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Caroline Thompson
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London, United Kingdom
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Helping CEOs and finance leaders build sustainable companies, by owning projects and processes including building business cases, decision support, forecasting, raising capital and M&A. 10+ years of progressive, international experience across commercial finance and management in companies growing > 20% p.a. MBA from Columbia Business School and FCCA qualified
Passionate about positively contributing to a fairer and more sustainable world.
Key Career Achievements
🔷 Reduced over $15m of costs by delivering a business transformation project, identifying and executing on operational efficiencies and reducing non-essential overhead.
🔷 Built and lead a commercial finance team of four to evaluate potential investments numbering hundreds a year and totalling over $1bn in value, resulting in a fund which delivered returns in the mid-teens
🔷Contributed to multiple fundraises by managing materials including designing fundraising presentations, business plans, managing due diligence requests, and delivering ad-hoc analysis
🔷Specified reporting deliverables, targets and KPIs for senior management, including designing financial and operational dashboards to identify variances and highlight consequential issues to act upon
🔷 Directed workflows for CEO, contributing to formulation and execution of strategic plans to meet over 20% growth target
Specialities
Financial Planning and Analysis, Financial Modelling, Financial Management, Strategic Planning, Management Report Development and KPIs, Finance Business Partnering with Senior Management, Restructuring, Strategy, Project Management, Leadership
Passionate about positively contributing to a fairer and more sustainable world.
Key Career Achievements
🔷 Reduced over $15m of costs by delivering a business transformation project, identifying and executing on operational efficiencies and reducing non-essential overhead.
🔷 Built and lead a commercial finance team of four to evaluate potential investments numbering hundreds a year and totalling over $1bn in value, resulting in a fund which delivered returns in the mid-teens
🔷Contributed to multiple fundraises by managing materials including designing fundraising presentations, business plans, managing due diligence requests, and delivering ad-hoc analysis
🔷Specified reporting deliverables, targets and KPIs for senior management, including designing financial and operational dashboards to identify variances and highlight consequential issues to act upon
🔷 Directed workflows for CEO, contributing to formulation and execution of strategic plans to meet over 20% growth target
Specialities
Financial Planning and Analysis, Financial Modelling, Financial Management, Strategic Planning, Management Report Development and KPIs, Finance Business Partnering with Senior Management, Restructuring, Strategy, Project Management, Leadership
Markets
United Kingdom
Industries
Language
English
Fluently
Ready for
Larger project
Ongoing relation / part-time
Full time contractor
Available
My experience
2020 - 2020
freelance
Strategy and Operations
ZELP.
• Controlled runway and reduced financial risk by creating a short-medium term cash flow model to track spending and manage weekly cash positions
• Redesigned long-term financial business plan including structures from new contracts, balance sheet, cash flow, sensitivities, scenarios, and pricing options to be used in the raising of a bridge round, prior to Series A
• Won £175k Innovate UK grant by designing a grant application strategy and writing grant proposal
• Reduced product launch risk by developing a market research plan to evaluate providers, translation services and devised questions to establish target markets for prioritising launch of low emission beef and dairy products and verification for potential investors
• Redesigned long-term financial business plan including structures from new contracts, balance sheet, cash flow, sensitivities, scenarios, and pricing options to be used in the raising of a bridge round, prior to Series A
• Won £175k Innovate UK grant by designing a grant application strategy and writing grant proposal
• Reduced product launch risk by developing a market research plan to evaluate providers, translation services and devised questions to establish target markets for prioritising launch of low emission beef and dairy products and verification for potential investors
Fundraising, Cash management, Cash flow, Cash forecasting, Budgets, Financial planning, Strategic Planning, Business strategy, Project Management, Marketing, Presentation material, Finance
2017 - 2020
job
Sr Director, Office of the CEO/Chief of Staff
Kobalt Music.
Key Responsibilities
• Strategic Project Management: Managed key strategic projects including large scale cost restructuring, fundraising, M&As and business process improvements
• Operational & Strategic Reporting: Specified reporting deliverables, targets and KPIs for senior management, including designing financial and operational dashboards to identify variances and highlight consequential issues to act upon as well as overseeing OKR process
• Business Process Improvement: Oversaw processes to improve business performance by streamlining processes and reducing cost across business units and functional teams
• Investor Reporting: Coordinate production of quarterly board packs, board member introduction presentations, ad-hoc email updates, ensuring relevant information was circulated in a timely manner
• Fundraising Strategy: Partnered with finance department to evaluate funding options and run equity and debt fundraising processes
• Strategic Analysis: Conducted analysis into potential growth opportunities for organization including identifying targets, compiling market forecasts, strategic frameworks, and pricing analysis
• Communication: Handled CEO's communication in line with company culture and values including internal communications, information for potential investors and board meetings, ensuring transparency and consistency
• M&A: Managed bidding processes on targets valued over $150m including a multi-billion-dollar bid, working with investment bankers, lawyers, and tax advisors
• Business partnering / decision support: Ad-hoc analyses for CEO and senior management; building evaluation models for new business lines, potential deals and pricing options
Key Achievements
• Contributed to raising of over $100m investment by managing materials including designing fundraising presentations, giving input on business plans, managing due diligence requests, and delivering ad-hoc analysis
• Reduced over $15m of costs by delivering a business transformation project, identifying, and executing on operational efficiencies and reducing non-essential overhead
• Chaired 10-person, cross functional task-force for Covid-19 response, including communications, change management, business continuity plans, wellbeing initiatives and facilities planning resulting in a global transfer to remote working with no loss in productivity
• Headed project to align data, working cross functionally to define terminology, develop data capture processes and access through Tableau, leading to significant time savings and increased accuracy across teams
• Strategic Project Management: Managed key strategic projects including large scale cost restructuring, fundraising, M&As and business process improvements
• Operational & Strategic Reporting: Specified reporting deliverables, targets and KPIs for senior management, including designing financial and operational dashboards to identify variances and highlight consequential issues to act upon as well as overseeing OKR process
• Business Process Improvement: Oversaw processes to improve business performance by streamlining processes and reducing cost across business units and functional teams
• Investor Reporting: Coordinate production of quarterly board packs, board member introduction presentations, ad-hoc email updates, ensuring relevant information was circulated in a timely manner
• Fundraising Strategy: Partnered with finance department to evaluate funding options and run equity and debt fundraising processes
• Strategic Analysis: Conducted analysis into potential growth opportunities for organization including identifying targets, compiling market forecasts, strategic frameworks, and pricing analysis
• Communication: Handled CEO's communication in line with company culture and values including internal communications, information for potential investors and board meetings, ensuring transparency and consistency
• M&A: Managed bidding processes on targets valued over $150m including a multi-billion-dollar bid, working with investment bankers, lawyers, and tax advisors
• Business partnering / decision support: Ad-hoc analyses for CEO and senior management; building evaluation models for new business lines, potential deals and pricing options
Key Achievements
• Contributed to raising of over $100m investment by managing materials including designing fundraising presentations, giving input on business plans, managing due diligence requests, and delivering ad-hoc analysis
• Reduced over $15m of costs by delivering a business transformation project, identifying, and executing on operational efficiencies and reducing non-essential overhead
• Chaired 10-person, cross functional task-force for Covid-19 response, including communications, change management, business continuity plans, wellbeing initiatives and facilities planning resulting in a global transfer to remote working with no loss in productivity
• Headed project to align data, working cross functionally to define terminology, develop data capture processes and access through Tableau, leading to significant time savings and increased accuracy across teams
Business Process Management, Business Partner, M&A, Communication, Strategic Planning, Fundraising, Change management, Project coordination, Investor relations, Business strategy, Sql, Data analysis and visualization, Excel, Financial Management, Reporting, Management, Operations, Project Management
2010 - 2017
job
Commercial Finance Manager
Kobalt Music.
Key Responsibilities
• Leadership: Built and lead a team of five to evaluate potential investments, providing training, guidance and oversight to department tasked with analysing 400 deals a year and totalling over $2bn in value
• Investment appraisal: Oversaw investment analysis process by producing and presenting investment appraisal analysis for advances and acquisitions of music catalogues and companies across group and associated investment fund enabling decisions by senior leadership
• Budgeting/forecasting: Prepared forecasts and annual budgets for regulated investment fund based in Luxembourg to meet bank and investor requirements
• Reporting, control & decision support: Providing reporting and commentary to divisional management; ad-hoc analysis for CFO and senior management
• Investor Reporting: Constructed and prepared quarterly reporting for equity investors and bank covenants
• Accounting: Produced statutory accounts for subsidiaries across UK, US and Luxembourg.
• Strategic Analysis: Conducted analysis of global music market data developing group views on market growth to utilize in investment appraisal forecasts and company revenue growth plans
• Excel Modelling: Designed standardised financial models to price investment opportunities, including review of key assumptions concerning tax and jurisdiction increasing speed of turnaround and reducing errors
• Investor Relations: Met with potential and current investors to explain music publishing and analysis methods of investments, contributing to multiple funding rounds
Key Achievements• Central in growing associated investment fund to over $500M valuation, which a portion was sold to Hipgnosis for $323M, resulting in a returns in the mid-teens
• Lead deal making process by delivering forecasts and investment appraisals for advances and acquisitions of music assets for group and an associated investment fund, leading to >30% revenue growth
• Established a sales process by implementing guidelines and structure including implementation of Salesforce to increase turnaround of proposals by 65%
• Relocated to New York in 2016 to build up Commercial Finance team in USA, closer to business development teams and decision makers
• Leadership: Built and lead a team of five to evaluate potential investments, providing training, guidance and oversight to department tasked with analysing 400 deals a year and totalling over $2bn in value
• Investment appraisal: Oversaw investment analysis process by producing and presenting investment appraisal analysis for advances and acquisitions of music catalogues and companies across group and associated investment fund enabling decisions by senior leadership
• Budgeting/forecasting: Prepared forecasts and annual budgets for regulated investment fund based in Luxembourg to meet bank and investor requirements
• Reporting, control & decision support: Providing reporting and commentary to divisional management; ad-hoc analysis for CFO and senior management
• Investor Reporting: Constructed and prepared quarterly reporting for equity investors and bank covenants
• Accounting: Produced statutory accounts for subsidiaries across UK, US and Luxembourg.
• Strategic Analysis: Conducted analysis of global music market data developing group views on market growth to utilize in investment appraisal forecasts and company revenue growth plans
• Excel Modelling: Designed standardised financial models to price investment opportunities, including review of key assumptions concerning tax and jurisdiction increasing speed of turnaround and reducing errors
• Investor Relations: Met with potential and current investors to explain music publishing and analysis methods of investments, contributing to multiple funding rounds
Key Achievements• Central in growing associated investment fund to over $500M valuation, which a portion was sold to Hipgnosis for $323M, resulting in a returns in the mid-teens
• Lead deal making process by delivering forecasts and investment appraisals for advances and acquisitions of music assets for group and an associated investment fund, leading to >30% revenue growth
• Established a sales process by implementing guidelines and structure including implementation of Salesforce to increase turnaround of proposals by 65%
• Relocated to New York in 2016 to build up Commercial Finance team in USA, closer to business development teams and decision makers
Management, CFO, Presenting, Office, Manager, Excel, Communication, Bookkeeping, Financial Accounting, Finance, Financial Management, Business strategy, Investment, Excel modeling, Budget and accounting, Reporting, Analysis, Project Management
My education
2018
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2020
COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL
MBA, Executive Program
MBA, Executive Program
2006
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2009
UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
Bachelors, Financial Economics, Economics
Bachelors, Financial Economics, Economics
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