Searle, Philip
Phil Searle
Founder, Chazey Limited
Phil has recently established his own company, Chazey Limited, providing expert business advisory services in Finance, Shared Services, Business Process Outsourcing and Technology.
Phil is on the Editorial Board for Shared Services News (a publication of the Shared Services & Outsourcing Network) and is an Advisory Board Member of SharedXpertise. He is also a regular speaker, judge and chairperson at various Finance, Shared Services and Technology events around the globe, including:
- IQPC’s Annual Shared Services Week in the United States
- IQPC’s Annual Shared Services Week in EMEA
- IQPC’s Shared Services Summit West in the United States
- IQPC’s Annual Finance and Accounting Shared Services Conference in EMEA
- SharedXpertise’s Finance Transformation Event in EMEA
- SharedXpertise’s Trends and Technologies Event in EMEA
- The 2003 Annual General Meeting of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, Northern California
Phil also writes a number of articles on these subjects, including for Shared Services News, SharedXpertise and Finance Director Europe.
Until recently, Phil was Group Vice President and CFO of Cendant TDS’s International Markets Division. This role encompassed all areas of Finance across four continents, focusing on Accounting and Control, Decision Support, Financial Planning and Analysis and Financial Shared Services (Professional, Technical and Transactional).
Prior to Cendant, Phil was VP Finance and Corporate Controller at 3Com Corporation, based in California. Here he headed the Corporate Controller Function and the Worldwide Shared Accounting Services team. While at 3Com he led far reaching organisational, technology, service delivery and business process improvement initiatives. Phil also championed the company’s global Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) strategy, resulting in the roll-out of SAP across all business units, regions and functions, including Finance, HR, Supply Chain, Logistics and Customer Support.
Phil has worked in various financial management & control and shared services roles for over fifteen years since leaving KPMG, where he trained and qualified as a Chartered Accountant (ICAEW). He has a BA Honours Degree in Economics from the University of Exeter and is also a member of Financial Executives International (FEI).
