Finance Director: Peter Macklin

Overview: £3m turnover Devon based company

Issue: Current Finance Director on long term sick leave, leaving a relatively inexperienced Finance Assistant in charge

Corrective Actions: Part time Finance Director working on a day a week over an initial four month period and now extended to a longer term basis.

  • Mentoring the Finance Assistant
  • Reviewing the monthly management accounts
  • Maintaining detailed cashflow forecasts
  • Providing  strategic input to the Board of Directors
  • Produced the company’s annual budgets
  • Supervising a part-time temporary bookkeeper, as well as producing year-end accounts
  • Liaising with the auditors and being responsible for the company’s statutory returns such as VAT and PAYE
  • Strategic input and support where required