• Substantial experience of establishing and delivering successful finance, HR and operations functions within global education, construction, FMCG, luxury hospitality and retail environments. • Many years of experience in recruiting, developing and leading business transformation and delivery teams in national, regional and global roles, onshore and offshore, working onsite and remotely; also considerable experience of managing external suppliers and procuring goods and services. • Successfully delivered technology change including IT Service Management implementation within varied SME business contexts; recent finance application migration experience using custom cloud and microservices technologies. • Leadership, board-level budget responsibility, stakeholder management including working with business sponsors and funding partners to establish agreed objectives, risk, compliance and control structures, ensuring transformation and growth with oversight, effective business intelligence and regulatory compliance. • Successfully working with SMEs, project, compliance and regulatory professionals to enable team progress and achieve successful project outcomes. • Seasoned experience of customer and client needs within varied business contexts. Extensive experience of challenges and opportunities in the project management lifecycle. • Ability to quickly create, manage and leverage a network of contacts to achieve successful outcomes within tight timeframes; and to assume an organisation’s established processes, conventions, brand perspectives to deliver successful business transformation. • Outstanding management, mentoring and team development skills evidenced over twenty years - with excellent feedback and results throughout.