Nick Rush Email & Phone Number

• Not Guilty Food Co. T/A The Skinny Food Co, Arnold, NottinghamDistribution of low-calorie food products & snacks – (T/O £22M)Financial Controller December 2021 to Present
• Setting up a much-improved internal financial reporting system (External Accountants) – incorporating P&L forecasts, comparative P&L’s, balance sheet & cash flow forecasts
• Identified £600’k in current year & brought forward balance sheet errors, following reconciliations
• Recovered £80’k in desputed debts
• Building specification & sourcing partners for an implementation of Dynamics 365
• Actively sourcing new Accountants for the business

Enderby, England, GB

• Preparation of monthly management accounts
• Responsible for cash management & credit control activities
• Inventory control and quarterly stock take
• Responsible for the outsourcing of the payroll function
• Supervision/performance review of the purchase and sales ledger functions
• Foreign exchange contracts & managing currency exposure

Nuneaton, England, GB

• Responsible for all financial aspects of the company including nominal ledger, sales ledger, purchase ledger, payroll & company records.
• IT development and the introduction of new software and processes including a new pricing/contract generation package & it’s integration with the CRM system.
• Supplier relationships & on-boarding new suppliers.
• Calculation/allocation/collection of all commissions due from suppliers
• Implemented management reporting systems including daily/weekly performance analysis, forecasting, budgeting & job costing.
• Extensive use of Sage 50 Accounts & Payroll.

Essen, DE

• Preparation of the monthly management accounts for the Residential, SME and Corporate businesses
• Responsible for monthly volume, profit & cash forecasts.
• Data/trend analysis and investigation of variances to plan/forecast.
• Validation, reconciliation and payment of transportation and related charges.
• Balance sheet review and reconciliation.

Essen, DE

• Account manager responsible for a portfolio of major new housing Developers.
• Liaison with Developers/field account managers, organising/co-ordinating the installation of new electric & gas meters on a timely basis, via E.ON resources/external meter operators/distributors.
• Ensuring meters are correctly registered on the national databases & investigating/correcting errors.
• Collection of outstanding debts and reconciliation of Developer’s accounts for energy used on site, either from temporary building supplies, landlord supplies or domestic meters.

Windsor, England, GB

• Analysing imbalances between electricity used by business customers and the value charged to British Gas by industry, the subsequent contact with customers & the industry to recoup any adverse variances, including cash.
• Reconciliation of customer/settlement accounts, ensuring payments/credits have been received.

Windsor, England, GB

• Advising business customers & processing/validating information relating to moving premises, resolving queries, promoting energy & other services provided by British Gas.
• Creating/closing new/old accounts, and collecting monies relating to outstanding final balances.

Bedford, Bedfordshire, GB

• Preparation of monthly management accounts, monthly reporting of cash and profit forecasts, costing, performance analysis and completion of the Group Management information pack
• Preparation of the 3-year strategic plan, the annual budget & the year end pack including liaising with internal and external auditors
• Inventory control and annual stock take
• Payroll and pensions processing
• Supervision/performance review of the purchase and sales ledger functions
• IT development and was Project Manager for the introduction of a new mainframe software package (Navision Attain)

Northampton, GB

• Preparation of month end and year end accounts, using Sage Software
• Capital investment proposals/appraisals
• Member of the management team who were responsible for a rise in turnover from £5 M to £27 M
• From April 1997 I was given responsibility for the purchasing and stores functions
• Contract costing on all the current projects reporting on material/labour/overhead costs allocated to each & performing regular cost to complete exercises via liaison with project managers.

• Monthly reporting, cash forecasting, standard costing, inventory control & annual planning
• Costing, stock control and responsible for sales & purchase ledger functions
• Liaison with bankers regarding the on-going business operations
• Recommendation/implementation of manual and computerised systems

• Introduced Monthly Divisional Reporting & calculation/review of monthly performance
• Appointed as Project Manager for the implementation of the MFG/PRO CRM system
• Costing/stock valuations & MFG/PRO base data validation

• Performance reporting, variance analysis, direct labour reporting, cash forecasts
• Part of an implementation team for a new project and maintenance software system (PRISM).

• Monthly & annual accounts, budgeting, inter- company balances
• Installation of a new hardware & software time share package

Milwaukee, US

Exton, PA, US

USA, USA, US