{"id":442131,"date":"2021-08-10T15:15:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T14:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/?p=442131"},"modified":"2021-08-10T15:15:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T14:15:54","slug":"multiplex-uk-finance-director-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/peoplemoves\/multiplex-uk-finance-director-leaves-10-08-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiplex UK finance director leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multiplex UK finance director Zahida Hanif has left the business.<\/p>\n<p>Hanif joined the Australian-owned contractor in April 2018, having spent more than a decade at rival Lendlease. She was appointed finance director of the UK business in January last year.<\/p>\n<p>A Multiplex spokesperson said: \u201cZahida Hanif has stepped down from the UK finance director role to spend time with her young family before considering her next move.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hanif\u2019s replacement is expected to be named shortly.<\/p>\n<p>Multiplex UK suffered a \u00a3158.6m pre-tax loss in 2020, which it blamed on the disruption caused by the pandemic. Turnover dropped to \u00a3599m for the year to 31 December 2020, down from the \u00a3872m the previous year. The contractor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/contractors\/multiplex\/multiplex-suffers-covid-hit-of-up-to-170m-08-01-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cut around 70 jobs in 2020<\/a> in response to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The firm has picked up a number of major new contracts in the past year, including the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/contractors\/multiplex\/multiplex-lands-former-us-embassy-job-08-03-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a3400m redevelopment of the former US Embassy in Mayfair<\/a> and a 35-storey office tower at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/buildings\/sectors\/plans-for-36-storey-1-leadenhall-set-for-approval-24-01-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1 Leadenhall Street<\/a> in the City of London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiplex UK finance director Zahida Hanif has left the business. Hanif joined the Australian-owned contractor in April 2018, having spent more than a decade at rival Lendlease. She was appointed finance director of the UK business in January last year. A Multiplex spokesperson said: \u201cZahida Hanif has stepped down from the UK finance director role &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26091,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[541,2167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-multiplex","category-peoplemoves","issue-13-august-2021"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.7 (Yoast SEO v26.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Multiplex UK finance director leaves | Construction News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Multiplex UK finance director Zahida Hanif has left the business. 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