Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales

University of Bath

ICAEW

University of Nottingham

Founder at digital.accountant & Next Level Business. Award winning accountant and small business champion.

London, England, United Kingdom

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digital.accountant

Founder

Next Level Business is a growth accountant and our aim is to make small businesses more successful. We bring our big business experience, the latest technology and a partnership approach to help you achieve your goals.Come and visit us, <a href="http://www.nextlevelbusiness.co.uk">www.nextlevelbusiness.co.uk</a> or book a discovery meeting at <a href="http://www.nextlevelbusiness.co.uk/discoveryOur">www.nextlevelbusiness.co.uk/discoveryOur</a> specialisms include:- Full Finance Teams for small businesses- Startup and Scaleup support - Virtual finance director (FD) and chief financial officer (CFO) services- Business funding (debt / equity including SEIS, EIS & VCT schemes)- Advice, mentoring and support- ....plus the normal accountancy services you might expectNext Level Business is a registered firm with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) operating nationwide. Also registered as part of the business advice scheme and the business finance advice scheme.

Next Level Business

Founder & Chairman

Chairman of the Audit and Remuneration Committee & Non Executive Director Wenta is a not for profit organisation offering business start-up advice and guidance, business training and development opportunities, business centre premises and education programmes.

Wenta

Chairman (Audit, Remuneration, Finance, Risk) & Non Executive Director

A FTSE listed company turnaround in media, publishing, technology, SaaS and e-commerce.

Future PLC

Director

Regus, a FTSE 250 company, focus on providing flexible work space solutions to businesses world wide with majority of customers being small and medium sized businesses. Responsible for commercial management of core office space product (£1bn+) including customer service and customer retention.

Regus PLC

Led the creation of Carphone Warehouse Business as the division of Carphone to focus on serving the total communication and flexible work needs of small and medium sized businesses incorporating both selling direct to the target market as well as distributing to the many partners serving this market. Unique in offering all the networks, handset manufacturers and a variety of value added services such as Microsoft Office 365 under one roof.Key Achievement: Rebrand, Reproposition, Replatform, Reboot Growth

Carphone Warehouse Business (part of Carphone Warehouse PLC)

Group Business Director

Responsible for the mobile division housing all Carphone Warehouses own brand mobile operations and activities across sales, operations, service, marketing, brand, finance and commercial. Founded and setup Talkmobile as a successful MVNO in the UK taking Carphone into the smartphone and value postpay segments across a multi-channel platform.Key Achievement: Growth to £100m+ Revenue with 8 Figure Exit

Carphone Warehouse PLC

Managing Director

Leading the commercial and financial teams of the mobile division. Responsible for wholesale relationships, joint ventures, revenue & gross margin management, pricing, proposition & product, budgeting, planning and reporting.Key Achievement: Revised strategy, operational consolidation, strategic partnership with Vodafone

Finance & Commercial Director

Virgin mobile UK was the worlds first MVNO and grew to over 4 million customers. During my time the business JV was bought out from t-mobile by virgin group, floated on the FTSE and subsequently delisted and sold to NTL/Telewest to create Virgin Media. Responsible for wide range of commercial finance activity including FP&A, business case & analysis, wholesale relationship with t-mobile, subscriber acquisition management & supporting sales, channel and proposition management teams.Key Achievements: Growth to 4m customers & £500m+ revenue, IPO raising £125m, Exit £963m

Virgin Mobile PLC

Finance Manager

Working within recovery and reorganisation focusing on helping primarily owner managers in the motor retail industry build a better business.Helping owner/managers in the automotive sector build and manage their business through audit and advisory work

Paul Layte FCA

Paul Layte FCA