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Benjamin Edwards Recruitment Lincolnshire
Ref - CFO/Finance Director – Ref 540

CFO/Finance Director

Immediately available ACCA qualified CFO/Finance Director. An innovative and influential senior leader and experienced finance professional recognised for building board-level strategies that drive growth for small and medium businesses and private equity organisations across a broad range of sectors including multisite retail, distribution, manufacturing, and renewables. Combining over 30 years’ expertise with comprehensive knowledge of fiscal controls, audit, risk, and people management to improve commercial operations, company vision and value, employee engagement and relationships with stakeholders.  
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  • Led the group finance team to achieve significant improvements in audit, financial position, reporting, compliance, systems, and relationships with stakeholders. Worked closely with CEO, advising on strategic direction and funding options.
  • Achieved turnaround of three-year audit backlog (inherited) and overruns within 15 months with clean audit reports
  • Restructured balance sheet, increased EBITDA  and SH Value
  • Significantly improved group and companies’ credit scoring enabling further asset funding and credit insurers approval and secured  large capital injection

 

 

  • Managed and motivated a multi-site finance team, achieving improvements in reporting, accounting accuracy, profitability, and software. Owned relationships with auditors, banks, insurers and tax and corporate advisors.
  • Sourced and implemented a full transport planning software system, with real time accounting interface.
  • Increased timeliness and accuracy of billing process, improving cash collection timescales by six weeks, and reducing debtor days from more than 90 to under 50.
  • Increased transport gross profitability by 8-10% by introducing an enhanced job pricing model and with targeted maintenance and fuel reductions.
  • Acquisition and disposals
  • Exit process knowledge
  • Audit, risk, and compliance
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