I am a CIMA qualified accountant with over 30 years as an accountant, auditor and finance professional. I am based on the South Coast, between Portsmouth and Chichester.I have significant experience in business controls and audit, system implementation and analysis, personal, statutory and management accounts, audit and tax, M&A (both buy-side and sell-side) as well as due diligence (buy and sell side). I am detailed and thorough, organised and efficient. I communicate well with all businesses partners, regardless of their financial expertise. I am really good at creating order from chaos, and at hitting the ground running.I have extensive experience of Company Secretarial duties. I have many years experience at all elements of financial management and reporting, from hands on purchase ledger, sales ledger, cashflow management, inventory management, through to reporting at all levels (management accounts, statutory accounts, forecasts, budgets, project accounting, dashboards, KPIs etc).I am very flexible and have excellent communication skills, both verbal and written. I am IT literate. I am experienced at setting new systems in place and teaching others to use these. I can learn any new system very quickly. I am an excel super user and a Xero Certified Advisor.I'm pretty marvellous really.