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Chester Le Street

Tyne & Wear

Doncaster, United Kingdom

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Temporary role completing year end and cover during recruitment period.

Leicester, United Kingdom

* Managed the support services including finance, HR, legal, facilities and risk management.* Provided strategic financial direction to ensure the achievement of the business plan.* Developed effective operational systems both to ensure compliance and to meet the 3 major organisational changes the company went through.* Embed a culture of budget management within the organisation.

Barnard Castle

* Prepartion of year end accounts* Produced efficiency strategy* Produced capital management strategy

Hartlepool

* Responsible for £32m Adukt & Community Sector* Year end closure* Budget production* Revenue and capital monitoring

Stockton On Tees

* Managed the support services including finance, HR, facilities and corporate services department.* Provided strategic financial direction to ensure the achievement of the business plan.* Initial 5 years developed the company as a private company career service delivering throughout Teesside. * Worked with the new CEO in bidding and awarding of the then new Connexion service doubling the size of the company.* Achieved further increase in company size from winning various contract bids from numerous funding sources including European funding and commercial contracts.* Successully managed all the financial, legal, estate and HR issues in the 2 year period that resulted in the company closure and transfer of the Connexion service back into local authority control, and the transfer of the commercial contracts to a national company.

Stockton On Tees

* Managed finance, adminstration, treasury. * Company Secretary.* Developed and implemented new financial systems.* Production of annual and management acounts, budgets & cash flow forecasts.* Updated credit control systems and treasuery management to enable the company to propser in the competitive building sector

Middlesbrough

* Managed a finance department of 13* Restructed accounts department as a resuly of the merger of two companies* Provided financial expertise to chief executive* Produced management accounts using standard costing technigues

Brentford

* Managed expansion of Finance Department increase from 4 to 12 staff.* Management and financial accounts production.* Left to relocate to north east, but was offered a more senior role to entice me to remain.

London, United Kingdom

* Responsible for consolidation of the Metal Division of Cookson PLC comprising 30 companies with a £250m turnover.* Involved with acqusition of companies.* Company secretarial and taxation

Worksop

* Investment appraisals of capital sanctions including company takeovers.* Evaluation reports produced for Board.* Introduced use of spreadsheets in producing 10 year projections.

Worksop

* Maintenance of authoritys financial systems.

Epsom

* Assisted the Financial Accountant producing the company annual accounts.* Managed the accounting for the company's activities in Saudi Arabia and Iraq.* Produced the 100+ technical directors P11d's often with expenses in region of £100k pa.

Acca Level 3

Acca, Acca Levels 1 And 2

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Ond In Business Studies And A Levels

O Levels

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