Simon Parkins

FD/CFO

A commercially focussed strategic thinker and business coach who drives success and delivers value beyond the finance team. Prior to joining The CFO Centre I held several senior positions within large corporates such as Balfour Beatty, Sir Robert McAlpine and Kier Group, specialising in bringing sense and order to complex business models, and delivering impressive outcomes. I excel at working with entrepreneurs to improve processes, reporting, and cash flow, and increase profit.

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Track record highlights

Scaling: Relentless drive to encourage and support SME business owners to grow in a sustainable and scalable way. Several client examples of 30-50% year on year growth.
Strategic Finance: Extensive experience raising in excess of £15 million capital for SME clients across The CFO Centre.
Driving Profitability: Key member of senior team on UK's largest PFI that delivered a 12% margin improvement over 3 years through a wide-reaching drive to find multiple efficiencies on the M25 operations and maintenance contract.
Systems and Processes: Often delivers 20-30% efficiency gains within the Finance Department (and beyond) through careful analysis, mentoring and streamlining processes.
Strategic Financial Leadership: Client Quote "Simon has been instrumental in the progression and restructuring of our group and its subsidiaries…His input has been revolutionary to our business".
Vision and Drive: Project managed a Supporters Board for a Championship football team - from idea to successful launch.

Sector Experience

Construction
Engineering
Technology, Media & Telecoms, Security
Manufacturing, Transport & Logistics
Services: Consultancy Businesses

Simon's specialist skills

Business Planning

Drives business success through insightful financial, and non-financial reporting. Key addition to a Board offering ideas and carefully challenging to contribute to more robust consideration and better strategic decisions.

Managing Risk

Adept at identifying and mitigating risks, and planning ahead for risk events. Always aiming to confront risks and turn them into a positive process for driving a business forwards.

Strategic Thinker

Expert at evaluating business models, spotting strengths and weaknesses, and working together to change focus and priorities.

Profit Improvement

Extensive experience in low margin project environments where attention to detail and efficiencies are core to business success. Significant experience of Lean Six Sigma practices to help streamline processes and minimise effort and cost.

Leadership, and Coaching Leadership

Significant leadership experience using collaborative working and coaching to drive vision and how that lands across an organisation. Brings energy and positivity to add value within teams and across the wider business.

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