Angela Goddard

Dynamic ACA Finance Director with 20+ years in the marketing communications sector with extensive international experience. An intuitive analytical thinker, accustomed to working in fast paced environments, managing multiple priorities, and ensuring business critical objectives are delivered.  An engaging and people focused leader, who creates high performing teams and uses influencing and negotiation skills to build strong collaborative relationships across a diverse range of stakeholders. A reputation for achieving a high level of both individual and team productivity, always focusing on improvement, quality and delivering results.  

Key Skills:

• Leading on financial planning including timely delivery of monthly close, rolling forecasts and annual budgets. Partnering with senior leadership on business strategy to drive performance and identifying risks and opportunities to ensure future sustainable growth. 
• Trusted business partner who builds strong collaborative cross-functional relationships with a diverse group of internal and external stakeholders including founders/owners, minority interest stakeholders, HR, Tax, Treasury, internal and external auditors.
• Highly experienced in risk management, SOX compliance, internal controls and process improvements.
• An inclusive leader with a track record of coaching, mentoring, and building high performing teams within dynamic fast-paced environments.
• Experienced at M&A integration, setting KPI’s, working capital/ cashflow improvement, rolling out reporting infrastructure, restructuring, change management.

Education

1986                          Bachelor of Business Studies/major Accounting & Finance. Massey University, New Zealand

1989                          ACA – New Zealand Society of Accountants