Kobby Darko-Ampem

Strategic Finance & Leadership

• Strategic finance business partner to the CFO and senior leadership, shaping financial plans and performance management for three global priority clients generating c.$100m in annual revenue.
• Lead end-to-end financial strategy, planning and governance for complex, multi-market client portfolios, ensuring alignment with Omnicom Group targets and long-term profitability objectives.
• Provided senior stakeholders with commercial insight, scenario analysis and forward-looking recommendations to support investment, growth and margin decisions.

Budgeting, Forecasting & Performance Management

• Own annual budgeting, rolling forecasts and long-range planning for global client accounts across multiple regions.
• Deliver robust performance analysis versus plan, identifying risks, opportunities and variances, and driving timely remedial actions with operational and client leadership teams.
• Translate financial performance into clear, actionable insights to improve forecasting accuracy, accountability and decision-making.

Commercial & Client Finance

• Driving profitability improvement and cost optimisation initiatives through detailed financial analysis, pricing scrutiny and margin management.
• Partnering closely with client, production and operational teams to improve commercial discipline, cost control and financial outcomes across complex scopes of work.
• Monitor revenue, cost drivers and contribution margins at client and programme level to optimise mix and sustainable growth.

Operational Efficiency & Process Improvement

• Lead and contributed to business process efficiency initiatives, ensuring compliance with Omnicom Group financial policies, controls and governance standards.
• Identified and implemented opportunities for process improvement, automation and technology enablement across finance operations to improve scalability, accuracy and speed.
• Actively contribute to group-wide efficiency and transformation programmes, embedding best practice across global finance teams.

Stakeholder Management & Collaboration

• Built and maintained strong relationships with global finance teams and cross-functional stakeholders across regions, operating as a trusted commercial advisor in a fast-paced, creative production environment.

• Management of portfolio of clients valued at £16m, providing commercial oversight and strategic guidance
• Held commercial and financial responsibility for three satellite companies within the Mother ventures umbrella, each with a turnover ranging from £1m to £3m.
• Oversaw the preparation and delivery of regular commercial reports
• Direct line management of 2 senior finance professionals.
• Revamped financial reporting systems and processes, enhancing efficiency and improving the accuracy of reporting.

• An integral member of the Senior Leadership Team, steering the company's financial initiatives with commercial expertise and strategic acumen
• Developed an effective growth strategy with the management team, growing annual net revenue by 9.6%
• Streamlined month end and forecasting processes, shortening financial management reporting times by 30%
• Analysed data and addressed problem areas, decreasing monthly overhead expenditure by 4%
• Deployed and maintained best practice controls, policies and assurance, thereby ensuring the financial health and sustainability of the company
• Facilitated informed commercial decision-making by regularly producing accurate operational, pricing and costing reports
• Collaborated with group global client leads to manage contracts, MSAs and pricing negotiations directly with clients' procurement teams
• Recommended measures to senior management, which led to cost reductions, revenue generation, and greater efficiency of financial operations
• Trained junior finance employees for progression and best practice improvements

• Successfully migrated entity data and implemented a new enterprise resource planning system (Microsoft Dynamics) accurately and timely, in line with group policy
• Supervised accounting and financial control operations, managing $10M+ net revenue P&L
• Prepared monthly variance reports for strategic budgeting and forecasting
• Collaborated with account leads to improve client profitability metrics of several underperforming workstreams by 7-10 percentage points within 6-8 months
• Led financial modelling and scenario planning, identifying areas of risk and opportunities in the business
• Consistently completed statutory and regulatory reporting requirements within defined deadlines
• Managed payroll processing for 60 employees
• Liaised with overseas finance teams to prepare group-wide monthly and ad hoc analytics