Delivers heavy duty financial and general business management to smaller organisations on an interim and part-time basis.

Manufacture and installation of pre-cast concrete products to the construction industry; specialist transport, warehousing and distribution. £50m turnover, 500 employees. Blue chip client base.Responsible to Group Chairman for providing strategic and day to day financial leadership and administrative support, with staff of 19.• Financial Strategy: as member of main board of directors, formulate, implement and monitor operational and financial performance in line with medium and long term objectives and plans.• Financial Control: preparation of weekly, monthly and ad hoc management information, budgets and forecasts, and annual fiscal accounts.• Profit Responsibility: in collaboration with senior management team, ensure group performance within prescribed budgets by maximising turnover and margins, minimising overheads and optimising cashflow. Acquisition, joint venture and investment appraisal.• Company Secretariat: ensure total compliance with all legal, statutory, fiscal and insurance obligations and best practice.• Pensions: administration and control of all aspects of group defined contribution and death in service schemes.• General Administration: manage and develop in-house administrative functions, including human resources, payroll, information technology, facilities management, vehicle fleet and corporate support services.Major Achievements• Financial Restructuring: instigated and successfully concluded major financial restructuring, involving complex negotiations with financial institutions and various other sources of finance.• Management Information: completely overhauled management information systems, with dramatic improvement in accuracy, relevance and timeliness.• Information Technology: installed new accounting (Access Dimensions) and bespoke order processing, production planning and order fulfilment systems. Achieved on time and within budget, involving management of multi-discipline project team.

Manufacture of architectural veneered products to the construction industry.Responsible to Managing Director for all financial and support functions, including control of all management information, accounting, financial management, budgetary control, strategic planning, investment appraisal, treasury, taxation, internal audit, company secretarial, payroll, pensions, BUPA, insurance, information technology, human resources, facilities management and general administration matters, with staff of 9.• Joined company during period of severe financial difficulty and successfully turned round operating performance.• Instigated and helped implement downsizing of UK operations in response to decline in traditional markets and development opportunities in the Far East.• Rebuilt credibility with bankers and investigated alternative and additional sources of finance. Exercise included production and presentation of detailed 3 year business plan.• Completely overhauled management information systems, introduced system of budgetary control and implemented controls for all aspects of company expenditure and cashflow.

STUDIO EDITIONS LIMITEDInterim Finance DirectorInternational consumer book publishing.• Rebuilt credibility with bank and institutional investors by completely overhauling accounting and management information systems and producing achievable business plan.• Implemented system for covering significant exposure to US dollar.SOUTH EASTERN GROUP PLCInterim Finance DirectorElectrical and mechanical engineering.• Rebuilt credibility with bank by completely overhauling management information systems and producing achievable business plan.LAWRENCE PUBLISHING LIMITEDInterim Finance DirectorInternational consumer magazine publishing.• Rebuilt credibility with bank by completely overhauling management information systems and producing achievable business plan.• Cleared up several doubtful debts, in particular avoiding a single bad debt of over $50,000.• Integrated finance function into the rest of the organisation.SSP LIMITEDInterim AccountantOn-line fixed odds betting.• Resurrected failed computerised accounting system and integrated substitute manual records, thus enabling preparation of year-end statutory accounts.• Completely overhauled management information systems.• Prepared budgets and forecasts in line with growth potential of overseas, particularly Far East, betting markets.• Implemented system of cashflow forecasting and control.• Totally reconciled long-standing differences on punter deposit accounts.• Major involvement in preparing joint venture bid for national lottery.• Assumed acting chief executive role in owner’s absence.

International IT and management consultancy.• Managed group through period of substantial growth, involving total upgrade of all aspects of accounting, financial and management information systems.• Maintained and developed systems and procedures for effective credit control. Exposure to debtors reduced by 30% and funding requirements decreased by £1m.• Created and maintained budget models, resulting in exercise being completed in 80% less time and with much greater accuracy and flexibility.• Incorporation of German Subsidiary: investigated and complied with all statutory, fiscal and labour law requirements, leading to successful operation of profitable overseas business.

Joined as Trainee Accountant and received thorough grounding in all aspects of accounting and finance at group and divisional level.