Derek Ingle

Background

About Derek Ingle

Various roles in UK and overseas as a Finance Director, acting CEO, Senior Non-Financial positions at Mobil / Castrol / BP [ Edit ] Public Sector; BP; Oil & Energy industry; secondments to UN (FAO) and Firestone Italia. A senior finance executive with extensive UK and International experience in B2B and FMCG businesses. Strong commercial acumen, extensive experience of manufacturing, supply chain, and retailing operations with proven ability in driving results through KPI/performance management, people development, process re-engineering and project management. Equally successful when hands-on as when influencing and challenging at senior management level. • Successful periods as Finance Director, leading to acting CEO roles with multi-site global (t/o c$500million) and UK businesses (t/o c$1billion), ensuring the finance function is seen as pivotal to business development. • Outstanding business improvement results by partnering and advising all levels and disciplines within the organisation. • Significant success in developing teams with diverse professional, functional and cultural backgrounds particularly during periods of significant business change. • Driven performance enhancement by design and implementation of financial and non-financial KPI/MI systems. • Process re-engineering achievement in delivering “best in industry” processes in a UK multi-site retail business. • Experience of M&A as controller of European JV buy-out (c$2billion), European acquisition of global business (c$2billion), and business lead in a global business divestment (c$750million). • JV exposure as Financial Planning and Control Analyst for European JV (t/o >$10billion). • Project management experience as Controller of a major European re-organisation and cost reduction programme (cost reduction >$500million/pa) and Team Lead of a global cash flow task force (>$500million cash flow improvement).