Operating as a member of the management team and supporting the Directors in shaping and taking forward the Company's Strategic Priorities including the development and delivery of plans to meet the aims and objectives of the Company. Also in charge of meeting key business operations and carrying out any other reasonable duties or tasks. • Ensuring compliance with the company's procedures.• Anticipating changes in the business needs of the firm.• Maintaining accurate financial records.• Training up new and existing staff as required.• Managing all performance and governance activities.• Determining staffing requirements.• Monitoring weekly performance against targets.• Building and maintaining effective relationships with internal customers.

Driving operational improvements, maximising the value of the asset base while ensuring a tight control on operational costs. Responsible for monitoring and continually improving standards of performance and quality within the operation.Duties:■ Managing a team of approximately 30 employees in a busy work environment. Negotiating contracts, ensuring that they balance value and risk.■ Establish and implement departmental policies, goals, objectives, and procedures. Creating, managing and analysing performance data and other information. Ensuring that capacity and capability are continually planned.■ Encouraging, identifying and developing best practice strategy.■ Ensuring compliance to all Environmental Health & Safety goals & objectives.■ Producing Operations manuals which define how the business is to be run. Working closely with the Financial Manager, Facilities Manager, IT Manager & HR department

Worked in a busy and high volume environment driving consistency and best practice across all the businesses. Responsible forimproving the company’s cash flow and reducing its arrears by keeping accurate records and ensuring payments are received ontime.Duties:■ In charge of managing and supporting the ledger team.■ Providing accurate financial information to colleagues and senior managers■ Identifying areas for cost cutting and improvement.■ Ensuring that all financial controls for the division are met and adhered to at all times.■ Giving advice, guidance and support on all financial matter to the company directors.

As Export Coordinator and Junior Accountant I executed operations to the dispatch and export offinished products using all available transport systems, and also completed the necessary paperworkand worked with balance sheets and general accounts to assist the Chief Head Accountant.Main Tasks:■ Preparing and updating the documents, processes and controls of freight payment and auditsystems for approval■ Initiated bookings for vessels, containers and freight pick up■ Maintained financial records for subsidiary companies by analyzing balance sheets and generalledger accounts.■ Reconciled general and subsidiary bank accounts by gathering and balancing information