Richard Tame

Current

Airline fleet and finance manager at None

Past

Senior Financial Analyst at American Beacon Advisors
Senior Financial Analyst at American Airlines
Finance Manager - Fleet, Financing & Network at British Airways plc

Assistant Manager at Deloitte & Touche

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Education

ACA (UK equivalent of CPA)
CTA (Chartered Tax Advisor)
University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Gosforth High School

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Industry

Airlines/Aviation

Richard Tame’s Summary

Significant experience in various finance/planning management roles within major airlines.

Broad experience includes:
Fleet analysis, including all aspects of business case preparation, presentation and approval
Project implementation, particularly finance aspects
Route profitability analysis
Route profitability system enhancement/annual updates
Aircraft Financing (leases, buy/sell)
Debt Accounting
Audit - Internal & External
Fleet & Network Planning - Finance Aspects/Analysis
Treasury back office - fuel hedging & currency hedging
Cabin profitability studies
Very long haul flying profitability studies

Strategic thinker able to question the status quo and suggest new directions. Quick learner, able to assimilate data from multiple sources and analyze and present actionable options to senior management.

Qualified accountant with ACA, UK equivalent of CPA.

Qualified tax advisor, UK professional tax qualification

Richard Tame’s Specialties:

Airline Finance, Airline Planning (Fleet Planning, Network Planning), Financial and Strategic Analysis, M&A, Treasury, Financial Accounting, Audit, Internal Audit, Managing Financial aspects of projects, Managing Staff (professional and non-professional)

Richard Tame’s Experience

Airline fleet and finance manager

None

(Airlines/Aviation industry)

May 2009 — Present (7 months)
Senior Financial Analyst

American Beacon Advisors

(Public Company; Investment Management industry)

April 2007 — May 2009 (2 years 2 months)

Strategic financial analysis, primarily focused on corporate development such as M&A, new products, changes to product line-up as well as other ad-hoc financial analysis, such as report creation, audits, etc.
Senior Financial Analyst

American Airlines

(Public Company; AMR; Airlines/Aviation industry)

October 2005 — April 2007 (1 year 7 months)

Financial analysis role in Airline Profitablilty Department, with broad responsibilities including Industry Competitive Analysis, Profitability System development and numerous ad-hoc projects relating to profitability and decision support.
Finance Manager - Fleet, Financing & Network

British Airways plc

(Public Company; BAY; Airlines/Aviation industry)

November 2001 — May 2005 (3 years 7 months)

Finance support for the Strategy Dept. primarily financial analysis, business case development, project management responsibilites, buy/sell/lease decisions. Additionally provided financial support to Director of Corporate Finance with respect to financing transactions.
Assistant Manager

Deloitte & Touche

(Partnership; Management Consulting industry)

September 1998 — November 2001 (3 years 3 months)

Broad range of audit, tax compliance and tax planning experience for a variety of clients - from sole trader to subsidiaries of major multinationals

Richard Tame’s Education

ACA (UK equivalent of CPA)

ACA , Accounting/Finance , 2001

UK equivalent of CPA
CTA (Chartered Tax Advisor)

CTA , Taxation , 2001

Chartered Tax Advisor, awarded distinction in examinations
University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Statistics , Mathematics & Statistics , 1995 — 1998

Graduated top of class with First Class Honors
Awarded John Anderson Prize
Gosforth High School

1990 — 1995