Experience

Elite Group

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Group Finance Director

  • Sep 2019 - Present

  Legal Board Member



M247

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Finance Director

  • Dec 2018 - Sep 2019

  Experience of working in a Private Equity backed businessDevelopment of strategic plans aligned to market opportunity and business capabilityPresentation to the Board & investorsInvestment governance and Control to Maximise investment across the business



BT Group

• United Kingdom
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Finance Director Fixed Networks, Data Centres & Energy

  • Sep 2016 - Aug 2018

  Instigated a 5-year rolling strategic plan fully aligned with the operational teams, identifying strategic programs radically changing the ways of working including location programs to drive long term benefit and allow further investment in the business, current plans have underpinned reductions of over £100m pa.Financially led the transformation of cooling program discussed in the BT external results saving £50m energy costs pa and reducing the carbon footprintDeveloped the 5-year investment program the Fixed core network for approval at the Executive Committee.• Member of the Future leaders programme• Lead on Procurement strategy to partner with vendors saving over £25m pa• TSO Lead on the program for future BT Finance Systems and operating model.



BT Cables

• United Kingdom
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Finance Director - BT Cables (Manufacturing) & BT Supply Chain (Logisitics)

  • Dec 2012 - Sep 2016

  Responsible for integrating the Manufacturing business and also working with the commercial team to enter new industries and provide Cable to Rail industries etc whilst challenging more efficient plant utilisation and production patterns.At Supply Chain I developed an understanding of the whole delivery, warehousing, pick pack and detach to transport and delivery process and costings. This enabled taking the in-house service externally to market utilising excess capacity and providing long term multi- million pound managed services.



BT Group

• United Kingdom
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Finance Business Partner

  • Nov 2011 - Dec 2012

• Capex Finance Controller

  • Sep 2010 - Nov 2011

• Senior Finance Manager

  • Apr 2008 - Sep 2010



Openreach

• United Kingdom
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Finance Manager - Openreach

  • Jun 2006 - Mar 2008

  Openreach Operations has c30,000 engineers, £950m Opex costs, £130m revenues.Openreach Operations has c30,000 engineers, £950m Opex costs, £130m revenues.Key Achievements • Identified as a member of the RPA Talent Pool, (only 22 members out of over 500 RPA employees).• Promoted to Senior Finance Manager• Instigated a mid-month flash process to highlight any issues prior to the month end to limit impact.• First BT unit to outsource and offshore initial Business Partnering Finance Roles



Accenture

• Ireland
• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Client Finance Manager - Barclays outscourced contract

  • Apr 2005 - Jun 2006

  Apr 2005 to Jun 2006 - Financial Controller Barclays CIO Outsourcing Deal The Accenture contract with Barclays was a US$800m CIO outsourcing deal, with c1000 resources. I had direct responsibility for a Finance team of 7 reporting to the Finance Director. Key Achievements • Development of full Management Information Packs for each area of the business, improving the perception of the finance team. As a result the team became representatives in key operational meetings.• Development of financials model to identify margin benefits of offshore resources and tax implications of being on shore by timescale and by level. This changed the behaviours of the planning teams and had a significant impact on the overall margin of the deal.• Through streamlining the forecasting and month end processes, significantly improved work life balance of the team.Key Responsibilities:• Overall management of the financials of the contract to ensure profitability and proactively identify issues enabling corrective action to be taken.• Forecasting, Month End and compliance with internal controls. • Working with other areas i.e. HR, Legal & Commercial, contract management and Delivery Teams.• Development of the 7 members of my team devising objectives to aid their development and motivation.

• Client Finance Lead EMEA and Latin America

  • May 2003 - Apr 2005

  Position involved managing the overall finances of the Government systems implementation across South Atlantic & Europe Client Group, comprising of 6 countries (Spain, Portugal, South Africa, Italy, Mexico and Brazil) with forecast revenues in excess of US$160M. Working as the effective Finance Director to the Client Group Managing Partner (effective MD), providing all stakeholders with financial support, driving the Client Group forward as necessary on an opportunity and strategic basis. Key Achievements• Involvement in reduction of Working Capital days from over 120 to c60 days in Spain.• Controlled the successful implementation of SAP in the Client Group in FY04.

• Operating Unit Finance Lead

  • Apr 2001 - May 2003

  The Government A&E Operating Unit had revenues of $443m in FY03 and spanned 18 European, Latin American countries as well as Canada. Key Achievements• Developing the role to include in flight engagement reviews. This involved visiting the country/location of the client and discussing the progression of the engagement, reviewing its financials & projections, including Gaap issues and any financial risk for review with local finance the Partner and the FD. In many cases the outcome was not always what the Partner wanted to hear, but by demonstrating what the outcome would be if no action was taken along with possible solution scenarios, there was a positive outcome in the majority of cases.



Deloitte

• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Auditor / Enterprise Risk Management

  • Sep 1996 - Apr 2001