# From Ports to the Deal Table: How FP&A Earned a Seat at Peel Ports

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Podcast: [FP&A Today](https://stenobird.com/podcast/fp-a-today-6945461)
Published: 2026-06-23T07:55:10+00:00
Episode link: https://FPAtoday.podbean.com/e/from-ports-to-the-deal-table-how-fpa-earned-a-seat-at-peel-ports/
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## Resource

In our first FP&A Today episode to cover the shipping, ports and haulage sector, we look at the FP&A powering Peel Ports Group, the second largest port operator in the UK, which manages the vital gateways powering the UK. Alex Roche has built the FP&A team at Peels Ports, based in Liverpool, England, which generates £800M spread across 10 divisions. The group has invested over £1.5 billion over the past decade in advanced logistics, cranes, warehouses, and terminal upgrades. Highlights of his nearly decade time at Peel Ports include Co-building the Group's FP&A function for a £400m-EBITDA multi-site, and developing formal evaluation models for two major commercial deals totalling £100m+, enabling better-informed investment decisions and a £7.5m increase in realised deal value In this episode: The importance of volume in ports and how KPIs revolve around the metric M&A at Peels Port and setting up the FP&A team and building models FP&A recommendations around vertical integration with a new haulage business The power of teaching others coming up in finance and accounting Why Simon Sinek was right and FP&A should start with why Board on Peace Brigades International UK as a finance trustee Two favorite Excel functions

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