Finance Director
Current• Leading cross functional team incorporating : Business Finance, IT, Planning, Credit Management, Projects & Process Improvement, Data Integrity and reporting and Supply Chain procurement.• Key member of Supply Chain management team, with delegation responsibilities for the Managing Director.• Full Fiduciary responsibility for all Supply chain processes including Sarbanes Oxley and Internal controls.• Financial responsibility for P&L ~ £35m per year, B/S ~ £10m.• Direct… Show more • Leading cross functional team incorporating : Business Finance, IT, Planning, Credit Management, Projects & Process Improvement, Data Integrity and reporting and Supply Chain procurement.• Key member of Supply Chain management team, with delegation responsibilities for the Managing Director.• Full Fiduciary responsibility for all Supply chain processes including Sarbanes Oxley and Internal controls.• Financial responsibility for P&L ~ £35m per year, B/S ~ £10m.• Direct commercial responsibility for 3rd party Software contracts, key support to MD for all contract negotiations including Clients, Freight, Materials and forklifts.• Direct people management responsibilities for a team of 5 with a wider team of 60.Achievements• Over achievement of budget in each of the 10 year full years completed removing over £3m from the operating run rate.• Together with MD, gaining Corporate approval, designing and over-seeing new build of 500k sq.ft. warehouse and Goods to Person automation (£78m project).• Creation / implementation of client profitability tool which has facilitated the renewal / exit and winning of new clients.• Improvements in DSO for both home & export and 95% reduction in aged debit notes• Creation of data reporting and integrity team driving a culture of management by fact• Driving organisational development within each of the teams focussing on rewarding strong performance and improving poor performers. • Implementation of Salesforce CRM and Webform order management tool. Show less