Thomas Sharp

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ABOUT THOMAS SHARP

Experienced Finance leader with 20+ years in finance operations, business partnering and commercial roles.Leadership: Skilled at building high performing teams operating across multi sites / regions (160+ employees). Quickly builds rapport, developing and motivating individuals to achieve business and team objectives, grow themselves as individuals, with a focus on continuous improvement.Performance: Operating large high volume transactional processing teams (circa £4bn revenue) supporting diverse large FCA regulated insurance, healthcare retail and provision businesses. Defining and embedding SLAs /KPI to manage and monitor processes are performing as expected, whilst reinforcing a robust control framework, with value-add controls, operating efficiently in line with the company’s strategy.Finance Transformation / Change: Able to plan and execute business change projects (acquisition, divestment, outsource, system replacement), alongside identifying and delivering improvements via process simplification, organisational redesign, robotic process automation and system enhancements, to realise efficiencies to support growth or cost reduction and create more attractive value-add roles.Relationship Management: Commercially focused business partner, supporting and challenging Executive teams to drive performance and achieve business strategy. Authentic communicator who builds strong and effective relationships across all levels of the organisation and external third parties.Skills: Leadership, change management, financial controls, business partnering, financial operations, financial modelling & analysis, pricing strategy, coaching, management.