Phil Withers Email & Phone Number

Hull, United Kingdom

Clients and Markets Manager assisting the Tax & Accounting, Restructuring Advisory, Accounting & Business Advisory, Consulting, and Corporate Finance teams in developing and maintaining relationships across a variety of industries including asset based lenders (ABL's), renewable energy, public transport, distribution and logistics, local authorities, manufacturing and professional services.Facilitating strategic consulting, pre lending reviews, pre administration reviews, business… Show more Clients and Markets Manager assisting the Tax & Accounting, Restructuring Advisory, Accounting & Business Advisory, Consulting, and Corporate Finance teams in developing and maintaining relationships across a variety of industries including asset based lenders (ABL's), renewable energy, public transport, distribution and logistics, local authorities, manufacturing and professional services.Facilitating strategic consulting, pre lending reviews, pre administration reviews, business recovery, litigation support, and independent business reviews. Team member of our National Infrastructure, Manufacturing, Consumer Markets, Shipping/Maritime and Energy Teams.Occasional secondment to special investigations in relation to integrated asset recovery solutions. Show less

Hull, United Kingdom

Committee Member of the East Yorkshire (Humber) Institute of Directors.

Hessle East Yorkshire

Director on the Board of Governors of the Hessle Federation of Schools.

Hessle, East Riding Of Yorkshire

Sat on Planning & Traffic, Communication and Events Committees.

Senior member of the management team. Reduced arrears across corporate finance portfolio by 11% and maximised recoveries to new levels. Minimised loss occasioned by Fraud and Insolvency.Operational management of external collectables from failed block discounting clients. Directed litigation and Insolvency processes on a national basis including Solicitor panels and Insolvency Practitioner panels for the asset division.

Engaged to reorganise collection department and manage the integration of new Netsol CQ Enterprise CRM system within the business and change management aspects to ensure minimum impact on operations. Managed collection department and external agents and improved collections and reduced arrears consecutively over 6 years.

General Guarantee Corporation Ltd & Whiteaway Laidlaw Bank were the finance divisions of GUS PLC. I was responsible for directing effective collection activity at 14 branches of the group throughout Scotland and England. I facilitated bad debt reductions and increased bottom line profit by encouraging staff training and by sharing best practice throughout the team network.