A Commercial Finance Leader with extensive programme financial management experience and a track record of major contract wins, working with large corporates across the transportation and infrastructure sectors. I enable professional teams of business partners in FP&A, programme financial management, contracts, bids and accounting to add value and drive business success.

Applying a structured, focused approach to meeting the challenge, I will work closely with any team involved with bids, contracts and programmes to help them achieve their objective, whether it be winning new long-term contracts or improving the outcomes of current programmes.

In recent consulting assignments in the defence and railway signalling sectors, I have provided focused content, advice and support to teams bidding for major UK tenders, in areas such as:

• Whole life value analysis to support development of value for money customer solutions
• Efficiencies management, benefits realisation and quantification of value-add
• Pricing model completion, independent review and risk assessment

In past assignments, I have:

• Designed and led programmes of cost reduction initiatives for two major defence business
• Significantly improved the profitability of a portfolio of large long-term service contracts
• Developed and implemented a new Target Operating Model for a large Finance function