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North East England

The Orange Partnership is a specialist chartered accountancy practice, focused solely on providing robust cost reviews and assurance to major construction projects and operationally critical contracts. We offer a unique blend of accountancy and construction knowledge.Our purpose is to help clients achieve success with their major programmes by identifying opportunities to minimise risk and maximise efficiencies. In simple terms we tell you if it’s broken and what you need to do to fix it. Quickly.Now and over the last decade we have been trusted to advise and review many of the most exciting and significant construction projects taking place within the UK. What we do:Contract Setup and Mobilisation, Commercial Assurance, Cost Assurance, Contract Audit, Commercial Recovery, Dispute Avoidance and Recovery

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the transformation of cash Development appraisal’s into relevant P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash flow used in Development’s five year plans.• Commercial review of all Development appraisals prior to submission within the five year plans.• Face to face advice and support to Development Directors

Stockton On Tees

• Responsible for five construction infrastructure contracts. TCV in excess of £8m. Employed at the back-end of late running projects with the specific remit to reduce client (Serco) losses on a significantly over-budget projects. • Responsible for the half year and year end commercial accounting papers used by our external auditors and shareholders.• Responsible for the monthly commercial forecasts, budgets and adhoc reports using SAP and Serco reporting systems.• Monthly commercial and financial review of individual projects and departmental results. Including Cash flow monitoring of all contracts.• Review of detailed construction contracts (NEC3 Contracts), including liquidated damages clauses, scope of works clauses.• Commercial review of all compensation events, risk registers and work programmes.• Preparation of contract application’s, Early Warning Notices, Variation Order’s.• Provided cover for the contract Project Manager and Quantity Surveyor.• Crisis Management when required.

Cleveland, United Kingdom

Responsible• Responsible for the monthly forecasts, budgets and adhoc reports for a 10 year managed service outsourced contract with Cleveland Police worth over £178million.• Monthly commercial and financial review of individual projects and departmental results.• Responsible for Steria’s Public Service Sector (PSS) monthly payroll reports• Responsible for PSS monthly management accounts preparation. • Contract change control commercial & financial appraisal and analysis.• Responsible for the risk/contingency analysis on the Cleveland Police account.Achievements• Identified mistake with the rental charge for the new Shared Service Centre worth £120k due to incorrect accounting treatment.

Knaresbrough

An insurance broker with over two hundred members, part of the Towergate Partnership. Turnover in excess of £14million with over 200 staff.Position - Group Financial Controller - Temporary Role (max six months)Filing of statutory accounts, production of letters of representation and group support letters, direct liaison with external auditors.Responsible for complex vertical group consolidation.Production and filing of "Financial Services Authority" group reports.Management of 10 members of staff.Due diligence of new members and advice to main board directors.Preparation of group risk register and presentation to parent company internal audit.AchievementsCost savings in excess of £10,000 with mobile and land line phone contracts.Project manager of commissions MI project.Group expenses gap analysis presented to Group FD.

four month temporary role.Preparation of management accounts.Preparation of tax returns.Strategic financial advice to SME's.Preparation of VAT returns.

M'Boro - Group T/O £60M

Responsible• Report directly to the Group FD and main board. This included weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting.• Responsible for 11 (FTE) members of staff, 3 IT staff and 9 accounts staff.• Responsible for the timely and accurate management of over 100 daily P. invoices and a similar no. of s. invoices.Achievements• Increased group profits from approx £1.5m in 05/06 to over £2m in 06/07.• Recovered £12.5k from the administrators of a customer of the B&S, after lengthy negotiations with the official receivers. To date we are only supplier to ever receive money back.• Introduced new system KPI’s which increased profits and improved invoicing.• Reduced from three months to six weeks the time required to produce the year end external audit pack and management accounts.• Introduced new systems for stationary supplies, significantly reducing cost in this area.• Re-negotiated new contracts with our photocopier and franking machine supplier saving in excess of £10k per yr.• Encouraged B&S board to invest in a new VOIP phone system and Thin Client laptops saving the group over £50k per year.• Managed 15 Bank accounts including two dollar and one Euro account.• Introduced stock audits of Carpets and Accessories. Part of a small team that chose the new bar code scanning stock warehousing facility. The system chosen was linked successfully with our Furniture Retail System (FRS) accounting software.• Financial liaison with group software designer, Barclays Merchant Services, External Auditors and host of other major suppliers.• Introduced simplified cash sheets throughout all the stores, which enabled the monthly cash reconciliations to be produced on a timely basis. This reduced fraud and improved our group cash management.• Negotiated with Barclays Merchant Services to reduce the rental cost of the PDQ machines in each store. Also ensured they complied with new legislation.• Liaised directly with our Solicitors to recover cash from problematic customers.

North East

Subsidiary of Viridian Group PLC; IT reseller. Divisional turnover in excess of £15m.Position - Financial Controller SX3's Infrastructure Services DivisionDivisional turnover in excess of £15m. AchievementsPreparing a £4.5million Managed Service Bid for Mitsui Babcock involving the roll out of £1.5m of IT infrastructure, liaising with our own engineering staff and Viridian Group Legal and Tax departments. Managed six direct reports and over sixty consultants /engineers within my division.Grant Aid funding for a new office block by direct contact with South Tyneside's own finance staff.Identifying the opportunity to promote work done at Tees Port to other Port authorities UK wide, using Tees Port as a case study, which helped win over £50k worth of sales.Identifying a weakness in the group's human resources policies towards travel expenses, car allowance allocations and direct expenditure authorisations, which has resulted in new policies currently being issued.Negotiating a new commission structure with the sales staff, reducing client debt and improving group loan repayments when rolled out group wide.Major contributor in the turnaround of the division from loss in 2001/02 of £100k to profit in 2002/03 of £745k. Facilitated the integration of the new SAP accounting systems from SAGE. Negotiated the group CIS5 tax exemption certificate and grant aid funding of £50k for new office block.Discovered fraud of £30k in Sx3 Scotland; During face to face meetings with Sunderland Housing Group senior finance staff spotted a lead for them to spend the £250k with Sx3 on their Disaster Recovery Scheme.

Achievements Helped maintain the profitable nature of the SARL business, over £0.5m in fiscal year 2000/01. Liaised with an outside company to ensure that Eutech Ltd recovered their overseas VAT. Liaised with ICI Group for letter of credit for a major Middle East contract.

of WS Atkins Plc; Quantity surveying and construction consultancy for planning, estate management, and site surveys.Position - Company Accountant AchievementsSmooth flow of day to day managerial information.Implementation of a cheaper car allowance scheme.

Introduced controls to monitor recovery of cash flow and prevent further deficits.ARRIVA Cymru - Saved £65,000 due to mistakes in over-provision of

ExperiencesTrained and qualified as an ACA whilst at Ernst & YoungExternal Audit - audit of year end results, preparation of statutory accounts, advice on best practice, compliance with the Companies Act, UK and Danish GAAP for many companies.External Audit Sector ExperiencePension Schemes, Engineering, Manufacturing, Construction companies, Petro-chemical Companies, Further Education establishments and Housing Associations. Also internal audit experience.Achievements at clientsImproved the security of stock valued at £100,000;Accounted for a major foreign acquisition;Used the clients own information in a more proactive way to increase audit efficiency; and Gave advice on transport procedures in view of the then current Health and Safety regulations

B Sc; Honours, Geography

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