CV

Principal training courses undertaken.
Employment law, Tax, Accountancy updates, Marketing, appraisals, payroll & instructor training workshop Health & safety courses, lotus notes, excel.& CPD work.

Previous employers (as permanent employee or as a contractor):

PLC Companies.
Stork NV (Dutch plc) - food group (now owned by Marel in Iceland). Contractor to Perm. Feb 06 – Now (Redundant)
Dana Emerson LLP (joint venture by US quoted companies) – engineering & electronics. Contract Late 2003 - 2004
Comino – Software for local authorities & housing associations. 1998 - 2001.
Howden Group - defence engineering & electronics. 1993 -1998
AAH Holdings (2 companies) – Logistics & Engineering .1982 -1990
Croda International – Chemicals. 1979 - 1982
Bestobell Group (3 companies) - Engineering & manufacturing. 1972 - 1979

Private (SMEs).
Stewart Milne – Timbre frame housing & Construction. 2005 Contract
Slough Community Leisure – sports centres with 5 locations. 2004 Contract
Cox Thermoforming – Plastics equipment manufacturers. 2002 – 2003 Contract
Guitel – distribution of wheels & castors for French company. 2001 -2002
Ion information tech – bespoke software design. 2001
Hale Hamilton valves – valve & chest manufacture.1990 -1993

Positions held include - Financial Controller, Manager of Finance & Admin, Manager of Planning & Analysis, (Cost & Management Accountant). Company Accountant,
Financial Accountant, Credit Manager.


Most Recent Role – Stork Amsterdam Int. Financial Controller Feb 2006 - Present
Monthly management accounts (including KPIs & annual accounts to very tight deadlines & specialist internal reports for managers & group. Producing sales & cost of sales information..
Producing Detailed Budgets & forecasts for both profit levels & cash
Transfer pricing policy, Taxation matters, Advising on & setting pricing levels.
HR issues for 2 companies- including redundancies & disciplinary procedures
Health & Safety officer, Monthly Salary & returns (P11Ds etc), Company Secretarial duties (annual returns, insurances etc) Admin work – managing car fleet etc. Pension admin for trustees of 2 company schemes, .

Main Roles & Duties Undertaken over my career.

Management.
Management of 3 to 14 staff from different disciplines - including accounts, estimating canteen, clerks & cleaning staff.
Deputise for MD in his absence; hold management meetings, progressing management objectives. Motivate & Deal with peer groups. Providing advice direction & assistance to managers.

Financial Accounting.
Producing monthly management accounts to tight deadlines with commentary & KPI.
Producing annual statutory accounts that comply with IAS & Companies act.
Dealing with auditors & other external tax advisors.
Undertake or supervise Fixed assets ledger, purchase & sales ledger.
Reconcile control accounts.
Consolidate other company accounts (including overseas operations) into sub group.
Vat inputs & outputs & partial & full exemption & VAT returns.
Undertake or manage payroll including weekly & monthly payroll and production of P60s & P11Ds etc.
Consolidation of accounts, FX work including forward buying / selling. Credit factoring & finance.

Management Accounting.
Cash flow forecasting.
Budgeting & revised forecasts.
Capital appraisals using DCF, Payback & rates of return.
Various forecasts, due diligence work etc.
Dealing with transfer pricing issues.
Making recommendations to management.

Costing.
Stock taking & valuation.
Production of monthly Sales, Cost of sales & Margins.
Explanation of results Vs expected outcome.
Standard, job, batch & contract costing (including working with Bill of materials, routings estimating & production engineering).
Determine selling prices.
Set MOD rates (labour & overhead) & dealing with tech costings.
Cost reductions & investigations.

Financial management / Co Secretary.
Raising of funds for management buy out, controlling loans etc & arranging other methods of finance (HP, Lease, Credit factor finance etc).
Claiming government grants.
Annual returns to Company House & changes in between.
Upkeep of statutory books.
Board meeting minuets.
Arrange Company insurances.
Also see below re pension management.
Taxation matters.
Dealing with external advisors (auditors & tax advisors).
Dealing with the revenue & customs.
Preparing draft tax comps for the company & supporting schd.
Undertaking tax work for directors.
Managing deferred taxation provisions.

Other Duties.

HR duties.
The drafting new contracts of employment & company handbooks.
Dealing with disciplinary matters.
Undertaking redundancy programmes.
Short time working.
TUPE.
SMP & SSP matters.

Health & Safety.
Health & safety officer – arranging PAT testing, workstation assessments, VDU eye testing, first aid courses and Fire procedures.

IT.
Providing IT advice to management & staff
Providing first line of call if IT problems are experienced (requiring me to repair PC & Network problems & advise on applications usage or features to employees).

Other Admin Duties.

Car fleet management.
Arranging & agreeing prices on new lease cars & hire cars, arranging insurances, dealing with accidents etc..

Pension management.
Being secretary to final salary scheme, completing annual pension accounts to IAS19, dealing with stakeholder pensions, life (death in service) insurances & permanent health insurances, providing info to trustees & liaising with any pension advisors & completing pension returns etc.

Various achievements.

• Reconcile & resolve a large Goods received & Purchase ledger system. 2003-2004
• Detection & dealing with several frauds within firms including 3 committed by Directors 1983 ,1997, 2002, 2007.
• Reduce operating costs by agreeing new reduced prices with suppliers & carrying out a redundancy programme.1985- Present
• Implementation of costing system.1990
• Reduction of debtor days from 101 to 54 days by agreeing set terms with sales force & debtors & implementing credit control procedures.2002 -2003
• Production of a transfer pricing model to justify a 15% discount on sales to our Dutch holding company (something on one else had been able to complete before) 2008.
• Undertaking several special investigations to resolve errors on budgets & costing systems 1985, 1993, 2009 where management were unable to resolve the error to then report on the problem & issue recommendations.

Hobbies & Interests.
Computers, Web Design, Reading, History.