Alistair Grant

Chief Financial Officer

ManufacturingManchester, UKC-Suite

CFO of a regional manufacturing group. Cautious, exacting, and quietly obsessed with clean numbers.

Goals

Close month-end in under five business days
Get consolidated cash visibility across all five sites in one dashboard
Reduce audit adjustments to near zero
Prepare the group for a potential PE conversation in 18 months

Pain points

Every acquisition brought a different ERP; consolidation is manual
Compliance work has doubled but the finance team has not grown
Business partners want forecasts weekly; models take days to refresh
AI vendors promise autonomy but he can't audit a black box

About Alistair

Trained as an ACA at KPMG in the 90s. Joined the group as Financial Controller in 2008 during the crash, became CFO in 2015. Regular speaker at CIMA events. Golfer. Two adult daughters, one in medicine and one in law.

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