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Sam Lewis

Finance consultancy
  • Suggested rate
    $590 / day
  • Experience8-15 years
  • Response rate100%
  • Response time1 hour
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Leicester, England, United Kingdom
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  • and around Leicester (up to 50km)
  • and around London (up to 10km)
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Sam in a few words
With over 20 years experience in financial services - from start up to plc - I'm here to help your business achieve its goals with a wide range of consultancy and finance solutions. Whether the requirement is for growth, consolidation, a Non-Exec, negotiating with your existing lender, undertaking project work or something bespoke to you, I'm well placed to meet your requirements, allowing you the time to run your business.

As a business owner myself, I understand the different challenges that come with running your own business, from the requirement to operate all departments by yourself, to the fast-paced changes required in an SME, to the intensive information requests from lenders when you want to access funding to grow your business.

I'm a qualified banker and Associate of the London Institute of Banking & Finance, ALIBF. I have a wide range of finance experience that allows me to take a long term, holistic approach to helping clients, often with projects that will take months (and in some cases years!) to come to fruition. I also works as Sales Director at Goodman Corporate Finance, a commercial finance brokerage, so am ideally placed to help you access finance.

I have the flexibility to look at short term, long term or part time projects depending on individual requirements.
Experience
  • Goodman Corporate Finance
    Sales Director
    BANKING & INSURANCE
    July 2020 - Today (4 years and 4 months)
    United Kingdom
    Goodman Corporate can access funding from over 300 banks and lenders across the whole commercial finance spectrum. Whether you are looking for an unsecured business loan, development funding or invoice finance, we can find a funding solution for every credit type, including turnaround scenarios. As we are not tied to a specific funder, you will always be offered a range of bespoke funding solutions. This gives you the option to choose the best deal for your situation.

    We also take pride in managing your whole deal from the moment you get in touch, right through to the release of your funds. You will never be swamped with calls from funders. Instead you will only ever be approached by your contact at Goodman Corporate Finance. In addition to crafting a bespoke deal for all of our clients, we abide by the NACFB code of conduct offering complete fee transparency. For more information about how we can help your business find the right funding solution, please contact me on [email protected] or 07766 608033
  • Lewis Commercial Finance Ltd
    Owner & Director
    BANKING & INSURANCE
    September 2022 - Today (2 years and 1 month)
    I started my own consultancy business in the midst of the pandemic as numerous contacts, principally CFOs, Non-Exec Board Members and SME Owners, required help sourcing their finance requirements in a constantly changing market. To date

    Developed a number of longer term consultancy projects and built a list of clients, with direct influence on their teams and therefore P&L
    Finance sector growth SMEs Consultancy
  • ThinCats
    Director, Regional Business Development
    January 2019 - May 2020 (1 year and 4 months)
    1 Prospect Pl, Millennium Way, Derby DE24 8HG, UK
    ThinCats is dedicated to funding growing and ambitious UK SMEs across all industry sectors using pioneering data, personal relationships and a pragmatic lending process. We aim to simplify the traditional bank-dominated commercial lending model by connecting SMEs directly with institutional and retail investors. ThinCats is a true alternative finance provider with a focused, responsive and accountable service, enabling businesses to seize opportunities, grow revenues and expand into new areas. Focusing on senior secured loans our pioneering, personal and pragmatic approach has helped us lend £350m to businesses across the UK and we now have over £800m of institutional funds to deploy. 2018 was a record-breaking year for us with £1 12m lent and we are aiming to build on this significantly in 2019. My role is to originate and structure lending facilities for growing and ambitious SMEs across the East Midlands. We specialise in secured and cash flow loan facilities from £250k - £10m which are available for a variety of reasons, including:
    • Funding business Growth and expansion
    • Management Buyouts and Buy-ins
    • Acquisitions
    • Refinancing/restructuring of debt
    • Employee ownership schemes Most of my career has been spent building relationships and securing new business and I'm delighted to be able to continue this at Thincats, where the ethos and environment echoes my values of honesty and integrity. My extensive network consists of entrepreneurs, business owners, intermediaries, advisors and many others across the East Midlands, specialising in the SME and Mid-Corporate markets, so if I can't help, I may know someone who can. Please contact me on 07766 608 033 or [email protected]
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Education
  • BSc Hons in Finance
    Manchester University
    2009
  • Associate of the London Institute of Banking & Finance
    LIBF
    2009
    Qualified Banker (formerly ACIB)
  • BA Hons in History & French
    Manchester University
    2003