Graham Bradford

Responsible for financial function of 3 hotels with a combined turnover of £17m;

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for 3 staff members;
• Responsible for weekly revenue and profitability reports;
• Responsible for monthly P&L production, incl accruals, prepayments, balance sheet reconciliations to strict deadlines;
• Responsible for payment authorisation, payroll signoff and authorisation of purchase orders;
• Responsible for budget preparation and updates of financial forecasts;

Key Achievements:

• Reduced month-end reporting timescale from 7 days to 3 days;
• Developed more meaningful cash-flow reporting system;
• Introduced and ran new HR software system;

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Finance and one Assistant Accountant. Also took on responsibility for Procurement team and HR function;
• Responsible for Monthly Management account reporting to Dutch Head office and explanation of variances between actual and budgeted figures;
• Responsible for updating profitability and cashflow forecasts for Head Office;
• Responsible for Work-In-Progress calculations, prepayments and accruals, Fixed Asset register;
• Oversee credit control, credit limits and supplier payments and reconciliations;
• Responsible for VAT/PAYE, R&D and other statutory submissions;
• Creation of annual budgets, year-end reports and liason with auditors both domestic and abroad;
• Oversaw HR and payroll function which is performed on Sage Payroll;
• Responsible for two procurement staff and oversaw and authorised part orders for projects based on BOMS provided by the Design team.

• Simul Group Limited is the parent of 2 separate companies specialising in refurbishment and redecoration of office space;
• Combined turnover for the group in 2021 £11million and £17 million in 2022;

Key Achievements:

• Created and developed management account formats to be used for all companies;
• Created and developed a method of calculating Work-in-progress based on project percentage of completion;

Responsibilities

• Part of the Executive team and report directly to the Managing Partner.
• Responsible for one member of staff. I also fulfill a mentoring function to this member of staff who has been employed as an apprentice.
• Responsible for Monthly Management Accounts, explanation of variances compared to budget and intercompany recharges as well as month-end Work-in-Progress calculations onto Sage.
• Responsible for cash flows, debtor control and payment of suppliers and subcontractors;
• Responsible for payroll/pension/expenses/PAYE/NI and VAT submission and payment;
• Responsible for liason with auditors regarding Year-end functions as well as R&D submission;

• Owned by SLG, reportedly the largest artificial grass manufacturer in Europe with plants in China, Paraguay, Italy and Belgium;
• With turnover of £3.5 million in 2020, the company's predicted turnover in 2021 will be £4.0 million.
• Reporting directly to both the SLG Strategy Director and Chief Financial Officer;
• Originally employed as Finance Controller in October 2019. In February, 2020, I was asked to take over responsibility for the site which involves:

Key Achievements:

Introduced stricter stock control measures which reduced waste from 5% in 2020 to 2.5% in September 2021, improved Logistics planning by increasing load capacity by 30% and created a more accurate method of CRM reporting so accurate Square meters and Gross Profit per order were readily available by Customer/Business Development Manager;

Financial Function:

• Responsible for 2 members of staff
• Monthly management account reporting to Head office and explanation of variances between actual and budgeted figures;
• Sales reconciliation between Sage 50 and Sage CRM as well as daily and monthly sales analysis and reports of product and Gross Profit;
• Accruals/prepayments and necessary journals;
• Oversee credit control, credit limits and supplier payments;
• VAT/PAYE and other returns;
• Control over costs and cost-saving;
• Creation of annual budgets and liason with auditors both domestic and abroad;
• Oversaw HR and payroll function which is performed on Sage Payroll;

Warehouse and Logistics function:

Responsible for 5 members of staff including 2 drivers;

Responsibilities:

• Stock forecasting and procurement to ensure correct quantities were available for sale at all times;
• Monthly stock counts and reconciliation with the CRM system to ensure minimal stock losses occurred;
• Quality control on product to ensure customer satisfaction;
• Created and managed checks to ensure loading of vehicles was accurate and safe and to capacity where possible;

Admin and Customer Care Team:

• Responsible for 4 members of staff whose main function is to process orders for customers, handle complaints and deal with various administrative tasks:

Promoted to a director in 2014.

The Finance Department

• Reported directly to the Managing Director;
• Producing monthly management accounts, including accruals, prepayments for discussion and review by the board as well as Year-end audit pack for review by external auditors;
• Authorisation of Purchase orders, suppliers reconciliations and payments to suppliers as well as the creation of monthly applications/progress claims and negotiation of said claims with clients;
• Checking and approval of quotes to clients, ensuring quotes look reasonable and attain required GP%
• Calculation of daily revenue against budgeted figures, calculation and submission of PAYE, VAT and CIS, calculation of monthly Work-in-progress figure;

Payroll

• Processing of weekly time-sheets onto Sage Payroll and responsible for making of payments to weekly staff as well as calculation, processing and payment of salaries to monthly staff via Sage Payroll;

Human Resources

• Responsible for disciplinary procedures, investigation and carrying out of hearings as well as responsible for interviewing, offer letters and contracts for new starters as well as issuing of starter packs to new employees;

Sales Function

• Overseeing the sales department on a daily basis, the department is comprised of three full-time salespeople and a marketing employee;
• Comparison of daily quote output and quote conversion against budget;
• Ensuring staff making sufficient contact with clients and monitoring contact with new and existing clients as well as conducting weekly progress meetings.
• Successful implementation from scratch of new CRM software to replace antiquated database and spreadsheets.

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