Experience

Willshee's Waste & Recycling

• United Kingdom
• Facilities Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Finance Director

  • Mar 2021 - Present

  Willshee’s is the largest independent waste and recycling company in the East Midlands region for domestic, industrial and commercial waste management, based in Burton-on-Trent. The family-run company has been providing waste and recycling solutions for over 35 years. The waste management, recycling and skip hire expertise means we can propose, develop and deliver tailor made services for the reduction, reuse, recycling, recovery and disposal of waste. We offer a wide range of services which include wheelie bin collections, skips, rear end loaders (RELs), roll on/off container hazardous waste collections and equipment rental for general waste and all types of recycling. Over the past 10 years we have focussed on achieving ZERO WASTE TO LANDFILL, in which we have succeeded, by treating the waste and supplying waste to energy plants throughout Europe, our new goal and focus is to remove even more recyclables from the waste we collect, and supply these materials to the various recycling facilities throughout the UK and Europe. To enable us to achieve this goal we have invested millions of pounds in our new Materials Recycling Facility in Swadlincote, which has recently been commissioned, the state-of-the-art equipment in our new facility automatically removes all material suitable for recycling and reuse. Read more at: https://www.willshees.co.uk/



Leavesley Group

• United Kingdom
• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Group Finance Director

  • Aug 2000 - Dec 2020

  Entrepreneurial owner managed group of companies, multiple trading sites, group turnover of up to c£50m and family assets in excess of £100m.Numerous JV, PE and SPV enterprises established and managed. B2B and B2C.Activities include real estate and land investment and development; manufacture of capital plant and agricultural equipment; plant, machinery and vehicle retail and hire; disposal agent for Ministry of Defence / HMRC / UN / Blue chip; construction of bespoke site buildings; agricultural production, assurance and inspection services; and tech based traceability testing.• Responsible for Financial, I.T, funding, Treasury and tax management, Strategic & Operational oversight, Board Reporting and Risk Management during a period in which turnover more than doubled and net assets quadrupled• Personally prepared IPO Financial Position, Prospects and Planning Memorandum, and working capital, cash flow and sensitivity reporting for AIM listing, highly commended by KPMG Global Markets. FCA Accredited.• Successful acquisition of 9 companies and the disposal of 7 others (personal due diligence)• Operational and compliance systems and procedures established for 5 overseas divisions (US, Tanzanian, Sweden, Finland and one offshore)• Introduced dynamic and rolling procurement and operational reviews, KPI’s and tenders, problem solving and root cause analysis with the focus on value added• Group wide TQM / BPR programme introduced leading to the accreditation under ISO9001 and IASME Cyber Essentials, and the development of cross functional culture, controls, policies and procedures• Complete rationalisation of group banking facilities involving asset revaluations, security implementation and the use of treasury hedging. Full tender process to three domestic banks.• Recommend develop implement value added KPI’s

• Group Accountant

  • Aug 1996 - Aug 2000

  • Design, procure, implement and manage group wide IT Infrastructure, including WAN, virtual servers and remote working, multi-currency accounting systems, stock control procedures, all tendering and training, and re-write and integration of all management reporting packs. • Centralisation and rationalisation of all accounting processes, leading to productivity gain of 200% and reduced lead times by 67%• Group wide internal audit undertaken to identify, challenge and rectify procedural inefficiencies and risks, and to highlight commercial weaknesses• Responsible for accounts, budgets and cash flow preparation; VAT, tax and CIS compliance; treasury and debt management; IT, HR, Insurance, Communications and Utilities procurement, Fleet and Employee Benefits. Instrumental in most group governance policies and procedures.



Myrce Real Estate Investment Limited

• Midlands, U.K

• Finance Director

  • Mar 2017 - Dec 2018

  IPO for AIM Listed Real Estate Investment Trust Conservative, diversified, low risk, tax efficient portfolio of commercial real estate in the UK • Personally prepared IPO Financial Position, Prospects and Planning Memorandum, and working capital, cash flow and sensitivity reporting for AIM listing, highly commended by KPMG Global Markets. FCA Accredited. IPO for AIM Listed Real Estate Investment Trust Conservative, diversified, low risk, tax efficient portfolio of commercial real estate in the UK • Personally prepared IPO Financial Position, Prospects and Planning Memorandum, and working capital, cash flow and sensitivity reporting for AIM listing, highly commended by KPMG Global Markets. FCA Accredited.



Lloyds Bank

• United Kingdom
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Group General & Purchase Ledger Manager

  • Aug 1994 - Aug 1996

  • Responsible for financial processing & reporting for 1,500 cost centres, entering c200,000 paper entries pa (turnover £1bn pa)• Management of 4 teams (21 Staff max)• Head count reduced by 30% following re-design and automation of processing, payment and authorisation procedures.• Net productivity increase of 75% in 2 years, accredited by Arthur Anderson as a ‘Leading Edge’ Finance Function.

• Systems Development Accountant

  • Aug 1992 - Aug 1994

  Gold & Silver National Quality Awards received for recovery of £14m loss and implementation of policies and procedures to prevent recurrenceResponsible for rationalising and implementing new procedures nationwide following control gaps appearing on consolidation of regional finance and HR functions



KPMG UK

• United Kingdom
• Accounting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Audit & Compliance

  • 1988 - 1992

  General audit, tax and compliance work Systems and process audit, review, improvement General audit, tax and compliance work Systems and process audit, review, improvement