CAREER HISTORY
2002 Richard Caley Ltd.
Part of a nationwide Chartered
Accountancy partnership - AIMS. Undertaking accounting,
VAT and general business advice.
Separate Interim Management and
consulting activities.
1990 - 2002 MOTOROLA
Fortune 100 telecommunications
company, turnover £20 billion, 130,000 employees
1998 – to date European
(EMEA) Financial Shared Services Director
Responsible for forming and leading
financial shared services across EMEA, developing a
European wide financial reporting system and installing a
standard financial system for all businesses and
countries. Included accounting, financial reporting and
IT activities. Team of 100.
Achievements
- Took direct management of all
accounting and processing staff in EMEA.
Centralised and improved quality by
standardisation and mechanisation while reducing
number of accounting centres (5) and costs by
30%. Loader Drew, outside payment consultants,
ranked my Group as "significantly better
than the norm".
- Merged staff from various
businesses into a central team, introduced web
based reporting and rationalised process. All
accounts reported simultaneously for every
country in Europe to Head Office. Eliminated all
weekend work from the one-day close cycle.
- Rolled out all Oracle modules
to all countries in 18 months. Implemented
standard practices in each country while
centralising complex tasks at an EMEA level.
Ernst Young, our consultants, set a start date,
which we improved by six months. They regarded
our implementation as "outstanding".
- Formed a centralised IT
support team for all businesses. Hired own staff
to replace consultants to lead all systems works
in EMEA. We now undertake all our own
developments at a fraction of the cost.
1993 – 1998 Business Group
EMEA Financial Director
Responsible for leading the entire
Finance, Computing and Facilities functions of a £500m.
business, designing, manufacturing, engineering and
selling complex radio infrastructure to Government and
major private sector companies.
Achievements
- Changed profile of finance to
match new industry requirements. Reduced finance
cost by 25% and increased profitability by 50%.
- Acquired several businesses
and sold others throughout EMEA. Appointed as
Managing Director of one German acquisition based
in Berlin.
- Major business contributor in
sales in Emerging Markets, with significant
impact in political influencing in Emerging
Markets in former East Europe and Mid East.
- Major enhancements to
information systems to improve data and reduce
clerical effort. Introduced Data-warehouse tools
to allow operating managers to extract data for
themselves.
1990 – 1993 European
Treasurer
Responsible for the foreign
exchange management, cash funding, management and
reporting for all business sectors within Motorola's
sixteen subsidiaries in Europe, (turnover of £4billion
(bn)).
Achievements
- Established Trade Finance
leadership for sales and investments in East
EMEA.
- Increased scale of world-wide
Multi-currency netting system. Volume £3bn per
year, FX trades $150m each week. Citibank rank
system as "the biggest in the world".
Major contributor to cost reductions.
- Implemented local function
currency accounting reporting and management.
Required major changes of business process and
dealing with the IRS in USA. Implemented a
world-wide FX system with Swiss Bank.
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1988 – 1990 GENERAL
ELECTRIC PLC
1989 –1990 Treasurer and
Tax Manager, GEC Alsthom Ltd.
Responsible to the Finance Director
for the total Treasury activity in the UK, formed by
merging the heavy electrical activity of GEC and CGE of
France. UK managed business was in excess of £16bn.
sales and £500m. assets.
1988 – 1989 Assistant Group
Treasurer, GEC plc
Responsible to the Group Treasurer
of GEC plc for the total treasury management of Head
Office Treasury. Major activity was the financing of the
GEC bid for Plessey plc.
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| 1982 – 1988 UNISYS A US-owned public computer company.
Director of Finance and
Administration, EMEA Product Distribution. Responsible
for all financial aspects of the procurement and delivery
of £1bn of computer equipment to every subsidiary in
Europe and distributors in the Middle East.
Director of Corporate Affairs,
Unisys UK. Continued all the functions of the Treasurer
of Burroughs Machines Ltd., within Unisys Ltd., the
company formed on the purchase of Sperry Ltd. Managed a
£500m Euro-Commercial paper programme to fund part of
the global acquisition.
Burroughs Machines Limited –
Treasurer. Responsible for all the Treasury and Tax
affairs.
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1979 – 1982 THOMAS COOK
GROUP
Initial position was a member of
the corporate finance department, working on finance
projects. Promoted to treasury with responsibility for
all foreign exchange matters.
1977 – 1979 PRICE
WATERHOUSE
Manager in the Corporation Tax
Department. Work involved auditing and preparing company
tax and deferred tax provisions, submitting computations
to, and negotiating with, the Inland Revenue. Great
experience was gained in the art of analysing complex
problems and interpreting legislation. More important was
the interpretation of these problems into understandable
form for clients.
1973 – 1977 PANNELL
FITZPATRICK
Worked as an articled clerk on a
wide range of auditing and accountancy assignments,
whilst passing all exams at the first attempt. This
training developed the ability to work quickly and
accurately.
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QUALIFICATIONS AND
EDUCATION
Fellow, Institute of Chartered
Accountant
Member, Association of Corporate Treasurers
BSc Honours, City University, 1970-1973
Rugby School, 1965-1970
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