Ben Haber

Ben
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Key strengths

  • Project management at corporate level
  • Bi-lingual to business proficiency
  • Problem-solver, likes taking bigger picture issues and taking them to delivery of individual projects and tasks

Bio

Ben qualified as a Chartered Accountant with BDO, where he worked for 5 years, including a secondment to BDO Argentina, and held finance roles in the oil industry.  As a result, he has covered financial modelling, management and reporting and process improvement and implementation for a variety of organisations.

Prior to On Purpose he worked on a day to day basis with social enterprises.  He gained experience in social investment with Engaged X and assisted in setting up a public engagement and involvement enterprise and consultant for a social enterprise accelerator, in addition to volunteering for Finance Matters.

Ben has also consulted for a social enterprise accelerator programme, including modelling their investment fund.

Placement 1: Bonsucro

  • Project managed review of the Bonsucro strategy
  • Carried out a review of the entity’s funding model and built an excel financial model to test the assertions
  • Co-developed Human Resources and Appraisal process
  • Project managed the office move, including fit out and set up
“We were delighted to have Ben join our team – not only was he a pleasure to work with, but he brought considerable experience, skills, and enthusiasm to the team. He helped us in understanding and reviewing our business and funding model, as well as taking on responsibility for some key operational projects, such as overseeing the design of, and move to, our new office premises. Ben was thoughtful when we needed someone to be thoughtful, and ferociously driven when we need someone to push something to completion, always resulting in a top-class work product. He would be a significant asset to any team and I have no hesitation that he will be hugely successful and impactful wherever he chooses to end up.”

– Simon Usher, CEO, Bonsucro

Placement 2: RBS

  • Project managed the production of RBS Social & Community Capital (RBS S&CC), RBS’s arms-length social finance intermediary charity’s, first impact report
  • Devised and organised an early stage social enterprise workshop day, including delivery of a workshop
  • Co-ordinated the creation of the first website, flyers, case studies and customer videos for RBS S&CC
  • Reviewed loan applications from social enterprises and took to credit committee those deemed potentially investment read

A little more about me…

Something my CV doesn’t tell you: Mexican American Londoner, fascinated by makers/creatives and local produce.

The greatest thing I’ve learnt this year: Uncertainty can be positive and Nigel Kershaw is one of the people I’d most like to be sat next to at a dinner party

What social enterprise means to me: An answer to some of the problems inherent in capitalism and society, but by no means the only answer or the perfect one

My favourite training session: Creativity with Parita Doshi from Oomph! Wellness

The organisation I wish I’d started: the Bootstrap Company in Dalston or

What I wanted to be when I grew up: A teenage mutant ninja turtle or to go to Top Gun (I am most definitely a child of the 80s)

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