Facilities Management Association

New Chief Financial Officer at PHS

 

The PHS Group has appointed Simon Woods as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Simon joined the workplace services provider on 5^th November 2012 and will lead the financial management of the Group, working closely with CEO Gareth Rhys Williams to drive sustained profitable growth.

 

Simon brings a wealth of senior financial management experience to PHS, accrued in markets having a good synergy with the Group. His previous position was Interim Finance Director for British GasBusiness; part of the top 30 FTSE 100 listed integrated energy company Centrica plc. Before that, he was Finance Director with the waste collection business of Biffa, earlier having been its Group Financial Controller. He was also Finance Director for RelianceSecurity Services Ltd for five years, and held a number of other senior finance roles prior to that, since qualifying with KPMG.

 

A life-long sailor, an enthusiastic motorcyclist and a classic car fan, he is married with two children.

Simon comments: 

 

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The PHS Group is a leading workplace services provider, and has traded in the UK since 1963. It has a diverse portfolio of services aimed at improving work and leisure spaces, while making life much easier for facilities, building and people managers. 

 

It really does ‘do more than you think’, providing services for:
 

·         Crate rental and packaging

·         Interior and exterior planting

·         Laundry equipment and workwear

·         Matting and flooring

·         Pest control

·         Records storage and management

·         Shredding and recycling services

·         Testing and compliance

·         Washrooms

·         Waste management

·         Water machines

·         Workplace consumables

 

PHS provides these services direct to UK companies, and also operates as a tier one supplier to the facilities management market, supporting the integrated service propositions of most of the major FMs.

 

The PHS Group employs around 5,000 personnel, operates from a network of 153 regional service branches, and takes care of over 250,000 customers at over 450,000 locations in the UK, Ireland, Holland, Belgium and Spain.