James Foster
Finance Director, Legal & General Growth Partners
Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
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Finance Director, Legal & General Growth Partners
2024
Head of Finance, Legal & General Growth Partners
2022 - 2024
2016 - 2022
Head of Finance
2020 - 2022
ADV is a subsidiary of Legal & General Capital and invests in early stage technology companies and venture capital managers. I have ownership of all finance related activity within ADV.
Transaction and Investment Lead
2017 - 2020
Investment Lead
2016 - 2017
2014 - 2017
Investment Manager
2015 - 2017
Investing in and supporting ambitious entrepreneurs in Seed stage companies. Working with senior management teams on various aspects of strategy, finance and fundraising. My role and responsibilities included: - Sourcing investment opportunities - Evaluating potential investment opportunities, including market analysis, review of strategic aims, team composition, interrogation of financial forecasts and their underlying assumptions. - Production and presentation of investment recommendation papers to investment committee - Leading successful recommendations through a formal legal transaction and due diligence process to completion. Including the negotiation of key commercial terms with senior management, existing and incoming co-investors. - Participation in Board meetings of portfolio companies - Helping portfolio companies raise further capital, including input into the construction of strategic business plans with accompanying financial forecasts that showcased the commercial potential of an investment.
Finance Manager
2014 - 2015
2012 - 2014
Insight Analyst
2013 - 2014
As a member of the FP&A team, I worked closely with some of the cost centres and profit centres that form Sage UKI. Creating detailed budgets and forecasts alongside daily and monthly performance reporting to help the business units I partnered with deliver on strategic objectives and business goals. In this commercial role, I worked closely with senior managers that were not finance professionals, helping them gain actionable insight into the performance of their teams and business units to help them deliver upon broader business goals.
Management Accountant
2012 - 2013
I began my finance career at the global accountancy software provider, Sage. My initial roles included accounts receivable, ERP Implementation Project Assistant and member of the management accounts team. These roles allowed me to develop the foundations of my technical skills, gain a thorough understanding of how a large finance team fits together and gain experience working in a fast paced, high volume finance function.
2009 - 2011
HR Project Assistant
2009 - 2011