Swindon, England, United Kingdom
Financial executive with broad experience in all aspects of accounting, auditing and financial management. Direct experience mergers, Integration of acquisitions, outsourcing and system change. Interested in early-stage startups as well as companies undergoing change. Specialties: System Change, integration of acquisitions,Fleet Management, PRINCE2
Sage re-implementation for a manufacturing business which has found the manufacturing complexity, multicurrency and a series of changes in staff required a full installation
During • Turnover £19m rising to £72m, • 480 personnel rising to over 1500, • 200 to 520 cars, • 60 branch reports to 244. • Staff increase held down to five reaching thirteen due to efficiency, automation and streamlining of processes. Integration of multiple acquisitions. Doubling staff at end 04 and last three years (12, three in excess £2m turnover), disposals (4) and taking in 40 branches from other parts of the group. Met agreed deadline every month. Reduced monthly reporting (from 11 to 6). Intercompany accounts with up to 35 other parts of the group. Implemented treasury management on client account balances increasing year on year by over 35%. Managed client treasury for six years. Interest up to 24% of profit. • On group setting KPI’s for all PLC for contract management of outsourcing. • Multiple trips to India for training purposes. • Data managed the combining of Payroll and Personnel to single database. • Trained up external staff and transferred accounts to central server so outsourcing could be run from India. • Moved Fleet to on-line system and then to central team.
Turnover £28M and up to 300 staff building gas pipelines. Managed the change to UK Limited Company for new contracts simultaneously to completing the ongoing contracts to the French company. Set up new company accounts from scratch and redo four months work, while simultaneously running normal business and half year reporting. Multilingual team primarily French. Managing six staff including weekly payroll.
USA owned, Turnover £8M and 36 staff. Brought in to get the manufacturing back into production after a three year gap, primary trade Matbro parts business. Accounts, administration and IT functions with four staff. All reporting, Cash Flow, forecasting and Budgeting VAT, Payroll, Audit, Tax reporting and control. Primary liaison with Banks, Auditors etc. Annualised savings in overheads in my control of £40k (5%) in first six months. Extensive use of Office 2000 and Computer Associates accounts and manufacturing software.