Finance Interim Profiles

Murt - The Finance Interim

Murt previously worked for a corporate finance company as financial controller, where she had full responsibility for the financial management of the company. Experienced in financial accounting, taxation and statutory reporting as well as budget and treasury management. Murt was responsible for the management of the financial and legal due diligence during a company merger, she was also heavily involved in the post-integration.

Her other projects included the specification, sourcing and implementation of accounting system to meet all data flows and information requirements to coincide with development of in-house finance functions.

While working for a consultancy company Murt was a member of the senior management team part of her responsibility as financial controller was the preparation of financial bids for acquisitions and she was a key member of the financial transition team to integrate newly acquired businesses.

Murt has strong people and project management skills enabling her to achieve the set targets. Throughout her career Murt has be recognised as a valuable team member.

Simon - The Finance Interim

Simon is an experienced manager with broad financial, systems, project and business experience. He has worked for both household named PLC and SME’s both in the UK and Europe. Simon is proven in change management, business transformation, project recovery, and turnarounds in a range of sectors including retail, financial services, and communication.

Simon has considerable experience of helping businesses install ERP solutions and has lead a number of business critical systems implementations, with various packages, delivering successful results in all cases. He has been brought in as a troubleshooter to help with project recovery and has a successful record in this field too.

Experienced in project management, Simon has strong organisational skills and is used to dealing effectively with all levels of staff from board members to clerical end users. He believes strongly in delivery and task enablement of his teams. He is a good communicator, as communication at all levels is essential to the delivery of a successful project.

Simon has been involved in inventory solutions for a number of clients including retail businesses, for one company he managed and guided the team creating the standard stock costing system and policies for the Group, based on unit of article valuation.

Mike - The Finance/IT Interim

Mike is an experience Finance and IT Director/Controller who has the ability to resolve complex accounting and financial control issues. Taking a “Hands on”, well organised and attention to detail approach to business, Mike is able to work under difficult circumstances using his diplomat skills to gain the best from a team. Through out his career Mike has developed accounting, business planning and forecasting skills. He has an analytical and innovative approach when seeking solutions to business problems.

Having worked in several countries, including Spain, Portugal, Baltic States and the US, Mike is experienced in international culture and fluent in Spanish and has an understanding of Portuguese.

Mike is familiar with several Management Information Systems including Lawson, SAP, Sun Systems 4.2.5, mfg-pro, Integra.

Sector experience includes: Outsourcing, FMCG, Electricity, Trading, Manufacturing, Engineering, Chemicals, High Tech, and NHS Trust.

Nick - The Treasury Interim

Nick has broad financial accounting, management accounting and financial systems experience. Additionally he has specialist skills in treasury operations and cash management, these skills have been acquired in key line management, consultancy and interim management assignments in diverse business sectors.

In the last year Nick has experience in carving out and running treasury operations in 13 countries across Europe for a $1 billion turnover business. He designed and implemented an organisational and systems structure for treasury activities and complete separation for the pre-existing business was achieved. Nick was paramount in the negotiation and selection of the company’s transaction banks. As part of his role Nick was involved in selecting and implementing EFT and D/D banking systems, stand-alone and multi-banking, via a shared service centre; operational on time with major system and efficiency savings.

He was also responsible for setting up tax efficient facilities to meet liquidity requirements – bank credit facilities, cross-bank pooling arrangements, cross-border financing; contractual agreements were put in place in each country.

In previous roles Nick has designed and implemented regional treasury centres. Implementing cash management and foreign exchange services and developed and applied currency risk management and hedging policies.

Glen -The Finance Interim

Glen is a senior Qualified Accountant with extensive experience in blue chip companies.

He is a consultant with a practical approach, good analytical skills and business flair.

Due to his extensive business experience he has a wide knowledge of business practice and capabilities, which in turn have ensured a proven record of executing, cost reductions and change orientation. Glen has SAP experience and has successfully implemented the finance system into many companies.

Having recently worked for one of the world largest oil companies as the finance manager for Europe and Africa Glen was responsible for the provision of regular performance reporting, production of multi-currency budgets, identifying and implementing a cost reduction exercise and designing specification for a software programme for the reporting of labour utilisation statistics. Glen also controlled the day-to-day operating of the newly installed SAP system for this oil company, successfully seeing it through the financial year-end. As a Project Manager, Glen directed a team of key financial and customer representatives whose principal responsibilities were to ensure that training, processes and Change Management reflected the implementation requirements of a service division.

Glen has also carried out a divisional internal audit for a company, the objective being to identify organisational and operating deficiencies, producing a report with recommendations and priorities based on the findings. The focus of the findings contributed to a saving of $1.5m on implementation software. Glen has also worked for a construction company investigating the cash flow problems brought about by the rapid expansion of the company.