North Manchester based Telecoms equipment group of highly profitable companies with a turnover in excess of £50million per annum consisting of:

Nimans Ltd – Worldwide Distributor
Nicomm Ltd – Online UK Internet Sales Retailer
Tamms Direct Ltd – Catalogue based UK Distributor
Trustees of Nimans Ltd Pension Fund

Nimans Group are the UK’s Multi Award winning UK’s leading Distributor of Panasonic, Siemens , Avaya, NEC, Polycom, Konftel, Doro, Swyx and many other industry leading brands of Telephone and Conferencing Systems, Industry leading VOIP & Data and Call Centre Equipment to most of the UK’s Top 500 Companies including all of the leading Banks and Financial Institutions.

Reporting to Finance Director & Finance Manager - Current duties include Monthly Management Accounts, Balance sheet reconciliation including Eleven Multi Currency Bank Accounts, Three Multi Currency Petty Cash Accounts, Group Pension Fund, BUPA and Monthly Payroll Management and control for 200 employees, completion of VAT Returns for all four entities, Intrastat, EC Sales, Government Statistics and annual schedules. HMRC Vat, PAYE, Intrastat & EC Sales inspections. Also preparation and control of annual Payroll budget in excess of £8 million plus Sales Commission system design and monthly control for 90 Employees in excess of £1million per annum. Advanced Excel specialist for Senior management training.

Achievements – Along with the Finance Manager we brought a sadly lacking department back into line, with Management Accounts having been two months late each month and the balance sheet was
unreconciled for months. I personally dealt with the entire £8 million Staff Budgets and introduced a new Employee Database System designed and written by myself that produced instantaneous Employee information in any format requested and produced accurate instant budgets in minutes. I also designed and implemented two Sales Commission Schemes during my stay and controlled them for the whole Sales force each month

East Lancashire based company selling Dell PC’s, Networks, ERP, Accounts, Payroll & CRM Software Implementation and Training to the Public and Small to Medium Businesses via localised advertising.

Achievements – Introduced a number of new Computer users to the value of Integrated Accounts Control and Advanced Excel use.

Pro-Active Management Accounting practice & Shadow Financial Director service for a folio of companies in East Lancashire completing monthly and annual accounts and reporting packs companies ranged in Turnover from £1 Million to £40 million per annum and included Motor Trade, Manufacturing, Wholesaling and Retail Businesses.

From 2000 to 2005 ACA was a Fully Accredited Sage Software Partner in Sage Line 50, Payroll and ACT CRM, Systems Analysis, Sales, Implementation and Training throughout the UK. and also Pastel International Accounts Software Gold Partner Dealership.

Achievements – I personally attracted and gained business from a folio of over 230 clients ranging from SME to Multinationals and was only one of Four Sage Dealerships in the UK allowed to have a dual agreement with Sage for online E-Commerce selling and VAR Sales. Clients include Canterbury Cathedral, Mersey Docks and Harbour Board and ADI Corporation etc (list can be provided in full for inspection)

Responsible to Group Chairman
(Forecourt Licence Holder & Credit Licence Holder)

Group of Eleven mainly Transport related Companies all based in North West consisting of: -

Gilbraith Cars Limited – ROVER Cars Main Dealer
Accrington Garages Limited – VAUXHALL Cars Main Dealer
Gilbraith Transport Limited – Road Freight Transport, Warehousing, Property Management & Rental
Gilbraith Transtore Limited - Road & Rail Freight Transport and Warehousing
Thomas Gilmartin Limited – Gilbraith Company relative to direct family and children
Gilbraith Skip Hire Limited – Quarry’s, Landfill Sites and Skip Hire
Gilbraith Commercials Limited – Leyland Daf Lorries & Vans, Sales, Service & Wholesale Parts Dealership
Gilbraith Parts & Service Limited – Volvo Lorry Sales, Service & Wholesale Parts Centre
Hyndburn Leasing Limited – Leasing Lorry & Car’s
Gilbraith Contract Hire Limited – Contract Hire Vehicles
Gilbraith Holdings Group Limited – Holding Company

Responsibilities included work for all of the above Companies across the North West re monthly reporting to all Boards, budgets, cash flows, consolidation of group results, and liaison with financial institutions for group funding requirements, bank reports and annual review.

Negotiation of long-term major contracts for the provision of Supplies and funding from Multi National Companies such as Rover, Vauxhall, Shell, & Total Oil.

Day to day general management for all aspects of Rover Dealership including Petrol Forecourt and monthly/annual accounts of Gilbraith Cars where I was based, using Kalamazoo Darts Dealer Management Systems (KDMS)and Kerridge whilst reporting to Rover & Vauxhall monthly in their specific composites.

Luxury Kitchen and fitted Office furniture manufacturers, turnover £20 million per annum, consisting of three companies: -

Neville Johnson Kitchens Plc.
Neville Johnson Offices Plc.
Kitchen Challenge (Retail Kitchen Sales Outlet)

Responsibilities covered many areas including Management of Accounts & Wages Departments, Monthly Management Accounts for all three, information analysis, reporting personally at Board meetings of all Companies monthly and all Company Secretarial duties.

Fully integrated Computer System planning & installation completed for this dynamic North West Company.