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With over 20 years’ experience in owner-managed, public companies and the not-for-profit sector, Brian has provided solutions to fast evolving businesses, especially in change management. Brian uses strong inter-personal skills to support departments as business changes around them; he has the ability to review problems, rectify weak departmental communications, resolve failing teamwork, set targets and provide a structured framework for delivery.
Brian’s ability to support business by providing effective and timely management information and maintain open lines of communication between the businesses and partners has helped businesses grow or survive.
His early commercial experience was in a successful fashion company as the financial controller developing financial reporting systems. He then moved on to a family-owned group of opticians overseeing the transformation from a partnership to a group structure with each partner being issued shares in the business. This business was later sold with the partners increasing their net worth considerably.
During a period of four years of rapid growth as head of finance at Chrysalis Books, Brian was instrumental in integrating the owner-managed business to meet the requirements of a public company, setting up a group restructure as the business acquired five further businesses increasing turnover from £5m to over £32m, setting up divisional cost centres, introducing a simplified reporting structure, and reorganising the group treasury function.
Brian has spent the past seven years as an interim FC and change management consultant restructuring business and supporting businesses undergoing change.
Over the past four years, Brian has undertaken various interim FC roles for clients of FD Solutions, where his workload has included:
