Expertise
- Business start up
- Business strategy
- Business & Personal Tax
- Turnaround
- FInance Director
- Finance
- Treasury Management
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- company Accounts
- Company Formation
- Management Accounts
- Systems implementation
- Accounts preparation
- Owner-manager business support
- Finance management
- Manufacturing
- Construction
- Property Development
- property development finance
Summary
If you are an entrepreneur, CEO or Managing Director running an ambitious company with fast growth potential and looking to build your company to ensure you get the highest price for it when/if you decide to sell our 'part-time Finance Director' model may well be of interest to you.
Ambitious companies looking to grow quickly need to build a quality finance function led by a senior Finance Director with 'big business' experience, but that person does not necessarily need to be full-time.
Experience
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Ahearne Accountancy Limited
Part-Time Finance Director and Chief Finance Officer
1 - 5 Employees 2018 - CurrentWorking with small and medium sized businesses to provide Finance Director services:
Projects to date include:
- Working with a start up property development company to secure £10m private equity funding
- Providing short term cover as Finance Director for a manufacturing company while they recruited a new permanent FD
- Providing an international manufacturing group with advice on group restructuring, tax planning and setting up an employee scheme
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Multi-National Manufacturing Group
Finance Director
100+ Employees 2009 - 2018Managing the Finance, HR, IT and Office Administration Departments for the UK companies
Advising the Group on all financial and taxation matters
Key Accomplishments:
- Implemented a new transfer pricing policy, resulting in savings to the Group in excess of £0.5m annually
- Proposed and introduced a new policy for foreign exchange management to minimize potential exchange losses while retaining the possibility of retaining some exchange gains
- Overseeing an acquisition of a competitor company in Australia, including managing the legal and financial due diligence
- Turnaround, and subsequent sale, of a loss-making subsidiary
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Regional Housebuilder
Finance Director
21 - 100 Employees 2005 - 2009Key Accomplishments:
- Advising shareholders on structure for sale of shares between shareholders
- Conducted a review of the group structure, and implemented a new structure to allow proper costing and monitoring of performance
- Setting up SPVs for tax planning purposes
- Successful turnaround of loss making subsidiary
- Conducted an extensive review of the vehicle fleet and negotiated new deals with suppliers, in some cases achieving a reduction in cost to the business of up to 20%
- Conducted a review of the employee benefits, and implemented new schemes with suppliers achieving savings of up to 15%
Qualifications
Fellow of The Chartered Institute of Management Accounts
Clubs and Associations
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