AIM Group PLCGroup Accountant and Company Secretary
Feb. 1998 - Jun. 2008Southampton, United Kingdom• Identifying acquisition targets and ad hoc financial appraisal of business unit performance.
• Principle responsibility for liaison with external institutions such as bankers, auditors, insurance brokers, stockbrokers, and solicitors as well as with shareholders (private and institutional).
• Responsibility to Group Board for managing reporting to IFRS.
• Providing assistance to operational management in forecasting and planning to ensure uniformity of Group reporting and that all subsidiaries meet reporting deadlines.
• Reporting to the Board on all aspects of Corporate Governance and ensuring compliance throughout organisation. Responsibility for establishing an internal audit function and managing, through frequent audit visits to subsidiary locations, the implementation of best practice.
• Communication between executive and Non-executive Directors and ensuring all meetings are properly administered.
• Responsibility for head office finance and Group treasury function, small team (6 people) reporting. • Preparation and monitoring of annual budgets and quarterly forecasts and investigation of variances with assigned management.
• Consolidation of subsidiary accounts at full year and interim.
• Preparation of PLC statutory accounts to UK GAAP and all subsidiary statutory accounts to UK and US GAAP.
• Responsibility for all UK Corporation Tax computations and regular IRS returns in USA.