Phil Drury In 60 Seconds
I am an experienced, highly commercial and strategic thinking, out of the box Finance Director, with a track record of transforming businesses and leadership teams, using finance as a catalyst to drive a winning culture and increase in performance. Successful in raising finance for growth and working with funders to turnaround struggling businesses.
Specialist Skills
Business Planning
Making sure that the strategic direction of the businesses is translated into financial performance.
Management Information
Represent the numbers to management to provide much better insight and make better decisions. A good CFO makes the numbers dance.
Banking Relationship
Can build strong relationships with funders, by providing accurate numbers on time and build up trust in the relationship.
Strategic Thinker
Ability to think laterally and support businesses in achieving their strategic aims.
Budgeting & Forecasting
Help the business understand why its missing its forecast and support in improving the performance.
Track Record Highlights
- Responsible for developing a new performance ethos. This meant pushing decision making to a local level, closest to the customer resulting in faster more effective decision making.
- The relationship with the bank was under strain as the financial performance and reporting was a cause for concern. Turned the relationship around, so now the bank is fully supportive of the business.
- Successfully supported a client in making their first acquisition.
- Successfully restructured an insolvent business, allowing it to continue trading.
- Taken a business where financial performance was only reviewed quarterly, to where the numbers are reviewed monthly and we have a clear 3 year plan and able to track performance against it.
Sector Experience
- Sport & Recreation: Leisure Trusts
- Services: Support services to the Maritime Industry, Out of Home Advertising
- Technology, Media & Telecoms: Outsourced IT Support
- Manufacturing, Transport & Logistics: Removals and Logistics
What's next?
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