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Strategic advisory• Working with clients to identify and develop their plan for the business and aspirations for what it will achieve.• Building a cohesive plan to do just that and working with them to implement it, monitor and refine through to successful conclusion.Corporate Finance • Dealing as lead advisor on acquisitions and disposals.• Financial due diligence delivering reports that give opinions and recommendations not just regurgitating the facts.• Valuations for shareholder disputes, share issues and EMI options.Audit • Delivering audits that add value not just cost! An audit gives an insight to a business that no one else outside of it gets and so I believe it is vital to use that and my experience over many, many, many (I’m getting old now) years and bring that to bear to give value add as part of the audit.Technology• I head up the sector for the firm and have genuine expertise particularly in the space sector, games and apps, bioscience and software where I have helped clients by using my network of contacts to introduce them to opportunities.Entrepreneurial Businesses• Any accountant can prepare your accounts. My clients get someone who is part of their team and looks out for them. I often introduce opportunities to my clients that are nothing to do with the pure accountant relationship and are of genuine commercial value.

Guildford, United Kingdom

Oversight of internal control procedures and liaison with Internal and External audit functions

In charge of a wide ranging portfoilio of clients from SMEs to @£125m income entities and Government organisations, Universities and Further Education Colleges

The LBP acts as the interface between local business and the regulatory authorities of the local council, cutting the red tape and increasing communication flows both ways

A voluntary appointment where, as Chair of the Audit Committee, I was responsible for embedding the risk management processes, liaison with Internal and External Auditors and monitoring the internal control processes of the organisation.

External audit manager handling a portfolio of clients including large FTSE 250 global groups

Audit senior leading predominantly SME external audit assignments