Patrick H.

Chief Financial Officer @ Paradigm Infrastructure

About

I am an accomplished senior executive and finance professional, recognised for building board-level strategies that drive long term growth across global markets. I combine 27 years' experience with a deep knowledge of commercial decision making, business development and M&A activity to guide seamless change journeys in both start-up and large multinational organisations. I mobilise and empower multi-cultural workforces to deliver performance improvements. I strengthen governance controls and implement risk frameworks to mitigate key potential issues. I provide strategic oversight and embed consensus to elevate board performance, unite executive leadership teams, improve efficiencies and maximise revenue generation. I am seeking to leverage my expertise within a Non Executive Directorship, supporting the continued growth of organisations across industries.

Country

United Kingdom

City

Thirsk

Industry

Real Estate

Skill

Forecasting, Mergers & Acquisitions, Change Management, Business Process, Financial Reporting, ERP, Management, Governance, SAP, Financial Audits, Telecommunications, Business Planning, Managerial Finance, Budgets, Leadership, Project Planning, Financial Accounting, Business Development, Budgeting

Experience

Chief Financial Officer

Paradigm Infrastructure

2020-8 - Present · 6 yrs 2 mos

United Kingdom

CFO Europe

American Tower

2017-11 - 2020-4 · 2 yrs 6 mos

United Kingdom

CEO

ATC Germany

2015-4 - 2017-10 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Düsseldorf Area, Germany

CFO, COO

American Tower

2012-2 - 2015-3 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Uganda

Led the Finance department through the pre-operational, start up phase to fully operational, process oriented status, with strong focus on controls. - recruited, trained and coached the team, including career developing role changes - instigated and improved strong controls environment, including warehousing and inventory - built strong supporting links with Sales and Operations, including management of complex business models to support ongoing investments Promoted to interim Chief Operating Officer pending recruitment of permanent CEO appointment - full day to day operational control over the business Jan - Mar 2015

SAP Finance Implementation Lead

Vodafone Ghana

2010-7 - 2011-6 · 1 yr

Managed the finance SAP implementation to replace legacy system in an accelerated and ground breaking version of Vodafone’s Group-wide implementation programme • Selected and managed team of 7 from mainstream organisation • Assessed business requirements to ensure ‘fit for purpose’ implementation • Addressed critical issues in own and parallel workstreams • Managed demanding deliverables / deadlines and dependencies • Delivered high degree of finance functionality for Go Live date • Post implementation issues prioritisation and resolution

Financial Controller

Ghana Telecom

2008-7 - 2010-6 · 2 yrs

Managed financial operations including fundamental change programme for the department. • Headcount reduced from over 360 to 74 • Designed and implementation of new processes • Reduced hard cash requirements • Improved quality and depth of reporting Basic accountabilities of the role included running the financial accounting department, accounts payable, credit and collections, treasury, tax, payroll and ERP management.

Head of Cost Efficiency and Support Functions Finance

Vodafone

2006-12 - 2008-6 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Finance Decision Support for Finance / HR / Property / Strategy / Legal Business Units • Development of standard monthly Management Accounts and Leadership briefings • Managed annual AT Kearney benchmarking project end to end • Ran project for UK Board to assess how to meet annual opex budget through FTE levels • UK-wide Opex Governance and Reporting

Business Development and Regional Finance Executive

Vodafone

2005-1 - 2006-11 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Built and managed new high quality team based in the UK and oversaw transfer of governance responsibilities from Germany • Governance / decision support for European associates, Arcor (German Fixed Line), Partner Markets • Financial reporting (actual and planning cycles) • General reporting requirements including Deputy Group CEO board reports • M&A support, particularly the extended project which resulted in the acquisition of Telsim, Turkey.