David Devine Email & Phone Number

Cookham Dean

Full-Time FD position.

Guildford, United Kingdom

Providing FD services to the UK operations of the Chinese owned pharma company.

Boulogne-Billancourt Area, France

Providing Finance Business Partnering and value added services to, Benelux, Nordics & Baltics, Greece, Poland, Ukraine, Russia & CIS and Central Europe. Challenging, collaborating and consolidating information across over 30 diverse countries from Kazakhstan in the East to Benelux and the Nordics in the West.

Barnstaple, Devon

Wrafton, Devon

Cumbernauld, Scotland

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Responsible for bringing ledgers from the USA to the UK as part of a major project in creating a shared service centre.

Heathrow

Responsible for all global forecasting, budgeting, planning and analysis for TCC. UK expert on Corporation Tax. Leading the Human Resource function within the UK HQ. • Streamlined and modernised the TCC’s Budgeting and forecasting systems and processes• Created a dynamic high performing finance team to deal with company’s phenomenal growth• Was the finance lead on project to on-board Tesco as a massive new retail customer in the UK• Led whole scale review of professional advisors on both Finance, Insurance and HR aspects of the business saving thousands and attaining higher levels of service• Implemented the concept of Business Partnering within the UK HQ providing a team of finance experts in the various aspects of the complex HQ departments greatly driving up internal customer satisfaction• Implemented Concur Electronic Expenses

Led the UK, Eire and Nordic finance function, on the UK Leadership/Strategy Team, Board of Directors, Board of the Pension Trustees and Nordic Board. As the UK commercial division business partner had responsibility for all budgetary, management and statutory reporting.• Negotiated price increases on some of our products with the department of health increasing the bottom line by an average of over £65k per year• In-sourced our Corporation Tax dealings and resolved 4 HMRC tax enquiries saving tax consultancy fees on average of £40k per year • Project managed our Europe Middle East and Africa product rationalisation, eliminating 326 products/pack sizes in various markets saving around $1m to the bottom line• Pro-actively created relationship between the Department of Health and key Parliamentarians during the 2009 PPRS negotiation cycle successfully providing positive outcomes for small and medium sized Pharma companies by lobbying from the SME perspective• Produced detailed and robust cost analysis used as supporting evidence in defending pricing pressure from a major customer demanding unilateral discounts, saving £450k of margin• Appointed Director of our Nordic company during 2008 and project managed the rationalization and ultimate liquidation of the entity• Prepared regular Return on Investment (ROI) cost/profit analysis for the commercial division to enhance decision making in the business and on one set of analysis alone, our consumer promoted products saved £500k in unproductive investment• Formed a commercially astute UK finance team that pro-actively supported our internal customers resulting in very happy and confident business relationships across the different departments ensuring budgetary cycles and variances on spends processes went smoothly • Led the transition from Stiefel to GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) on the acquisition, ensuring all finance processes in the UK Commercial remit of Stiefel were satisfactorily passed to GSK

Manager of a 14 member team with responsibility for all financial reporting, general ledger, accounts payable, treasury, compliance, intercompany, VAT, Corporation Tax, Statutory accounts, corporate reporting and latterly fleet management. • Co-led the implementation of SAP in the organisation and several subsequent upgrades• Project managed system implementation of Bravo a financial consolidation package• Transformed the department from an in-house operation to a shared service centre for other Johnson and Johnson (J&J) companies• Commended by internal Auditors, external Auditors and J&J Corporate as to the quality of the financial information and reliability for meeting deadlines

Responsible for a team of 6 producing all the periodic management & statutory reporting and cash flow statements.• Supported the configuration and report writing development on the implementation of SAP• Led the financial accounting stream for the successful privatisation of the British Rail division integrating within tight time frames and new accounting structures• Played a pivotal role by my secondment to the Project Completion Team which saved £30m+ for the new owners on the purchase price from British Rail

Preparation of all detailed UK corporation tax computations for all Nortel British group companies. • Won a case against the Inland Revenue with the Revenue Commissioners on agreeing that semi-conductive flooring was part of plant and machinery and not building accelerating capital allowance claim by decades and saving £15m in the short term• Dealt with major integration of a UK FTSE 100 company and their tax affairs going back decades