Ciaran Kennedy

FD/CFO

Scotland East

Ciaran Kennedy In 60 Seconds

A finance and business operations professional with +30 years of CFO/CEO level experience across many sectors. A strategic thinker, with vision, has identified, led and integrated many acquisitions & JV’s. Delivered strategic disposals. Has a certain panache for streamlining business systems and analysing the data to identify and implement efficiencies in ops/profit/cash and the customer journey.

Specialist Skills

Strategic Thinker

Natural ability to use financial insight to develop strategic, deliverable, plans for business development.

Management Information

Ability to simplify and streamline business systems to generate timely, relevant information that can be used to quickly enhance performance.

Profit Improvement

Using the MI generated to implement meaningful profit improvement plans that then delivers increased cashflow.

Raising Funds

Have negotiated numerous facilities, across many lenders, from £0.1m to £125m.

M&A Specialist

Strong negotiator that has been involved in over 50 corporate transactions that ranged in value from £0.1m to £100m.

Track Record Highlights

Developed and delivered a strategic high risk recovery plan for a Scottish business that involved securing a 12 year framework contract.

Negotiated a balance sheet structure for a newly formed JV that enabled the Scottish Government to award contracts totalling £200m.

As CFO implemented a business information system into a £10m business that facilitated growth. As CFO/CEO grew this business to £70m profitable turnover.

Throughout my career have sought to mentor and develop people, as evidenced by the quick career development, of many of my direct reports, the strategic growth of successful businesses and turnaround of failing ones.

Have negotiated multiple loan facilities from small HP lines of £0.1m to syndicated facilities of £125m.

Sector Experience

Construction

Manufacturing, Transport & Logistics

Mining, Resources & Energy

Services

Engineering

Property & Real Estate

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