CIMA-qualified Finance Director and Head of Finance with over 30 years’ experience leading finance functions across manufacturing, professional services, and multi-entity group structures. A steady, trusted pair of hands at senior level — someone who has supported businesses through private equity investment, rapid growth, and long-term structural change, while keeping financial control, reporting, and cash performance firmly on track.
Career built across owner-managed and private equity-backed businesses, with deep experience reporting directly to CEOs and senior leadership teams in organisations ranging from £3.5m to £30m+ turnover.
What makes them genuinely different:
- Supported a business through a successful partial sale to private equity — including full financial due diligence — while continuing to lead the finance function through rapid growth from £3.5m to £16m turnover.
- Over 13 years leading finance and administrative operations across an 11-entity group with c.£30m turnover — the kind of long-term, embedded finance leadership that builds real institutional knowledge.
- Delivered over £150k in overhead savings across a three-year period within a complex multi-entity structure.
- Strong cashflow and working capital pedigree — structured forecasting, banking relationships, covenant reporting, and credit control strategy across multiple businesses and growth phases.
- Built and led finance teams of up to 19 people — developing capability, processes, and culture over sustained periods of business change.
- Broad commercial exposure: manufacturing, professional services, private equity — understands how different business models work and what the numbers need to say.
Best suited for: Finance Director or Head of Finance roles within SMEs or owner-managed businesses between £5m and £50m turnover. The ideal hire for a CEO who wants a commercially grounded, dependable finance leader who will take full ownership of the function, strengthen the foundations, and be a genuine right hand through the next stage of growth.
