Welcome to our newest part time Finance Director



With more and more businesses in Devon seeking part time Finance Director support, SouthWestfd has taken on additional expertise in the form of Richard Colling to cope with the increase in demand.

Richard is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and has worked in a number of senior roles over 25 years, mainly in the construction, property services and facilities management industries.

He applies his breadth of experience in an energetic and collaborative manner right across a business – to owners, employees and their clients alike. Richard has strong leadership skills both within finance and the wider business delivering sound advice with objective decision-making based on effective analysis. He applies his keen commercial awareness with a pragmatic and persuasive approach to resolving issues, restructuring teams, introducing robust processes and improving efficiencies.

Richard has managed banking relationships; organised corporate restructurings, including acquisitions integration; delivered cost-saving measures; introduced new accounting systems and processes; improved budgeting and management reporting; undertaken tax compliance, and handled defined benefit pension arrangements.

Find out more about Richard on LinkedIn…..