Experience

Bridge Farm Group

• United Kingdom
• Horticulture
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Finance Manager

  • Jun 2022 - Present



Clark-Drain Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Wholesale Building Materials
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Financial Controller

  • Apr 2021 - Jun 2022

  A £20m+ business, manufacturer and importer of drainage solutions supplying builder’s merchants, civil engineers and contractors• Head finance person within the business overseeing all finance functions and supporting team of 5 covering Management Accounts, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Bank and Payroll. • Dealing with banks and securing finance • Dealing with tax compliance and ruling including capital allowances and export paperwork • Designed and implemented structured budget model enabling consistency, transparency, efficiency and simplification • Review of processes to improve controls, effectiveness and efficiency • Key member in R&D claims working closely with Commercial Director and Head of Supply Chain • Business Partnered with Operations Director to challenge and improve efficiencies in production • Developed added value KPI’s to assist operations in understanding their accounts • Project managed and migrated two payrolls onto Sage Cloud Payroll 50 • Liaison with banks and asset finance providers to secure funding and maintenance of banking facilities • Balance sheet reconciliations



Supreme

• United Kingdom
• Construction
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Financial Controller

  • May 2019 - Mar 2021

  Supreme Concrete Limited (Concrete Division of Ibstock Plc)A £60+ million business, manufacturing concrete products and supplying builder’s merchants, infrastructure and housing industries. • Developed and implemented new budget model to enable standardisation and consistency within group. This was across two legal entities making reporting synergies within the division.• Created, developed and implemented weekly performance monitor and flash forecast model with visibility on performance by product sector and factory utilised to identify and drive immediate corrective action by directors in real time. • Direct interaction at regular IT transformational meetings to integrate and develop group processes and reporting.• Developed and implement forecast models for P&L, balance sheet and cash flow projections. • Responsible for monthly reporting and commentary for divisional and plc directors.• Developed P&L reporting across legal entities to support new management structure by business channel. • Recently trained new position of Senior Finance Business Partner due to business relocation.• Furlough lead for entity working closely with group tax department supporting claims to ensure accurate and auditable claims to HMRC.• Continued to be responsible for the Finance Manager responsibilities.

• Finance Manager

  • Aug 2011 - May 2019

  • Led successful ERP migration from Sage 500 to JDE for two legal entities with no internal or external audit management points. Section lead and member of steering committee allowing for standardisation within group, efficient consolidation of master data and reporting. Working closely with consultants and group IT to support all modules meeting business needs. • Developed and implemented new budget model to enable standardisation and consistency within group.• Developed weekly performance monitor and flash forecast model with visibility on performance by product sector and factory utilised to identify and drive immediate corrective action by directors in real time. • Developed new product costing models for over 2000 products at 7 locations enabling standard v actual variance analysis and integration with customer and product profitability models.• Supported commercial team with profitability reporting and modelling pricing impacts for tender process and negotiations. • Managed, developed and led a team of 14 covering Management Accounts, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Bank and Payroll. • Cross functional collaboration by partnering with operations teams and providing support for performance monitoring. • Improved management information and developed supplementary reporting of P&L by category. • Responsible for monthly reporting and commentary for divisional and plc directors.• Consolidated reporting for two companies to group and various analysis as required. • Preparation of statutory accounts for two trading companies and three dormant companies. • Internal and external audit point of contact and responsible for management response for internal audits. • Salary payroll processing for two companies. • VAT returns, PAYE, PSA and Intrastat for two companies.

• Assistant Finance Manager

  • Nov 2009 - Jul 2011

  • Reviewed processes for operations teams and made recommendations for improvements• Reviewed finance processes and implemented best practice • Reviewed company processes to ensure SOX and Internal Audit compliance • Developed team (Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll and Management Accounts) • Deputised for Finance Manager

• Management Accountant

  • Mar 2002 - Nov 2009

  • Successfully migrated sister company management accounts enabling consistent and timely reporting. • Successfully implemented Purchase order processing into sister company allowing accrual accounting and a reduction of month end reporting by 15 days. • Remapped sister company chart of accounts resulting in a standardised structure which improved reporting efficiencies.• Migrated sister company payroll and improved data validation and controls. • Migrated customer rebate payment calculations from sales support functions (two companies) to finance to enable validation of data and improve accuracy. • Responsible for team (Accounts Payable, Bank, Assistant Accountant).• Review customer rebate agreements and discuss with commercial team.• Management and Manufacturing accounts for two companies, with supporting balance sheet reconciliations. • VAT Returns for two companies. • Maintenance of fixed asset registers• Regular KPI reporting including production, sales and labour costs

• Senior Finance Administrator

  • Sep 2001 - Mar 2002

• Purchase Ledger Administrator

  • Sep 1999 - Sep 2001



Clugston Construction Limited

• United Kingdom
• Construction
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Purchase Ledger Clerk

  • Jul 1998 - Aug 1999