A commercially experienced financial manager, with an extensive knowledge of the advertising & marketing environments, particularly in the "agency" side of advertising, while maintaining my specialist expertise in the niche "Out-Of-Home" and "Experiential" disciplines.My management skills are light-touch, but firm when required, in order to create an environment for spreading ideas that work. I actively encourage others to contribute and challenge the current status of operation, in order to achieve growth and development of both the team and more importantly the business.Key skills include, financial planning, business transformations, decision making for "start-ups", implementations, process planning, technology and training recommendations, particularly with recent company legislation.I have extensive knowledge of both the "traditional" advertising markets including press, radio, TV etc. alongside a deep exposure to the niche "OOH" operations, from both a "client", "agency" and "media owner" perspective.My recent work has been within the international, digital and social media marketing solutions, alongside programmatic buying, product placement and dynamic scheduling solutions.Financial experience includes both group and statutory reporting, internal and external audit, compliance, ethics, payroll, personal tax, corporation tax, VAT, H.M.R.C. reporting, M.T.D, emerging technologies, treasury functions, company and employment law, programming and web design along with sound grounding in commercial management and cash-flow reporting.System experience includes "MediaOcean" (formally DDS) SAP, BPC, Microsoft Dynamics, One Source, Sun Accounts, M.T.D (Tax), ADP (Payroll), Ceridian, Pegasus, Sage, Prestige, BIBS, RBS (treasury solution) and Concur (business expenses).Other development and commercial interests include, database management, digital imagery, image manipulation & enhancement (repairs, alignment, stitching, design and publication), programmatic buying, IT hardware design and software development, graphic systems, digital convergence, online publishing, web design, media integration, "BASIC" & HTML" programming, online trading & insights.Home Interests : Historical research papers and document preservation, cartography, digital imagery enhancement, philately, publishing (both on-line and in print), on-line trading options, web design, deltiology, militaria, palaeontology, geology, numismatics and even squeezing in a few social activities, pubs, clubs and other essential exercise routines, to keep the body in synch with the mind.