Driven finance professional with 12 years Financial Controller/Manager experience across SME's and blue chips contracting through own company.

A global recruitment company providing MSP, RPO and payrolling services for blue chips.Managed Accounting function initially for UK, France & Ireland and then Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany & Switzerland as the business expanded through Europe. Recruited, trained and developed the EMEA Accounting team.Created & implemented processes and controls to ensure the successful production of monthly accounts, variance analysis, VAT returns, statutory reporting and financial audits.Successfully managed clean UK audits covering forty-fold growth over two years.

Mars IS is the internal IT company of Mars Inc operating according to the agency model cross-charging all costs to other group entities.Managed the UK & French Accounting team, UK & French audits, Statutory reporting, Corporate Reporting, VAT & Corporation tax submissions, monthly & annual US GAAP SAP & FPPS monthend reporting.Created & delivered financial awareness training for non-finance managers.Finance global lead for SAP VIRSA project advising technical project lead on hierarchy structure for segregation of duties.Created & developed Global Cash Forecasting model for Mars IS working with counterparts in NA & AP for regional forecast inputs.

German IT Distributor operating under the agency model.Created value added reporting through analysing technical and sales activities to show true customer profitability.Created weekly reporting to track mid-month performance.Risk profiled customer and potential customers through analysis and customer visits.Created end to end credit control process significantly reducing debtor days.

£9.5m turnover IT SME.Member of the management team. Managed accounting, purchasing, HR and reception.Implemented Navision business system replacing legacy systems removing cross-team duplication & increasing speed & depth of management reporting.Created a cash flow & balance sheet forecasting model enabling bank funding.