Mark South

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About Mark South

Finance Director / Head of Finance / FP & A Director / Senior Business Partner / Finance Shared Services / Permanent / Interim Senior finance professional with 19 years wide-ranging experience in a multinational service business producing a turnover of €3.3bn and employing people across 28 countries. Strong communication skills, commercial focus and business partnering expertise. Experienced in the design and implementation of projects to restructure the business and deliver cost savings, greater efficiency and stronger governance to the organisation. Pension fund trustee for group Defined Benefit scheme Key Achievements - Designed and implemented a restructuring project to centralise finance into a shared service centre which delivered significant savings to the business and reducing reporting times- Established contract profitability reporting with formalised review within the business which produced £1.4m of increased profit in its first year- Initiated and directed project to bring electronic P2P system to the UK business giving greater control and visibility of spend and reducing processing cost. Sector Expertise - B2B Services, healthcare, manufacturing, facilities management, retail - Strong business relations with customers from NHS, MOD, facilities management and private healthcare. Key Competencies - Recruitment, development and management of effective teams - Establishment and operation of finance shared service centre - Design and implementation of cost reduction programmes - Restructuring of business - Governance and business procedures - Business Partnering - Accounting and finance support for business acquisitions and disposals- Contract costing and tendering - Implementation of ERP systems and developments - Management of working capital - Contract and product profitability models