United Kingdom
I am a skilled CFO/COO with more than 20 years of experience driving strong and sustainable business growth for leading luxury fashion brands, both privately owned and listed. This includes my role as CEO of Dundas World, where I transformed the performance and growth trajectory of the brand across channels and markets. Highlights span global brand partnerships, triple-digit annual growth to e-commerce, and a significant revamp of culture and capabilities. This followed five years with Roland Mouret, where I was integral to its commercial and operational leadership during a period of significant growth, three years with AllSaints as a critical member of the leadership team, and a formative career in audit, accounting and financial management for major multinationals. My expertise includes: ● BUSINESS GROWTH – LUXURY CONSUMER BRANDS I develop and execute strategies that drive top- and bottom-line business growth, formulating cohesive plans that propel revenue and slash cost. Working in close partnership with owners, directors, shareholders and heads of divisions, I have led creative and non-creative teams across functions. ● BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION I transform the performance and value of commercial and operational divisions, leading change to systems, process, people and culture, drawing on a wealth of expertise across the retail value chain, including design, development, production and logistics, and robust working knowledge of sales, marketing and digital / e commerce. ● TALENT & CULTURE I firmly believe that interconnectedness and collaboration are the key to business success, and ensure a strong focus on building cohesive relationships. An inspirational leader, I develop multi-skilled teams across functions, with an impressive record of upskilling and developing top talent into business leaders.
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Headed all aspects of Finance, Production and Operations for this renowned fashion brand. ● Drove substantive EBITDA improvement as an integral member of the executive team that implemented fresh commercial and operational strategies. ● Achieved significant new minority investment, creating a robust business plan and multi-year roadmaps for distribution channels, international markets and product lines. ● Drove triple-digit online growth, overseeing system replatforming, introduction of CRM, better use of data, and delivery of best practice e-commerce processes. ● Re-engineered global business workflows for optimal performance, driving double-digit sales growth through on-time delivery increases and optimising value across the end-to-end value chain. ● Brought rigour and control to finance and accounting, implementing systems and new reporting framework that ensured deep visibility of performance and profitability across the global business.
Transformed finance function of team of 19 across Asia, US and UK. Led global accounting, budgeting and forecasting for annual income statement balances (£220M), supplier accounting (>30K invoices) and property accounting (98 global stores and concessions) through to year-end audit. Prepared statutory accounts (UK GAAP, IFRS).