Simon Jones

Current

Transitions and Finance Director at The Performance Consultancy Ltd.

Past

Senior commercial and operationally focused Accounting roles at Australian Corporate Career (Adelaide and Perth)

Education

Flinders University of South Australia

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Executive Office

Simon Jones’s Summary

Internationally experienced transitions director throughout the UK, Europe and Australia. Strong proactive financial leadership (CPA) of start-up, high growth, business recovery, turnaround, M&A, restructuring, recapitalisation and refinancing transitions. Varied sectors including manufacturing and FMCG, retail, leisure, travel, tourism, technology and public sectors.

Niche, and passion, is hands-on leadership with clients at Board level to deliver business recovery and corporate transaction strategies and projects.

Commercial business reviews of strategic, cultural, governance, financial, project and technical aspects with recovery readiness assessments.

Practical global business technology delivery of ERP and Reporting solutions to assure business decision making.

Simon Jones’s Specialties:

Saving and augmenting corporate value in times of high duress.

Focusing directors and executives with reality checks and psychological and situational insights.

Diligent cash and profitability leadership.

Key to current times: insight, consistency, efficacy, prudence and governance.

Ideal clients are with c£20m-£250m turnover.

Simon Jones’s Experience

Transitions and Finance Director

The Performance Consultancy Ltd.

(Privately Held; Executive Office industry)

December 1997 — Present (12 years )

Strong record of delivering business recovery and strategic transitions in manufacturing, FMCG, aviation, tourism, travel, foodservice, hotels, restaurants, technology and eRetail (gaming) in listed, SME, US and Australian companies, including VC and PE backed initiatives and family concerns.

Clients include Compass Group PLC (City bond financing), Danoptra Limited (crisis management), easyJet (early high growth), Esselte (direction setting), George Wimpey (UK) Ltd. (project rescue), Hilton Group plc (project rescue), Libra Holidays Ltd. (turnaround), Michael Page International (BI consulting), Microsoft Great Plains, National College for School Leadership (rapid business planning), PartyGaming (European Oracle project), Titan Travel (Finance transformation and business sale), Total Pipeline Solutions (Thames Water - Finance setup), TwiningsOvo Group (global BI initiation), Tyco Healthcare (plant turnaround), Whitbread PLC (BPM implementation), and many others.

Full Curriculum Vitae available on request by return email to Simon@InTheInterim.co.uk
Senior commercial and operationally focused Accounting roles

Australian Corporate Career (Adelaide and Perth)

(Executive Office industry)

March 1986 — November 1997 (11 years 9 months)

Senior commercial and operationally focused accounting positions in the Manufacturing, FMCG, Mining and Public sectors.

Mostly large company experience including the South Australian Brewing Company, Walker Australia (Tenneco Automotive – a turnaround), Gerard Industries, WMC Resources (remote desert location), Normandy Poseidon (large special projects) and Auditor-General’s Department. Entrepreneurial experience in the Wine industry seeking projects in Moldova and Russia.

Additional Information

Simon Jones’s Interests:

The Arts, Classical music (a huge fan of the London Symphony Orchestra), Jungian psychology, Mythology (especially Joseph Campbell), Golf, investing and trading, wining and dining, and travels in Britain, Europe, the Americas and Australasia with my wife Julie.

Simon Jones’s Groups:

LinkedInterims - Member
Member, Institute of Interim Management since 2004
Member, Turnaround Management Association since 2007
Certified Practising Accountant (CPA) member of CPA Australia since 1984.

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