Born and raised within the agricultural community, my accounting career commenced in a medium-sized Chartered Accountants practice in Plymouth. My career path migrated into internal audit. This move provided unique and invaluable exposure to retail, commercial and industrial markets within large blue-chip corporate environments. The past 25 years has been spent honing my skills and attributes within both the SME marketplace and large corporate bodies. Significant experience has been gained working within the food industry, trauma-hit businesses, and situations requiring delicate investigative work – fraud, acquisitions, and mergers. This experience embraces production, manufacture, wholesale, distribution, retail, export, and agency environments.
Recent and past roles have included:
- 7 months Interim Operations Manager with apetito Ltd, mobilising COCO franchises throughout the UK for the company’s award winning Wiltshire Farm Foods brand
- 4 months Project Manager with MRH (GB) Ltd, UK's largest independent forecourt retailer and Europe's 12th largest grocer, migrating legacy data, systems and processes of acquired subsidiary business into group's centrally run systems
- 7 months Project Manager with Oxford University, implementing and upgrading new accounting software into 12 subsidiary companies
- 21 months Interim Finance/Operations Manager with privately-owned retail fast food chain - turnaround and restructure project
- 30 months Finance Director with privately-owned multi-media group - turnaround and restructure
- 15 months Interim Financial Controller with Hygrade Foods Ltd - turnaround and restructure project £100m food manufacturer
- 6 months Interim Group Financial Accountant with Ginsters Ltd - maternity cover for £250m food manufacturer
- 15 months Financial Manager with privately-owned waste management group - turnaround and restructure project
