Lee Greening

Background

About Lee Greening

Lee is a high-achieving and result-orientated Finance Director with extensive experience working for large and small venture capital and private equity backed businesses. Below are a selection of key skills and areas of expertise that underpin his success and the inevitable success to follow. • Implement and lead evaluation processes, complete business cases for Finance Transformation programmes to lower cost base, and create best in class shared services functions • Lead Finance teams for complex highly-leveraged organisations under private equity control • Apply sound financial control principles that ensure EBITDA growth, working capital cash flow, comprehensive bank risk assessment, and effective debt management • Extensive cash control, forecasting, FSA and bank covenant reporting and management expertise liaising with investors/banks, internal/external reporting and applying high quality control frameworks • Restructure Finance teams preparing them for stand-alone private equity backed company status • Manage due diligence, business, and support work on acquisition targets and strategy • Expertise in leading, managing, and developing high-performing finance teams through periods of accelerated growth and change, creating and secure a high performance team culture • Consistently achieve challenging targets while managing, and tightly controlling, tough budgets • Confident, articulate, and persuasive communicator, presenter, and negotiator to C-suite level • Skilled at managing a complex matrix of relationships, networks, and networking opportunities • Keen ability to take a vision, articulate a plan, and translate it into practical actions • Excellent tactical and strategic planning, organisational, and resource management abilities • Innovative and lateral thinker with excellent analysis and problem solving skills