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Interim manager

Work Experience

2002 to date – Temporary Assignments

April to June 2003 – Cheshire Building Society
Carrying out user acceptance testing on the output of the SysCon commercial lending software. Checking output to a test script. Reconciling the output from the management information database to the Agresso nominal ledger. Running Business Objects reports and testing for FSA reporting. Checking calculations of interest accruals and balances. Highlighting differences and problems. Reporting daily to the Financial Controller and Management Information Manager.

Dec 2003 – the Royal London Group
Extracting data from manual records to assist in the analysis of a suspense account balance of £3m. Completed data extraction for approximately 1500 items, matched items with a value of £1.5m and highlighted problems with accounting records.


2001 to 2002 Companies within the Davidson Organisation
The organisation establishes subsidiaries as a means of introducing technical innovation and new products to the market place. It also has some property holdings.

Finance Director – Responsibilities: -
· Acting as Finance Director or Company Secretary for four companies
· Member of subsidiary management team
· Preparation of cash flow projections
· Running Treasury function and authorised signatory with 4 banks
o Barclays
o Bank of Scotland
o NatWest
o Anglo-Irish Bank
· VAT and tax planning, submission of VAT returns
· Point of contact for auditors, solicitors, insurance brokers, bankers and tax authorities
· Preparation of business plans, budgets and forecasts
· Preparation of and reporting on management and statutory accounts
· Risk Management

Achievements
· Set up all accounting systems for brand new companies
· Set up bank accounts, Sterling, Dollar and Euro
· Established insurance policies, together with PMI & pension schemes
· Prepared financial models for flotation on AIM
· One company floated on AIM
· Writing terms and conditions of sale
· Set up trading as a credit card merchant - Barclaycard
· Introduced credit control procedures – no bad debts whilst I was with the organisation


2001 J D Williams Ltd
J D Williams is a subsidiary of N Brown Group plc and is a catalogue company, specialising mainly in clothing.

Interim Project Accountant – Responsibilities: -
· Heading the project to improve reconciliation procedures for customer receipts, with a team of three full time members plus additional co-opted staff
· Identifying & obtaining approval for changes to existing procedures and systems
· Reporting back to monthly meetings attended by Group Finance Director, Company Secretary and senior managers from Internal Audit, IT and Customer Service functions

Achievements
· Introduced procedures to reconcile customer receipts weekly – £7m per week
· Implemented changes to working practices to improve internal controls with Cashiers and Data Input departments – including preparation of operating instructions and training staff
· Obtained approval for several computer projects, including electronic banking procedures




2000 Federal Signal Ltd
Federal Signal is a subsidiary of US group. The company designs, builds and commissions voice alarm and public address systems. These systems are used in public buildings, such as the Commonwealth Pool as well as oil and gas rigs.

Interim Senior Financial Controller – Responsibilities: -
· Heading the finance function, and supervision of staff of five
· Reporting to US, complying with US GAAP
· Member of Management Team, with responsibility for Finance & IT
· Authorised Signatory with NatWest
· Cash Flow Monitoring and report to US treasurer

Achievements
· Finalised property sale, which realised £600,000
· Filed overdue VAT returns and recovered £181,000
· Reduced debtors by £500,000 and debtors days by 36
· Corrected the 1999 accounts with more than 90 journals so that the auditors could return and complete the audit
· Arranged new bank overdraft facility of £1m
· Re-wrote the terms and conditions of sale
· Replaced the unreliable computer servers




1999 to 2000 Coutts Career Consultants
As part of my redundancy package from CWS, I attended an outplacement course with Coutts in Manchester from October 1999 to April 2000.





1986 TO 1999 CWS Property and Development
CWS Property and Development administers a portfolio with a value of £150m and a rent roll of £12m, with approximately 1500 tenancies, of which 400 are residential. It also has the responsibility to provide property services to the remainder of the Group, including the development of retail property.



Operations Accountant (1993 to 1999) - Responsibilities: -
· Supervision of a team of four
· Preparation of year-end accounts packs, together with statutory accounts for subsidiaries and a joint company
· Preparation of weekly cash flow forecasts for submission to central treasury function
· VAT planning and submission of VAT returns
· Financial appraisals of tenants, contractors, property purchasers and vendors
· Accounting for property sales and acquisitions, including arranging payments with the central treasury function (largest single sale was £42m)
· Operation and development of TBS/TRAMPS – a property database package
· Working with in-house insurance brokers to ensure that the property portfolio was properly insured and that premium costs were recovered from tenants

Achievements
· Transferred £30m surplus properties from other parts of the organisation so that they could be sold or actively managed
· Achieved savings of £750000 in VAT, which otherwise would have been irrecoverable
· Set up spreadsheets for reporting on development projects (largest project £10m), which were also used for the VAT Capital Goods Scheme and tax analysis



Investment Accountant (1987 to 1993) – Responsibilities: -
· Headed HO accounts team, with five staff and functional overview of eighteen regional staff
· Appraisal of capital expenditure
· Consolidation of regional accounts, budgets and forecasts
· Co-ordination of annual valuation of the investment portfolio –valued up to £150m

Achievements
· Tested and implemented the TRAMPS computerised property database
· Restructured accounts function, resulting in closure of regional accounts departments and reduction in staff numbers by 20
· Developed spreadsheets for fixed asset accounting for the property portfolios




Regional Accountant (1986 to 1987) – Responsibilities: -
· Headed regional accounts team, with seven staff
· Preparation of budgets, forecasts, management and statutory accounts
· Financial operations of region, including credit control

Achievements
· Recruited and established an accounts department from scratch
· Introduced credit control procedures, including the use of bailiffs for commercial debts




1979 to 1986 Cape Boards and Panels Limited
Part of a group involved in the manufacture and sale of fire resistant building products.


Plant Management Accountant (1984 to 1986) – Responsibilities: -
· Weekly and periodic factory variance reports
· Day-to-day running of the accounts office and supervision of a staff of six

Achievements
· Application of spreadsheets to product costing and factory variance report


European Financial Controller (1979 to 1984) – Responsibilities: -
· Accounting for three small selling companies, based in France, Germany and Holland
· Authorised signatory for the three companies
· Preparation of cash flow forecasts to buy and sell foreign exchange as required
· Control of repatriating funds to UK
· Working with foreign advisers on policies for product pricing and management charges

Achievements
· Installation of integrated PC based accounting system at the three sites


1974 to 1979 Binder Hamlyn
A national firm of Chartered Accountants Audit Senior based at the Manchester office

Achievements
· Obtaining professional qualification

Education

Professional Qualification: ACA, with practising certificate

Education: BA in Business Studies
3 “A” Levels, including Spanish,
7 “O” Levels, including French, German and Spanish
Training:
Attended in-house Training Schemes and a Business Effectiveness Course run by the Manchester Business School. Attended computer courses on Excel, Lotus Notes, Sun and TBS/TRAMPS. Currently I am studying for the ECDL certificate and attending CPE courses.

Skills

Computer Systems Used:
Spreadsheet packages Excel and Lotus123
Nominal Package Sun, CFACS, QuickBooks
General/E-mail/Word Processing Microsoft Office2000, Lotus Notes & Smart Suite
Property Database TBS/TRAMPS
Others Micrografx Flowcharter 7, Lotus Freelance Graphics
Microsoft Project

Languages

English
German
French
Spanish

Other

PERSONAL DETAILS

Date of Birth: 27th August 1952
Marital Status: Married
Interests: Cooking, reading, music, playing the guitar, learning to play golf

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