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Bilsthorpe, England, United Kingdom

Bilsthorpe, England, United Kingdom

Managing the finance team and implementation of a new ERP system for the Enva England Specialist Waste

Bilsthorpe, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

Commercial position to help the business become more efficient and profitable. Responsible for performance analysis, reporting, forecasting and budgeting, project management and investment appraisal.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Interim Finance Business Partner for Enabling Functions supporting the HR, IT, Legal, Property and Marketing teams.Helping operational managers and heads of department to understand their business performance and analyse future opportunities for improvement.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Creating a disaster recovery / business continuity plan for the Nottingham site of 820 employees, liaising with departmental managers to produce a jargon-free, operationally sound and tested plan to safeguard the business.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

• Full responsibility and accountability for cost control of 150 stores (£12m pa).• Managing all of the retail support functions (Finance/Property/HR/IT/Logistics) for 150 stores across 12 different countries in Europe.• Reporting, budgeting and forecasting on European retail sales and profitability, acting as the business partner for the European Sales Manager.• Continual review of store sales and profitability leading to store closure or relocation and new store opening decisions.• Re-organised the European retail management team along national structures in order to re-establish sales growth and hit store operating profitability targets of 20% per store.• Responsible for delivery of financial training to the retail support team and store managers.• Development of the right staff, systems and processes to effectively support individual store managers based in mainland Europe.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

• General management role responsible for a team of 55 staff delivering site Health and Safety management, Security, Site Engineering, Reception, Cleaning services, the Staff Restaurant and the Customer Visitor Centre.• Created the business plan and led the project team to transform the Customer Visitor Centre with a £3m investment budget – resulted in an annual sales increase of £2m and increased operating profit by £0.8m per year.• Full responsibility and accountability for site running costs of £3.5m per year, maintained flat annual site costs despite headcount increasing by 15%.• Improved Bugman’s Bar (customer facing) profitability from £150k to £250k per year.• Reduced the staff restaurant subsidy from £250k to £100k per year through increased sales and reduced running costs.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

• Created and implemented the “One-Man Store Concept” and developed all the protocols to ensure staff understanding and buy-in to deliver significantly increased profitability for the retail business.• Managed and profitably expanded the retail store portfolio from 95 to 140 stores.• Responsible for reducing average new store shop fit costs from £35k to £16k.• Reduced average UK retail store running costs by 35% in 3 years.• Responsible for new store investment appraisals and business cases to expand the retail portfolio.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the accurate/timely financial reporting of the UK Sales business (Sales £45m pa).• Created the kpi’s for focused performance management, helping to improve decision making and profitability.• Part of the UK Sales management team responsible for creating and delivering the strategy to grow UK sales and profit for the group business.• Leading and developing the accounts team of 12 staff to deliver accurate, timely and insightful financial reporting to drive better business decisions.• Lead for the difficult decision to restructure the UK Sales business saving £2m pa in annual running costs, resulting in a return to UK profitability.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

• Delivering clear, accurate and timely performance analysis to the management team.• Improved the clarity and timeliness of all month end reporting.• Responsible for the management of 3 accounts staff.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Nottingham, United Kingdom