Achievements• Developed effective real time MI System. Scoped internal financial requirements, re-engineered internal processes, developed and wrote multiple queries alongside software developer to extract relevant data from Front End System. This resulted in a significant trading margin improvement with a £100k favourable variance reported to budget in 2015.• Created financial model to document and monitor companies financial book position. Worked alongside key senior management in sales and operations to manage company exposure to LME movement and maintain a neutral trading book. As a result low margin ingot sales were reduced as proportion of total sales from 26% in 2014 to 3% in 2015.• Completed and secured AQSIQ certification to allow direct trade with Chinese customers. Appointed Chinese agent and grew direct sales into China to £1m in first year. Role/Responsibility;• Manage trading division; oversee the sourcing and procurement of material to deliver corporate trading targets. Managed department wit 4 direct reports.• Oversee the company trading book and manage the risk profile against volatile commodity markets and moving foreign currency positions.• Manage the purchasing operation to deliver the required foundry feedstock on time and cost effectively. Develop and improve internal processes & systems to deliver an integrated purchasing function to work effectively in a fluid and rapidly changing environment.• Oversee logistics function managing material collected and shipped within UK. Also managed export of containers to Europe and ROW including all export documentation.• Establish, develop and maintain key supplier accounts over time to secure and deliver material input for both foundry and trading divisions.

Achievements;• Implemented a new spreadsheet model for budget and rolling annual 3 year plan for group submission. This included high degree of automation incorporating look-ups, pivot tables and macros to facilitate scenarios planning with flexed assumptions. This model was rolled out to other group companies • Restructured and up-skilled finance department. Managed out two of the team members for under-performance. Created and filled a new production accountant role to deliver a finance led solution for improved operational efficiencies.• Led an internal finance project targeting improved operational efficiencies. Redefined physical and transactional processes to capture real time information and develop metrics on production costs by melt and by shift. Defined and drove multiple operational changes across the manufacturing cycle from root cause analysis. Production overhead fell by £30/t in 2015 compared to 2014. Roles & Responsibilities;• Manage and mentor a finance team of 6 across 2 sites, including qualified and part qualified accountants.• Produce monthly management accounts split by division to strict group timetable. Performance analysed over four trading business.• Produce and present monthly group board pack including power-point presentation to senior management team including CEO and CFO of group PLC. • Overseeing the working capital and treasury position. Rolling 13 week cash-flow forecast submitted weekly to group. Management of foreign exchange position including hedging of Euro and US Dollar at point of sale. • Ownership of all IT systems (FRED (Front End)/ Coda (Finance) / Cognos (Reporting).• Budgeting / Forecasting / Strategic Planning. Develop & implement robust internal controls.• Lead annual audit. Facilitate annual internal audit.

•Business development, seeking new work•Liaising with banks to ensure each build project had adequate funding•Preparing and submitting contract tenders for prospective new work.•Managing cash flows and working capital requirements to deliver build programmes.•Preparing labour & material schedules to drive build programmes•Overseeing order processing, reviewing inventory levels, auditing of internal processes.•Reporting and meeting with clients and surveyors on progress, issues, and costs to complete.•Margin improvement, re-design or re-engineering internal processes.•Fulfilling internal Q.S Role, take offs, measures, price checks, price works•Managing retentions and contract variations

•Dealt directly with appointed contractors and independent Q.S to ensure the delivery of contracts on programme and on budget. Developed key metrics and indicators to feed into the board reporting pack.•Ensured that financial targets were achieved or exceeded, highlighting any areas of non-performance to facilitate early and corrective action.•Recruited & Managed the accounts team of 3. •Prepared and presented consolidated accounts to the board on a monthly basis.•Oversaw the internal QS function, signed off all of the internal project appraisals and cash flow projections for prospective land acquisitions

•Managed a team of seven within the finance department including sales ledger, purchase ledger, payroll and cost accounting. •Oversaw the monthly production of individual management accounts for six UK companies. •Produced consolidated monthly accounts for the UK operation. •Managed the group working capital requirement and each week prepared a consolidated 13-week rolling cash flow forecast.•Led an internal project on improving manufacturing efficiencies. This included addressing all production variations, reviewing standard costings, enhancing the reporting of labour & material variations including the dissemination of adverse performance to non-finance management. Developed a range of KPI’s as a key management reporting tool to improve operational performance.•Managed and controlled the UK intercompany accounts and balances both within the UK and with the group parent companies in North America & India. Dealt with transfer pricing, exchange rate issues and Goods in Transit. •Appointed as UK administrator for COGNOS, which was the companies forecasting and budgeting tool. Heavily involved in the preparation of the six monthly rolling budgets.