Stephen Dews

“Mission accomplished. Great obstacles successfully overcome in mutual understanding. Highly recommended due to enormous professionalism, fast response time and appropriate problem solving.”

“Steve is an excellent person who endorses peers and colleague in all aspects. During the period (FY 2009 - 12) when i was working with Steve in different groups (Finance support and Operations team) i could able to recollect his contribution in restructuring of Services Finance process and implementation of new offshore teams and innovative creation of new work streams for tracking project revenues are incredible and highly efficient from Process managment perspective. As a Finance and Operations director Steve never took long time to implement new process and changes in the company, say for OBIEE and Sales force his support was majestic. It was good learning experience for me to work with Steve Dews.”

“Stephen was an excellent FD supporting me in establishing a global services business at Temenos. A very diligent and hard working professional with a keen eye on highlighting and solutioning challenging issues across the business. Andrew Binns”

“I had the pleasure to work with Stephen for a number of years, he is an analytical and extremely results driven finance professional with good track record. He has a positive attitude to approaching objectives and strategic initiatives. He possess out of the 'out of box' thinking and applies logical and practical solutions to road blocks or barriers in the day to day finance activities. On the personal side Stephen is a really sound, personable guy and someone you would really appreciate on your side.”

“Stephen was one of the best Finance Directors I have worked with at Oracle. Extreme integrity and attention to detail but also has a firm grasp of his subject area and can suggest creative solutions to business problems.”

“I had the pleasure of working with Steve for over four years and I always regarded him as a great asset to me and my team. He, without doubt, has a very strong finance capability. But he has the ability to understand the value of financial data to the business leaders and is extremely good at interpreting that data to fully support the needs of the business. He goes out of his way to understand the business objectives and is an excellent business partner, always providing very valuable strategic influence to fully support and achieve business goals.”

“Stephen is a high professional, service and result oriented. He masters the Finance role and was a key Strategic Finance Manager part of all key decisions cycle in the time we worked together. Proactive and with good sense of humor, he's not only a talented professional but also a charismatic person we enjoy the company. Seeking for perfection with happiness and willingness is his quest.”

“Steve is an exceptionally talented and hard working FD. He's creative and driven; a pleasure to work with and very dedicated. He built a strong team and delivered excellent results.”

“Stephen is a creative, highly motivated and knowledgeable Financial Director. Since assuming his role in Temenos he has revolutionised the finance organisation, ensuring that it functions as a partner in the success of the business as well as providing valuable insights and analyses to enable the company to adapt to market challenges.”

“Stephen is a rare breed of Accountant that not only does a great job managing the Balance Sheet, but also take time to understand and work with the Business. Stephen was part of my management team providing the right Financial data at the right time. Stephen also activley contributed to Business strategy and decsions based on his excellent knowledge of Finance.”

“Steve is an excellent Finance Director who takes time to understand the business and its strategic goals as well as the financial results. He sees his role as a contributor to the future of the organisation rather than just reporting on it's current performance. He has a real enthusiasm to succeed and considers his input carefully before contributing, so you know what he has to say is worth listening to.”

“Stephen is an extremely competent, self motivated Finance professional. During our time at Anite he improved our procedures for forecasting and governance so that we hit our performance KPI's period after period and returned one of the most successful set of numbers within the Business Unit's history. Stephen also continued with his professional development in his own time while fullfilling the role enabling him to progress in his career when the time came for him to move on.”