Barry Tyson

Senior Director, Transformation @ Accordion

About

Senior finance transformation leader with 18+ years of industry and consulting experience, advising private equity sponsors and portfolio company leadership teams on value creation, performance improvement, and large-scale transformation.Specialist in delivering technology-enabled change across finance, data, systems, and operating models to improve decision-making and accelerate growth.

Country

United Kingdom

City

Steyning

Industry

Retail

Skill

Planning Budgeting & Forecasting, Financial Systems Implementation, Enterprise Project Management (EPM), Finance Transformation, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), Leadership, Simplifying the Complex, Fast month end close, Oracle Cloud, Financial Analysis, Financial Reporting, Budgeting, Forecasting, SAP, Microsoft Office, Excel, Accounting, Microsoft Excel, Strategic Financial Planning, Finance

Experience

Senior Director, Transformation

Accordion

2026-6 - Present · 4 mos

London Area, United Kingdom

Driving value creation for private equity-backed businesses through finance transformation and performance improvement

Finance Transformation Director

Ocado Retail

2024-1 - 2026-6 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Hatfield, England, United Kingdom

Leading a major Finance Transformation and Change programme at Ocado Retail

Head of FP&A

Ocado Retail

2021-8 - 2024-1 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Hatfield, England, United Kingdom

Leading FP&A, Finance Systems and Finance Transformation at Ocado Retail. Led the implementations of Oracle Fusion ERP Financials and Oracle EPM, both within 12 months.

Senior Manager, CFO Advisory

Deloitte

2018-7 - 2021-8 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Reading, United Kingdom

CFO Advisory - focused on finance transformation and Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

Senior Manager, FP&A and Commercial Finance Transformation

Think Forwards

2017-10 - 2018-7 · 10 mos

United Kingdom

Finance Manager, Regional Operations Accounting

Johnson & Johnson

2015-9 - 2017-10 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Responsibility for a team of 15, with 3 direct reports and 12 indirect reports, covering Regional Costing and Intercompany Pricing, Regional Inventory Accounting and Plant Accounting for Consumer EAME. The Regional Operations Accounting team sits within the Financial Accounting Centre of Excellence (CoE) and is responsible for the full Johnson & Johnson Consumer EAME region. FLDP Ambassador for Consumer EAME CoE

Finance Manager, Decision Support (FP&A)

Allergan

2013-5 - 2015-4 · 2 yrs

Marlow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

Initially supporting Neurosciences EAME (9 months), then moving to support the Medical EAME division (15 months). Full P&L ownership for EAME region, supporting country MD's with Sales trending and analysis, full ownership of regional sales and marketing spend, and country P&L reviews.

Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A

Johnson & Johnson

2011-6 - 2013-5 · 2 yrs

Wokingham, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Senior Financial Analyst working within FP&A (Financial Planning and Analysis) for Vision Care EMA Region. Key responsibilities include: consolidation, analysis, business planning, preparation of presentations and reports, development of consolidation / planning tools, process improvement projects

Finance Analyst (FLDP), Plant Controlling

Johnson & Johnson

2010-7 - 2011-6 · 1 yr

Switzerland

Operations Finance Analyst role for Pharmaceuticals plant in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.

Finance Analyst (FLDP), Sales & Marketing UK/Ireland

Johnson & Johnson

2009-4 - 2010-6 · 1 yr 3 mos

Wokingham, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Finance Analyst for Vision Care UK. Joint reporting line to EMEA Key Accounts Finance Manager and UK Finance Manager. Finance Leadership Development Program (FLDP) as of May 2009.