Jack Bull CFO
Seasoned CFO with over 23 years of commercial finance and leadership experience, successfully helping companies scale across New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom.
Highly experienced commercial and strategic CFO.
With over 23 years in commercial finance, Jack Bull has built a career with experience spanning the FMCG, retail, media, telco, civil engineering and manufacturing sectors in New Zealand, Australia, and the UK.
Jack has a proven track record of driving business transformation, shaping board-level decisions, and delivering measurable improvements in profitability, cash flow, efficiency, and risk management. Jack is skilled at capital raising, tax and treasury optimisation, ERP implementation, and building high-performing finance teams.
Currently available for permanent, as well as consulting and contract opportunities. Please reach out for a confidential chat.
Recent Prior Appointments:-
CFO at Cirtex Industries Ltd - AU & NZ (2022-24)
Reported to the CEO and Board.
Highlights:
Key leadership role. Improved the financial reporting infrastructure and built long range plans across the business to identify growth opportunities with strategic alignment. Grew both the local and offshore finance team to improve resource capabilities. Implemented various automation projects. Updated and implemented various group polices to improve customer service, cash flow and lower risk profiles.
CFO at ABE'S Bagels NZ/AU (2021-22)
Reported to the CEO and Board of Directors.
Member of the senior leadership team. Led the lean and continuous improvement projects, resulting in various cost savings and efficiency improvements across the Business. Worked with funding partners on successful CAPEX implementation projects. Designed required future ERP upgrade project. Presented various successful investment and divestment projects. Negotiated with various key suppliers on pricing. Managed reporting and compliance on Australian reporting entity.
Finance Head Lewis Road Creamery NZ/AU/US (2017-21)
Reported to the CEO.
Achievements:
Successful capital raising project. Designed and built the new Finance team from the ground up. Built in depth cost to serve models and analysis to enable strategic decision making and improve profitability. Led various cost reduction initiatives. Finance lead on all NPD projects.
Please reach out for more details and collaboration opportunities.