Kurt Scheepers - Fioee, Ba(Hons), Caib(Rsa) Email & Phone Number

Notth Lanarkshire

North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Essex

Delivering business advice and support to existing SME businesses within Essex and providing support with grant applications. Working in partnership with local and regional organisations to meet the needs of businesses and maximizing the best possible support available for growth.

Ipswich & Suffolk Coastal

Delivering business advice and support to pre-start, start –up and existing businesses within Norfolk and Suffolk. Working in partnership with local, regional and national organisations to meet the needs of businesses and maximizing the best possible support available for growth.

Cambridge & Peterborough Lep

The Local Enterprise Growth & Efficiency Programme: Delivering and facilitating the European Regional Development Funded grants programme to SMEs within the Eastern Region. This environmental programme was delivered in partnership with the Cambridge and Peterborough Local Enterprise Partnerships (GCGP).

Bury St. Edmunds, England, United Kingdom

This was a secondment to provide advice and guidance to the marketing department. The aim was to increase the number of business loans. This required strategic planning and implementation which resulted in the organisation increase its loan value to £220k within six months.

Ipswich, United Kingdom

Diagnosing and identifying key actions to move business forwards in line with agreed KPIs and action planning for maximum impactSFEDI (SFEDI is the Government recognised UK Standard for Business Support and Business Enterprise) Accredited Business Improvement Adviser acting as an impartial and independent adviser to Managing Directors and business owners within Suffolk.Extensive experience identifying business improvement & leadership opportunities and sourcing solutions to effectively meet objectives through agreed actions and managing relationship and key outcomes for maximum business and financial benefit.Businesses development covering all the key elements of business from Effective Networking, Business Planning, Marketing, People and Skills/Management development to give clients a dashboard and measure to really drive their business forward with a bespoke and holistic approach tailored to each client and their learning styles and needs. Consistently delivered exceptional and measurable key account management achieving consistently high customer satisfaction and meeting all my performance targetsWork in partnership with team members/ colleagues and key strategic partners/specialists to share knowledge and experience to meet customer’s needs as well as meeting and exceeding my own individual targets and contributing towards team targets.

Essex, England, United Kingdom

Actively sought out business development opportunities for products and services, new projects, bids and funding to meet corporate and contractual targets.• Successful in managing from inception the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) accreditation for Ixion Holdings Ltd. and establishing relationships with key partners and stakeholders.Successful in winning the Pave the Way construction bid - Value £500 000.00 to upskill learners within the construction sector to a NVQ level 2 and 3 qualification.Project managed: Employer Training Pilot with strategic partners (Learning and Skills Council Essex), Winning Managers (ESF and LSC Essex). These training delivery projects were focused on Organisational Needs and ILM First Line Management courses.Proven ability to work at all levels within a team and actively contributed towards project, organizational and individual performance measures.

Chelmsford, United Kingdom

SFEDI Accredited – Business Improvement Adviser acting as an impartial and independent adviser to Managing Directors and business owners. Identifying business improvement opportunities and sourcing solutions to effectively meet objectives through agreed actions.

Chelmsford, United Kingdom

Successfully delivering a Government backed training initiative designed to increase skills of employees within the workplace providing Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG) to Learners, employers and training providers.

Project Managing the On Site Assessment and Training (OSAT) project which was developed to expedite the shortage of Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) cards required within the construction sector and was supported by the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB).

Team Management: Managing the Workforce (Investors in People) and Client Services administration team with responsibility for the smooth and successful running of the department’s operations.

Specialised in winding up of deceased estates. Duties included a high level of customer care, income tax, liquidation and distribution accounts, transfering of assets to beneficiaries & delivering a wide range of value added services.

I started my own business as a tax consultant specialising in the small business and individual markets.

Worked in positions of progressive responsibility handling a variety of customer care, income tax legislation, supervisory and administrative duties

Ba (Hons), Business And Management

Fda, Business And Management

Professional Business And Enterprise Support, Level 7 (Diploma)

Activities and Societies: IOEE & SFEDI

Certified Associate Of Institute Of Bankers (Rsa), Advanced Diploma In Estate And Financial Planning & Diploma In Estate And Trust Administration

Activities and Societies: Certified Associate of the Institute of Bankers (RSA)

Level 3 Certificate, Management

Level 2, Accounting

Activities and Societies: Association of Accounting Technicians

Certificate, Real Estate Prelicesing

Ecdl

Activities and Societies: European Computer Driving License

Certificate, Developing Business Counselling Skills

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