Experience

Envisage Dental

• Australia
• Medical Practices
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head Of Finance

  • Jul 2019 - Present

  • Complete responsibility for all day-to-day finance, cash management, and statutory reporting requirements. • Lead the development of accounting policies, processes, tools and resources at the right pace for the business growth. • All post-acquisition finance integration and calculations including settling working capital with the sellers. • Recruited finance team in line with the growth of the business. • Represented finance at board level during COVID when we were without a CFO for 3 months. • Hive up of 10 legal entities. • Change in bank and developing relationship with new bank. Show less



Data Select

• United Kingdom
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head Of Finance

  • Aug 2018 - Jul 2019

  • Support the CEO of the company and other directors in leading the business. • Complete responsibility for finance • Lead a team of 12, • Owner of key relationships with Bank, major suppliers etc.. • Support the CEO of the company and other directors in leading the business. • Complete responsibility for finance • Lead a team of 12, • Owner of key relationships with Bank, major suppliers etc..



UL

• United States
• International Trade and Development
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Accounting Manager

  • Jan 2014 - Aug 2018

  Responsibility for Accounting Functions for UL's sites in the UK, Ireland and Turkey. At various times was also responsible for Dubai, South Africa, Russia, Morocco and Tunisia. - Full responsibility for all accounting, cash management, financial reporting, statutory filing, tax, liaising with external advisors and payroll provider. - Partner the operations managers in understanding their financials and for key decisions. - Delivery of month end close to group requirements and other management reporting as required. - Deputise for Regional Finance Director - All line management for an international team including training, development, performance management and recruitment - Completed a review of all financial processes in the UK, resulting in the introduction of key controls, and a restructure which halved the cost of the UK accounting team. - Led the legal merger of 4 acquisitions into 1 entity in the UK, including the introduction of Oracle to the divisions not using it. - Set up the accounting processes for South Africa and Russian legal entities - Managed the integration of Ireland and new UK acquisitions into group accounting processes - Led global project to reduce manual journal entries, which saved 300 hours globally per month. - GDPR team representative for Global Finance Show less



O2 (Telefónica UK)

• United Kingdom
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Finance Manager

  • Mar 2006 - Jan 2014

  Oct 11- Sep 12 Opex/Capex Finance Manager, Oct 13 – Jan 14 This role within the cost team gave me experience in the property and capex areas. I was the accounting lead for setting up a Joint Venture. • Responsibility for the team preparing the accounting, budgeting and forecasting for marketing, retail and property operational costs, and all capex. • Worked closely with various stakeholders to improve their reporting • Worked on project to set up a joint venture, in particular in identifying assets and accounting function streams to be transferred over to the new company in relation to property. Aug 09 – Oct 11 Overheads Finance Manager, I moved internally to a new role within O2 to gain wider experience. • Responsible for presenting overheads and non-direct costs to 4 non-financial directors and helping them to make decisions in respect to their costs. • Introduced a standardised budget process • Managed the transition of the team to a standardised shared service including the reorganisation of workloads resulting in the team reducing from 8 to 6. • Was the key go to person for technical accounting issues • Devised a new recruitment and on-boarding process which was subsequently rolled out for all accounting team employment. Mar06-Aug 09 Financial Accounting & Reporting Manager, I moved to O2 following their acquisition by Telefonica, giving me the opportunity to work in IFRS and to be involved in process changes that resulted. • Completing the monthly financial reporting consolidation of the UK companies including liaising with HQ and with the auditors for quarterly reviews and for audits. • Technical financial accounting support to the finance community. • Reduction of the monthly reporting cycle from 9 days to 6 days. • Financial Accounting support to the Be & Link Acquisition teams including the hive up of the Link into the main UK entity. • Working with the SOX team in their development of the SOX documentation Show less



Hydro-Lek Ltd

• Interim Managing Director

  • Sep 2012 - Aug 2013

  Took a sabbatical from Telefonica in order to act as Interim Managing Director of the family business whilst the business was sold following the death of my father who had founded the business. • I managed the sale of the business to a Subsea industry leader who could provide the investment needed, to take the company into the future. • Identified and took actions required to ensure that the business was immediately stable and saleable. o Liaising with Bank and key stakeholders to retain confidence and ensure mortgages and factoring continued to be supported o Implemented a monthly budgetary and management account processes o Introduced bonded stores and stock control system procedures o Brought in working capital control to the point where factoring was no longer required to fund the business. o Recruited a Sales Director with Global Subsea industry knowledge and network. o Completed a legal review which resulted in Terms & Conditions for sale, HR employment contracts, H&S and an export licence review. o Engaged with 3rd Party suppliers to provide a new IT System with enhanced security to meet the stringent guidelines set out in Nuclear Contracts o Managed HR issues including recruitment, redundancy and disciplinary issues o Managed the entire sale process from the content of the information memorandum through to producing all the due diligence papers myself Show less



Del Monte Fresh Produce N.A., Inc

• 1 - 100 Employee

• Treasury & SOX Manager, Group Accountant

  • Mar 2004 - Mar 2006

  Following the take-over of Del Monte Foods International (‘DMFI’) by Del Monte Fresh Produce, I was promoted reporting directly to the regional FD. • Managing the initial SOX404 documentation of processes and testing • Recommending system improvements and helping with their implementation. • Management of the treasury department, ensuring sufficient cash is held to ensure timely payment in various currencies and the weekly forecast of cash requirements. • UK group consolidation and statutory reporting for the DMFI group (20 companies). • Preparing various financial documents as part of the due diligence for the sale of the group. Show less



Crowe Clark Whitehill LLP

• Audit Trainee - Audit Senior

  • Sep 2000 - Mar 2004

  This was Horwath Clark Whitehill when I was there - now part of Crowe International. Did my ACA studying with the firm. Began as Audit Junior and worked through to Audit Senior. Completed normal audits, schools and charity audits and consolidations for smaller groups. In my final year specialised in Pension scheme auditing. This was Horwath Clark Whitehill when I was there - now part of Crowe International. Did my ACA studying with the firm. Began as Audit Junior and worked through to Audit Senior. Completed normal audits, schools and charity audits and consolidations for smaller groups. In my final year specialised in Pension scheme auditing.