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Martin Jeffery

Interim Head of Finance and Administr... at Brain Research UK
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Seasoned finance professional with 30+ years of experience in accounting, finance, and operations.
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Location
London, England, United Kingdom, GB
Languages
  • Finnish -
Skills
  • Accounting
  • Internal Controls
  • Auditing
  • Charity Governance
  • Charity Finance And Accounting
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Martin Jeffery is a seasoned finance professional with 30+ years of experience in accounting, finance, and operations. He has held various roles, including Finance Director, Regional Financial Controller, and Management Accountant, and has worked with prominent companies such as Jewson, Mercury Communications, and Hewlett-Packard. He has also held part-time positions at Wellbeing of Women, Making Music, and Vtesse. Martin has a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from London Business School and is a Chartered Accountant (ACMA).

Experience

  • Brain Research UK
    • London, United Kingdom
    • Interim Head of Finance and Administration
      • Dec 2018 - Dec 2019
      • London, United Kingdom
  • Leuka
    • London, United Kingdom
    • Head of Finance and Operations (part-time)
      • Jun 2017 - Sep 2018
      • London, United Kingdom

      Sole responsibility for all finance and operations at this growing medical research charity focused on leukemia. Implement auto-enrollment pension scheme. Developing use of Xero accounting system.

  • Brain Research UK
    • London, United Kingdom
    • Interim Head of Finance and Administration
      • Nov 2016 - Dec 2017
      • London, United Kingdom

      * Brought in two weeks before audit to prepare first set of accounts (2016) under SORP2015. Effected change of grant accounting policy. Management of audit and follow-up. Achieved brief to sign-off accounts by Christmas 2016.* Stabilised finance function following significant staff turnover, ...

  • Wellbeing of Women
    • London, United Kingdom
    • Finance Director
      • Mar 2004 - Sep 2016
      • London, United Kingdom

      Company Secretary and Deputy CEO* Stabilised finances and set the conditions to grow turnover from £1.1million to £2.1 million. Introduced effective financial controls and systems. Developed effective cash flow and management reporting and budgeting. Maintained income throughout the challengin...

  • Making Music
    • London, United Kingdom
    • Consultant
      • 2002 - 2004
      • London, United Kingdom

      Part time. Developing reporting, analysis and controls

  • Vtesse
    • Hertford
    • Financial Controller
      • 2001 - 2004
      • Hertford

      * Created finance function: implemented Sage and financial controls, cash flow control, responding to varied demands created by new start-up company.

  • Discovery Communications Europe
    • Consultant
      • 2001 - 2001
  • GTS Telesystems
    • Reading, United Kingdom
    • Interim Controller
      • 2000 - 2000
      • Reading, United Kingdom

      Capital expenditure control

  • Ultra Electronics
    • Greenford
    • Interim Project Accountant
      • 1999 - 2000
      • Greenford

      * Managed handover between change of permanent staff; trained new accountant.* Assisted implementation of new financial system (BPCS), gained in-depth knowledge of file structures and learnt Crystal report-writer to design suite of project, management and analytical reports. - Project reporti...

  • Jewson
    • London, United Kingdom
    • Regional Financial Controller
      • 1996 - 1998
      • London, United Kingdom

      * Implemented strategy to raise Jewson’s business in the London area.* Developed and implemented branch action plans to achieve 100% increase of PBIT.* Prepared business plans for branch refurbishments. * Managed forecasting/budgeting for 25 branches and area functions.* Centralised Credit Contr...

  • Mercury Communications
    • London, United Kingdom
    • Manager of Management Accounting
      • 1989 - 1995
      • London, United Kingdom

      1992-95 Manager of Management Accounting, Strategic Business Unit serving the smaller business & residential market* Acting Financial Controller for 5 months whilst incumbent was on secondment.* Developed controls and managed to tight deadlines the new unit's (costs £300m) regular report...

  • Atlas Copco UK & Ireland
    • Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom
    • Management Accountant
      • 1988 - 1989
      • Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom

      * Implemented business performance reporting for management change programme, and enhanced information flow between finance and marketing functions.

  • Hewlett-Packard
    • Helsinki
    • Financial Analyst
      • 1986 - 1988
      • Helsinki

      * Created budgeting model (still being used in 1995) and trained 50 non-financial managers to achieve savings of 12 man weeks and considerable quality gains. * Created further easy to use PC based systems spreadsheets interfacing with mainframe to achieve efficiency gains e.g. pricing, statutory ...

  • Metsäliiton Teollisuus
    • Helsinki
    • Corporate Planner
      • 1983 - 1986
      • Helsinki
  • G&M Power Plant Ltd
    • Ipswich, United Kingdom
    • Cost Accountant
      • 1979 - 1981
      • Ipswich, United Kingdom
  • CompAir
    • Ipswich, United Kingdom
    • Cost Accountant
      • 1976 - 1979
      • Ipswich, United Kingdom

Education

  • 1981 - 1983
    London Business School
  • The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
  • 1973 - 1976
    UCL

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