Emmet
Emmet
in 60 seconds
I have +30 years’ experience in senior financial management with a successful track record of transformational change to deliver strong financial and commercial performance at privately owned and PE backed SMEs.
Building credibility with Founders, CEOs, Board colleagues, investors and financial institutions has underpinned success in consistently achieving goals and delivering against targets, including but not limited to growth through organic and acquisitive ‘buy to build’ strategies.
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Delivers Results
Successfully led the following: a PE exit, profit improvement initiatives, numerous funding rounds and several acquisitions, including follow through integrations.
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Scaling Businesses
Extensive experience of professionalising finance teams that then deliver the data to enable the business to scale, from driving the right financing strategies to ensuring the correct pricing models thus maximising revenues and gross margins
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Situational Awareness
Proven ability to swiftly evaluate existing operating conditions, accessing processes, systems and people against current and future business needs.
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Commercial awareness
Well versed in aligning sales, cash and costs with the key business goals, creating a culture of accountability and performance.
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Team Builder
Experienced in building multi-functional teams that have clear roles and responsibilities, with full clarity of their inputs.
Experience
Managed the exit process for a PE sponsor , achieving a 60% increase on initial value expectations.
Led a profit improvement plan at a product design business that delivered a £1m uplift in annualised EBITDA.
Successfully executed several funding rounds, delivering growth capital into the business via both equity and debt raises.
Directed the M&A strategy in numerous roles, from identifying potential targets to negotiation the terms and then project managing the integration, ensuring the expected increase in shareholder value was delivered.
Oversaw a global consolidated P&L for a professional services business, consistently achieving year on year revenue growth while growing both gross and EBITDA margins.
