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Nicola Harwood

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Senior Vice President of Financial Planning & Analysis at Aptean
📍 Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

Nicola Harwood is the Senior Vice President of Financial Planning & Analysis at Aptean, leveraging a strong background in mathematics and economics from Loughborough University. Her career shows a consistent progression in finance leadership within the software industry, including a prior role as Finance Director at Sanderson.

She is actively exploring the shift from AI analytics to AI action, with a particular interest in how agentic AI systems can observe, reason, and execute tasks to drive business outcomes.

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Experience
18 Years
Current Role
Senior Vice President of Financial Planning & Analysis
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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Agentic AI
Personally learning how agentic AI can shift business systems from simply providing analytics to taking direct action based on reasoning and observation.
AI-Driven Planning
Focuses on using AI for smarter, faster supply chain decision-making and real-time execution, leveraging recent acquisitions and industry recognition.
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Career

Work history

2-2025
Senior Vice President of Financial Planning & Analysis
Aptean
3-2023 - 2-2025
Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis
Aptean
2-2022
VP EMEA Finance
Aptean
3-2020 - 2-2022
Finance Director
Sanderson
9-2017 - 3-2020
Head Of Finance
Sanderson
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Education
2004 - 2007
Mathematics with economics
Loughborough University
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