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Chester, United Kingdom

Oxbury is building the UK’s specialist agricultural bank. We will provide farmers with the lending they need to run their farms and provide savings accounts to anyone that want to support British agriculture.

Congleton

Chester

Responsibilities & Achievements:- Responsible for Group Wide International Finance function for 11 entities; all accounting, forecasting and budgeting activity across the Group. Primary contact for all external advisers.- Implementation of financial controls. - Responsible for ensuring that there was an identifiable and evidenced business and financial model.- Provision of business and financial challenge to a commercial / development focused senior management team.- Development of a transparent business model to support strategic planning and decision making.- Created a framework for project control, establishing KPIs for delivery efficiency and changing the methodology for new business evaluation and review.- Evaluation and changes to commercial terms, resulting in improved cash flow, improving customer engagement and highlighting the risks included in current and future agreements.- Improved banking relationship, achieving a doubling in the size of the overdraft facility.- Ongoing management of the cash position, ensuring potential issues were addressed.- Identification and elimination of risks and implementation of financial controls and processes. - Delivery of first set of audited accounts.- Lead role in the strategic sale of an individual business unit. Reviewed individual entity performance driving the divestment of one of the businesses, reducing cash burn from failing investment and creating cash inflow from sale and onward commercial engagement.- Lead role in the negotiation and execution of the sale of the Group, sold by the 34 shareholders, compromising corporates, HNWI and current management. Completion of Due Diligence, negotiation of Sale & Purchase Agreement terms and conditions, challenge and negotiation of acquisition funds flow, review of legal documents to provide context in business operations. Onward integration of the business post sale and provision of required reporting to Corporate Standards.

Manchester, United Kingdom

One of the world’s leading manufacturers of building products, specifically working for the UK business with revenues of over £140 million per annum and employing circa 1,000 employees. The position was created to make a step change in the way in which the business was managed, linking the finance with the commercial and manufacturing functions, to provide a holistic and consistent view for decision making.Job Title: Revenue Controller Responsible for the financial management to Gross Margin, and reporting of the business.- Monthly management of P&L to Gross Margin level; Production of Monthly Executive Pack.- Responsibility for overall business budgeting and reforecasting activities, agreeing strategic direction and implementing into quantitative forecasts. - Evaluation of industry information in combination with internal knowledge to create single understanding of industry size. Forecast of future demand for both current year production requirement, and future capacity planning activities e.g. factory closures. - Management of Internal and External Audit for areas of responsibility.- Overseeing and involvement in annual / periodic standard costing - Overseeing and involvement in significant capital expenditure appraisals.- Drove change in business approach from a simple volume and value approach to customer and product segmentation analysis, which in turn drove customer specific strategy.- Responsible for delivery of new Management Information to drive change and improved financial performance.- Development of consistent approach to Customer, Regional and Sales Manager, and Product Group profitability reporting.- Commercial UK lead on a European wide “demand forecasting to drive production” project to achieve significant working capital benefits. - Management of £2.7m annual rebate budget, forecast, accruals and payments. - Indirect management of several staff across finance, credit control, sales and customer services.

Crewe, United Kingdom

Finance Manager – Central, Bentley Motors, 2009 to 2010- Management of the annual Planning Round process for the business, providing co-ordination and challenge through the business.- Monthly reporting of major movements and variances, investigation of the major drivers and co-ordination of revised forecasts from the various areas of the business.- Development of the first project financial model from project initiation to forecast end of life, providing a holistic view of the project and identifying significant areas of weakness in the business case development.- Financial and strategic development of future business scenarios through business modelling. Finance Manager - Projects, Bentley Motors, 2007 to 2009- Management of the regular reporting, reforecasting and annual budgeting process across vehicle development for current and future models. - Implementation of revised forecast process to focus on delivery of value and evaluationary nature of projects.- Responsibility for specific projects for limited volume orders. Typically had board level focus due to sensitive nature of project and customer relationship.- Financial lead for the development of a intranet based reporting tool.- Led the development of reporting to support the Engineering department. Development of Engineering coordinators financial awareness to ensure localised support.- Audit responsibility on all Project Finance related activity.

Knutsford

Responsibility for forecasting and reporting for £600m annual central cost base.Creation of key reporting, presented to the Barclays Executive Board. Implementation of a revised forecast methodology, aligning three budgeting cycles.Implementation of an online SAP based planning tool.