Oliver qualified as a Management Accountant with Morgan Stanley International and, after completing his training in the ‘City’ he worked as an Internal Auditor for an International Manufacturing Company to gain broader accounting and overseas experience.  

This led to a promotion to become the Finance manager of the UK subsidiary where he gained operational finance and staff management experience. During this time Oliver got more involved in Balance Sheet management, cashflow, Foreign Exchange (FX) and treasury management. The knowledge he built allowed him to move into the treasury department of advertising company WPP Group, as the UK Treasurer, overseeing the cash management and FX activities of its UK subsidiaries. At the same time, he qualified as a full member of the Association of Corporate Treasurers. 

Oliver`s next role was a European Treasurer for Avery Dennison, moving the treasury department from the Netherlands to the UK, revising and improving their systems. Several treasury roles followed before becoming a consultant and then a Finance Director for a group of SMEs undergoing a financial turnaround. 

During his career, Oliver has applied his vast treasury skills when working with SMEs under financial pressure or distress. In many of these situations, he has been successful in using his skills to either enable them to grow, attract investment or prolong the life of the companies, often saving many jobs as a result. 

He is flexible and a resilient self-starter, working well either alone or as an effective team player. He is a goal-driven individual, action-oriented with a can-do attitude and a fine eye for detail. 

For his career, he has focused on:

• Business Planning – Extensive financial modelling experience in developing short-term day-to-day cash management strategies to 3 to 5-year business plans, which link to budgets and financial results. The plans have also been used as part of vendor sales processes and for testing bank covenants. 

• New business set up – Founding director of a leading education business, actively involved in all operational and financial start-up activity. 

• Cashflow – As part of an interim management role, developed short and medium-term cash-flow projections to enable the business to understand intensive working capital demands of a long manufacturing/inventory cycle, and to fund additional working capital through a combination of debt finance sources. 

• Raising Finance – For investment projects, including major manufacturing sites, refinancing existing facilities, equity and bond investment 

• Due Diligence and Acquisitions – Carried out due diligence for acquisitions of small and medium-sized businesses. Negotiation with the vendors and structuring the transactions. 

• Business Turnaround – Overhaul cash management procedures and financial forecasting. Negotiating and managing the HMRC arrears position. Identifying and introducing KPI’s to manage business more effectively. 

• Buy/Sell Business – Disposal of engineering businesses for a PLC as part of a debt reduction program. Acquired education businesses to move into new business areas to broaden the offer and de-risk the business. 

• Accounts preparation
• Business plans
• Costing
• Due diligence
• Inventory management
• Raising equity, Reorganisation
• Financial Modelling
• Financial Restructuring,
• Leadership and People Management
• Private Equity
• Financial Forecasting
• Dispute resolution
• Fundraising
• Investor relations
• Financial Planning and Analysis
• Cost controls

1. Advertising
2. Marketing
3. Manufacturing
4. Printing
5. Engineering
6. Financial Services
7. Education & Training