A well-established SME in West Sussex with an excellent heritage in manufacturing, selling, and servicing of air compressors to key customers in the UK. 2022 Turn over circa £40M, total employees 114.• Full responsibility and successful sign off year-end close and audit including financial statements submission, UK GAAP.• Full responsibility and management of the finance team of four, including leading a timely and accurate month end process, p&l consolidations, company wide payroll, accruals, prepayments, all journal postings and cashflow statements.• Point of contact with the bankers, insurers, HMRC, auditors, tax advisors and key suppliers.• Successful preparation and ongoing review of annual budgets and forecasts• Successful delivery and liaison with HMRC on VAT, corporation tax, annual tax computations, P11Ds, PAYE, EU and Northern Ireland import/export compliance, CHIEF transition to CDS and postponed vat accounting• Ongoing completion of Office of National Statistics surveys and reports.• Compliance with all companies acts legal requirements including timely filling of compliance statements and annual reports for four companies.• Full responsibility for all company secretarial and legal duties.• Project management of ERP implementation

A 103-year-old British SME in Sutton with an outstanding reputation in industry, producing Jigsaw Puzzles, board games and playing cards. With great expansion plans into Europe, 2022 Turn over circa £8M, total employees <30.• Full responsibility and successful delivery of the timely monthly management accounts to the board including full P&L, Balance Sheet cash flow forecast and full commentary. • Full responsibility of local and international compliance and VAT returns liaising the respective authorities.• Full responsibility of the finance team AP, AR, external audit liaison for year-end audit, insurance broker, bank, underwriters, royalties, commissions, and management of dunning and customer credit limits.• Successfully implemented the annual budget and rolling reforecast process including stress testing, capacity planning, variance analysis and remediation strategies in response to dynamic market conditions.• Successfully Implemented a balanced scorecard with companywide KPIs and monthly C Suite Dashboard reports.• Developed finance controls and end to end business processes from purchase to pay and sales to revenue.• Process improvement on SAP B1 post ERP implementation, including and not limited to cleansing master and transactional data, mapping chart of accounts, resolving opening and closing balance issues, complete matching of trial balance, customer/supplier reconciliations, fixed asset register, stock revaluations, GRNI and tax.• Successfully Implemented inventory revaluation model across nine warehouses in UK and Europe

OVER 100 YEARS IN THE MAKING...2019 marked 100 years since our founder, Harry Percy Gibson formed H. P. Gibson & Sons Limited. Now into our fourth generation with Harry’s great-granddaughter at the helm, we are proud of our British heritage and are still providing fun family pastimes for all ages 102 years on.Our team and product offering have grown a lot over the last ten decades, however our values remain the same. ‘Bringing people together’ underpins everything we do: from encouraging people to play games, and creating a happy working culture, to supporting a local children’s charity and valuing the relationships with our suppliers and customers.

Safran is an expert in the fields of embedded systems and in-flight and on-ground safety, developing high-tech equipment and systems that perform essential functions on board aircraft.The Group provides a wide range of products that include safety systems, evacuation (slides, emergency arresting systems, oxygen masks…), electrical systems (electrical power management, lighting…), control systems (fuel management, telemetry), water and waste management systems (toilets systems, fluid management systems).These products are used in commercial aircraft and helicopters, business and regional aircraft as well as military aircraft. Safran's equipment is featured on the Airbus A350 XWB and A320neo, the Airbus H160 helicopter, the Boeing 737 MAX, the Sukhoi Superjet 100, the COMAC C919 as well as on Dassault Aviation's Rafale.World #1 in evacuation systemsAs the world leader in evacuation slides, the Group equips more than one out of every two commercial aircraft. It was notably selected by the Chinese manufacturer COMAC to equip its new single-aisle aircraft, the C919. In addition to providing evacuation slides, the Group also supplies life rafts and lifejackets. These evacuation products are also highly popular in business aviation: Bombardier has chosen Safran to equip the Challenger 350, 650, Global 5000 and 6000 with rafts and vests.

Photobox an online digital company has three production facilities. London, Paterna and Paris. The business operates in 10+ countries, over 34 million customers predominantly in Europe. Turnover 0.17bn. As FP&A Manager for the UK Operations, I reported to the FP&A director, dotted line to UK MD.

We source and process over 780m flower stems and we supply 26m kg of premium vegetables to the UK and Europe each year. All of these products are delivered to our customer’s depots fresh and in peak condition thanks to end-to-end temperature controlled transport and warehousing. We are able to deliver from farms to depots in 72 hours.Flamingo’s world-class farms in Africa are situated in Kenya (near Mt Kenya and Lake Naivasha) and in South Africa (near Johannesburg).The Kenyan farms cover a combined total of 1,856 hectares. Situated on the equator at high altitude, Kenya offers ideal growing conditions for flowers and vegetables, with consistent temperatures and regular rainfall.Our farms include;Kingfisher- Naivasha – (Roses, Spray Carnations, Fresh produce)Flamingo – Naivasha – (Roses and Fillers)Ibis – Mount Kenya – (Tenderstem, Broccoli, fine beans, runner beans, sugar snaps mangetout, spring onions as well as a range of fresh herbs)Siraji – Mount Kenya (Spray Carnations, large headed roses)

Deloitte, is a multinational professional services network with offices in over 150 countries and territories around the world. Deloitte is one of the Big Four accounting organizations and the largest professional services network in the world by revenue and number of professionals, with headquarters in London, England. Major services offered are Tax Audit Risk Financial Advisory and Consulting.