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United Kingdom

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Finance leadership and focus on process improvement and bottom line impact for largest UofG College - Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Providing finance and commercial interim services and consultancy, problem solving.Flexibility in supporting requirements including full time and part time engagements. Areas of expertise include:Interim Finance leadership including FD, Head of Finance, Head of Shared Services / Process Leadership FP&AFinancial Planning & BudgetingBusiness Performance / MI.

Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom

Scotland, United Kingdom

Operational and Financial Leadership of Family majority owned renewables company.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Engaged to critically review finance processes and business partnering primarily around the areas of New Product Development, sustain and reliability engineering for Aggreko whilst delivering 2019/2020 requirements.

United Kingdom

Private Equity OwnedFinance and Commercial Projects development and delivery.

Financial leadership for global manufacturing, supply chain & procurement, covering all global bottling operations for all products both Internal and outsourced. Managed the commercial and finance business partnering assessing ongoing improvements to deliver bottom line impact.Accountable for global brand pack costing and collaboration with worldwide.

Private Equity Owned (Macquarie)Focusing on Value Add and Process Improvement across the company including development and delivery of commercial and finance training across the business.Led Supply Chain cost reductions and key supplier negotiations.Contract profitability, revenue recognition and cash-flow focus / improvements.

Extended vacation - family / sabbatical before commencing next interim role.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Interim FD assignmentPart of the Scottish Water Group providing services to non domestic customers. T/O in excess of £300m.Leadership of the finance function. Member of the executive leadership team.Provided finance and commercial leadership to the business. Led budget and forecasting activity for businessAccountable for board and external reporting.

Part of Shell Finance Operations (Global Shared Service Organisation)Leadership of the Management Information Planning & Analysis team supporting downstream IT organisation ($1.6bn spend). Team of 40. Led and supported a number of key projects.

Part of Shell Finance Operations (Global Shared Service Organisation)Leader for Requisition to Pay process. Team of 220 Heavily involved in the evolution of RTP with the launch of PMI (Process Management and Improvement). Led concentration strategy realignment work, which was significant as the first large scale inter centre migration of process..

Financial stewardship for corporate functions & leading Financial Shared Services including AR; AP; Accounting & Reporting and Tax. Team of 65 Completed transition of finance function to FSS – support to additional areas / delivered cost savings and drove improvement focus across financeFP&A & Cashflow management

Established own company, completing financial consulting assignments. This work covered a number of distinct areas, resulting in a healthy client payback. 3rd Party supplier contract due diligence & contract review. Outcome was £1.6M reclaim. Delivered IT maintenance & support accounting audit & review. Resulted in release of c£4.25m to P&L, improved.

Private Equity Owned (Apax Partners)Corporate Services Finance Lead / FSS PTP Process Leader/Commercial LeadFocused on all commercial aspects of the SSC including pricing and performance against SLA and KPI. Led Procure-To-Pay process.Financial stewardship of group corporate services; supported the senior leadership team. Cash flow management. Corporate.

Linlithgow, Scotland

Senior Finance Analyst then Finance manager roles supporting Manufacturing operations providing finance and commercial support.Latterly as accounting manager covering Accounting Processes, Payroll and AP.

UK / Sweden

Latterly based in Sweden as finance manager - involved in full company due dilligence and setup of operations.Full leadership for finance function covering banking covenants, statutory reporting and business performance and profit and cash maximisation.Led commercial activity including product pricing and financial review of contracts.

Junior Accountancy Trainee from school.Commenced broad rotational finance training whilst studying for HNC in Accounting then Professional accountancy exams (CIMA). All first time passes.Post training secured permanent roles within both Financial Accounting function then Energy Trading business division of Scottish Power as Costing Accountant.Left to.

Associate Member Of Institute, 1St Time Passes

Hnc In Accounting (Day Release As Part Of Scottishpower Accountancy Traineeship), 1St Time Passes