Christopher Quayle Email & Phone Number

Stoke-on-Trent, England, GB

Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom

Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire

Newcastle Under Lyme

South Manchester

Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

• The UKs largest dedicated vehicle rescue and recovery operator with turnover of £38m and over 500 employees. Company is part of the Bidvest Group (South African company)Finance Director and Company Secretary Leading.
• Restructured finance department to reduce headcount by 2 FTE
• Appointed purchasing consultants to review areas of expenditure, reduce costs and improve profitability
• Assisted in successfully renegotiating new customer rates on unprofitable contract
• Introduced daily profitability reporting for service centres
• Negotiated with customers to clear old debtors balances and improve cash flow

Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

• Head of Finance Ageas Insurance Solutions April 2012-December 2014Head of Finance Ageas Retail Partnerships January 2015 to date
• Led department of 29 comprising finance, credit control and bordereau, pricing and data analytics
• Member of the Executive Management Committee involved in developing and executing strategy and direction for the business
• Led finance team on delivered forecast £520m GWP new business revenue, securing two new contracts, consisting of 1,736k new policies, through development of robust, credible business cases
• Increased profitability of existing partnerships by £0.8m through leadership of finance modelling leading to re negotiation of contracts
• Reduced costs of credit control function by circa 10% and enhanced customer experience throughout automated and improved processes

• Managed the Marks and Spencer finance relationship covering all reporting, planning and joint venture issues.
• Developed, co-ordinated and monitored performance against the business objectives, goals, strategies and measures through leadership of the Planning and Performance team
• Enabled senior leadership to identify cost saving opportunities through initiation and facilitation of expense challenge workshops as part of strategic business review.
• Introduced a streamlined weekly performance report for senior management team enhancing key metrics visibility

Staffordshire

• Variety of accounting roles – technical, financial, business partnering, operational finance plus company secretarial
• Successfully led IFRS workstreams
• Led financial controls review
• Managed financial accounts resource on acquisitions and securitisations
• Led due diligence teams on mortgage book acquisitionsBritannia High Performers Talent Pool September 2008 to October 2010Various ‘challenge’ roles as part of development programmeFinance Business Partner
• Managed investor relations team including work on debt issuance for liquidity and funding purposes during the banking crisis and year end investors’ presentation.

Staffordshire

• Led a department of 35 staff (incl. banking, suspense, accounts payable)
• Changed the culture to one of continuous process improvements resulting in efficiency savings, improved processes, an improved customer experience and reduced headcount.
• Drove cost savings of £150k per annum in the branch network by working cross functionally to drive cash management savings.
• Improved department efficiency, spans of control and management focus enabling the department to support expanding business volumes without additional FTE.
• Led internal team working with Ernst Young reviewing finance controls across the group to provide assurance for finance director on control environment.
• Developed the capability, cross skilling, motivation and career development of financial operations staff through the introduction of accreditation scheme

Staffordshire

• Led a team responsible for financial accounts and regulatory reporting and member of finance department management team. Member of credit committee and risk capital committee. Member of the Building Societies.
• Improved communications with internal and external stakeholders resulting in successful year end with positive feedback from stakeholders including audit committee and auditors.
• Improved staff satisfaction scores particularly around work/life balance and communication.
• Project sponsor for regulatory reporting project to the Bank of England which successfully delivered within budget and on time.

Staffordshire

• Led a team responsible for monthly financial accounts, regulatory reporting and technical accounting advice across the group. Team grew from 4 staff to 15 staff as the business expanded setting up minimum of 2 new.
• Led various workstreams for successful implementation of IFRS, including effective interest rate. Used communication skills to break down technical issues for board sub-committee presentation to obtain project funding.
• Managed financial accounts resource to ensure that financial control maintained and regulatory reporting completed on acquisition of £4.5bn of savings balances
• Part of management team who increased profit in unsecured lending joint venture by 33%.
• Member of project steering groups responsible for implementation of Oracle general ledger with specific responsibility for the design of new chart of accounts
• Ensured correct accounting treatment and regulatory reporting as member of project steering group which delivered new offset mortgage product to increase product range for customers.

Staffordshire

Cost Accountant March 1997 to September 1999Lead a team controlling costs, non- margin income, projects and purchase ledger.Principal Auditor August 1994 to February 1997Managed audits within Finance, Treasury and Lending departments. Led cross functional team on due diligence work prior to acquisition of £1.1bn of mortgages.

Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire

• Chartered Accountants. Qualified as first chartered trainee from Stoke on Trent office.
• Work ranged from accounts preparation and audits for owner managed businesses to audits for plcs.