Consultant - Finance and Operation Efficiency
SAMRA FOODSERVE LTD
Total years of experience :14 years, 8 Months
- Designing and implementing Accounts receivable process including Credit Control
- Working on depot efficiencies- transport, warehousing and stock control
- Designing weekly management and financial reports and implementing
- Mentoring current management on how to interpret reports
- Change management to achieve agreed results
- Staff efficiency- and implementing monthly staff reviews through one to one meetings
- Suggesting and organizing staff training for Health and Safety and other relevant courses.
- Weekly meetings with management to review progress of desired results
• Responsible for the Dairy section of business with Aged debt of over £25m
• Agreeing Credit Control procedures and implementing throughout the team and relevant depots
• Credit vetting using Industry references and Credit Reference agencies
• Running and updating customer and product Masterfiles- ensuring correct details and up to date information for customers are on record
• Chasing Key customers with high value debt
• Weekly aged debt reviews with Senior Regional Credit controllers
• Assisting the implementation of SAP package, in providing the Accounts Receivable support
• Briefing Sales Director on debt and sales performance on key customers
• Daily morning conference calls with depots to ascertain issues which need resolving
• Overlooking the Debt recovery Litigation Department
• Monthly reporting to the Board on Debt performance KPI’s- debtor days reduction and suggestions on possible remedies to agree with and by the Board
Masters degree in Accounting & Finance
2005 - 2006 Institute of Credit Management (ICM) Level 3 • Credit Management • Business Law Additional Roles during my employment with Express Dairies • Harassment Counsellor for Express Dairies now Dairy Crest • Employee representative during consultation before and after sale of Express Dairies Depot Operations to Dairy Crest • Process Improvement Team Member - involved in problem solving on the IT system and improvising data download from Infinium AS400 to Microsoft Excel for all 6 departments within the Company Systems Knowledge & Experience • Oracle • Depos • JBA • Infinium AS400 • Credit Force -Innovation • Navision • Sage Accounting 1 & 2 • Trace Accounting Module II • Excellent Microsoft Excel and word Skills • PowerPoint presentations