Nick Barry

Nick Barry

Chief Financial Officer

In his role as CFO, Nick is responsible for managing the finance activities of the company as well as linking the company’s strategic objectives with the financial goals of the business by ensuring a high performance culture. Providing leadership and direction to ASL as part of the Executive Team, maintaining stakeholder and investor relations, ensuring good corporate governance and risk management.

Nick has over 13 years experience working in multinational professional services businesses in various Finance Leadership roles. The most recent of which was in the role of Regional Head of Financial Systems & Reporting as part of the Senior Leadership team for a large multinational. During his time in this role he was responsible for delivering multiple ERP System migrations for different entities within the group, the implementation of a Business Intelligence tool, Financial & Project Reporting as well as Business Process design and implementation. Nick has extensive experience in reporting, modelling and strategic analysis. Nick also served as a Trustee on the company Pension Board.

Nick graduated from the University of South Africa with a Bachelor of Business Administration, following this he went on to complete his CIMA Professional qualification becoming an Associate Chartered Management Accountant (ACMA) and receiving the Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) designation. He also completed multiple short courses, most recently a certificate in Advanced Project Management through PM Academy in 2019.