Wokingham, England, United Kingdom
A highly experienced senior finance professional, known for a proactive and collaborative working style with a passion for people development. Experience across a full range of Senior Finance positions within leading companies in Retail and FMCG leading to an outstanding breadth of commercial awareness and acumen. Driven by core values of openness and integrity and developing leadership capability through building and motivating high performing teams. Specialities: Financial Risk and Control, Financial Reporting, People Development. Broad business perspective gained in Global FMCG environments and UK Retail; Proven ability in motivating and leading teams; Outstanding financial expertise with experience in Corporate Tax, VAT and Treasury Management.
Reporting into the Assistant Controller for the UK and Ireland business (2019 turnover £2bn), responsible for managing all aspects of Statutory and Tax Accounting and Reporting, Risk Management, Compliance and Control. Line Manager for 6 Direct Reports and a team of offshore reports.
Responsible for leading the internal financial control framework across all divisions of the John Lewis Partnership (2017 turnover £11.5bn). Re-built Partnership-wide high performing team, delivering a successful year end audit within this three month period.
Reporting into the Group Financial Controller, responsible for internal financial control framework, strategic risk management and business continuity / crisis management across Waitrose.
Reporting into Director of Finance, responsible for all aspects of management and statutory accounting for 15 companies, and leading the annual forecasting and budgetting process for 8 operating entities across nearly 1,000 locations. Also responsible for leading Group tax team and Group treasury team.