James Stackhouse Email & Phone Number

Bedford

• Turnover £250m, 2500 Employees
• Lead monthly performance reviews with the Executive team. Identify opportunities and risks for growth and profit and recommend appropriate courses of action.
• Deputise for the Finance Director when required.
• Partnering with business leaders to deliver financial and operational objectives.
• Create and manage the Shared Service finance function for Belron® UK and Autoglass® Bodyrepair covering all aspects of financial consolidation, reporting, business intelligence and business partnering consisting of.
• Lead the business through all planning activity including strategic plans, annual budgeting and rolling forecasts linked to a fit for purpose S&OP process.

Bedford, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

• Turnover £250m 2500 employees
• Transformed the finance team from a transactional processing function to a value-added function through People/Process & Systems.
• Created and implemented the business process strategy within Autoglass to create an end to end view of the organisation.
• Developed finance commercial activity through establishing a proactive business partner function.
• Leading and developing the Finance Function to provide clarity, insight and challenge, totalling c60 people consisting of Financial Accounts/Management Accounts/Business Partnering/Payroll/Accounts Payable/Cash.
• Business partnering to the Exec and Senior Management team to advise and support the business strategy and value add projects.

• £40m Turnover 500 Employees.
• Number 1 role within Finance reporting to the MD.
• Provided direction for all budgeting, financial analysis and reporting within the business.
• Accountability with the AutoRestore MD for agreement and delivery of the annual budget
• Led financial activities to ensure financial transactions, policies and procedures meet short- and long-term objectives.
• Provided financial leadership to the business through strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting

Chesterfield

• Accountability for fixed site P&L performance consisting of 9 locations with £20m Turnover
• Provide financial support to the operations, sales and finance directors to deliver the vision for remodelling the operational model
• Successfully manage 5 direct reports and carry out Monthly 121’s
• Production of annual fixed site budgets in support of the group budget process
• Produce an accurate and timely set of month end results working closely with the financial accountant to ensure that group reporting deadlines are maintained.
• P&L + Balance Sheet Consolidation of fixed locations and cost centres (9 operational fixed site locations, all individual with varying capacities and complexities and overheads

Chesterfield

• £22m Turnover 280 Employees
• Direct Responsibility of the Credit Control Team consisting of a team leader and 3 credit controllers.
• Monitor and reduce the company’s aged debt balance (2.3m) including overdue ledgers.
• Ensure CID covenants are achieved to maintain maximum working capital.
• Manage the quarterly CID external audit.
• Responsible for the department meeting internal & external SLA.

Chesterfield, Derbyshire

• Assist the Financial Controller to develop and deliver the strategic business plan in collaboration with the other members of the management and finance team.
• Develop management and financial accounts information for decision making purposes, and financial information to new formats and timescales.
• Identify areas of risk, cost reduction and business improvement
• Develop accurate budgets and communicate variances to ensure the management teams take appropriate actions.
• Management of year end audit requirements and liaison with auditors.
• Reconciliation of accounts and preparation of journals including cash management and review.

Ashbourne

• Month-end Journals (Overhead, COS, Accruals, Prepayments, Revenue, Stock)
• Daily/Month-end reporting sales/production etc.
• Production of Monthly Management accounts
• Customer Profitability analysis (Top 20 Revenue)
• Variance Analysis (Price Variance/Volume Variance and O/H Variance)
• Monthly Profit Forecasts (For Division by Product Department)

South Normanton, Derbyshire

• Standard Costing, transport costing, absorption costing.
• Producing weekly/monthly stock reports for both internal and external sources
• Raising client monthly distribution Invoices and stock interest invoices
• Responsibility and supervision for the Pricing Function
• Responsibility and supervision for the Purchase Ledger Function
• Cost of Sales

South Normanton Derbyshire

• Testing/Development of a new system (Major sales order system Implementation)
• Provide Technical Support
• Create Validation Documentation Report
• Create UAT test Scripts
• Devise a training plan and provide training for the new system
• Implementing new SOP’s (Standard operating procedures)