1,000 Perm placements)HEAD OF FINANCE and COMMERCIAL (Reported to Manpower UK & IRE CFO) • Rapid Promotion, recognised with five promotions during my tenure for performance excellence and achieving KPIs consistently across the financial management, planning, insight, business partnering and commercial review. • Business Leadership, Led the Gross Profit % Transformation Improvement Strategic Program, voted as the most successful company project in 2014, generating a first-year impact of £250k, rising beyond that in year 2. • Recognition, Awarded Experis Employee of the Year 2012 and Finance Employee of the Year 2010.

Education record

Education record

Completed Qualification in 18 months, by using University exemptions and taking 3 exams at each sitting.

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.), Accounting

Activities and Societies: UPE Rugby 1st XV 2 years UPE Rugby U21a Residence Rugby 1st XV Golf Squash

Education record

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