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Interim manager

Work Experience

REDBRIDGE & WALTHAM FOREST HEALTH AUTHORITY DEC 01-JULY02
Part of the finance team winding up the old Health Authority in readiness for transfer to new strategic Health Authority. Maintaining cash limited and non-cash limited balances and drawing down allocation where appropriate. Using sun accounting systems review ledger balances and input appropriate journal entries. Liaise and prepare fis returns for Doh.
Liaise with internal Auditors and agree programme. Prepare year-end timetable.
Prepare final accounts for the Health authorities charitable trust before dissolution. Attend trust board meetings. Review finance manual and note changes since last year including Greenbury Recommendations. Prepare monthly vat returns. Ad hoc reviews and assignments

LONDON BOROUGH OF RICHMOND OCT /NOV 2001
Called in as an independent accountant to review internal transportation costs for a best value exercise and benchmarking exercise. Reviewed and evaluated in house allocations of transportation costs to social services, education and highways. Reviewed work patterns of drivers and also looked at in house service department cost rates. Prepared Questionnaire to be sent to other local authorities as part of the benchmarking review. Compiled report on my findings and presented report to Transportation Committee set up by Council.

CROYDON AND SURREY DOWNS NHS COMMUNITY TRUST JUNE TO OCT 2001
Interim Deputy Director of Finance
Provision of cover for Deputy Dir. of Finance and Dir. of Finance both of whom had resigned.
Attendance and strategic input into consultation periods towards implementation of 3 Pct's
Responsible for 16 staff and full finance function.
Attendance at Weekly executive meetings and main board meetings.
Shared Services reviews. Reviewed Tenders.
Attendance at project meetings for preparation for outline business case with other Nhs Trusts.
Liaising with Internal and External Auditors re Schedule of Programmes & Final Accounts.
Compiling information for Annual Report.
Reviewing Monthly break even Analysis.
Agreeing SlA’s with other trusts and the health authority.
Ad Hoc projects.

Group of 3 privately owned companies. T/O £3M February –May 2001
N.A.C.D. – Selling door entry and security systems mainly to wholesalers.
I.H.C.D A manufacturing unit offering a hard chrome plating service
EDINCARE Distributor of household and commercial waste disposal units.

Interim assignment acting as Financial Director for 3 privately owned companies.
Was brought into the company following the departure of a non-qualified accountant to review the business and tighten up on company financial and administration procedures.
Looked into the product range and profitability of each company.
Reviewed discount structure to customers and improved profitability by introducing a new discount formula. Increased price levels by an average of 15% with no loss of customers. Introduced minimum customer order and recouped carriage costs.
Introduced different working arrangements for the factory increasing output and efficiency.
Liaised with factoring company and reviewed procedures for responding to disputes and
Unprotected cash. This raised the daily availability by approx. 10%.
Converted employees from weekly pay to monthly salaries- introduced telephone banking and Bacs payments. Set up stakeholder pension scheme.
Prepared cash flow management and statutory accounts for the external Accountants.



LUTON AND DUNSTABLE NHS TRUST OCTOBER TO JANUARY 2001

3 Month Assignment following the departure of the Director of Finance.
The Trust was in the process of preparing to be split from April 2001 into 4 Primary care trust and the worked involved liaising with existing personnel in allocating the existing budget into the 4 primary care budgets.
Advising and preparing detailed working papers on the above and making recommendations
as to how sensitive areas could be allocated.
Produced a working document, which would form the basis of further discussions in readiness for the split and would form part of the overall Income stream and strategy of the new organisations.


PRIORY HEALTHCARE INTERIM FINANCE MANAGER May 2000 to Oct 2000

Private Hospital Group recently taken over by Westminster Health care.
Company is due to relocate From Denham to Leatherhead. A number of the key staff have already left including the Deputy FD
Have taken over this role liasing with the Hospital Accountants and parent company’s board.
Looking after the general finance for the division. Reporting on the various occupancy rates and profitability of 17 sites
Co-ordinating change of bankers for all the hospitals.
Part of the senior management committee approving capital projects and recommendations for approval to holding company.
In negotiations with Custom and Excise over complex vat matters.
In charge of 6 staff directly and 9 on site hospital accountants indirectly
Compiling and preparing division accounts to strict monthly timetables.
Preparing and distributing budget plans and presentation to holding company.


BESAM INTERIM FINANCE MANAGER Mar-May 2000

Swedish owned door manufacturer acting as Finance Director until the arrival of the new FD
Reporting to Sweden using Frango Compiling ten day order and invoicing figures for 5 UK operations and Ireland. Looked after Insurance’s pensions and capital expenditure. In Charge of 8 staff. Part of the Senior Management team.

3S TECHNOLOGY MEDIA GROUP INTERIM ASSIGNMENT NOV 99- MAR 2000

E- commerce Technology Company developing interactive web kiosks. Prepared budgets and costing for new project. Successfully prepared cash flow of main core business (support centre for HP equipment and testing) for presentation to bankers to increase facility to enable development work to proceed.
Liaised with outside companies for possible partnership opportunities.


GOLDHILL & CO- ACCOUNTANTSNOV1997-DATE (PART-TIME) (AUG-NOV99 F.TIME)

Helped out sole practitioner with audits and accounts preparation including self-assessment tax returns for individuals and Corporation tax returns for Companies.
In charge of preparing accounts for a group of 12 property companies on the south coast.
Helped with general correspondence and covered for sole practitioner in his absence.
Used Hartley software for accounts preparation and objective tax for tax returns.
Set up sage computerised system for clients including training.
Prepared Business plans for clients helping to raise additional Finance.

ENGLISH HERITAGE – Apr – Jun 1999
Returned to English Heritage – Involved with year-end stock valuation see below.

SIEMENS NETWORK SYSTEMS-Interim consultant Dec 1998-Mar 1999

Part of the Siemens PLC group My work involved looking at the stock costing system and how it interacted with the financial accounting system using Agresso software.
Ensured that finished stock and work-in-progress valuation agreed to nominal ledger
Analysed different types of Standard cost Variances. (price, price support, exchange )
Produced monthly stock journals completed part of monthly board pack. (forward orders)
Liaised with purchasing, stock and sales departments to achieve the above.
Used agresso to determine valuation. Agresso linked into word and Excel. Used look up tables to complete task.
Discovered £70K of input Vat not claimed due to the way the Company converted exchange rates. System changed as a result of my findings.

ENGLISH HERITAGE – Interim Consultant. Nov1997-1998

Advised and reported on gross margins and stock levels at their 190 retail outlets.
Visited the major sites and reported on the data capture and updated procedures for the movement of stock and cut off ready for the organisations March year-end.
Responsible for stocktaking including procedures, checking results and valuation.
Advised on correct treatment for valuation of stock on a month to month basis.
Agreed procedures for write offs, Transfers and markdowns based on government and organisation’s internal procedures.
Agreed site stock to accounting records using Integra software.

RONALD JOYCE AND COMPANY Freelance Financial Controller Aug 96-Oct 97
The company manufactures wedding dresses selling to multiple chains and individual retail shops. The company also designs ladies evening wear but importing the finished product.
Helped out following the early and sudden death of the previous Financial Director.
Managing the Financial affairs of the company
liased with outside venture capitalist 3i
Prepared budgets and business plans to acquire extra funding for expansion.
Made improvements to the computerised accounting system introducing budgets, which in turn helped to control costs.
Liaised with external professionals set up bank line and had direct access to dealing rooms.
Achieved a reduction in expenditure and improved margins especially on export side.
Negotiated with factor companies to increase percentage level of daily advances from 70% to75% thus improved cash flow.



FREELANCE ACCOUNTANT AND CONSULTANT 1988-1996
Successfully negotiated the purchase of two hotels one of, which was overseas, helped with raising finance for the purchase. At all times have looked into other business opportunities.
Set up a linked front office / back office hotel accounting system providing daily reports and occupancy levels together with weekly financial summaries.
Prepared cash flow budgets and five-year plan for submission to banks and outside venture capitalists.
Raised finance for purchase of new garden centre
Reviewed retail systems and operations including evaluating Epos systems
Evaluated profitability of Franchise operations.
Reorganised and decentralised an accounts department of 80 recruiting and training of 40 staff achieving this within 1 month of requirement including relocating business and premises.
Negotiated with bankers achieving £½m extra working capital.
Reconciled royalty statements and artists’ contracts within the music industry.
Set up internal control systems enabling tighter collection of debts and more efficient use of working capital.
Acted as company treasurer buying and selling foreign currencies (up to £6m) achieving favourable exchange rates.

The above work included assignments for the following companies:

Air Call Communications PLC Aldgate Warehouse T/O 50M. Pickwick PLC.

British Aerospace PLC Capital Gardens PLC World Ort Union


OTHER COMPANIES WORKED FOR:

G.F.DIETARY GROUP OF COMPANIES ACTING F DIRECTOR 1987-1988
Specialised Food Company (T/O £4M

MEDTRANS FORWARDING FINANCIAL CONTROLLER 1983-1987
International Freight Forwarders (T/O £5m)

SELINCOURT PLC GROUP ACCOUNTANT 1981-1983
Textile and Fashion Manufacturers (T/O £20m)

WALLIS FASHIONS CHIEF ACCOUNTANT 1979-1981
Manufacturer and retailers of fashion garments (T/O £25m)

UKO PLC INTERNAL AUDITOR/COST ACCOUNTANT 1976-1979
Manufacturer and Distributor of Ophthalmic Products (T/O £40m)

WILSON WRIGHT & CO ARTICLED CLERK 1970-1975
Chartered Accountants

Education

9 O Levels, 2 A Levels
Chartered Accountant ACA (1975) FCA(1981)
Chartered Secretaries parts 1, 2 and 3
Associate member of British Hotel Accountants (ABHA)

Skills

A highly skilled Chartered Accountant with extensive corporate experience in manufacturing, distribution, retail, service organisations. Have operated at all levels up to Finance Director dealing with Multi Company and Multi currency accounting.
As an interim executive have operated at board level and been involved in public bodies notably English Heritage and the NHS.

Have been involved in preparing business plans to raise additional finance from banks and outside investors

Have worked for a variety of PLC, small & medium sized companies.

Have been involved in acquisitions including those overseas.

Have worked at a high level for a major charitable organisation ensuring accounting and legal requirements were complied with.

Have worked for subsidiaries of both European and American holding companies. Have a broad knowledge of computing techniques and accounting software including installing computer systems and accounting packages notably Pegasus and Sage and Integra Have used spreadsheets extensively including Excel and Windows 95. Have used Sun, agresso and Frango.

A high level of negotiation skills has often been instrumental in achieving favourable financial terms from outside institutions.

Using Excel produced master spreadsheets for consolidation of a retail chain of shops evaluating each retail unit separately.

Works well as a team player helping others in their training and education sometimes leading to professional examinations.

Finance lecturer & Tutor in accountancy specialising in AAT, CIMA & Sage courses.

Other

PERSONAL
Marital Status: Married with two children
Clean Driving Licence
Interests: Bridge Sports, Member of MCC

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