Gareth New | garethnew1986@gmail.com | 07583916120 | 9.

22 Nash House, Old Oak Lane,

London, NW10 6FE

Freelance contractor currently working interim and contract positions (over 98% utilisation in the past
5 years and strong record of retention with at least 1 extension on each contract I’ve worked)

Independent Consultant (over 10 years’ experience) with a strong background in working with senior
management teams in large, complex business transformation and change projects. Excellent
finance, project management and analytical skills with a degree in mathematics and finance.
Proficiency in a number of different software packages including MS Office suite (Expert MS Excel &
Power Point). Strong client handling / stakeholder management skills (CFO, CEO, MD level) with a
proven track record in delivering interim assignments for a number of clients (including FTSE100).
Excellent at presentation of complex ideas and problems with clarity, in both oral and written forms.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

OCT 2018 – JUN 2019 INCOPRO London

Job Title: Strategic Financial Consultant

Highlighted Responsibilities:
Responsible for supporting CFO and CEO with planning 5 year strategy, supporting on key
commercial decisions and building robust supporting financial models.

 Responsible for financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and analysis duties along with driving
change across the organization.
 Produced detailed financial models that helped secure further VC funding through giving investors
a clear sight of revenue growth targets and provided the financials behind a detailed strategy of
how the business was to undertake an aggressive growth strategy.
 Improved profit margin on main product from ~30% to ~40% in less than six months through
identifying operational and engineering efficiencies and tracking KPI’s to drive improvements.
 Working closely with the VP of Customer Success provided view of true profitability of the entire
portfolio of customers, information that was previously absent due to the lack of data collection
processes on key indicators. This enabled customers that were hampering margins to be targeted
for profitability improvements.
 Implemented Mavenlink time keeping system that allowed enhanced MI around the Professional
Services teams utilisation and profitability metrics.

Key Career Skills Learnt / Further Developed:

Stakeholder Management, Financial Modelling, Profitability Modelling, Pricing, Strategy, Budgeting,
Forecasting, System Implementation

FEB 2018 – OCT 2018 NATIONAL RECORDS OF SCOTLAND Edinburgh

Job Title: Programme Financial/Cost Modeller

Highlighted Responsibilities:
Responsible for supporting CEO and Programme Director to write 5 year Business Case and building
supporting financial models to secure over £100m of funding to carry out Census Programme.

 Responsible for rewriting entire business case for the Programme, the initial business case had a
£10million shortfall and meant budgets were severely restricted at key stages of the census. This
involved seeking approval from Government Ministers for further funding to prevent key stages of
the programme slipping behind schedule.
 Designed detailed financial model that allowed numerous best and worst case scenarios to be
considered. The model underpinned the plan of the entire Programme and was the basis for most
key financial and strategic decisions around resourcing and procurements.
 Embedded best practice for financial reporting and design of financial models throughout the
Programme. These skills were previously absent and key financial decisions had previously been
made on incorrect reporting and forecasting.

Key Career Skills Learnt / Further Developed:

Stakeholder Management, Financial Modelling, Programme Management, Strategy, Forecasting,
Budgeting
AUG 2017 – FEB 2018 WHITBREAD London
Job Title: FP&A Strategy Lead

Highlighted Responsibilities:
Responsible for working as part of the programme management office in a commercial strategy role
ensuring everyday efficiency was embedded throughout the organisation. The role involved:

 Supporting the various working groups across Costa and Premier Inn & Restaurants, providing
oversight governance and challenge to develop, maintain and update the overall programme plan
and deliver £75million of business efficiency savings in Year 1.
 Building an end to end financial model that displayed in simple comparable terms the entire
Whitbread cost base which was of a complex nature as it included a number of separate brands.
The financial model and the improved use of internal data helped identify over £20million of
further potential efficiency savings from procurement & supply chain, improvements to
organisational design and operational efficiencies.

Key Career Skills Learnt / Further Developed:

Benefits Realisation, Initiative tracking, Stakeholder Management, Data Modelling, Financial
Modelling, Project Management
.

APR 2017 – October 2017 SOUTHERN SPARS International

Job Title: Group Pricing Strategy Lead

Highlighted Responsibilities:
Responsible for working with the holding private equity house and overseeing the acquisition of a rival
competitor in the mid-market superyacht industry.

 The main objective was to align the pricing strategy of the acquired entity and the existing mid-
market business group.
 This involved designing and implementing a pricing model that unified existing models and
processes that were being used within the group.
 The model leveraged the large amounts of historic data that was stored within the business (most
being largely unused) and through using multi linear regression analysis allowed firm and optimal
pricing methodology to be integrated within the sales and marketing teams.
 The work helped turnaround the loss making entity that was acquired into a business that was
forecasting steady profit through improved pricing and resource allocation.

Key Career Skills Learnt / Further Developed:

Financial Modelling, Data Analysis, Business Transformation, Stakeholder Management, Advanced
Statistics, International Working, M&A Growth

OCT 2016 – APRIL 2017 SHARING IN GROWTH (Rolls Royce) London

Job Title: Finance Transformation Lead

Highlighted Responsibilities:
Responsible for leading the Finance Transformation diagnostic of a Rolls Royce key supplier (Kenard
Engineering Manufacturing). The role involved:

 Overseeing a procurement review and setting cost reduction targets that aligned with a 5 year
business strategy
 Designing and implementing an Activity Based Costing approach through providing detailed
bottom up costings for complex machined manufacturing parts for the aerospace industry.
 Setting up a KPI reporting dashboard focusing on key metrics in targeted areas of improvement.
 Designing a value stream map that highlighted areas of inefficiency and bottlenecks in the
production of a key focus part.
 Provided improved reporting that gave a view of profitability by product, product family, customer
and customer groups.

Key Career Skills Learnt / Further Developed:

Data Analysis, Data Strategy, Business Transformation, Procurement, Client Facing, Communication
(Written & Verbal), Relationship building, Stakeholder Management, Operational Excellence, Activity
Based Costing, Cost Reduction, Business Planning
FEB 2015 – SEPT 2016 COLLINSON GRANT Manchester
Job Title: Management Consultant

Highlighted Responsibilities:
Responsible for working as an associate consultant on assignments involving business
transformation, cost reduction, improving operational efficiency, improving procurement and supply
chain processes, data analysis, organisational design and financial modelling for a number of top UK
companies including AA, Kier Construction and Speedy Hire.

 Responsible for financial/data modelling to demonstrate through benchmarking how potential

efficiency savings could be recognised and how cost reductions could be achieved across the
organisations
 Responsible for gathering HR data and modelling organisational design improvements through
layer and span analysis and scenario planning for role consolidations during M&A’s
 Developed organisational design analytical tool that automatically translated HR data into visually
impressive organisation charts.
 Provided reporting and analytical capabilities to translate data, information, and organisational
knowledge into meaningful insights.

Key Career Skills Learnt / Further Developed:

Data Analysis, Relational Databases, Stakeholder Management, Client Facing, Commercial Strategy

FEB 2014 – FEB 2015 ISG Corsham

Job Title: Management Consultant

Highlighted Responsibilities:
Responsible for working as part of a Strategic Partner for the MOD while Fujitsu, BT and Vodafone
were bidding for two telecommunications contracts (expected value £1bn+) over the next 10 years.

 Responsible for the production of a Should Cost Model that would give the Minimum, Most-Likely
and Maximum (P10, P50, P90) costs of both the Connectivity and Integrated User Services
contracts (Using MS Excel and @Risk).
 This involved developing benchmark prices for the services by pooling current market prices and
using volumes based on current and future demand. Extensive analysis of large data sets was
needed to provide insight on the ‘as is’ MOD Estate volumes and WAN utilisation data.
 The modelling was used for identifying and underpinning the expected savings from the new
contracts.
 Responsible for building and maintaining resourcing financial models for the programme to
ensure workstreams and projects remained within budget.

Key Skills: Financial Modelling, Advanced Excel, Benefits Realisation, Commercial Strategy, PMO,
Stakeholder Management, Business Transformation

APR 2013 – JAN 2014 RISK SOLUTIONS Manchester

Job Title: Management Consultant

Highlighted Responsibilities:
Responsible for analysing and modelling the potential financial impact of national water abstraction
reform.

 An important part of the policy development process was to test the costs, benefits and risks of
alternative policy options against the current regime.
 The overall goal was to explore how well the alternative policy options perform under different
climate change and socio-economic scenarios and in a range of different types of catchment and
to inform option design.
 Various different modelling approaches were considered that could potentially realise savings
between around £100m up to around £650m net present value (NPV) over 25 years

Key Skills: Data Modelling, Data Analysis, Financial Modelling

FEB 2012 – MAR 2013 WS ATKINS Bristol
Job Titles: Management Consultant

Highlighted Responsibilities:
Responsible for developing a whole life cost model that considered different complex weapon system
options for the SHOrt Range Air Defence (SHORAD) project. (£600m+ contract).

 To support the Initial Gate Operational Analysis (OA) it was necessary to conduct a number of
costing activities at both the SHORAD project and Team-CW pipeline level in order to establish
both the requirement and cost effectiveness of proceeding with a number of options through an
Assessment Phase.
 Responsible for using @Risk for developing various probabilistic mathematical modelling and
graphical outputs including P10, P50, P90 values as well as the probability of each option being
the cheapest.
 Working closely with CAAS to develop COEIA cost model while carrying out refinements to the
MDAL/CDAL to take account of changes to the COEIA assumptions. Also incorporating risk into
the WLC model.

Key Skills: Financial Modelling, Data Analysis, Client Facing, PMO, Management Consulting

SEP 2008 – JAN 2012 MCKINSEY Various

Job Titles: Management Consultant

Summary:
Joined as an analyst and trained as a Management Consultant. Worked a number of large scale
assignments in the public sector predominantly in defence and health forming a specialty in
financial/strategic/business modelling.

Highlighted Assignments:
FSM Investment Appraisal Analysis - Defence Contract (£14 billion+)

Highlighted Responsibilities:
 Responsible for developing whole life cost models that considered a number of different
system/part options for the Successor (Future Submarine) project. To support the Initial Gate
Operational Analysis (OA) it was necessary to conduct a number of costing activities in order to
establish both the requirement and cost effectiveness of proceeding with a number of options
through an Assessment Phase.
 The role involved working closely with the design engineers, senior management and team leads
and advanced MS Excel was used to develop mathematical models that used Taylor Series to
determine scalars for the costs of the options and Monte Carlo simulation to capture uncertainty
(P10, P50, P90).
 Developed ‘spend to save’ modelling techniques using triangular distributions, normal
distributions and Monte Carlo simulation to give investment metrics and probability outputs.
 Through working closely with the design engineers technical reports were delivered that
considered sensitivity analysis with worse and best case scenarios. These reports were used to
assist key strategic decision making on options during Assessment phase of project.

Key Skills: Strategy Consulting, Business Modelling, Management Consulting, Financial Modelling,
MS Excel

VOLUNTEERING

May 2019 – June 2019 IMPETUS London

Provided Pro Bono analytical consulting support for Impetus who help transform the lives of young
people from disadvantaged backgrounds by ensuring they get the right support to succeed in school,
in work and in life.

EDUCATION
BSc Maths w/Finance (University of Manchester 2005-08),
A Levels (Maths A, Economics B, Chemistry B)
GCSE (7A* including Maths and English, 4A)

OTHER SKILLS
Full UK driving license, Referee’s available on request