I've worked closely with Oliver over the past year and I can say with confidence that he is one of the sharper Financial Controllers I have on my books at senior level. With a decade of experience in hotel finance and his current role at PPHE Hotel Group, he has been operating at the sharp end of a listed, brand-independent environment where the bar for rigour and presentation is genuinely high. What stands out to me is that he hasn't just been running numbers internally. he has been the person responsible for communicating financial performance directly to owner-operator stakeholders, which is a skill set that not every FC at his level has properly developed.

Oliver told me that the owner reporting piece at PPHE has been the work he's found most stretching and most rewarding in equal measure. Translating complex hotel P&L movements into clear, credible narratives for a listed group's ownership structure requires both technical precision and a good deal of commercial confidence. From what he's described, and from the references I've taken informally, he handles that interface well. He's not someone who hides behind spreadsheets. he engages, he explains, and he builds trust with senior stakeholders.

From a practical standpoint, Oliver is based in London, which makes him straightforward to place for any central or South East based role, and he is on a six-week notice period, which is entirely workable. Given his background in brand-independent hotels and his comfort with the owner-operator dynamic, I think he would slot into your environment with minimal ramp-up time. I wouldn't be putting him forward if I didn't genuinely believe he's the right profile for what you've described.