Simon Vinter

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ABOUT SIMON VINTER

SKILLS and EXPERIENCE:A highly motivated and results orientated ACA qualified finance director with executive commercial and operational leadership experience within the I.T outsourcing and oil and gas engineering sectors.Service offerings, both offshore and onshore, have included I.T. consulting, applications, BPO,data centre, infrastructure and cloud. Recent focus on fixed price engineered solutions and new product development and manufacture.Customer sectors have included oil and gas,financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, travel and education, public as well as private. Proven track record of successful ERP system implementations and managing large teams across various EMEA locations and successfully partnering with a range of internal and external customers.Expertise in strategic planning, forecasting, target setting and continuous monitoring thereof in the context of actual performance and external developments within the industry. Ability to analyse underlying business drivers of financial performance.Significant experience of working within large complex organisations, continually improving process and systems. Current role has afforded opportunity to implement \"big company\" thinking and drive change agenda to facilitate growth.Troubleshooting problem contracts.U.S. GAAP and Sarbanes Oxley controls. Detailed working knowledge of revenue recognition methodology, multi currency systems, month end close and fixed price contracts.Constantly striving to make the finance function \"world class\" in terms of service and efficiency.