Stephen Aldridge

Something you might not know about Stephen

He sang the Welsh National Anthem on the pitch in Cardiff before the Wales vs France Six Nations match in 2012.

His favourite city

London – there’s never a dull moment.

Three songs you’ll find on Stephen’s Spotify playlist

• Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd
• Purple Rain – Prince
• Jive Talkin’ – Bee Gees

What got Stephen started

Stephen’s fascination with financial modelling began alongside the rise of home computers. As a teenager, he was captivated by the possibilities technology offered and soon began using Excel for engineering calculations early in his career. After later training in accounting, he realised that the work he most enjoyed had a name: financial modelling. Combining analytical thinking, commercial understanding and technology, the discipline immediately appealed to him and has remained the focus of his career ever since.

Stephen is excellent at

• Turning complex ideas into clear financial models. Stephen helps clients organise their assumptions, plans and objectives into structured, practical modelling frameworks.
• Building confidence with investors and lenders. His models provide the clarity and robustness needed to support funding, investment and strategic decision making.
• Balancing sophistication with simplicity. Stephen creates models that are technically rigorous while remaining practical, transparent and easy to use.

About Stephen

Stephen brings a uniquely diverse professional background spanning engineering, sales, executive leadership and financial consulting. His early career was spent in engineering design and production control for factories owned by RTZ before moving into sales within the construction industry. Following the completion of his MBA, he worked closely with the Regional CEO of a global construction company before joining KPMG Consulting, where he specialised in financial modelling. He later expanded his experience at Deloitte before joining Denver McCann at Numeritas in 2004.

Over the following two decades, Stephen helped build Numeritas into a highly respected financial modelling consultancy, supporting clients across a wide range of sectors with complex funding, investment and strategic planning decisions. One particularly memorable success involved developing a refinancing model for a client’s loan portfolio that provided lenders with significantly greater confidence than the previous approach, ultimately reducing the client’s debt servicing costs by 40%. Following Numeritas’ acquisition by Factotum in February 2026, Stephen continues to help businesses translate complex commercial challenges into clear, credible financial models that support informed decision making and long-term growth.