Robert
Robert
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Finance and accounting director with 20 years of experience in financial services in USA and Ireland with a track record of delivering value-added solutions, insights, and recommendations.
Passionate about driving business growth, improving shareholder value, and enhancing financial and operational performance. Twenty years of experience leading Finance and Accounting functions with experience in USA and Ireland. I am a thinker and doer equally comfortable telling the business story, analysing data, or building out systems and processes. Track record of delivering value-added solutions, insights, and recommendations.
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Specialist skills
Business Planning
Development of strategic plans and implementation of operational plans and forecast
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Specialist skills
Business Information
KPI development and dashboard implementation
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Specialist skills
Data Analytics
Structure and interrogate data to enable optimal decision making.
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Specialist skills
Corporate Development
M&A experience with focus on strategic fit, valuation, due diligence, and integration planning.
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Specialist skills
Transformation and Process Improvement
Intelligent Automation of finance processes with Microsoft power tools
Experience
Business Partner – Launched expense management function for organization with €400 million in operating expense; recruited and manage team of business partners who support our corporate center functions with strategic planning and decision support, and consolidated reporting.
KPI / Scorecards -Spearheaded the implementation of Power BI dashboards for executive leadership, enabling timely & relevant data visualization and strategic decision-making, e.g., the MI dashboard provides one-stop for all performance metrics.
Created data driven analytical scorecard & KPIs to facilitate benchmarking of sales channels & results.
M&A – Completed $150 million cash acquisition of an absence management, software as a service (SaaS) company, and $250 million cash acquisition of a retail service organization. Deal contributions included financial models and valuations, financial due diligence, project presentations, financial integration, and operational integration.
Finance Transformation – designed and built data asset for financial and operational information from several systems. Efforts led to improved data quality and reporting automation.
