Greater Northampton Area, United Kingdom
FCMA-qualified finance leader with 37 years' experience across FMCG, PE-backed and B2B environments. Specialisms: M&A and post-merger integration, ERP transformation (SAP Business One), FP&A and rolling forecasts, FRS 102 multi-entity group reporting, cash and treasury ownership, and board-level reporting. Currently working as a consultant at Inspired Pet Nutrition on post-acquisition integration across UK and France. Based in Northamptonshire, covering the Midlands and surrounding region within approximately one hour. Selected highlights: Co-led acquisition of Bewley's UK (2023): finance/legal due diligence, funding support, post-close integration of entities, systems and reporting Implemented SAP Business One group-wide at Cafédirect plc: full finance, inventory/production and S&OP integration Head of Finance for seven years across a multi-entity group; owned cash, treasury, working capital and statutory reporting
Inspired Pet Nutrition - Synergy Delivery Consultant Oct 2025 - present | Crick | Interim engagement supporting the integration of two recently acquired businesses in France. Qualify savings and institute reporting to track synergy benefits; collaborate with stakeholders at head office and in the acquired businesses. • Partner with internal and external stakeholders to quantify and challenge synergy benefits versus targets agreed with Private Equity investor • Collaborate across operations, finance, procurement and external consultants to gather and validate data inputs • Develop robust models to track performance - advise upon accounting treatment; derive auditable data to measure P&L synergy benefits over time • Present findings and recommendations to senior leadership across UK and France
Overall responsibility for finance in the Cafedirect Group, a £30m FMCG, selling predominantly into Grocery Retail and Foodservice Responsibilities Overall accountable for financial management of the business: • Forecast and budget process • Banking and financing • Cash management • Financial reporting – Management and Statutory accounts • S&OP process, demand planning and commodity management • Member of the Executive team, input to strategy, collaboration to maximise operational performance • Company Secretary • Attendance at board meetings • Maintaining a capable and empowered team of people Achievements: • Implementation of SAP and transformed capability to measure and share customer and product profitability across the organisation • Built and maintained a professional team of people, supporting training of students for accounting qualifications • Completion of the acquisition of Bewley's Tea & Coffee UK a £15m out of home coffee business • Raising of debt finance to fund the acquisition • Post-acquisition and Integration of the acquired business including implementing SAP and building one Group finance team, relocating it from Cafédirect’s former London base to the acquired business’s site in Meltham, Yorkshire
Interim role to provide strategic commercial support following an acquisition by AQA (UK’s largest awarding body for GCSE and A-Levels) of a software house (DRS) • Work closely with DRS, AQA and PWC to deliver strategic financial analysis and option appraisal for the future direction of the business • Drive and contribute to option appraisals and revenue stream analysis to arrive at optimal and innovative solutions aligned to both DRS’s and AQA’s financial and strategic aims • Provide costing, forecasting, scenario and sensitivity analysis on business activity, using this to assess the financial impact of the strategic, technological and organisational development reviews • Build a future focusses financial planning tool to develop a medium term plan for DRS which aligns to AQA’s 5 year strategic planning • Advise on all financial aspects, including profitability, margins, balance sheet and cash requirements Assist in managing key financial risks and opportunities through appropriate countermeasures and contingency arrangements
Finance lead for the EMEA region for this global 1bn CE business, member of the senior leadership team • Maintain close working relationships with the CEO (Owner), Vice President and senior team, both in the EMEA and US organisations, and provide strategic level input and guidance • Frequent travel to work with managers across all territories in Europe, Middle East and Africa to support the proper financial management of the business, and engender close relationship between the commercial and finance teams • Provide leadership in both finance and the wider organisation to optimise the Company’s financial performance, being sure to influence and communicate with credibility and effectiveness • Ensure that financial reporting presents a true and fair view of performance, and that it is communicated adequately and clearly to responsible managers of the business • Lead development of optimised models for measuring product and customer profitability • Responsible for developing and supporting company strategy across all functions of the business, challenging as a finance leader on all proposals and ensuring that financial analysis and guidance is supportive of these at all times • Oversee annual corporate budgeting process, and hold business managers to account for their commitments • Commercial management and signature of contracts, ensuring appropriate legal oversight of all agreements entered into • Lead a project to critically examine strategic options and model the profitability and market share capabilities of each of the scenarios aimed at addressing issues with structural profitability • Based on findings of the above, create proposals for the board to approve a new business model and organisation structure with a different approach to support services and other key functions • Formulate proposals for the fundamental restructure of the business, and take the lead in presenting and executing these changes. Recover structural profitability issues
Manage sales organisation for Germany, Austria and Switzerland Responsible for retail, e-commerce and telco channels Managing distribution channel Implement strategy to develop e-Commerce channel Implement commercial policy to ensure professional ways of working Work with product management teams to expand product offering throughout the above channels
Manage overall performance of 4 main channels - retail, telco, distribution and online across EMEA regions Develop a distribution strategy of best fit for Belkin's principal channels Implement commercial and pricing policy so that we approach business in a consistent fashion in all our markets Business review with all the countries, developing strategies for emerging versus established markets Manage substantial change and implement strategies with regional sales teams
Key position as a project lead to support procurement efficiency in this major retail organisation • Develop and implement systems, financial models, methodology and process to enable significant buying efficiencies by combining the procurement efforts of Argos and Homebase divisions of the business • Work across the buying teams, senior management structures and IT functions of the organisation to establish policy and support with new process and IT infrastructure • Articulate, develop, train and rollout the process and tools to the user base