Description

Leonard is seasoned finance and change professional having worked with major global multi-nationals including Mastercard, HSBC, J&J and big 4 Consultancy firms spanning 20 years. Leonard can create capacity, building teams, scaling businesses, and transforming operations using Strategy, Finance, Leadership and Data & Analytics.

Known as "The Chief Value Officer" his track record of building, developing and transforming businesses as a trusted business partner in Finance and Operations... one career highlight was to successfully lead a £400m Divestment carve out to create Sainsburys Bank.

Leonard is the founder of a fractional CFO agency that helps businesses improve their profit margins, scale sustainably and leverage M&A Expertise. Known for his human-centric leadership, his focus is not just about managing resources, but enabling businesses to thrive by crafting bespoke financial strategies tailored to their unique challenges and goals. Personally, Leonard has overcome some of life’s biggest setbacks, including homelessness, discrimination, physical injury, trauma, and depression. Despite these challenges, he has used his resilience, adaptability, and entrepreneurial determination to propel his business forward.

Languages

English
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

London (up to 50km)

Mastercard (UK)
Interim Director FP&A Finance Business Partner Europe (Data & Services)
BANKING AND INSURANCE
June 2018 - December 2018 (6 months)
London, UK
• Provide regular insightful and timely financial information to support key stakeholders.
• Provide commercial insight and my opinions on service lead initiatives to the CFO and Regional D&S EVP and their direct reports.
• A key member of the Executive Pricing Committee (EPC), which reviews all product and services pricing changes.
• Provide insight and financial modelling on business cases within services that go to the EPC. Business Cases include (LMI, CNP, PwR).
• Presented to the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) on a quarterly basis at product development workshops to address 2018 deliverables and develop the 2019 strategic roadmap across Europe.
• Execution against key planning deliverables including the annual budgeting cycle and quarterly performance reviews across all areas of GP&S and regional functions.
• Prepared and delivered workshop-training session to help develop the wider finance team across Europe.
• Managed the budgeting and quarterly forecast process in systems uploads and other key areas to ensure alignment with market objectives; proactively identifies ways to improve processes and executes agreed upon improvements.
Business intelligence FP&A Business development Finance sector Data and Analytics
The Gym Group
Finance Project Manager – Operation & Finance Digital Transformation
August 2017 - December 2017 (4 months)
Croydon, UK
• Created weekly student dashboard Power BI reports for ExCo. and Regional Managers during refresher's week period which lead to Exco. making informed promotional marketing decisions on student gyms sites when compared with the same period last year.
• Created a project governance controls framework in order to ensure that the project was completed on time and to the agreed budget.
• Created new dynamic Summary Finance pack, which included P&L, multisite gym performance, cash flow forecast and BS allowing the Exco and Board to
have clear insight into the monthly performance of the organisation and could be refreshed almost instantaneously.
• Created test scripts and evaluated the data quality in the data warehouse. Cleansing the data, UAT to flow into MI reporting.
• Lead workshops to train the finance team to use new BI tool. Coached finance team of 10, cultivating new collaboration software tools such as Microsoft Team and SharePoint to ensure all individuals are empowered to share ideas.
Project Management M&A Business intelligence Finance sector Corporate strategy
IQ-EQ
Project Business Lead – Private Equity M&A activity
February 2017 - May 2017 (3 months)
United Kingdom
• Reported directly to the Group Operations Director as the project lead on a data migration project preparing for business M&A activity.
• Developed project plans and provided daily status update reports to track progress on the multiple work streams
• Created meaningful dashboard reports delivered to senior management in a timely manner
• Lead the discovery process by facilitating business workshops for requirement gathering
• Designed data worksheet to be feed into the data warehouse
• Finance modelling business valuation analysis
• Prepared monthly Management Operating Review packs and business review on profitability.
• Worked with business finance, IT, Client Relationship Managers and PMO