Example Transaction

Corporate/Head Office

Corporate

• Stand-in while CFO dealing with BU
• Standardize and improve reporting
• Monthly and lending reporting
• Presentations and board Reports
• Auditors RFP
• Became full-time SVP Finance and then CFO
• Liaison with PE firm

Annual Budgets and Forecast

Treasury Improvement

• Free Cash Flow Modelling
• 13-Week Forecasting
• Borrowing issues /maximizing borrowing

Working Capital Improvements

• Working capital reviews
• Liquidity improvement (Alternative Letter of credits and factoring initiatives)

Cost Savings

Project Stronger

• CFO – Monitoring and reporting

COGS Savings and Margin Enhancements

• Chair Steerco for $0.5bn COGS review
• Liaison with advisors and/or BUs
• Metric setting
• Assessment of savings
• Reforecasting of savings
• Training BU staff
• Report-outs
• BU PCRs

Margin Enhancements

• Productivity assessment
• Real Estate
• Remote work
• Merger
• Surcharges

Business Unit (“BU”) Roles

BU 1

• PCR (plus other initiatives)
• Sales process – Quotations and backlog
• Forecasting accuracy
• Improving margins
• Revenue and gross profit analysis

BU 2

• PCR
• Forecasting of savings
• Customer credit rating
• Credit assessment of (listed) accounts
• Assisting with 2021B
• Merger integration a problematic acquisition

M&A

Buy-Side (24 transactions)

• Head office Project Management
  • Legal Reviews
  • Due Diligence Reviews
  • Merger Integration
  • Post Close True Ups

2 Sell-Side Transactions

• Preparing Group and induvial BUs for sale including preparing financial workbooks for all BUs,  liaising with investment bankers, attorneys, PE and advisors preparing sell side due diligence.  Disposed of (i)  $400m + revenue BU sold for ~$0.5B; and (ii) $170m + revenue BU sold for ~$0.2B