Christopher Limbert

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About Christopher Limbert

Please contact 07376 529567 or email chris.leoconsultancy@gmail.com Specialist Finance and Business consultancy - offering following services / skills: Senior Finance Consultancy & Management Business / Financial Planning and Investment Analysis Corporate funding and Project Financing Management B2b acquisition brokerage, B2B contract introductions Grant Sourcing Land acquisitions & agreements Bid and acquisition management Expert subject calls Mental health in business advice Currently supporting UKIB as head of Financial Planning Asset and Income, running and developing their planning and forecasting cycles. Previous contract supporting Amey with their Area 12 contract and then Utilities Division, managing the Finance and reporting function, and also close down of contracts. Previously working with Therme, supporting there project financing of large infrastructure projects, commercial management and project accounting, team and system setup. Examples of previous consultancy contract work with VetPartners and Legal and General Modular Homes as Head of Financial Planning and Analysis. In these projects, I hired and built new departments and processes and led the finance elements of the businesses system projects. At VetPartners I created a FP & A function from scratch. Previously with BJSS improving their reporting and systems ready for strategic development of the business. Until joining Drax Group in 2004 I was a member of the senior management board at Pontefract Hospital as Head of Finance, responsible for a budget of over £200m. I have also provided senior commercial finance services to Carlsberg, Arla Foods and Halifax Bank. On joining Drax in 2004, I successfully revamped their reporting to the banks and was instrumental in developing 30 year valuations to ensure a smooth listing on the Stock Exchange in 2005. This was a transformational point for the business. Following that I lead the Finance & Investment side of M&A and business development looking at large scale biomass, CCGT, pellet plants, torefaction - mainly £1bn+ projects In 2010 to broaden my commercial experience I was appointed as project developer and eventually Head of Commercial for biomass developments and Carbon Capture Storage - namely the White Rose CCS Project. The focus was on commercial agreements, opex pricing, and project planning, National Government Bid submissions.