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Donna Elliott

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Finance Director at D E Excel Designs
📍 Greater Derby Area, United Kingdom

Donna is a CIMA-qualified Finance Director with over 20 years of experience in senior finance roles, including CFO. She has deep expertise in financial planning, analysis, forecasting, and business reporting. Colleagues have described her as having a "sharp commercial intellect" and a strong determination to drive positive change.

She recently paused her successful career to focus on her family and her role as a parent to a child with special educational needs (SEND). Outside of her professional and family life, she demonstrates significant personal resilience and a commitment to fitness, including running even while recovering from an injury.

After building a career as a “trailblazer” in a male-dominated industry for two decades, she has pressed pause to reshape her priorities around her family.

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Experience
20 Years
Current Role
Finance Director
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Greater Derby Area, United Kingdom
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Financial Planning & Analysis
Her experience includes owning the forecasting, budgeting, and 3-year planning processes in previous senior finance roles.
SEND Parenthood
A recent and significant life event she shared publicly, stating that life as a SEND parent has reshaped her priorities and future plans.
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Career

Work history

8-2025
Finance Director
D E Excel Designs
3-2024 - 5-2025
Finance Director
Hallmark Engineering Group
9-2020 - 3-2024
Chief Financial Officer
The CFO Centre UK
7-2019 - 4-2020
Interim FP&A Finance Manager
Boots Opticians
6-2019 - 3-2024
Director
D L Elliott Ltd
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Education
CIMA
FTC Kaplan
AAT
FTC Kaplan
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