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Key Skills & Services: |
Business analysis,
strategy review and implementation Marketing plans,
business plans and funding searches Cash flow
analysis and projections Production planning and
capacity planning Customer or product profitability
analysis Cost reductions and effectiveness audits Balance
Sheet control review Information flow and reporting
systems improvements Costing systems review, design
and implementation Government/EU/Local Authority/Other
grants and soft loans identification and application Due
diligence – either on the buying or selling
side Organisational issues - staff selection, recruitment
and training. Debt collection and debt collection
technique training Stock control and stock traceability
advice General IT systems effectiveness review
IT systems selection and implementation Part time
Non-execs, Financial Director or Company Secretary
roles.
Mike has led the team which wrote the
Understanding Financial Management
Manufacturing Excellence Module for the
Manufacturing MASters
programme. |
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Career Background: |
A background in management
accounting, culminating in 13 years as either Financial
Director or Divisional Finance Director for companies
from start up to £85m turnover. However, increasingly
non-financial duties have always been sought, including
taking responsibility for warehousing, transport,
production planning, purchasing, and sales and production
administration. These culminated in “roving”
roles as Divisional Director and Commercial Director,
before I decided that a number of part time mentoring
and management guidance opportunities were giving
me more personal satisfaction. |
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Industry sectors: |
Precious metal refining
and processing. Electrical contact and component
engineering and manufacture. Steel production, forging,
rolling, stock holding and distribution. Automotive
and industrial component (turbochargers, dampers
etc) design, engineering and manufacture. IT Software
design and implementation. Importing consumer and
fancy goods from Africa |
Qualifications: |
Degree in economics from the
London School of Economics, Fellow of the Chartered
Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) MBA from
Warwick University |
Comments: |
I now look upon my
role as being what every small business MD really
wants – a friend with all the right answers
(provided either personally or through my association
with specialists from MCCR and the Institute for
Independent Business) - to help you meet those challenges
that stop you from enjoying the rewards you deserve
out of your business. |
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