Simon Day
Finance Director @Arum Global
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WORK HISTORY
Finance Director @Arum Global
Nottingham, GB
As Finance Director at Arum Global, I lead the financial strategy and operations on a part-time basis, ensuring robust financial governance and sustainable growth. My role spans group finance, treasury management, and the oversight of our shared service functions.Key Responsibilities:Finance Leadership: Provide strategic financial guidance to the Board and senior leadership team, aligning finance with the group’s long-term goals.Group Treasury: Manage group liquidity, cash flow forecasting, and banking relationships to ensure efficient capital allocation and financial resilience. Including managing and raising multimillion pound external debt.Shared Services Oversight: Direct the finance shared services team, driving process improvement and standardisation across accounts payable, receivable, payroll, and reporting.Budgeting & Forecasting: Lead the budgeting process, scenario modelling, and financial planning to support informed decision-making across the business.Compliance & Controls: Ensure full compliance with statutory, tax, and regulatory requirements across jurisdictions, maintaining a strong internal control environment.Reporting: Oversee the timely delivery of monthly management accounts, board reports, and financial analysis to key stakeholders.Business Partnering: Act as a strategic partner to business units and operational leads, offering commercial insight and financial rigour.This role is delivered on a flexible, part-time basis, providing high-level finance support while enabling agility and cost-effectiveness for the group.
EDUCATION
Loughborough Business School
Accounting & Financial Management, Accounting and Finance
ABOUT SIMON DAY
CFO-level finance professional and trusted strategic advisor, with deep experience across PE-backed, owner-managed and PLC environments.Proven track record leading multi-million-pound external debt raises, from lender strategy and financial modelling through to covenant negotiation, due diligence and successful close. Brings strong judgement on capital structure, leverage and funding alignment to growth objectives.Known for designing and delivering ambitious financial strategies that enable commercial growth while protecting sustainable profitability. Operates comfortably at board level, translating complex financial insight into clear, actionable decisions.A collaborative finance leader who works across the business—partnering with commercial, operational and leadership teams to embed financial discipline, drive efficiency and build high-performing cultures that value innovation, accountability and talent development.
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