Jens Muhlert

Career break travelling through the Pacific and East Asia

Quickly gained an understanding of the provision of tax professional services in my role as strategic finance business partner for the Tax service line, acting as the lead financial contact for the Service Line Leader, COO and Australian Tax division for global finance calls. Managed a team of four in Melbourne, Sydney and India to deliver improvements in reporting, profitability, and cash flow by influencing the actions of over hundred partners in the firm.

Strategic finance business partner of a document services division, focusing on advising on divisional strategies, developing teams, achieving operational and finance goals growth of across the Managed Print (a recent acquisition) and Corporate Print functions

Brought in to stabilise the financial management of the Corporate Print (Manufacturing, Mailing & Procurement) arm through a period of significant change, working with the Managing Director to deliver operational and financial improvements which consequently grew profits. Initially acted as key contact for the sales and operational staff on new bid and business case creation but later trained up my team to take on these activities, freeing me up to focus on the longer term strategy.

Financial management of a global service delivery P&L focusing on transforming the IT services delivered globally to a global multimedia customer. To deliver this I created an award-winning finance team which was focused on improving the global reporting information available to operational teams, allowing for better decision making and a one day reduction in the taken to close month end accounts.

Financial management of the Central Admin, Telecoms and Network functions for our HMRC account.

Financial management within the Telecoms and Utilities and Shared Services business units, supporting customers such as O2, Orange and Centrica.

MSc Operational Research

BA (Hons). Accounting and Finance (Second Class, Div. 1)