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Managing Director/Finance Director/Administration Director

Work Experience

A financial organisation. Provider of financial instruments to blue chip trading institutions.
March 2001 to March 2002. Managing Director, an Interim Director appointment.

Cavendish Management Resources. Supplier of funding and management support to SME’s.
November 2000 to March 2001. Independent consultant.

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken. An international merchant and investment bank.
March 1999 to Aug 2000. Head of Finance (Finance Director), an Interim Director appointment.
· 6 direct reports (22 staff). Later integrated BfG Bank’s Accounts department (17 staff).
· Restructured Finance department and its working practices; wrote P&P manual; automated budgeting processes; repackaged and automated financial and management reports; outsourced and negotiated supplier contracts.

Berwin Leighton. An 80 partner City Solicitors’ firm.
June 1998 to Nov 1998. Interim Finance Director, an Interim Director appointment.
· 6 direct reports, 18 staff.
· Restructured Accounts department; introduced accounts, management and reporting procedures; reviewed financial strategy; started overheads review; initiated IT update; updated P&P manual.

Hextall Erskine. A 21 partner City Solicitors’ firm.
Nov 1996 to May 1998: Head of Finance, Administration, Personnel & Marketing, an Interim Director appointment, including Partnership Secretary, strategy adviser and merger negotiator.
· Finance: Full accounting to balance sheet; budgeting and financial reporting. Restructured balance sheet; refocused cashflow and tightened fiscal controls; renegotiated supplier contracts; reduced office expenditure by 24%.
· HR: Introduced personnel and administrative management techniques.
· Information Technology: Implemented new front and back office integrated IT system.

ABN AMRO Hoare Govett Corporate Finance Ltd. An international investment bank.
May 1994 to June 1996: Administration Director: a new role.
· Finance: Capital Adequacy and Risk; budgets (c. £20m) and forecasts, analysis and reports; wrote P&P manual, inc. fee and revenue policy, routine retainer billing, debt collection.
· HR: Management, work allocation and appraisals, for all staff below director level. Salary and bonus awards. Recruitment: job descriptions, interviews, remuneration negotiations.
· IT: Managed IT structure and developments. Installed new PC-based network on time and 35% below budget.
· Administration: Directed private clients' sharedealing, outsourced settlement, saving £½m pa.
· Compliance: Liaison with SFA, internal and external audits; wrote P&P manual and updates.

Sumitomo Bank Ltd. An international institutional and investment bank.
Apr – May 1994: Assistant General Manager. An interim Executive appointment, rationalised the General Affairs office (internal finance and administration).

Harbottle and Lewis. A 20 partner West End Solicitors’ firm.
Mar 1994: Consultant. To make recommendations to improve cashflow and profitability.

Denton Hall. An international law firm with offices in UK, Far East and Russia.
Feb 1990 – Jan 1994: Administrator
· Responsible for finance, personnel, marketing and administration requirements, initially for Company/Commercial Department, expanded later to include Property Department, then also Moscow and Milton Keynes Offices, totalling 68 partners, 114 solicitors, 74 trainees, 118 secretaries/support staff.
· Finance: Income and expenditure budgets (>£16m.). Automated individual and consolidated management accounts. Improved billing, reduced WIP days by 17% pa for 3 years. Reshaped credit control procedures for whole firm, reducing debtor days by 16% pa for 3 years.

Citicorp Scrimgeour Vickers. A full agency international stockbroking house.
Jan 1988 – Feb 1990: Financial Controller, Head of Support Services.
Appointed initially as Administration Manager to settle 1,100 staff into new 87,000 sq. ft premises. After 6 months, promoted to Head of Support Services, then to Financial Controller.
· 7 direct reports, up to 80 staff.
· Finance: Company-wide Operations/Administration budget: upgraded operational procedures and systems, instituted costs controls. Achieved £2.75m savings (40%) from budget of £6.8m. Renegotiated contracts for information services (Reuters, Topic, etc.) and Telecommunications feeds (Voice and Data). 20% annualised savings.
· Facilities: Managed premises, relocations, printing, desktop publishing, catering, post, messengers, receptionists, etc.

The Royal Navy.
Sep 1967 – Jan 1988: Admiral’s Staff Officer, Captain of seven ships, Second-in-Command of two ships, secondment to Oman and Royal Hong Kong Police.
Highlights:
1975 Appointed early (aged 25) as Commanding Officer of Minesweeper
1975 - 1977 Seconded to Sultanate of Oman, in command of warships during and
after Salalah war.
1982 Group Anti-Submarine Officer for Falklands Task Force.
1987 Admiral’s inspection staff, member of Ministry level committees,
Seconded as consultant to Royal Hong Kong Police.
Significant achievements:
· Early selection to command, and unusually high number (7) of later commands.
· Won Fleet anti-submarine attack trophy for unprecedented 2 consecutive years.
· Highest ever Destroyer assessments at Fleet training base for 2 consecutive years.
· Recommended for further promotion.

Education

1997: Nottingham Law School: Managing Partners Programme
1982: Graduated 2nd from 43, RN Staff Course (Post Graduate course).
1979-1982: Lectured at Aberdeen University
1967-1970: Royal Naval College Dartmouth (Degree Course equivalent).
1960-1967: Ampleforth College: 3 A levels, 11 O levels.

Languages

Fluent English, colloquial French and Arabic, smattering German

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