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London Area, United Kingdom

A fast-growing (c50% pa) PE backed company with a ‘Buy & Build’ strategy, international fine art logistics and storage business operating across c20 sites in the US & Europe, turnover c£140m. Providing financial stewardship, performance insight, strategic planning, development & leadership of a growing finance team (c30) & enhancing financial systems and.

London, England, United Kingdom

Control Risks is a specialist risk consultancy helping clients build organisations that are secure, compliant & resilient with 45 offices globally and a turnover of c$350m. Reporting to the CFO the role was leading the Regional finance teams across the globe during a transformation program, driving excellence in business partnering & financial performance.

London, England, United Kingdom

Freightliner, part of G&W inc a US owned and private equity backed rail freight group, is the UK largest intermodal rail freight and logistics provider with a turnover of c£300m. As Divisional Finance Director reporting to the G&W Europe CFO, with P&L responsibility for the rail business leading day to day finance operations, and a member of the Rail.

London, United Kingdom

J Murphy & Sons Ltd, a UK & Canadian focused Infrastructure Group with £700m turnover. The role as deputy CFO was to lead day to day finance operations, reporting, tax and FP&A, as well as a member of the Group’s Senior Leadership Team and Audit Committee. Transitioned the finance team to a shared services operating model, whilst reducing cost by 24%..

London, United Kingdom

• Lloyd’s Register, a global £1bn turnover independent assurance & engineering services organisation with 8000 staff in 84 countries. lead finance operations with a team of 400+ globally, optimising processes and.
• restructured finance globally through 6 regional hubs, inspired an entrepreneurial culture in the 6 FD’s towards profit improvement. Yielded £2M in 1st year.
• Developed a strategy to increase services from the SSC’s (budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis) whilst using AI to automate transactional processes.
• Lead a new global debtor process, reduced bad debts from £15M to £6M in 6 months.
• Reduced legal entities in the Group from 225 to 150, saving £1.2M pa.

London, United Kingdom

• Lead a global operational accounting team of 300+. A member of the Group’s Senior Leadership Team & Audit Committee.
• Lead a £14m transformation project to establishing financial SSC’s in Europe & Asia for over 60 countries, reduced headcount by 30% saving c£4m pa.
• Created a robust risk and control environment with a new framework for the Group audit (c£1.5m pa) successfully lead changing auditors.
• Created & sponsored graduate & apprenticeship finance schemes to attract the best finance talent.
• Sponsored a treasury project to improve cash pooling & reduce trapped cash across 84 countries, reduced working capital by £30m.

London, United Kingdom

Short term assignment for the CFO to transform the global finance function. Developed a vision and a strategy to transform the finance function (c400), introducing business partnering & separating controllership across the Group. Board approved & implemented by April.

London, United Kingdom

• Lloyd’s Register EMEA, a £500M turnover division of the global engineering, technical and business services organisation.
• As FD, restructured the finance teams, introducing finance business partners to drive performance.
• Achieved a reduction of £30M in working capital by introducing a process which drove accountability.
• Successfully led the division as interim MD for 3 months.

CHEP, headquartered in the US, fast paced & data driven, operating pallet logistical services to FMCG customers across 22 European countries with a turnover of c€1bn pa. Promoted to the role in Jan 2005, business partner to the European SVP Sales, leading a team to provide insight & drive decision making on commercial initiatives & complex contracts..

Shortly after joining CHEP issued a profits warning & €125M restructuring plan. Partnered the VP Marketing to develop a new pricing strategy which added €50M Revenue pa. Created a business partnering culture with the commercial teams & developed customer profitability.

Croydon, United Kingdom

Business Development & Analysis was Nestle UK’s internal corporate finance & strategy consultancy, reporting to the CFO. Divestment of a c£8m Joint Venture and devised a business model to supply & service the new Allora coffee machine to new channels.

Acma

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Electrical, Electronic And Communications Engineering Technology/Technician, 2:1