FCA-qualified CFO with over 15 years’ experience spanning Big Four transaction services, large corporate finance, and full CFO leadership within a PE-backed business. A rare combination of deep deal expertise and hands-on operational finance leadership — someone who has both advised on 70+ transactions and then sat in the CFO seat, delivering the strategy rather than just analysing it.
Career built across wholesale distribution, technology, FMCG, retail, industrial manufacturing, and childcare — with a consistent focus on margin improvement, capital structure management, and using better financial tools to drive real commercial decisions.
What makes them genuinely different:
- Supported a c.£200m turnover PE-backed business in achieving threefold EBITDA growth, with personal focus on margin optimisation and commercial pricing discipline.
- Led two refinancing exercises, two group legal restructures, a sale and leaseback, and an ultimate exit to new PE investors — end-to-end deal experience from within the business, not just advisory.
- Built an automated commercial pricing tool that consistently evaluated proposals against full cost structures and customer terms — directly resulting in unprofitable business being turned down that would previously have been accepted.
- Advised on 30+ transactions at Director level within a Big Four transaction services team, with combined deal values exceeding £1bn — brings a forensic, investor-lens view to financial performance.
- Built consolidated live financial models integrating three separate ERP systems, and developed automated weekly and monthly MI suites by business unit — genuinely technically capable at CFO level.
- Led all FDD, TDD, and LDD diligence streams simultaneously alongside a group restructure — the kind of multi-workstream deal complexity few CFOs have managed from the inside.
- Co-led a national sector deals team, developing best practice due diligence methodology and mentoring newly qualified transaction services professionals.
Best suited for: CFO or Finance Director roles within PE-backed businesses where M&A, exit readiness, and commercial performance improvement are on the agenda. The ideal hire for an investor or board that wants a CFO who has already delivered a PE exit, understands the investor lens, and knows how to build the financial platform to get there again.
