Paul Macaulay

• Mergers and Acquisitions. • Taxation/Consolidations/Internal controls/Cash flow/Monthly and annual reporting. • Managing and assisting investor and Banking relations. • Pricing, Forecasting results and cash flow. • Financial analysis and interpretation.

• Mentoring and building teams-360 leader-25 years • Business development-10 years • Transferrable skills across industries-Finance, Accounting, Acquisitions, Funding, Operations -30 years • Budgeting, cash flows, forecasting, Kpi's-30 years • Full P&L responsibility- 13 years • Private equity partners-7 years • Problem solving and change management. Leverage technology to resolve problems-20+ years • Devising strategies and delivering-20+years • Developing vision and steering to success-25 years • Operating systems analysis-15 years • Company secretary-10 years • Legal-15 years • Internal and external auditing-5 years • Commercial flair and innovation. • Project management. Knowledge of Six Sigma • Time management-30 years • Acquisitions-3 • Consulting-10 years • Marketing-8 years

INDEPENDENT CONSULTING • Built an online business for a private entrepreneur. • Business models and strategy for companies struggling with COVID. • Most significant client being BME (Bulk Mining Explosives) which is part of the Omnia group (4.5bn Turnover-manufacturing). 1+years

Multipli/Rocket growth Capital are a Fintech finance company offering loans, operating leases and other financial solutions to SaaS,ERP and Equipment vendors. Responsible for the start up in the US. Established legal credentials to operate as a brokering and lending entity. Ensured corporate, state and federal fiduciary compliance. Developed legal forms and Portal for funding equipment and software. Signed 4 major Funders with unlimited capital resources. Onboarded 4 major Vendors. Created a strong pipeline for new Vendors. Lusha, Linkedin, Sales Navigator, HunterIO. Funded +$3 Million to date.

Managed the strategy and execution of all Financial aspects of the four businesses, performing essential duties including analyzing potential acquisitions and parallel markets, and achieving financial and operational target goals. Intimately involved in acquisitions exceeding 8 million performing due diligence and board reports. Ultimate responsibility for raising capital for growth. $2 Million over the period using commercial lending vehicles. Set up sister company Multipli Inc to facilitate funding. Budgets, Forecasting, SaaS KPi's, Tax returns, Statutory responsibilities, Company secretary, weekly/monthly financial reporting. Managed multiple office moves and leases as the company burst into growth.

• Developed and marketed a world class legal practice management software solution with 300+clients from start up. • Consulted to legal executives resulting in a 30% increase in profitability across the client base. • Product currently rolling out in the UK and Canada. Srum,SQL++.

• Restructured business and logistics and closed non-profitable operations. • Personally signed off stock acquisitions to reduce stock levels. • Closed three warehouses and consolidated into the remaining two. • Ensured health and safety controls were implemented and executed. • Negotiated with aggressive unions resulting in a reduction of 35% of staff. • Improved working capital by 3m per month and reduced costs by 250k per month. • Analysed sales mix to implement plans resulting in a 2% increase in the margin. • Reduced stock losses by 80%. • Initiated tight credit control procedures resulting in improved debtors’ days by 40%. • Financials were behind by 3 years and brought them up to date over 4 months.

• Responsible for supporting the managing directors of three operating entities with twelve branches, as well as the finance and HR teams for the entire group. • Established a shared finance service division that reduced costs by 150k GBP pm. • Supported and consulted to the Managing Directors resulting in an increase of 3% Margin. • Reduced bad debts by R2.5 million per annum. • Made strategic changes to software which reduced workload by 40%.

Created a shared service division from six operations and rolled out new IT systems. (Navision) • Generated R30 Million in revenue from IT controls. • Debtor’s days of 26.5 on a monthly turnover of R450 million. • Budgets, forecasting, consolidations, and monthly results. • Project and problem solving on various business issues with international travel. • Represented finance on the Executive Committee contributing to overall strategy. • Continuous involvement in operations. (Visiting larger clients monthly)

• Audited and reported to board on each division, manufacturing, and distribution. • Intimately involved in a major acquisition. • Discovered cash fraud in the first three months.

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