CIMA-qualified finance leader with extensive experience across financial services, fintech, insurtech, and B2B/B2C lending — known for getting hands-on, leading through complexity, and integrating finance across every part of a business rather than sitting apart from it.
Career built across regulated financial services, high-growth VC-backed start-ups, and global industrial businesses — with genuine board and investor-facing experience, alongside the willingness to roll up their sleeves in smaller, leaner organisations.
What makes them genuinely different:
- Delivered a £1.5m growth funding round, working directly with VC and EIS scheme investors — proven ability to win backing in a competitive funding environment.
- Reported directly to the board of a VC-backed start-up, advising on strategic decision-making through a period of rapid, agile growth.
- Led a finance team of 10 across two subsidiaries within a peer-to-peer lending platform, transforming a traditional motor finance product into a fully tech-enabled P2P model.
- Managed a £400k+ R&D tax reclaim within a single tax year — strong technical grounding in specialist tax and compliance areas.
- Led regulatory reporting and compliance work including the rollout of FCA Consumer Duty within a regulated financial services business.
- Direct experience of business administration and wind-down — has navigated the toughest commercial outcomes as well as the growth stories, giving genuine resilience and perspective.
- Broad sector exposure across global industrials, regulated banking, and start-up insurtech — comfortable adapting finance leadership to very different business stages and structures.
- MLRO and financial crime compliance experience — brings additional regulatory depth beyond core finance.
Best suited for: Head of Finance, Finance Director, or interim finance leadership roles within SMEs, start-ups, or fast-changing organisations. The ideal hire for a business that needs a finance leader who is equally comfortable presenting to the board and getting into the detail — someone who has seen businesses scale, restructure, and everything in between.
