Douglas Langford, Fcca Email & Phone Number

Plymouth, United Kingdom

Leading the finances for The Learning Institute (TLI) (including Arena and SCITT), Sherford Vale School and Holbeton Primary.

Ivybridge

Westcountry Schools Trust (formerly Ivybridge Academy Trust) is growing from 5 to 12 schools with an increase in turnover from £25m to £50m. Hired to assist the Finance Director in the transition period.

Cornwall

Maternity Cover for Callington Community College turnover £12m, one of the WeST Multi-Academy schools. Responsible for Finance, IT, Estates, Catering and Health & Safety

Plymouth, United Kingdom

Delt is a newly formed and expanding IT shared services provider for the public sector with turnover of £12m. I was engaged to lead on novation of supplier contracts, establish procurement and contract management systems and procedures and support customer contracts with respect to supplies.✔ Enabled Delt to engage with its customers on supplies to rationalise supplier contracts✔ Promoted appropriate procurement awareness and lead Framework and OJEU procurements

Exeter, United Kingdom

Flybe is Europe's largest regional airline with turnover of £600m. I was engaged on a contract / interim basis to carry out year-end project work for on-board sales working with the outsource partner and internal relationship manager.

Exeter, United Kingdom

Exeter College is a further education and higher education college with turnover of £45m. I was engaged on a contract / interim basis to fulfil this Accountant role until a permanent replacement was found. The scope of my duties included overseeing the preparation of monthly management accounts and statutory accounts, in addition to preparing multi-year and in-year forecasts, budget updates and reports. ✔ Improved financial planning by establishing a new unified methodology for maintaining multi-year financial plans, ensuring alignment with current forecasts.✔ Streamlined cash flow planning, removing redundant routines and eliminating unnecessary data, through the reduction of several accounting processes.

Plymouth, United Kingdom

Plymouth College of Art is a specialist further education and higher education college with turnover of £11m. I was brought on board to optimise the management accounting function whilst improving commercial awareness of the college and maintaining a strong balance sheet. ✔ Enabled the college to effectively monitor income generation, running costs and capital spend through the development of a strategic financial planning model.✔ Played a key role in establishing an effective web presence to provide answers to a variety of finance-related queries.✔ Streamlined finance practices via eliminating all manual and paper-based processes, including procurement card management, expense management and credit control.✔ Developed models on tuition fee income sales, sector funding changes and course costing in order to better identify opportunities and determine demands of the college.

Plymouth, United Kingdom

Invensys Controls UK Ltd manufactures and assembles controls for heating and cooling via factories throughout the UK, Romania and Thailand, with turnover of £50m. I was hired to manage statutory accounting and ensure the on-time completion of all monthly financial accounting packs. ✔ Accelerated payment processing and review time by proposing and leading an initiative to implement direct BACS to replace cheques.✔ Produced a report detailing statutory accounts amendments required following the implementation of IFRS.

Plymouth, United Kingdom

twofourtv.com was the multimedia subsidiary of the Twofour Group, which develops content and interactive programming for digital platforms, with turnover of £3.5m. I was hired to develop a finance plan and establish financial controls whilst integrating Finance into all other elements of the business. ✔ Improved business intelligence accessibility and reduced processing time by selecting and leading the implementation of Navision across the company.✔ Introduced company accounting and control systems, such as purchase ordering and standardised pricing, to ensure appropriate budgetary control and profitability.✔ Created and rolled out project estimating, costing and accounting methodologies / procedures to enable intelligent bid proposals and profitable order fulfilment.✔ Developed a capacity utilisation maximisation system for post-production facilities and the multimedia production unit which ensured that facilities maintained a high utilisation rate.

Plymouth, United Kingdom

Bristol, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Ba Joint Honours, Philosophy And Theology

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