Ref - Finance Director – Ref 7227

Finance Director

Immediately available ACCA qualified Finance Director with seventeen years post qualified experience working in large PLCs and a smaller limited company. Has significant knowledge of many aspects of finance business partnering, financial reporting, and shared centre projects. All with a focus on providing strategic support to the business backed by rigour and control with accurate and insightful analysis to both finance and non-finance colleagues. Has worked on key projects with stakeholders to prepare business cases that enable high value commercial decisions that deliver significant operational improvement and in turn financial savings. Also an experiened a team manager, delivering strong team performance, overseeing significant change to the finance operating model while ensuring adherence to tight timetables through month end, year end and budgeting and forecasting periods.  This has included hiring, training, and managing junior staff remotely who are either working from home or based at a shared service centre.  
  • Margin Improvement Programme – Utilised c£50m restructuring funding to deliver property opex savings of c£11m per annum
  • Future Workplace Programme – Rationalised Real Estate portfolio by 44% from 149 to 83 properties utilising restructuring funds of c£160m, delivering property opex savings of £16m in a year and c£30m per annum ongoing compared to pre restructuring budget levels
  • Implemented standardised regular communications to senior stakeholders and their senior leadership teams across the Corporate Functions. This improved financial/budget awareness and ownership within the teams as well as their visibility and understanding of risks and opportunities.
  • Delivered on a secondment to group reporting team to complete financial year end activities under new auditors.
  • Covering SOX compliance checks, control checks, annual report verification, script reviews and verification
  • Set up and managed a team preparing standardised property business case workings inclusive of IFRS16 lease accounting and impairment analysis to deliver restructuring business cases as part of the Future Workplace Programme. All business cases were fully auditable as part of year end financial audit.
  • Finance lead, reporting to VP Finance for successful transition to the new International Organisational Design of Operations and Support Functions costs. Worked with business stakeholders and finance teams to implement the transfer of specific Corporate Functions costs and property allocations to the newly created vertical business divisions.
  • Successful delivery of financial scenario planning for Corporate Functions Covid-19 mitigation in order to maintain opex and profitability levels during Covid years. Worked  on financial presentations regarding Furlough impacts for the CEO.
  • Finance lead on a project to redevelop company head office. Worked with the Property team on financials for successful lease renegotiation and securing funding for capex to fit out the building for sublet and occupation.
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