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Congleton, England, United Kingdom

Newcastle-Under-Lyme

West Midlands/North West

Levant Street Food Limited is a family run business specialising in the flavours of the Levant region. Available for Weddings, Corporate Events, Private Functions and Festivals. For More information please visit www.levantstreetfood.co.uk or check out social media.

National Role

Following my successful secondment with the Bank I returned full time to design, implement and manage the Business Assurance Team. The purpose of the Business Assurance Team was to test, monitor and overview the relationship teams and credit teams to ensure that they managed the business assets by:• acting in terms of the approved policy and procedures;• pro-actively managing the business assets; • operating in accordance with the expectation of group credit and in a manner acceptable to internal/external auditors and the various regulatory bodies; and • demonstrating that that the management teams have sufficient competency, capability and capacity to manage the asset portfolio.The role also included business improvement initiatives. Initiatives are identified during the file reviews and include the development of more robust systems, standardised practices (including the design of financial analysis templates) to improve consistency across the UK and the identification and implementation of training requirements for Relationship Managers.I have also led a number of project teams relating to the wind down and sale of assets.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Zolfo Cooper is a leading independent advisory and restructuring practice, assisting clients facing financial, commercial and strategic challenges at all stages of the business life cycle.Key AchievementsReal Estate Initiative – Developed the strategy for the Real Estate Team with the key objective being to deliver value adding solutions to existing and new clients by using existing products to drive revenue at an acceptable recovery margin.National Australia Bank Key Account Team Leader – Developed marketing strategies, developed and presented training sessions, organised and led monthly key account meetings.Key Experience • Administration of The Peveral GroupThe Peverel Group is the leading property management services business in the United Kingdom. I led the communications team along with overseeing the trading work stream during the Administration of the four key holding companies of the Peverel Group.• H Realisations Limited (Formerly Habitat UK Limited)A furniture, homeware and retail business with over 30 stores. I led the operations work stream to ensure that the trading of the Company during the Administration period ran smoothly by ensuring the support of key supplier and stakeholders. I also assisted in the sale negotiations.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

I assisted in developing turnaround and workout strategies for the larger more complex files in the Bank. I developed and implemented the process for appointing third party advisors along with providing training to the various teams. I also set up monthly strategy surgeries to assist managers in calling out the key issues within their files and to provide an open forum where strategies could be discussed openly with the Senior Leadership Team. Furthermore, I assisted the Senior Leadership team with various internal projects.

Bsc (Hons), Agriculture And Food Science

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