Financial Controller

• Mar 2023 - Present

Finance Director

• Nov 2021 - Mar 2023

Oversee the group finance function (4 companies).· Worked on developing investment opportunities to help grow the company, using a variety of analysis models. This was then followed up by securing EU grants to help fund a proportion of the new capital expenditure – and overseeing the procurement of these assets, including setting up a capital import loan.· Responsible for financing large capital purchases through obtaining loans & hire purchase agreements, liaising with financial institutions to completion on these projects.· Led the strategic direction of the company by producing SWOT reports and competitor analysis to emphasise the necessity for growth and in what areas this would be possible.· Implemented group cashflow forecasting to maintain funds in the group and identify pinch points months ahead of time – which could then be managed and avoided successfully.· Sit on the board – collate and present monthly board packs on group management accounts & KPI’s – providing insight on management and financial operations.· Control the budgeting procedure for the group, dealing with the Farming management team, Managing Director & Sales director of the produce team.· Day to day management of the finance team of 3.· Responsible for the IT needs of the business. This involves activities from maintaining/procuring up to date hardware across the site to moving our email servers across to office365. Show less

Financial Controller

• Jun 2020 - Nov 2021

Responsible for daily running of the finance team, managing a team of 2.· Preparation and development of monthly management accounts. Developed a dashboard document for the senior management team, to help ease of understanding financial data. This was presented to the senior management team and owner at monthly meetings.· Have developed daily and weekly cashflow information for the business, to help plan for the short-medium future, and enable us to decide how to invest funds.· I moved the company from using a combination of Sage and paper records for stock control, to be set up on a complete ERP system. This involved liaising with the entire business, developing detailed BOMs that did not exist previously, developing internal stock controls, and internal & external logistics controls – I project led on the whole project.· Have brought in and developed KPIs across the whole company now using the ERP system, from stock accuracy levels to logistics costing.· Oversaw bringing in price increases at a necessary level to deal with rising input costs experienced through the COVID 19 pandemic.· Run payroll for the company on Sage Payroll. I modernised the payroll system from monthly written out timesheets, to a finger-print scanning clocking in/out machine than links automatically to Sage Payroll for authorisation of wages monthly.· Developed relationships with currency providers to mitigate risk on our currency transactions. Show less

Senior Management Accountant

• Mar 2019 - Jul 2020

● Responsible for the preparation of consolidated group management accounts ● Oversee all aspect of month end procedures including bank reconciliations, balance sheet reconciliations, accruals & prepayments● Quarter reporting, involving Risk & Opportunity forecasting and planning ● Manage a team of 5 people ● Lead contact on annual auditing● Oversee currency risk & cash management for the group● Full preparation of overheads budget for the group

Management Accountant

• Sep 2015 - Mar 2019

● Responsible for preparation of several of the company management accounts as well as preparing group consolidated management accounts ● Responsible for submitting VAT returns for the group, which involved setting up the relevant infrastructure to ensure that we would be compliant to use ‘making tax digital’ with HMRC● Run all accruals & prepayments at month end for several companies ● Developed an IT system to accurately apportion costs to relevant cost centres

Assistant Accountant

• Apr 2014 - Aug 2015

● Prepared all preliminary journals for DPS and subsidiary companies● Completed balance sheet reconciliations across DPS and subsidiary companies● Prepared monthly management accounts for subsidiary companies, presenting the results to the Financial Controller and Finance Director

Accounts Assistant

• May 2012 - Mar 2014

● Responsible for the accounts payable and accounts receivable functions. ● Responsible for large volume of purchase invoices entered daily (100+)● Regular reconciliation of supplier statements● Responsible for accounts payable on smaller customers● Preliminary preparation of prepayment and accrual journals

Accounts Assistant

• Apr 2011 - May 2012

Finance Administrator

• Jun 2010 - Mar 2011