Craig Staniford Email & Phone Number

• Advise Senior Management & Board of Governors in relation to strategic, business and finance planning..
• Advise on general financial policy within the school.Manage relationships with external partners
• Produce Termly and Annual Accounts.
• File accounts with Companies House and Charities Commission.
• Produce annual budgets.
• Control and manage the fees billing system.

• Produce Monthly Management Accounts
• Financial Planning and Budget Control
• Leading financial due diligence with senior operational teams
• Contract costing
• Bid / Tender Management
• Debtor Management

Stockton-on-Tees, England, United Kingdom

Stockton-on-Tees, England, United Kingdom

• Full end to end business management (including, sales, marketing, communications, recruitment)
• Management accounts and tax returns
• Setting and achieving targets for increasing revenue, client retention and new business generation
• Evaluate business performance and adapt to market demands accordingly
• Competitor analysis to achieve competitive advantage and formulate business strategy
• Building strong customer relationships and providing a quality customer… Show more

Cleveland, United Kingdom

• Led Baker ocean freight and road haulage negotiations saving circa £180k and £120k for Barker & Stonehouse
• Developed the processes for Service dept reducing returns and creating clear reporting on service calls received.
• Developed systems to recharge factories for faults for above costs.
• Implemented changes to classification of stock to recognise product life cycle and manage the reduction in discontinued stock held from 270k to 20k
• Improved the warehouse efficiency for… Show more
• Improved the warehouse efficiency for flow of goods inwards / outwards. Increasing free floor space, reducing congestion, staggered the despatch process, whilst ensuring deliveries per week remain unaffected.

Teesside

• Building strong customer relationships and providing a quality customer experience
• Understanding Client goals to create an action plan for goal attainment
• Assume role of leader & motivator for clients by keeping high personal standards
• Research and evaluate new developments in coaching and human psychology
• Marketing and promotion of coaching sessions through online presence, advertising and client testimonials

Teesside

• Produce monthly management accounts
• Provide management information to assist Directors and Mangers in making informed decisions
• Implement new reporting methods and the subsequent training of staff
• Supervision and delegation of tasks for four Purchase ledger staff
• Supervision, training and delegation of tasks to the Assistant Accountant
• Provide monthly Profit and Loss analysis

Teesside

• Produce monthly management accounts
• Oversee Credit Control staff and reconcile debtor’s ledger
• Provide monthly Profit and Loss analysis
• Produce draft copy of year end statutory accounts
• Maintain Fixed Asset register
• Provide detailed weekly sales and margin reports

County Durham

• Weekly reporting of the Division's production performance results to Head Office including full commentary on each of the sites prevalent issues for profitability and efficiency.
• Weekly reporting of Quality costs.
• Monthly completion of a 3-month forecast for Production Performance evaluation.
• Produce a monthly report for analysis of proposed production and sales together with stock position to highlight production and warehousing issues for subsequent… Show more
• Produce a monthly report for analysis of proposed production and sales together with stock position to highlight production and warehousing issues for subsequent investigation.
• Implementation of new costing database for more accurate standard costing and to highlight errors in the classification of costs.

Teesside

• Download data into excel to produce the monthly management accounts.
• Conduct a monthly review of operating expenditure across 17 cost centres to establish variances from
• Budget, raising journals to correct or accrue were appropriate.
• Provide information to managers in response to any queries raised.
• Assist cost centre managers in compiling the annual budget.
• Ensure all departmental overheads are accounted for within each financial period.

Teesside

• Manage a portfolio of over 350 suppliers paying in excess of £40m per annum.
• Codifying and registering supplier invoices to cost centre managers.
• Matching of invoices to purchase orders where appropriate.
• Post invoices to creditors ledger.
• Generate a weekly payment cycle for settlement of invoices by both BACS and cheque.
• Verify staff expense claims ensuring that expenditure is charged to the relevant cost code.

Devon

• Provision, for over 6,000 stock items used within the Brigade.
• Supervising staff within a busy computerised accounts office.
• Training of personnel on the GLOBAL computerised accounting system.
• Setting up and administering local purchase contracts for spares required by 3 Commando Brigade.
• Controlling the procurement, accounting for and despatching of stores to several dependant units.
• Preparing documentation for settlement of invoices.

Chartered Insitute Of Management Accountants

Personal Training

Association Of Accounting Technicians, Accounting