Campbell Smith (Fca) Email & Phone Number

Newbury, Gb

Newbury, Berkshire, Gb

At Kynetec, we’re passionate about providing our clients with the insights and data they need to make informed decisions in agriculture, animal health & nutrition, and sustainability. As a global leader in our field, we’ve built a reputation for delivering unparalleled data, analytics, predictions, and insights that enable our clients to win. What sets us apart is our direct access to the markets we serve - farmers, veterinarians, pet owners, and agricultural experts - and our deep understanding of the complex dynamics that shape those markets. Our mission is simple: to empower our clients with the tools and insights they need to drive growth and succeed in an ever-changing landscape.• Rebuilt the Commercial Finance and FP&A function across multiple locations• Partner to CEO, CFO and other members of the Senior Leadership Team - supporting the executive team and senior stakeholders on both operational and strategic activities including M&A, strategic reviews, product appraisals and business planning• Integrated acquisition of major competitor including launch of single NetSuite ERP solution across 25 countries• Key role in a successful private equity exit (across data preparation, customer & product analysis, financial modelling, vendor due diligence, IM preparation, management presentations & bidder meetings) resulting in Inflexion’s sale of Kynetec to Paine Schwartz Partners in March 2021

• Afrimax raised a $120m round C from institutional investors, PE funds & high net worth individuals and build and operate 4G mobile networks across sub-Saharan Africa with commercial operations in 4 countries and licences in a further 8 countries.• Reporting to the Group CEO, I led a team of seven finance professionals in London with dotted line responsibility for 4 in-country CFOs and their teams with a total finance team size of 50.• Managed all financial aspects within the Group, including commercial finance, financial reporting, financial control, financial systems, investor relations, structuring, cash and working capital management and stakeholder engagement.• Re-built finance team following period of under-performance.• Implemented new cloud-based financial, HR and BI systems – financial accounting (SAP Business One), financial planning and financial consolidation (Anaplan), HR (Cezanne), BI (Microsoft PowerBI).• Involved in all aspects of equity & debt fund-raising from pitch-deck through to due diligence & deal closure.• Led multiple carve-outs of business units.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Us

• Led a team of five financial professionals in the US and UK, focused on providing financial support to the senior management of hibu’s Digital business unit (revenue £450m).• Worked with Digital business unit senior management and cross-functional virtual teams helping to implement digital strategy and drive both revenue growth and cost reduction efforts.• Involved in decision-making including execution of strategy, project prioritisation, resource allocations, business case approvals, commercial partner deals, product and process development and pricing and promotions.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Us

• Managed a team of 25 finance professionals providing financial operations services to hibu’s UK operations including actuals, budgets and forecasts.• Financial lead on various new product initiatives preparing business cases and providing operational financial support to product owners and management and customer for new global SAP system.

London, Gb

• Managed a team of 60 finance professionals across UK, Luxembourg and Germany providing financial operations services to Vodafone’s head office functions.• Managed integration of UK and Germany central finance teams with Vodafone’s local operating subsidiary finance teams.

London, Uk, Gb

• Led a team of 100 business and system professionals to deliver a SAP implementation providing finance, HR and supply chain functionality to a 4,000 seat user base across 13 countries.• Managed migration of transaction processing activity to shared service centre in Budapest, Hungary.

London, Uk, Gb

• Led a team of 27 business and systems professionals managing and developing the Group’s SAP and Cognos installations with a user base of approximately 4,000 seats across multiple countries.

London, Uk, Gb

• Led a team of four financial professionals in Newbury and Dusseldorf, Germany focused on providing financial support to the senior management of the Global Technology business unit• Financial lead on multiple workstreams of the “One Vodafone” business transformation programme to continue integration of Vodafone’s wholly owned mobile subsidiaries worldwide.• Managed the monthly close, quarterly financial planning and budgeting cycle for the business unit.

London, Uk, Gb

• Placed in to Vizzavi – the Vodafone/Vivendi Universal portal joint venture - on start-up as the senior Vodafone finance executive.• Implemented and led the financial planning and business review cycle including presentation of business plans to shareholders with the CFO.• Built and managed the finance and procurement team of 30 staff and managed implementation of finance and administrative systems and infrastructure including selection of financial systems (Oracle 11i) and implementation partner.• Worked with tax and treasury professionals to structure pan-European legal entity structure and commercial / transfer pricing arrangements between head office and local operating subsidiaries.• Led the acquisition of eight internet business units / companies from Vodafone / Vivendi Universal. Work included determining deal structure, due diligence, price negotiations and subsequent capital structures of subsidiaries.• Produce Board materials in conjunction with CEO and CFO. Observer on the Dutch holding company Board.• Following negotiations between Vodafone and Vivendi Universal regarding revisions to revenue sharing model, prepared analysis on impacts on Vizzavi and worked with CFO to institute a restructure including 100 redundancies across Europe.

London, Uk, Gb

• Led the financial planning cycle for Vodafone involving production of quarterly forecasts, budgets, long range plans and group • Led the in-house financial planning and modeling for the acquisition of AirTouch Communications Inc, the combination of AirTouch’s US businesses with Bell Atlantic’s cellular businesses and the contested acquisition of Mannesmann AG in conjunction with Goldman Sachs. Lead contact for the preparation of the working capital reports by the reporting accountants.• Worked closely with Vodafone Group Treasurer to provide cash flow models and impact on financial covenants of acquisition activity. These were presented to the bank syndicates to obtain debt facilities for the acquisitions and to credit rating agencies to obtain and ratify credit ratings for the group.• Reviewed financial models prepared by equity financial analysts and provided guidance to the Group Financial Director on appropriate response.• Prepared Group Financial Director’s presentation for financial results’ announcements to analysts and press.• Responsible for providing financial support to directors on Boards of associates.

London, Uk, Gb

New York, Ny, Us

• In-charge accountant on a range of assignments from multi-national corporations to small international subsidiaries, directing audit teams of up to six accountants.• Performed due diligence investigation in USA for £100m acquisition by a UK plc.• Lectured and group led on in-house training courses and mentored newly graduated trainees.

New York, Ny, Us

• In-charge accountant on an investigation following a major management fraud resulting in a profit write-off of $150m.

New York, Ny, Us

Bsc Hons, Managerial And Administrative Studies

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