This individual is an ACCA-qualified, MBA-level finance leader with extensive experience across multi-site retail, FMCG, food manufacturing, engineering, and service-led environments, operating in businesses ranging from £9m to £2.5bn+ turnover.
They combine strong commercial finance capability with deep operational understanding. Known for being proactive, organised and highly collaborative, they bring a rare mix of business partnering, financial control, FP&A, project leadership and ERP expertise. Their career has been built in high-volume, fast-paced, margin-sensitive industries — often in roles requiring tight cost discipline, rapid analysis and credibility with senior leadership.
They excel in environments where finance needs to modernise, improve decision support, strengthen CAPEX governance or partner more effectively with operations, commercial, procurement and supply chain teams.
Key strengths
- Broad sector exposure spanning retail, FMCG, food production, engineering, manufacturing and outsourced services
- Experience in businesses from £20m to £2.5bn+ turnover, including complex multi-site structures
- Strong FP&A, budgeting, forecasting and strategic planning capability, including ownership of group planning cycles
- Lead business partner to commercial, operations, procurement and senior stakeholders in fast-moving consumer markets
- Extensive CAPEX experience — designing, governing and improving approval processes (£50m–£60m annual spend)
- Proven success improving profitability, tracking initiatives, supporting cost reduction programmes and driving commercial insight
- Deep understanding of ERP systems, including leading implementations, migrations and training across multiple sites
- Hands-on operational finance background — stock, costing, variance analysis, absorption rates, supply chain costing and commercial reporting
- Strong people leadership across teams of 2–14, known for developing capability and improving cross-functional collaboration
- Works confidently with Exec-level stakeholders, bringing challenge, clarity and evidence-based decision support