Stuart Phillips Email & Phone Number

London, GB

Windsor, Berkshire, GB

• CFO for the Home Services division, £1.8bn Revenue business, with over 7,000 engineers providing services in customer homes across the UK. Executive Director on the Insurance Board along with four Non-Executive.
• Joined the business following industrial action and the loss of a quarter of the engineer workforce, built back capacity and drove improved customer service while engaging the regulator on recovery plans.
• Rebuilt engagement within the Finance and Data team from below 40% to 80% in 18 months
• Closed loss-making business, ceased non-strategic product lines and refocused resources to core activities to improve long term profitability and business performance
• Put in place the strategic plans and activities to participate in the new Net Zero markets and technologies.

Windsor, Berkshire, GB

• Stepped in as the Group FC was promoted to CFO, delivering the year end materials and analysis to support the executive team in reporting results to the city.
• Presented to the audit committee on the enterprise risk and control environment and business viability statements.
• Shaped the financial framework as part of the strategic review, setting out proposals for the balance sheet shape, debt levels, dividend and capital reinvestment policies.

Windsor, Berkshire, GB

• $10bn annual revenue, supplying energy to business customers across the USA and Canada and trading gas and electricity across the North American markets.
• Undertook business disposal to NRG for $3.6bn, leading management presentations to the buyer, hosting due diligence discussions, assisting NRG with their fund raising by presenting to lenders and supporting a smooth.
• Improved visibility into the business performance and improved the control environment to provide more stability and predictability in profit and cash flow.
• Navigated the business through Covid-19 with 15% loss of revenue and lead cross functional debt team, avoiding material issues of bad debts in the energy supply base.

Windsor, Berkshire, GB

• Finance Director and core member of the leadership team for £2bn annual revenue division supplying energy and services to businesses across the UK.
• Joined the business following a period of poor financial performance, taking a business from £4m profit back to stability and >£40m profitability.
• Re-instated confidence through clear understanding of financials and business performance, delivering better forecasting and insight.

Windsor, Berkshire, GB

• Prepared high quality reporting for the executive team and Board on financial and operation performance and forecasts. Led planning and forecasting activities across the Group delivering regular outlooks to aid.
• Generated forecast scenarios to support commercial decisions, M&A activities, credit downgrades, share placings and dividend proposals.
• Supported and led change as part of a Group Strategic Review, working with the Project Management Office on tracking strategic delivery.
• Implemented a new Business Planning and Consolidation system and reworked and simplified Planning, Forecasting and Reporting processes for the Group.
• Provided financial expertise to discussions with Credit Rating agencies and external parties performing pension reviews.

Windsor, Berkshire, GB

Trustee on one of the businesses defined benefit schemes, overseeing the performance of the scheme administrators, investment strategies, valuation and funding proposals.

Windsor, Berkshire, GB

- Providing high quality reporting and insight to the British Gas Senior Management Team and Centrica group.- Simplified reporting processes and increased the level of standard content in key reports to improve the speed of production and accuracy of output.- Successfully developing the team, addressing performance issues and supporting team members to.

Windsor, Berkshire, GB

- Key member of the management team supporting the business unit MDs for the Plumbing and Drains businesses.- Undertaking financial due diligence on potential acquisitions and engaged in discussions with third parties on contract opportunities and tenders.- Working with the franchise owners to support them with growth ideas and resolve any escalated issues.

Windsor, Berkshire, GB

- Key member on the management team and providing expert advice on financial matters as well as wider guidance for a new growth business.- Lead on the financial due diligence on the successful acquisition of two building controls businesses and their integration into British Gas.- Working with the sales and marketing team on the launch of new products to.

GB

- Joined the Board of a new start-up company to provide expertise and support during the challenging initial phases of the business’ set up. - Assisted with introducing greater robustness into the management reporting and financial forecasting, enabling cash shortfalls and other issues to be identified earlier.- Provided input on funding options to ensure.

Swindon, Wiltshire, GB

Reviewing Board papers, attending Board meetings, facilitating communication between CEO and senior management, writing speeches and heading up a carbon management project to reduce the carbon footprint of the UK non-generation activities.

Swindon, Wiltshire, GB

Set up a team to focus on the risks being faced by the business, financial lead on the strategic review of the business division driving the delivery of fully segmented results and exiting loss making segments.

Swindon, Wiltshire, GB

Managed the finance team for the SME business (£350m Turnover, 270,000 customers), supporting the sales managers monthly performance meetings, financial close activities, liaised with external and internal auditors to ensure a clean audit report and support for the divisions first major project launch.

Swindon, Wiltshire, GB

Undertaking core month end accounting and reporting activities, restructured the team and automated reporting to operational and senior managers, supported potential acquisitions/joint ventures, input to deal structure options and part of the negotiation team presenting financial elements to counterparty and third party lawyers

GB

Involved in the audits of large divisions of Plc’s (Powergen and Goodyear), group consolidations (Wolesley Plc), small limited companies and pensions.

Fca Qualified, Accounting And Finance

Bsc Agriculture, Hons In Farm Business Management

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