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January '97 - Date 123 Plc


June 2000 - Date

Anthony Brown

100 The Street, Town, County, POST CODE

Home   Tel.) +44 (0) etc.
Mobile Tel.) +44 (0) 797 etc.
E mail: anthonybrown@email.com

01/01/68

Married, two children

1986-1989 University of ……………
BA (Hons) …………… Class 2:1
4 A Levels, Maths A, French A, Physics B, General Studies B.
10 O Levels

ACA (ICAEW) 1994 First Time Passes


Conversational French

123 Plc

Financial Controller

SAP implementation, Oracle, Excel, Access



123 Plc is a top 250 LSE listed company employing around 7,000 staff with an annual turnover of approximately £500m.

123 Biscuits Limited

123 Biscuits Limited is a manufacturing division of 123 Plc, employing around 2,000 staff with a turnover of approximately £ 130m. There are two manufacturing sites with a central warehousing facility.

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Jan 1997- May 2003





Position:

Financial Controller

•  Responsibility for all financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting.
•  Control and administration of all capital purchases.
•  Reviewing and reporting performance to senior management
•  Responsibility for VAT, PAYE , NICs, Fixed Assets and Insurance Administration.
•  Control over sales ledger including the maintenance of service levels with Shared Service Centre.
•  Implementation of new SAP accounting software within the Group Finance Project.

•  As Project Sponsor led the successful implementation of SAP in October 2001 to timescale and budget.
• Initiated and managed the sale of a subsidiary in January 2002
• Undertook the lead role in the development of a Shared Service Centre.
• Strengthened accounting practices to improve the robustness of the weekly/monthly accounts.
• Managed and co-ordinated profit improvement plans to underpin a weakening sales performance
• Restructured the Finance function, revised roles and responsibilities and reduced headcount.

123 Frozen Foods Limited

ABC Frozen Foods Limited is a manufacturing division of 123 Plc, employing around 1,000 staff with a turnover of approximately £80m. The product range is diverse, specialising in ready meals.

Accountant

Reporting directly to the Financial Controller this position was created with the launch of a new division set up in January concentrating on servicing the needs of the 'own label' sector. A finance function did not exist in this area previously, so the emphasis was on building and developing the accounting reporting systems.

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Jan 1990 - Dec 1996


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Jun 1989 - Jan 1990

Interests:

•  Month end accounting, including all journals, reconciliations, production of the monthly pack and control of UK reported profit
•  Co-ordination of twice yearly budgets in conjunction with sales, marketing and supply chain.
•  Management of two clerical staff and supervision of a graduate trainee.
•  Production of customer and product profitability information, i.e. relevant costs and revenue regarding product addition, pricing and deletion.


•  Represented finance in Oracle software review project.
•  Investigation into product sourcing and rationalisation of suppliers.

Coopers & Lybrand (Now PricewaterhouseCoopers)


Audit Manager

Trained within the audit function and qualified as a chartered accountant in 1994. Promoted to Manager shortly after qualification, reporting to a number of assignment Partners and managing a portfolio of major audit clients, such as 123 Plc., Etc., Etc.


Travel in Australia and Asia and various temporary jobs.

The Guitar, Running (One full Marathon.), golf 14 handicap, football, walking and reading.