Amanda Chambers In 60 Seconds
I am a collaborative, commercially astute CFO, passionate about supporting businesses to achieve their goals and ambitions.
I specialise in business transformation initiatives, building and motivating teams, providing high quality insight and developing relationships to help plan for the future.
I’ve worked in businesses of various sizes, across multiple sectors and geographic boundaries.
Specialist Skills
Budgeting & Forecasting
Spent the last 30 years working with business to look ahead and create realistic, achievable budgets, forecasts and scenario plans.
Strategic Thinker
Collaborating with business leaders to build strategic plans that take them from "as is" to "can be" with actionable steps the executive team and managers can fully buy into and implement.
Profit Improvement
Passionate about bringing a business to life through it's numbers, lifting the lid to find out what makes the business tick and what's needed to improve performance and the bottom line.
Financial Operations
Specialist in creating efficient, effective finance functions and financial analysis that meet the needs of the business now and in the future.
Leadership
Expert relationship and stakeholder manager and provided multi discipline team leadership and Executive support.
Track Record Highlights
- Leading the transformational turnaround in cash flow and business performance of a charity through targeted analysis, improved financial systems, processes and controls.
- Performing Independent Business Review to demonstrate financially sustainable, fit for purpose and fit for future business model.
- Improved Board confidence by driving the financial understanding and improving accuracy of financial information.
- Executive partner on the delivery of £10m merger business case synergies for financial services mutual businesses.
- Numerous improvements to management information, budgeting, forecasting and scenario planning analysis and supporting processes.
- Co Development of 2030 Strategy with Board, management team and colleagues.
- Smallest Building Society to raise £3m of Capital in the form of Core Capital Deferred Shares.
Sector Experience
- Banking & Financial Services: Life Insurance multi national, Building Society, Mutuals
- Agriculture & Farming: Potato and Daffodil grower and supplier
- Not for Profit: Youth, Supported Housing & Children's Residential Care Charity
- Construction: Road Building
- Mining, Resources & Energy: Open Cast Mining
- Hospitality & Tourism: Café Bistro owner and outside catering service provider
- Manufacturing, Transport & Logistics: Semi Conductors, Fire Panels & Shielding materials UK & USA
What's next?
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