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Sylvia Dawson

FD/CFO

I am passionate about business and love working with innovative entrepreneurs whose passion to create something truly exceptional matches mine. Through strategic thinking, planning, implementation, process improvement, and team motivation, together we can unlock dreams.

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Track record highlights

  • Increased Shareholder confidence and Share Price, by driving the financial understanding of new processes and improving the accuracy of forecast to within 2% on a 1m weekly spend.
  • Improved cashflow and profitability in a distressed group of businesses, reducing stress levels and refocussing the management team to be forward looking.
  • Reduced the time taken for franchise pack production from 17 to 10 days, through reverse engineering and problem solving. Subsequently moved 150 owned shops to franchise and then exited business.
  • Increased gross margins by 12% during a period of high inflation as we came out of Covid and supply issues remained challenging. Also reduced overheads by a further 12% in the same period.
  • Managed a portfolio of £18m investment in new start-up businesses through SEIS, EIS and high net worth individuals investments. Built and sold 3 solar fields as separate SPV’s.

Sector Experience

  • Manufacturing, Transport & Logistics: Warehousing, Recycling, Waste, Scientific instruments
  • Construction: Renewables
  • Technology, Media & Telecoms: Telecoms

Sylvia's specialist skills

Executive Coaching

Working with executives/mangers to help them to understand their strengths and weaknesses and to build on them.

Strategic Thinker

Aligning the goals of the business with those of the owner and drawing up strategies to achieve this.

Business Planning

Building a plan with business owners, that the executive team can fully buy into and implement.

Exit Planning

Helping business owners to understand what is important to them from an exit and what it means to them, then mapping out the route to achieve this.

Profit Improvement

Continuous improvement is embedded in my DNA, I love to get under the bonnet of businesses and find out what makes them tick, getting that understanding of the various departments and working with them to improve performance and the bottom line.

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