Simon Ellis

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

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ABOUT SIMON ELLIS

Highly experienced Chartered Accountant with skills and expertise gained over twenty years of working as finance director or as an interim consultant for companies and at senior management level in practice specialising in business restructuring and recovery, advisory and accountancy at Grant Thornton and BDO. Commercially astute, flexible and technically strong professional who has undertaken secondments to Barclays Bank plc and Grant Thornton Channel Islands. Recent experience in the regulated housing sector and a non-executive Board member of a housing association.A business and financial expert who uses commercial, specialised restructuring and technical accounting skills to understand an organisation’s business and financial issues and to provide appropriate solutions in a straightforward manner to key stakeholders.Key skills• More than twenty years of experience of accounting roles in a senior position.• Strong leadership and people management skills including leading teams in house and at clients across multiple sites and jurisdictions.• Problem solver with a real eye for detail.• High level technical skills in financial and statutory reporting, management accounts, budgeting, financial modelling, cash flow forecasting, business plans, turnaround plans, audit, due diligence, insolvency, corporate finance, treasury, report writing, proven Excel ability, litigation, tax, project management, regulatory reporting and restructuring.• An astute, commercial and pragmatic negotiator who has the experience and gravitas to empathetically manage and, if necessary, diplomatically challenge individual stakeholders within and outside of the business to provide a beneficial outcome for all.• Embraces and thrives on change, whether economic, technological or market driven.• Highly organised and self- motivated.• Flexible and able to work in different locations throughout the UK and abroad.