PETER SMITH
Finance Manager at Booker Tate Limited- Claim this Profile
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Credentials
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FCA
Institute of Chartered Acountants in England & Wales
Experience
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Booker Tate Limited - Sugar & Agribusiness Consultants
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United Kingdom
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Food and Beverage Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Finance Manager
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Dec 1995 - Present
Responsible for the provision of financial planning and best practice implementation services to client companies managed by Booker Tate in the Caribbean, Africa and Asia/Pacific Regions. Responsibilities have included the monitoring of client company financial performance, review of budgets and long term plans, review and development of systems and financial controls, and client company compliance with best practice and corporate governance requirements. Was responsible as Client Director from 2004 to 2010 for the delivery of corporate management services and technical support to a general agribusiness enterprise in Papua New Guinea.
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Financial Director
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Jun 1993 - Sep 1995
Responsible for financial systems and staff in the Zambian holding company and in operating subsidiaries in UK, South Africa and Tanzania. Assisted in this capacity in the establishment of warehouse, transit and forwarding facilities in Johannesburg, Durban and Messina shortly after the opening of the land border between South Africa and Zambia in the early 1990's. Responsible for financial systems and staff in the Zambian holding company and in operating subsidiaries in UK, South Africa and Tanzania. Assisted in this capacity in the establishment of warehouse, transit and forwarding facilities in Johannesburg, Durban and Messina shortly after the opening of the land border between South Africa and Zambia in the early 1990's.
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Financial Director
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Jun 1986 - Jun 1993
Reporting to the Managing Director of an Industrial and Agribusiness holding company within Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines, was responsible at Board level for all aspects of financial management and reporting for eighteen diverse operating subsidiaries. Operations included mixed farming, coffee farming, fish and poultry farming, leisure tourism, transport, engineering and construction. Responsibilities included acquisition and investment appraisal functions. Was responsible for negotiation with prospective investors for the establishment of a 240MT per day wheat mill, and the establishment of an integrated fish and poultry farm project.
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Education
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2000 - 2001
Oxford Brookes University
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Management Practice -
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Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (FCA), Accounting and Finance -
1968 - 1972
Wadham College, University of Oxford
Master’s Degree, Modern History -
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Christ's Hospital
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