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...Martin has worked closely with me and the senior management team for many years and provided significant insight and assistance – often acting as our eyes and ears on the ground. During a period of significant change for the business, with many competing priorities, I sleep much easier knowing that Martin has had a first-hand look at all our sites across the globe and we have a much clearer picture of all the major weaknesses that we need to address. Through his inherent understanding of the challenges facing business such as ours and his pragmatic, flexible approach he has been able to give me and the management team the insight and ongoing support we needed to make significant improvements across the business allowing us to remain focused upon the bigger picture. Martin is a trusted advisor whose counsel and assurance is highly valued...
Group CFO, $250m Global manufacturing & retail business
Commercial
...Martin is a highly commercial and professional leader. Always willing to challenge and look at situations from a different angle, working closely with the purchasing team he has helped to further explore the risks and challenges, and develop ways of working that allow us to achieve our commercial goals whilst maintaining strong governance. With a refreshing approach to risk and control, Martin became a trusted counsel...
UK Procurement Director, £2bn European Foodservices business
Insight & Collaboration
...I have worked with Martin both when he was part of our business and subsequently as a consultant when he set up his new business. He has provided risk, assurance and advisory services to our business across all our European operations. I very much value the insight and counsel that Martin brings and his ability to quickly interpret complex situations and identify the core areas of weakness or opportunity that we should focus upon. He works closely and effectively with senior leadership, and understands the challenges and priorities of the business and tailors his work accordingly so that we focus our efforts where needed....
Group Corporate Finance Director, £100m European business Information business
Interim & Advisory
...thank you for having upgraded the quality of our accounting and reporting...Thanks also for the good discussions we have those days to prepare the transition with the goal of stabilizing and further up-grade our Financial department.
We truly appreciate the fact that you continue to provide us some support on a consultancy basis...
Group Chairman - $5m Swiss engineering business - Interim CFO role
Support & Leadership
...My sincere thanks to you for your support and leadership at a time of great difficulty for the team...I am very grateful....
Group CEO - £60m training company - interim CFO role
Reorganisation and Cost Savings
...It was a pleasure dealing with someone as experienced as you.
You have been a tremendous help to me...
Group CFO - £60m maritime business - Finance transformation project
Company Liquidation
...Martin helped the board to manage the voluntary liquidation of a long-standing (100 year+) family business. It was a time of significant stress for the board – and Martin’s calm and logical approach guided us through what would otherwise have been a difficult time...
Board Director - £0.5m UK property company
IT Process Review
...Martin came in and reviewed our IT function – performing a best practice review and a skills gap analysis based on his extensive experience. It helped us to see where the problem areas were in the IT function in an easily digestible way. His approach was very practical – and he developed a realistic action plan so that we could improve the service provided. It was tailored to the restraints our business had and therefore felt very do-able – rather than something highly theoretical that might be out of reach....
Group Finance Director - £100m UK construction company
Project Planning
...Martin was able to help us with a project plan for a corporate re-organisation that had become difficult to manage. He had existing templates available, and with his experience was able to quickly pull together existing disparate plans into a coherent and effective project plan. Just few hours of advice and support has set us back onto a good path to manage the project, and helped find a clear way to communicate progress to key stakeholders...
Group CFO - £300m European manufacturing group
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