Bio

An experienced and commercially-minded finance leader, driving improved efficiency and team engagement in transactional and FP&A environments. Specific areas of interest are strategies for profitable organic growth, B2B credit control, Open Banking payment technologies and AP automation. A senior board member helping to drive improvements in employee engagement, health and safety, resilience and effective deployment of resources while delivering repeated double-digit annual growth. Proud to be supporting a world-class Finance team on a journey of continual improvement, with customer experience at the heart of everything we do. Redefining the Finance function as an enabler for industry-leading customer service, sales growth and sensitive overhead management. Hates dull, repeatable human tasks - loves getting them automated/outsourced/minimised and seeing a team thrive on more intelligent challenges An Open Banking super-fan - can't wait for the full release of VRP (Digital Debit) and the opportunities that this will bring for customer experience enrichment, friction-free payments and cost-savings Continuing to develop B2B credit control to maximise customer spending potential while minimising losses - year-on-year improvements 4 years on the trot! A firm believer in finding the right people, communicating the plan and getting out of the way so they can deliver, innovate and measure their own success