Ben Lee

Background

About Ben Lee

Trusted senior leader with 19+ years’ experience in finance, operations and technology, within creative and retail industries. Broad business and management leadership experience, specialising in C-suite and Board-level reporting, analytics and information systems to drive business impact. Collaborative management style, agile and creative response to providing business Core Skills: • Strategy: Responsive development of strategic solutions to business objectives and managing change. • Budget, Forecasting and Accounting: Leading on collaboration between finance and the wider organisation to deliver financial control, timely clear actuals and responsive robust forecasts and projections. • Change Management: Anticipating and identifying key levers for business growth and managing investment and cost balance to drive profitability in dynamic landscapes. Review and adjustment of processes to foster system evolution and the flow of information ensuring successful implementation. • Risk Management: Developing strategies for quantifying, managing and mitigating risk. • Operations Leadership: Building highly capable teams to own improvement of processing and controls to ensure business wide transparency, understanding and control. • Information Technology skills: Combining technical skills and experience with financial rigour to build creative and cost-effective solutions to extract and harness key performance data. • Leadership: Inspiring, empowering and contributing to a team and the organisation; developing an agile collaborative service-led culture within the Finance function. • Accountability: Creating simplified visual reporting and clear communication with other members of the Executive and the Board to focus on key metrics for effective decision-making. • Networking and Brand Communication: Leveraging understanding of the organisation’s mission to promote its message and financial landscape with philanthropists or investors, stakeholders and other industry peers.