Will Garford Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

New York, New York, Us

Leading the company’s financial controls ecosystem improvements in a high growth PE-backed tech environment. This includes direct management of audit, tax, transfer pricing, intangible asset recognition, M&A, debt refinancing, global mobility, cash flow forecasting, insurance, equity accounting and finance-focused people management and L&D, among other strategic and financial projects, managing internal and external stakeholders and a range of third party specialists across 10+ regions. The Company recently concluded its second private equity event during my tenure, the latter at an $850m+ valuation, for which I was heavily involved.

New York, New York, Us

http://wearemiq.com/We believe that Marketing Intelligence is not only about understanding who our consumers are, but what drives their decisions. Online browsing, offline location and purchases, multi-channel touchpoints - even the cultural and economic trends around us...

London, England, Gb

Operations and strategy role at a pre-Series A startup.Led the international expansion project, including building a market sizing model from scratch, supply and online demand testing, and go-to-market strategy planning, and coordination with local government agencies. Improvement and automation of company finance processes including analysis and account relationship management of largest client, and improvement of monthly finance process.Led the company’s approach to new EU GDPR data compliance regulation, designing data audit procedures. Ad hoc project management including office move.

London, Gb

Short-term contract to help completion of system upgrade of order-to-cash IT system PeopleSoft 8.4 to 9.0 edition. Provided specialist financial and accounting insight to obtain and analyse contracts through developing close working relationships with the client-facing consultant groups. Gained an understanding of the product list and revenue recognition policies to ensure timely validation, review and upload of historic contracts onto the new system. Worked as part of a small team split between UK, US, Canada and India to ensure demanding deadlines, considered doubtful at the time of my hiring, to be met. Coached accounts assistants to improve understanding of the critical judgements involved in revenue recognition accounting.

Worldwide, Oo

Working in Technology, Media and Telecoms, specialising in Advertising, Technology, Print and Digital Media and Sports industry clients in the Private Markets, UK, US and Japanese Listed sectors.Verification team lead for the UK Fast 50 and EMEA Fast 500 Tech Awards for the top tech SMEs by revenue growth. First internal secondee to the internal Innovations team, assisting with product development and training. Co-developed and implemented a new tool for rapid analysis of project economics to drive efficient financial planning and analytical benchmarking.Internal training facilitator with over 20 hours of classroom training, including running simulations and coaching presentation skills.

Coventry, West Midlands, Gb

Worked as a Research Assistant and Co-author with Professors Simon Chadwick and Daragh O'Reilly on a published case study for the Journal of Direct, Data and Digital Marketing Practice on the subject of alternative models for sports club ownership. http://www.palgrave-journals.com/dddmp/journal/v10/n2/abs/dddmp200829a.html

Stanford Ignite, Innovation And Entrepreneurship

Sql Analytics Bootcamp, Computer Science

Aca, Accounting And Finance

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Political Science And Government, History (Joint Honours)