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BCM UK, based in Nottingham, is the UK subsidiary of BCM, the cosmetics contract manufacturing business of Fareva. Turnover of £120m and approx. 1,030 staff and 90 agency production staff.Recruited following the resignation of the permanent Head of Finance – Business Partnering before the recent announcement of the disposal of the whole BCM Group to Fareva, a privately-owned French specialist contract manufacturer which completed on 31 October 2017.Responsible for leading and developing the UK finance team to provide complete and robust support to all BCM UK’s operations including Commercial and NPD, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Management and Financial Reporting.

6PM Group, listed on the Malta Stock Exchange, offers clinical software, hospital management software products and electronic and mobile care. Operations are based in Malta, UK, Ireland and Macedonia with approx. 85% of the Group’s revenues being generated in the UK and Malta. Reported revenues of £11.3m in 2015 and approx. 150 staff.Recruited by 6PM to assist with their financial integration by Idox Plc, following the announcement of 6PM’s acquisition by Idox in December 2016 which completed in early February 2017. The assignment was based at 6PM's HO in Malta with direct reporting to the Group CFO and the Acquisitions Finance Manager of Idox plc based in the UK. Idox Plc is an AIM listed supplier of software solutions and services to the UK public sector and increasingly to the wider corporate sector, with a market cap of approx. £250m.

Following the original interim assignment in 2015, rehired to affect a short transition with the departing Finance Director with the company in breach of its funding covenants, its sole lender reviewing its options and the company’s key overseas suppliers not releasing any stock deliveries due to long overdue unpaid invoices. Following the subsequent appointment of Business Recovery and AMA Teams from BDO, responsible for producing a detailed four week daily cashflow forecast to manage the new daily drawdown and cash payment requests implemented by the sole lender as well as managing and/or producing the provision of data for the contingency plans being prepared by the BDO Business Recovery Team. Worked closely day to day with the interim Financial Controller to finalise the long overdue year end September management accounts and then to improve the quality and timeliness of the monthly management accounts with November’s being largely finalised within five working days. Produced a detailed and critical 13 week cashflow forecast for the BDO AMA Team as well as project managing the provision of information for the three week AMA due diligence process; the company achieved a solvent disposal to a trade buyer on 19 December 2016.

BCMK, based in Dietzenbach near Frankfurt, is the German subsidiary of BCM, the cosmetics contract manufacturing business of Walgreens Boots Alliance. Approx. 65% of BCMK’s sales are internal to Boots UK and Boots International, whilst the external sales are for leading cosmetic brands owned by Cosnova, Coty and P&G. Turnover of €72m and approx. 275 staff and 90 agency production staff, with an outsourced production facility in Poland.Management of the Finance Team of 9 staff through a period of change and restructure after many senior personnel changes in the Finance Team in the previous 6-12 months which had resulted in poor team morale, poor quality monthly reporting required within 4 working days after month end, two uncompleted statutory audits under German GAAP and a material overstatement of the recoverable Polish VAT. First priority was the preparation of the detailed budget for the following financial year which provided a detailed understanding of the business through working across all functions of the business with the respective members of the senior management team. Worked closely with the Head of Accounting to gain the trust of the external auditors by producing clear audit trails between the monthly reporting pack under UK/US GAAP and the local statutory accounts, worked directly with the external Polish VAT advisers to resolve the recoverable Polish VAT and secured the two audit sign offs.Managed a full scope WBA Internal Audit review and achieved the highest performance rating after two previous highly critical reviews. Through day to day coaching and management restored the confidence and performance of the Head of Accounting and Senior Controller resulting in BCMK’s Finance Team being the best performing in the BCM Group, a year end audit sign off within 3 months and their subsequent promotions which removed the ongoing need for a FD.

Rejoined The Objectivity Partnership to undertake interim assignments.

Design Objectives Ltd, a private equity backed company trading as “docrafts”, is the UK’s leading papercraft supplier. Docrafts supply over 2,000 outlets across the UK and Ireland from specialist independents to larger national retailers as well as having distribution partners in over 12 overseas markets. Turnover of approx. £14m and approx. 100 staff.Following the removal of the former FD, hired to take responsibility for the completion of the year end audit and the preparation of the statutory accounts of the Group and its subsidiaries. Required the preparation of detailed year end working papers with full supporting third party documentation and extended trial balances and worked directly with the KPMG audit and tax senior managers to complete the statutory audit pending confirmation of the Group’s going concern.The assignment was subsequently expanded to project manage a detailed due diligence valuation exercise by independent valuation consultants acting for a new lender to refinance the company and complete an MBO. The work on the bank refinancing included the construction and preparation of detailed and integrated financial models and the negotiation of the covenants for the new IF and Stock Lending funding facilities. The refinancing and MBO was successfully completed in July 2015 enabling the completion and signing of the statutory accounts in August 2015.

Scott Brownrigg is an award-winning international design practice providing architecture, masterplanning, urban design, interior design and town planning services with four UK offices and two overseas offices in Croatia and Singapore.Responsibility for the full finance function with approx. 5 direct reports, with a turnover of approx. £15m and approx 200 staff.Following the departure of the long serving Finance Director, employed for a six month period to work on specific projects including managing the annual budget process and the year end audit as well as reviewing options for both the corporate structure and employee share ownership schemes.

TOP provides due diligence, interim management, consulting and management services for private equity/corporate investors and their investee/subsidiary companies. Assignments included a pre-deal financial due diligence for a private equity firm, the Business Growth Fund, on the Bullitt Group, which designs, manufactures, markets and sells mobile phones and consumer electronic products in partnership with global brands and an interim Finance Director assignment for Prettys, a law firm with offices in Ipswich and Chelmsford. The Prettys’ assignment resulted from a direct approach from Barclays’ Business Recovery Unit after their appointment of BDO to perform an Independent Business Review of the company. Key areas of focus included updating the 2012/13 management accounts to reflect the year end audit adjustments dating back to April 2010, to remedy the inaccuracies in the balance sheet information provided to BDO as at 30 April and 30 September 2012 including the apparent omissions and errors in the reconciliations for the key balance sheet accounts, and to improve the accuracy of the cashflow forecasting to identify more accurately the potential cash funding requirement.

Providing accountancy services to locally based companies and financial planning and tax advice to the co-founder of a £50m turnover group of companies looking to exit the business.

A private limited liability partnership of chartered surveyors, offering professional property management, agency and consultancy services across the commercial and residential sectors, operating from multiple sales offices in the UK and the Middle East.Responsibility for the full finance function with approx. 7 direct reports, with a turnover of approx. £50m and over 400 partners and staff.

A privately owned group of companies whose principal activities are property and facilities management, property consultancy, investment brokerage and agency, mainly in the commercial sector. Turnover of £44m in 2009 and over 600 staff, operating from four principal locations in the UK. Responsibility for the full finance function with approx 10 staff as well as working closely with the CEO on all the strategic reviews and their resultant implementation. The Group was successfully sold to Capita Plc in February 2010. • Appointed to refocus a predominantly turnover driven business to one measured by contribution and cash flow, assisted by the introduction of key monthly financial targets, realigned bonus schemes and through cultivating relationships across the organisation.• Delivered a 30% reduction in the year end audit timetable and the associated professional costs, whilst dramatically improving the quality, clarity and “user friendly” focus of the management information within the Group.• Established a highly supportive and collaborative relationship with the Group’s bankers, thereby securing the external funding facilities required to develop and expand the Group’s activities; between 2002 and 2009 turnover increased from £28m to £44m and the adjusted operating profit from £1.0m to £2.7m.• Completed a comprehensive equity restructuring to reduce the majority ownership of the three founding shareholders and to secure the long term engagement of the key directors.• Successfully negotiated new debt facilities in November 2009 for the acquisition of the minority interest in the facility management joint venture and the refinancing of the bank guaranteed loan notes, both of which were critical for the planned disposal of the business.

VFG Plc was listed on the AIM market and its principal activity was the hire of production equipment to the television and film industries operating from seven offices in the UK and Ireland. Responsible for the full finance function with approx 10 staff as well as investor relations. The Group had a turnover of £21m in 2001 and 260 staff. • Identified a material overstatement of profits in a manufacturing subsidiary within 4 months of joining the company, resulting in the announcement of a profits warning in early 2000.• Managed the implementation of a major restructuring programme involving a 50% reduction in staff and the disposal of three non-core operations, prior to the disposal of the core hire business to an MBO team, funded by the company’s existing lenders, as part of a “pre-pack” administration.

Privately owned UK Group engaged in management consultancy, market research and fieldwork.

Listed in London and NASDAQ, The Dialog Corporation Plc was one of the world’s leading online information suppliers following the $420m acquisition of Knight Ridder Information Inc (“KRI”) in 1997.

Undertook assignments on a wide range of clients and also acted as the Reporting Accountant for two London Stock Exchange flotations and one NASDAQ flotation.