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Manager

Work Experience

PROFILE

I am an FCA with fourteen years experience in industry. I am an Interim Finance Manager operating through my own limited company. My main background is in property, leisure and residential construction and development. I have been a finance director for two private owner managed businesses and group financial controller for two PLC companies. I have a strong track record in financial controls, systems and reporting. In addition this is backed up by strong commercial awareness and focus on sales, profits and cash. I have designed, selected and successfully implemented various computer systems. I enjoy a challenge and have been involved in start-ups, acquisitions, disposals and turnaround situations.
SECTORS

House-building, Housing associations, Sheltered Housing, Construction, Property investment, development, management, Retail, Interior design consultancy, Furnishings, Farming, Builders’ Merchants, Hotels, Resort, Villa rentals, Food and beverage, Restaurants, Maintenance, Golf Housekeeping, Leisure, Fitness and Spa, Health Clubs, Gyms, Pubs, Corporate Entertainment, Tourism, Travel, Legal services, Architects, Financial Services, Investment advice.

WORK EXPERIENCE

INTERIM FINANCE DIRECTOR/MANAGER – MILLER HOMES NORTH EAST
Jan 2001 to May 2001

Miller Homes North East acquired Cussins Property Group Plc for £30m in late 1999. Due to various difficulties with the incumbent FD he was removed from the company in Dec 2000. I was engaged by the Miller Group FD to start on 3 Jan 2001 to prepare year end accounts for the division in accordance with a very tight timetable for the year end 31 Dec 2000. The year-end timetables were met including audit reviews. I also managed a team of five staff. I was responsible for management accounts for Jan, Feb, Mar and April. I prepared and revised the divisional Quarter one forecast. I reviewed the internal audit reports and implemented the necessary changes to systems and ensured that financial controls were in place. I identified and collected cash in sales debtors that had previously not been collected. I identified and collected £43,750 of vat on a land purchase that the company had been charged for in Feb 2000 but had failed to collect. This also increased profits. I used Adaytum software and Micabuild accounts software to produce the accounts. I provided commercial analyses to the directors and a summary report for the Group FD of the key issues to be addressed in the business.

November 1997 to November 2000ROYAL WESTMORELAND BARBADOS FINANCE DIRECTOR
Royal Westmoreland is one of the world’s premier golf residential resort communities. Oversaw successful turnaround of business including implementing a difficult succession planning exercise.


· The company had no financial control systems/reporting and no cashbooks in place due to the previous Finance Director having had a nervous breakdown. Implemented full range of financial controls including sorting out two computer systems that had been installed in mid 1997 and had not been reconciled to previous accounting records, implementing cash controls and setting up financial reporting.
· Assessing the viability of joint ventures, managing the joint ventures, reviewing land disposals
· Acting as deputy to managing director who was based in the UK from Aug 1998 until July 1999
· Increased lending facility negotiated with bankers and converted overdraft into loan. Secured short-term financing facility. Obtained in October 2000 a US$8.5million revolving loan to build out the development
· Restructured stage payments on building, property management and land contracts to improve cash-flow, reduce risk and improve profits.
· Negotiated with the Vat Office to collect US$2million outstanding that the previous Finance Director had been unable to collect.
· Changing the basis of construction contracts from direct labour to subcontract/contractor contracts thereby reducing workforce, improving cash-flow to monthly payments, and reducing risk by obtaining a fixed price for the work and improving margins.
· Undertook overhaul of computer systems including the installation a complete new Resort system at a cost of US$100k

September 1993 to October 1997 WILSON CONNOLLY HOLDINGS PLC GROUP FINANCIAL CONTROLLER

£300m turnover (1996) with pre-tax profits of £26m. Net assets £260m. Houses completed 4,150 per annum. Fifth largest UK house-builder. £25m capital employed in commercial property development including retail, office parks and warehousing.

· Supervised team of 18 at head office including the IT department plus functional responsibilities for five office managers based at the five regional companies and their staff
· Monitoring performance using key controls and reports and to report on a proactive basis to the financial director, the group managing director and the company managing directors.
· Preparing and analyzing the financial data for stock market presentations
· Streamlining the existing systems to ensure that provision of the information required to run the business effectively and efficiently was achieved.
· Work included advising on land purchases and disposals, financial viabilities, company acquisition of London & Clydeside Holdings plc, work on tenders to purchase other house builders, build cost controls, annual accounts, board reporting, transfer of construction and property development businesses to management buyout teams, management of the run down of construction and property development projects, funding and financing of projects, investigating joint venture opportunities
· Decentralised head office accounts function at Wilcon Homes to the five regional operating divisions which involved setting up new control systems to manage the transition from central accounting. Implemented internal audit team and procedures to conduct quarterly audits
· Implemented improvements in financial controls to deal with controlling revenues, costs and cash flows in respect of the management buyouts of the Property Development and Construction divisions of Wilson Connolly
· Following acquisition of London & Clydeside Holdings Plc led accounting team from Wilcon Homes and completed changeover of their computer systems and financial control system to the Wilcon systems within a month of acquisition

June 1992 to August 1993 TAY HOMES PLC GROUP FINANCIAL CONTROLLER

Turnover £76m. Net Assets £30m. Building 1,000 houses pa throughout the UK.

· Supervised team of 11
· Recruited by the Finance Director to sort out the accounting department and its production of accounting and management information which were mainly manually based, which I computerized and introduced monthly management accounts with all the required audit disclosures being automatically produced.
· Work in progress was also computerized to permit working capital reviews to be made monthly and not annually as before
· Involved in two Business Expansion scheme to raise a total of £10m for the sale of properties
· Involved in a joint venture with a building society to build houses at Dalgety Bay Scotland
· Involved in setting up a £10m show-house funding facility with BZW Equity


July 1987 to March 1992 WILLALL GROUP FINANCIAL DIRECTOR

Private Group of companies whose main activities were housebuilding in Cornwall, Cumbria, North Yorkshire and Scotland: and a builders merchants division with five depots in Ayrshire. The group enjoyed a considerable increase in turnover and pre-tax profits from 1987 to 1990 with turnover increasing from £4m to £18m in 1990 and pre-tax profit from £272,000 to £1.2m. Despite the recession turnover was £16m and pre-tax profit was £300,000 in 1991. House sales increased from 109 in 1987 to 203 in 1990 falling back to 175 in 1991.

Appointed company secretary in July 1987. Appointed financial controller of the house-building company in July 1987. Appointed finance director in November 1989 following interim period after dismissal of previous Finance Director.
Oversaw several acquisitions by the group during this period including two house-building companies in Scotland
Turned around the builders’ merchants business including installation of new epos computer system

September 1984 to July 1987 ARTHUR ANDERSEN, MANCHESTER

Trained as a chartered accountant in audit. First time pass.

Education

EDUCATION: 1973-1980: Norwich School
9 O levels including German
1 AO level French
2 A levels
- English B
- History B
University of Keele BA Joint Hons Law and History 2:1

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (FCA)
Financial Planning Certificate
Mortgage Advice Qualification
Currently hold Practising Certificate to practise as a Chartered Accountant in UK.
Authorised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants to carry on Investment business
Registered as a Mortgage Intermediary

Skills

SKILLS

Company acquisition and disposal, due diligence, bid/tender/viability work, business integration and separation, Public company reporting, financial control systems, computer system design, selection and installation including intranet and internet sites, team management, turnaround, growth management, change management, outsourcing, cash-flow management, cost reduction, customer service, internal audit, profitability reviews, raising and negotiating funding and finance, project management, capital asset management, business process improvement, business coaching, decentralization of accounting functions, MBO, recession management, joint ventures, succession planning.

Languages

English

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