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Nottingham & Bournemouth

ChurchSuite is a cloud hosted, web-based church management system; ideal database software for churches. Responsible for looking after existing and new customer engagement, training and contributing to the creative development of ChurchSuite. Working with a great team of dedicated and passionate people.

Providing on-site and web tutorial training solutions for current and prospective customers. Helping church teams get the most of our ChurchSuite and use it to help them do ministry more effectively.

I am helping project manage bringing a new iOS and Android app to market. Created by a friend, it's a great calendar app that will:*transfer your calendar appointments to your sat nav, so you don't need to program where you are going*track your business mileage automatically and put it in a spread sheet*synchronise with your current calendar*plot all your routes for the day onto one map and tell you how much time you will spend travelling*automatically contact your… Show more I am helping project manage bringing a new iOS and Android app to market. Created by a friend, it's a great calendar app that will:*transfer your calendar appointments to your sat nav, so you don't need to program where you are going*track your business mileage automatically and put it in a spread sheet*synchronise with your current calendar*plot all your routes for the day onto one map and tell you how much time you will spend travelling*automatically contact your appointment if your running late, as it knows when you should be there and how long it's going to take you.Lots of other unique feature I can't wait to share with you. Show less

Bournemouth

Providing accounting and support consultancy services to third sector organisations.

Bournemouth, Dorset

Handed over leadership in Dec 2014, remaining on team to support the new leadership and church members through transition. As part of the new leadership's rebranding of the church to Coastline Vineyard Church was released from staff, taking voluntary redundancy at the end of June 2015.Responsibilities: • Appointed originally as Senior Assistant Pastor to assist the then Senior Leader to develop new strategies to lead and grow the church.• Accountancy services for church Bookshop… Show more Handed over leadership in Dec 2014, remaining on team to support the new leadership and church members through transition. As part of the new leadership's rebranding of the church to Coastline Vineyard Church was released from staff, taking voluntary redundancy at the end of June 2015.Responsibilities: • Appointed originally as Senior Assistant Pastor to assist the then Senior Leader to develop new strategies to lead and grow the church.• Accountancy services for church Bookshop and Café (including management accounts, payroll and producing year-end accounts for independent examination).• Ordained as Senior Leader (like vicar, more accurately defacto CEO) in September 2010. Responsible for overall leadership of the church (350+ adults and children).• Day-to-day operational responsibilities included vision casting, spiritual leadership, pastoral care, strategising for growth, budget management and management of staff/leader/volunteer teams.• Oversight responsibility of staff team and the church’s financial function, reporting to Board of Trustees on financial results, budget progress and compliance (e.g. ensuring donor gifts are used correctly/effectively, and authorising spend decisions in accordance with charity aims).• Providing context, interpretation and transparency of organisation’s financial results to stakeholders and donors. Show less

Downton, Salisbury, Wilts

Responsibilities: • Providing financial reports and advice to SMT..• Recruited as Commercial Manager and promoted to Financial Director after 4 years, reporting to MD and SMT.• Financial responsibilities: monthly management accounts, bank account reconciliations, credit control, sizeable weekly payroll, VAT, company secretarial, cashflow forecasting, company pension admin, contract negotiation and asset finance.• Production of year-end statutory accounts to audit stage, audit… Show more Responsibilities: • Providing financial reports and advice to SMT..• Recruited as Commercial Manager and promoted to Financial Director after 4 years, reporting to MD and SMT.• Financial responsibilities: monthly management accounts, bank account reconciliations, credit control, sizeable weekly payroll, VAT, company secretarial, cashflow forecasting, company pension admin, contract negotiation and asset finance.• Production of year-end statutory accounts to audit stage, audit preparation and liaising with auditors.• Wider management responsibilities: policies & procedures, health & safety, risk, compliance, HR (including recruitment and appraisals) and IT.Achievements• Designing and developing an in-house networked Job Costing computer solution to capture data from all departments. System achieved massive efficiencies, provided more accurate job performance reporting and provided the basis for a more consistent and profitable pricing policy.• Provided financial costings to support the transition of work patterns from single day shift to 3-shift (24 hour) continental shift working, increasing capacity and profitability.• Helped to implement a new Digital Printing service that increased company profitability further and broadened the Company’s client base, enabling new cross-selling opportunities of Company’s services. Project included design and build of custom premises and asset procurement.• Became proficient at delivering a comprehensive monthly financial reporting pack that could be easily understood by non-financial people (e.g. department managers).• Consistently kept overheads (in particular, utility costs and contracts) to low levels through research and negotiation of renewal terms. Show less

Broadstone, Dorset

• Trained in a wide range of accounts preparation services for sole traders, partnerships and small-medium size companies.• Audit planning and assisting Audit Senior with on-site audit visits.• Management accounting, budgeting, forecasting, payroll and VAT for clients.• Tax computations and correspondence with clients.• Assisting with client HMRC tax inspections.• Developed investigative reporting skills from experience in extrapolating data from incomplete… Show more • Trained in a wide range of accounts preparation services for sole traders, partnerships and small-medium size companies.• Audit planning and assisting Audit Senior with on-site audit visits.• Management accounting, budgeting, forecasting, payroll and VAT for clients.• Tax computations and correspondence with clients.• Assisting with client HMRC tax inspections.• Developed investigative reporting skills from experience in extrapolating data from incomplete records.• Achievements included taking the lead in implementing computerised accounting systems for clients who had previously relied on manual record keeping. Show less

Accountancy (Ongoing Study)

93% (Global Average Is 70%)

Theology/Theological Studies & Leadership Development Training

Btec National Diploma In Business Studies, A-Level Accountancy, A-Level Business Studies

Education record

8 GCE O-Levels inc Maths, English & IT/Computer Science