Stephanie Hutton Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Jersey

• Providing Chief Financial Officer support to multiple organisations, including a pre funding SAAS startup, growing consultancy firm, PE backed luxury fashion brand and Interim CFO for the Channel Islands Co-Operative..
• Key Board member and advisor, providing support, challenge and guidance on financial and business matters
• Debt re-financing and fundraising activities - £2.2m seed funding recently raised
• Strategic planning and financial modelling
• Analysis of key performance areas and focus on cashflow
• Leading the external audit and year end reporting

Jersey, Jersey

• Senior leader within an international retail and food service operator across five territories, partnering with brands such as M&S, Iceland, Morrisons, Apple, Hotel Chocolat, Costa and more.
• Management information and reporting - implementation of new reporting tools, improving visibility of financial information and reducing analysis time by days
• Re-designed the budgeting, forecasting and planning processes, including key financial models
• All external financial statements (UK and Channel Islands), tax requirements, management of the group audit and technical accounting
• Listing requirements and external annual report
• Cashflow management and forecasting

• Finance & Operations Director for Private Equity backed £18m turnover organisation in the medical devices sector. Required to make a significant difference to the organisation in a relatively short period of time over.
• Restructured the finance function, implemented control processes and management reporting
• Review of strategic priorities - included the divestment of two parts of the business and the closure of premises
• Full review of business profitability - reshaped the income statement using key levers within revenue, gross margin and cost control
• All aspects of finance associated with a Private Equity SME – tax, audit, legal, supplier negotiations, management information.
• SAP experience

Nottingham, United Kingdom

• Member of the Senior Leadership Team for Global Consumer Brands (Global Consumer Brands is a $2bn business across multiple territories and business models within the Walgreens Boots Alliance group, focused on brands.
• Finance Director for new product development, innovation and marketing of Own Brands
• Strategy support and development – complex modelling and development of key metrics for new product development
• Long range planning, budgeting and forecasting
• Investment appraisal – specifically acquisition of new brands,
• Short term retail trading initiatives and analysis

• Role outside of finance, encompassing all aspects of leading an end to end business. Member of the Senior Leadership Team for Boots International in this commercial role. I was responsible for both Digital and Exports.
• Commercial lead for the Boots product brand B2B businesses in Scandinavian & Eastern Europe
• In store merchandising and retail strategy
• Supply chain, Marketing / PR, Business Development and CRM Digital
• Launch and lead the multi country international.boots.com business.
• Commercial ownership including trading, development, content and product offering.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

• Broad finance role involving multiple aspects of finance: commercial, financial planning and analysis, and financial control.
• Lead the reporting and accounting for the Boots International business
• Coordination of overseas finance teams and the consolidation of multiple business models – moth end reduced by 1 day.
• Responsible for financial; accounting stock, cash, debtors, cashflow,
• Internal and external audit coordination and reconciliations, along with liaison with internal tax team re International Tax and Transfer Pricing
• Responsible for commercial finance support - analysis of new business initiatives, current business models and current product offerings

• Multiple roles. Lead the external FTSE statutory reporting processes. This included managing the first standalone reporting process as a listed company.
• Key part of the demerger and IPO team
• Corporate cost management and analysis
• Financial planning and analysis both for the UK and globally
• Business lead on the global implementation of Oracle and Hyperion – including associated change management
• Technical accounting support and training for the group in multiple countries

Nottingham, United Kingdom

• Responsibilities:
• Audit manager responsible for the completion of all areas of a statutory audit. Client base included Next, Capital One and BPB, all of which were high profile engagements.
• Audited not for profit projects at multiple organisationsKey Achievements:
• Based on performance ratings, I was invited to join the graduate scheme despite not having a degree
• Participated in the UK talent programme, which enabled interaction and exposure to the Ernst & Young National Executives