Profile- Senior finance professional with significant experience working with corporations and SMEs in a financial, commercial and operational capacity (21+ years and 18+ years PQE).- High achiever and innovator who has generated £millions in profits.- Producing management and statutory accounts, supporting system implementations and process improvements, developing new financial models and KPI reporting, managing the production of strategy, budget and forecast.- Supporting and leading supplier negotiations, managing supplier and client contracts, defining and reporting on sales and marketing plans, creating ad hoc business cases and managing projects.- Comfortable and confident working with the team on the ‘shop floor’ as with the executive board and external stakeholders.Key Expertise & Experience- Producing management and year-end statutory accounts including reconciliations, journals, stakeholder liaison and insightful commentary.- Years of experience managing Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Payroll and Bank.- Supporting budget holders across functions such as Treasury, Sales, Marketing, Human Resources, Merchandise Procurement and Non-Merchandise Procurement (e.g. Warehousing, Logistics, IT etc).- Facilitating the budget, forecast & strategy process for small businesses (e.g. turnover £1M) up to large businesses (e.g. turnover £500M).- Working with management, defining KPIs, producing and presenting reports to provide an increased understanding of actual performance to improve decision-making and profits.- Experienced working individually, within a team, managing finance and cross functional teams.- Microsoft certified expert in Access, Excel and Word with extensive use of PowerPoint and Outlook.- Extensive training and experience with many accounting and reporting software packages including Taxfiler, QuickBooks, SAGE, Oracle, Lawson, Agresso, Business Objects, TM1, Cognos and MGP.- Able to learn new software and become expert quickly.