James Caddy

Background

About James Caddy

PwC trained chartered accountant with broad range of experience acting as trusted partner to senior stakeholders across number of high-profile senior finance and investor relations roles in listed organisations.Finance leader responsible for delivering business unit heads, executive management and the Board with high quality, accurate and timely business focused financial information and ad hoc analysis to support commercial, strategic and operational decision making as Group Head of FP & A at ICG plc.Adept at partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver successful outcomes across numerous strategic and financial initiatives. Projects spanning investor relations, business planning, financial reporting, corporate transactions, portfolio reviews, business development, capital allocation, capital adequacy, external financial guidance, KPI framework design and process / system transformation.Demonstrable success building and fostering relationships with both internal and high-profile external stakeholders. Within investor relations at Pearson plc took ownership for buy side relationships across continental Europe, leading to increased shareholder diversification. Also nurtured relationships with sell side community, leading to an increase in ‘Buy’ recommendations.Significant experience managing high pressure conflicting client and project workloads. Consistently delivered to strict deadlines across career in professional services (PwC), FP & A (ICG plc) and investor relations (Pearson plc and ICG plc).Effective ability to analyse and interpret financial and non-financial information in order to tailor outputs into actionable insights for senior stakeholders or craft into appropriate narrative for external stakeholders.Held positions of responsibility across number of committees and corporate initiatives. Finance leadership committee (ICG plc), investor relations lead on strategy business partner forum (Pearson plc), Sports network committee member (ICG plc), mentor in graduate mentor programme (ICG plc), member of Board of Trustees (Tushinde Children’s Trust).