Director of Strategic Finance at Polygon Labs (2026-02 – Present)
- Lead strategic finance with a focus on AI and FP&A, while continuing to oversee AP & AR
- Embedding financial discipline while enabling strategic and operational cost optimisation across teams.
- Building with Claude Cowork, Claude API, Google Apps Scripts, Github, Railway. The outputs being an upgraded FP&A & Accounting Dashboards using Claude, utilising direct syncs with Netsuite, Jira, Ironclad, AP Tool and more, to aggregate and reconcile with more automation.
- Optimising AI to shape how the finance team and wider business scale in a fast-paced web3 environment.
- Supporting strategic automations projects, e.g creating a process in contract review automation for financial commitments monitoring; auto-scanning contracts daily.
Financial Operations Manager at Polygon Labs (2024-05 – 2026-02)
- Scaled and automated financial operations post re-org, ensuring finance could scale as a supportive function across Finance, BizOps, Legal, Community, Governance and more.
- Procured AI-focused tools to drive further automation across finance.
- Worked alongside Community & Governance teams to streamline financial operations for community-driven treasury.
- Aligned wallet structure and completeness during restructure alongside the Security Ops team.
- Introduced and implemented a Purchase Order (PO) process via Jira to improve visibility into costs, contracts and budgets.
- Supported the TGE launch of a new token (Katana KAT) from a financial operations perspective.
- Recruited and hired for Finance team positions.
Finance Operations Part Time Consultant at Chainlink Labs Ltd (2023-08 – 2024-04)
- Consultant to the Financial Controller upon request
Career Break at Career Break (2023-08 – 2024-04)
- Travelling South East Asia after success in scaling and bringing stability to Chainlink Labs finance team
- Developing knowledge of worldwide cultures to enhance my ability to work in remote environments
Finance Operations Manager at Chainlink Labs Ltd (2020-01 – 2023-08)
- Scaled the finance team from 2 to 20+ individuals; including teams and processes across Financial Operations, Treasury, Procurement, FP&A, Tax, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Payroll.
- Transitioned ERP software from Quickbooks to Netsuite during hyper-growth.
- Maintenance of the network from a smart contracts funding perspective.
- Maintenance of budgets in the early stages and helping strive towards a 5-10 year liquidity plan.
- Development of routine global cryptocurrency payroll processes and reimbursements.
- Working with non-finance stakeholders across Legal, Security, Go-to-Market, Marketing, Events, Data Providers & People teams - to develop scalability of processes during growth.
- Introduction of Purchase Order process within P2P and cross-team collaborations between Procurement and Accounts Payable for a full P2P process.
- Training newly onboarded team members; educating team culture and being a source of expertise on business needs and historical activities.
- Scaling global travel and expense systems including procuring a new T&E provider and owning change management across the company without disruption.
- Scaling AP & AR systems and processes with increasing volume and business needs.
Senior Accountant at Lewis Golden LLP Chartered Accountants (2017-01 – 2020-01)
- Preparing regular monthly management accounts for digital solutions clients.
- Producing intercompany reconciliations with overseas subsidiaries, deferred and accrued income postings, bank reconciliations
- Preparing statutory year-end accounts in line with FRS 102/FRS 102 Section 1A.
- Preparing corporation tax computations; utilising and managing juniors to assist with jobs.
Tax Associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) (2014-08 – 2016-11)
- Preparing personal tax returns within Expatriate Tax, supporting briefings to expatriate individuals, global coordination, assisting with presentations at client sites, collecting and manipulating data and correspondence with HMRC.
- Tax saving projects within the global coordination team, briefings process outsourcing to reduce net costs, and overlooking newly initiated individuals to ensure a continuous smooth process.
Junior Data Analyst at Trendence UK at GTI Media (2014-04 – 2014-07)
- Using SPSS to simplify data acquired through surveys provided to university students.
- Breaking down data according to the client's needs to establish their position amongst competitors.
