Treasury - behind the scenes with Simon Neville

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In the next of our senior leadership discussions, hosted by Triona Dowd of the Chartered Accountants Ireland London Society, Simon Neville, the Group Treasurer of Reckitt Group plc, speaks about his experience as Group Treasurer in a global leading FTSE company.

Overview

Reckitt is a global leader in consumer health, hygiene and nutrition. Reckitt has Revenues of circa £13bn, over 40,000 employees, operates in 60 countries and sales in almost 200 around the world. 
Simon speaks about his journey from an Accountant to a Group Treasurer of a world leading FTSE company, where he successfully managed more than £30 billion of financing related transactions, including multiple bond issues and share buy backs. He touches on his experience of managing business during a cyber-attack.

Simon is a valued member of the Reckitt Group’s Finance Leadership team.

At Reckitt, Simon has developed a value adding group treasury and insurance function, with the team awarded “Team of the Year” by the Association of Corporate Treasurers in 2018 and, and “Deal of the Year” for the Mead Johnson acquisition financing package in 2017.
Please join us to gain an insight from behind the scenes of a Treasury department at a world leading FTSE company.

Biography

Simon NEVILLE is Group Treasurer of Reckitt Group plc. In 2020 Reckitt reported Q3 revenues of £3.5 billion and has a market capitalization of some £50 billion.
Simon manages Reckitt’s global Treasury and Insurance team, with additional responsibility for pension funding, and is a member of the Group Finance Leadership Team and Pension Governance Committee.
Simon has lived and worked in Hong Kong, Australia, the Middle East and across Europe, and held senior finance leadership roles in a number of diverse international groups including the Jardine Matheson Group, TOTAL s.a., Tesco plc and Tullett Prebon plc.
Simon is a Fellow of both the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants and the Association of Corporate Treasurers and holds an MBA from Kingston Business School. 
Simon lives in Surrey, and outside work is a Trustee at Young Epilepsy and a Council Member of the Association of Corporate Treasurers. He is a Fellow of The Royal Society for the Arts.