Mo Mehmood

Software finance leader specialising in Professional Services, Operations, commercial finance and transformation. Currently leads Finance for UK & Ireland at Dye & Durham with broader remit across operations, transactional revenue, transformation and AI. Previously responsible for approximately $270m EMEA P&L at Blue Yonder across 15 countries, including around $100m Professional Services exposure.

Experienced in working closely with Sales leadership to integrate Finance into GTM, capacity, delivery economics and profitable growth strategies at a genuinely global level.

Finance Leader - UK & Ireland - Dye & Durham - UK & Ireland

• Lead Finance for UK & Ireland operations
• Broader remit across operations, transactional revenue, transformation and AI
• Manage approximately 150-person customer success and delivery organisation
• Focus on cost reduction, organisation design, automation and AI
• Objective of improving both customer outcomes and delivery economics
• Identified AI and automation opportunity to reduce workflow from approximately 18 hours to around 15 minutes (still in pilot phase)

Finance Leader - EMEA - Blue Yonder - EMEA (15 countries)

• Managed approximately $270m EMEA P&L across 15 countries
• Oversaw approximately $100m Professional Services exposure
• Key drivers included utilisation, rates, resource mix, delivery, ETC, milestones and margin
• Worked extremely closely with EMEA Sales President
• Integrated Finance into commercial decision-making process
• Involved in GTM planning, market priorities and capacity decisions
• Led finance exposure to large-scale planning, forecasting, governance and executive decision-making
• Supported more regional specialist Professional Services model after evaluating centralized approach
• Helped plan and lead Finance operating-model move into Warsaw focusing on scalable and standardised operating model

Finance Role - Bristol Myers Squibb

• Approximately six years tenure
• Experience within approximately $20bn global pharmaceutical organisation
• Exposure to large-scale planning, forecasting, governance and executive decision-making