A highly skilled and vastly experienced CFO with a successful track both at home and abroad. Particular success has been achieved with high growth companies backed by PE and VC investors. A natural communicator with excellent people skills and a proven ability to bring people with me and reach the highest standards through persuasion, logic, common sense and respect. Delivery of accurate information within very tight deadlines is normal, always ensuring that the information is provided in an appropriate format for financial and non-financial staff, thereby, enabling better decision making throughout the company. Key transferable skills include excellent communication, people, organisational, time management, commercial and customer facing skills. My technical accounting skills are highly developed (including all GAAP and IFRS) and I also possess advanced MS Office skills. Extremely diligent and hardworking focussed on results and with a proven track record of successfully building, leading, mentoring and motivating teams from all areas of a business. I am driven with a strong ambition to succeed while fully understanding the flexibility required in rapidly growing companies. A comfortable team player I am equally at ease working on my own initiative. I possess a highly commercial outlook and have successfully negotiated numerous high value contracts. Key member of Senior Management TeamsOperations managementCost controlCash flow managementGAAP & IFRSBudgeting and budgetary controlMonthly Management Accounts to tight deadlinesPreparation and presentation of Board PacksFundraisingDue DiligenceProject ManagementProcurementFinancial AccountsBusiness PlansBankingForecastingInternal controlsVAT and PAYE
Listed skills include Accounting, Budgets, Internal Controls, Management, and 42 others.
