Paul enjoyed over 20 years in global investment banking, managing various functions in his career from Financial Planning and Analysis, Corporate Access, Commission Management and most recently Client Strategy and Business Analytics. 

He is flexible, methodical, execution orientated, focused on tangible commercial outcomes and disciplined in his approach and adherence to best practices.

Over the course of his career, he has extensive experience in:

• Business Growth: The design and production of high quality and detailed management information. This is complimented with regular meetings with business leads, clearly defined measurable goals, and disciplined follow up to action points, to help business areas achieve growth ambitions, some over 300% in 2 years. 

• Business Planning: Implementation of targets and goals for annual business plans and growth initiatives, with ongoing targeted review and assessment. 

• New Business Set Up: Successfully led a significant change management project, driven by a regulatory landscape change (MiFID II) including the implementation of an effective new operating model, systems, processes, controls and best practices. 

• Business Management: COO for a significant business, with overall responsibility for Management Reporting, Finance, Marketing, Operations, Tax, Legal, Credit Control, Compliance & Risk. 

• Business Analytics: Analysis and review of individual client revenue and resources at a holistic client level, fostering the mantra of cross product selling, led to the continuous optimisation of market share and ongoing resource re-alignment. 

• Working Capital Management: Implementation of effective and practical credit control measures in a new business. 

• People Management & Development: Active management of a team of specialists in London and India, responsible for training, personal development, coaching, supervision, daily team meetings, individual one to ones, mid-year and year end appraisals. Active participation in graduate recruitment. 

• Relationship Management: Maintained strong and effective relationships with CEOs, CFOs and COOs, business leaders, tax experts, lawyers, risk & compliance. 

• Mentoring: Paul mentors several colleagues, coaching and acting as a trusted sounding board to them in current and now roles, and guiding them successfully through promotions. 

• Business Opportunities: The collection and consolidation of all client financial information, both internal and using external benchmarking surveys, to fully assess the client opportunity.

Paul qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Baker Tilly 25 years ago and was immediately seconded to the Royal Bank of Scotland as the internal finance expert accountant in the London Specialised Lending Services Division

• System implementation
• Business Analysis
• Business Process Improvement
• Business Strategies
• Financial Analysis and Modelling
• Investment Banking
• Financial Forecasting
• Financial Coaching and Training
• Cost controls 

1. Financial Services
2. Business Services
3. Education
4. SaaS
5. Technology 
6. Leisure
7. Construction