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Welcome to The Finance Director's Office.
Optimise the return on your time & investment. Understand the numbers. Plan and forecast for the future. Use effective systems, controls and procedures. Have total peace of mind. We have the commercial business accumen to help your business succeed. Part-time or interim, fully integrated finance support as and when you need it.
The benefits of a part-time finance director are cost effective for your buisness with the knowledge that you have qualified experienced accountants to hand as and when needed. If you have experienced rapid business growth, poor trading, external pressure from stakeholders or an internal loss of control then we can support your business with a totally flexible package as required.
What We Can Do For Your Business
The Finance Director's Office (FDO) provides a finance & business support service to SME's that encompases part time & interim support throughout the year but also audit & tax services as required. We can support our clients with a total and cost effective solution. Our areas of interest and expertise are across a broad spectrum of varied industries and these clients differ significantly in terms of size and turnover.
We offer the following services:
Audit & Tax
Part-time & Interim Support
Cash Flow Managment
Budgeting & Forecasting
Nurture
your
Business
Managment Information
Business Planning & Appraisals
Healthchecks
Stock Accounting & Costing
Non Exec Support
Risk Assessments
Meet The Team
Held senior executive and Board positions within retail and manufacturing, whilst his earlier experience was in Government agencies and care services. Extensive commercial experience working in conjunction with FMCG retailers, EU markets, and operationally dealing with US and Far East imports and exports. IInvolved in general management roles and has been responsible for many other disciplines such as IT, HR and Manufacturing & Logistics.
Experience in Private Practice before moving into a commercial environment. Initially in the financial services sector and later within the manufacturing sectors servicing FMCG Retailers. Holding Senior Executive Roles at both subsidiary and Group company levels. Latterly Julian has spent time raising venture/debt finance, enabling company acquisitions through Management Buy-outs.
Julian Briggs FCCA
Partner
Jeremy Vaughan ACMA BA
Experience in both industry and practice. During the late 90s led a management buy-out of a coal processing and distribution business which he then ran successfully for six years. Subsequently spent six years at Deloitte as head of the Entrepreneurial Business practice based in the Leeds office, leading audit, tax and corporate finance services including due diligence, debt raising, management buy-out / in, grooming businesses for full or partial exit and disposal mandates including trade sale and private equity.
Kevin has expertise in finance and general management areas. He has held senior roles
including board positions in a number of companies in the commercial, industrial and
manufacturing sectors, and has undertaken numerous hands-on and strategic projects in
small and medium sized companies.
Simon Trobridge FCA
Kevin McHugh FCMA BSc
Do you suffer from the lack of ongoing or short-term expertise, as required to manage and implement projects or for busy periods such as year-end?
Would you like to have, on hand, additional professional support that is engaged as and when required or on a part-time basis?
The 'hands on' and highly flexible approach of FDO has enabled us to provide effective support to businesses, on both an ad-hoc and on an ongoing basis to suit their requirements.
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Testimonials
Hoerbiger UK Ltd
Jeremy has played an integral part in resolving many of the challenges faced within the finance function and has transitioned it into a leaner, more efficient area. From a group perspective we have relied on him to deliver the changes that were desperately needed and he has completed this timely and effectively. I would recommend his services without hesitation.
K.Gustavo Edinger, Head of Regional Controlling EMEA
Dated 30th April 2009
Macfarlane Transport Holdings Ltd
They have been instrumental into the initial set-up and future support of accounting systems, cash flow forecasting, budgeting, business planning, operational efficiencies and even HR initiatives to name but a few. I have found their services and work to be very proactive, commercial and have been a great sounding board on many issues we faced throughout the year. A year later I find their on-going support and strategic input extremely useful and treat them as part of my team. I would recommend their services without hesitation of which I have done so already on several occasions since.
Stephen Cooke Chief Executive (100% shareholder)
Dated 1st March 2007
Directorbank Ltd
FDO provided a part-time Finance Director service prior to the subsequent appointment of a full time Group Finance Director further to the organisations success and growth
FDO's overall approach has been the provision of:-
Flexible, professional and experienced Financial Director and business support service
Tailored assistance, as and when required, with 24/7 availability
Combination of hands-on assistance re operational issues and a detached view as and when required
Ownership of the solutions/service provided
Cost effective support / solutions
N Guilder, Group Finance Director
Dated 2nd September 2009
Clients include:
Hoerbiger UK Ltd Compressor Servicing & Repair
CT Glass Ltd Glass Manufacturer
Adams Fire Surrounds Fireplace Manufacturer
Blanc Canvas Digital Print & Canvas Frame Design
Macfarlane Transport Holdings Ltd - Logistics & Warehousing
Directorbank LLP Executive Search & Selection
CCA Occasions Ltd Personalised Stationery Design & Manufacture
Holdsworth Ltd Textile Manufacture
Hartleys Food Manufacture
Papico Ltd Paper & related products
Boxstar Ltd Print & Packaging
PWC Auditors
Haigh & Ellis Ltd Engineering
Clayton Homes Hotels ,Leisure & Property
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Email: admin_fdsoffice.co.uk
Tel/Fax: 0113 2841299
The FD's Office LLP
The Old Barn, Pool Hall,
Old Pool Bank,
Pool-in-Wharfedale,
Leeds.
LS21 1 LH
Registered in England and Wales No. OC316386
Cash Control and Forecasting
Do you have complete confidence in your cash control procedures and cash flow forecasting?
How effective is the management of your debtors and creditors including foreign currency transactions?
FDO will review the effectiveness of your procedures, and establish and implement, where necessary, pro-active controls to ensure your cash position is optimised at all times.
Business Plans and Securing Your Future
The impact on businesses in an age of seemingly perpetual change is significant. To progress, and in many cases, simply survive, is a continuing task for a modern day business manager. Certainly a business never 'stands still'.
The Partners in FDO have had extensive experience in facing these challenges and difficulties. In some instances a detailed business appraisal has been undertaken, recommendations made and a business plan drawn up. In others, a restructuring and/or reorganisation programme has been required, to protect the ongoing activity and build confidence for the future. Where required, we can also play an integral part in the implementation and turnaround. Our objective is to give you a greater understanding of the mechanics of your business, and see your business effect change, succeed and grow.
Do you have a robust costing system in place that accurately reflects your cost of product or service? Is your stock value correct and is it a true relection of reliasable value maintained in your accounts? Do you have an effectient and well controlled stock managment system that accuratley reflect ALL movements through the business on a timely basi? What is your obsolesence policy?
Where appropriate we can introduce relevant costing systems and procedures that allow you to value, maintain and report on your stocks. Accurate costings are vital when pricing your prodcts and hence determining the margins your business should be making. We have the experience to work with your operations team to ensure robust procedures are in place to track all movements, report and assess on efficiencies and waste.
Have you identified high-risk areas within your business and implemented measures to monitor/limit your exposure to them?
An assessment can be provided and recommendations made to enable minimisation of risk. We can also create an internal control checklist to monitor these risks.
Audit & Tax compliance [Statutory Accounts, Tax computations]
We are able to provide an audit and tax service that can underpin the business and is a means of maintaining credibility for the business and its value. For listed companies, it is the sustainability of its share price value over the long-term and for an owner-managed business, a professionally conducted audit is a vital business control. This allows you to be supported not only throughout the year by one of our business partners but then an independent audit and tax service where appropriate can be conducted by another qualified partner ensuring full compliance at your financial year end.
Together, audit and other assurance services play a fundamental role in the successful management of an organisation. We aim to establish close, effective working relationships based on mutual trust and respect, with the owners and directors within a company,but also the management, non-executive directors and the companys other advisers.
Budgeting and Forecasting
How robust is your budgeting and forecasting procedure?
Is your budgeting process and structure, a key management tool for your business, and does it allow you to proactively manage issues?
We can provide 'user-friendly', easily updated, bespoke models designed to meet those needs, which take into account all the key factors affecting performance. We can also adapt or enhance your existing models, to changes in your business.
Management Accounts [Profit & Loss Account, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow Statement]
Do you have management accounts, and do they identify all the key issues affecting profitability?
Do you monitor and compare actual performance against anticipated targets within your P&L and also effectively manage your Balance Sheet?
We produce tailored reports that will identify key performance areas, which can be easily interpreted. These will explain the important issues affecting profitability and assist with the management of your balance sheet.
Management Information
Are you provided with the right amount of high quality information on a timely basis, enabling you to interpret it for making good business decisions?
FDO will undertake a complete, detached review, of your information systems and requirements, assessing areas where the 'unnecessary' can be eliminated and recommend alternatives where appropriate.
Commercial Decision Making
Do you know which customers generate profit and positive cash flow for your business? Is the price of your products reflective of the market and your costs of production?
Do you have problems constructing a consistent pricing policy for the whole business?
We can provide flexible analysis and pricing tools that will enable you to make better pricing decisions, through customer and product profitability appraisals and also facilitate timely updates.
Healthchecks & Strategic Reviews
Whatever stage in the development cycle your business has reached, it is of great value to seek a business review of your operation. We suggest that this is done at least twice a year, enabling strategies and objectives to be reviewed and amended where necessary.
Should this review be undertaken when your business is growing and becoming more profitable? Yes.
Because simply the review should not only recognise past performance, but also assess the prospects for the business in the future. Past performance is never a guarantee of future success. Are you unsure of the business performance, or getting the most out of the business, is your business plan out of date or moving in the wrong direction, what are your competitors doing and how has the market changed?
A Strategic Business Review should :-
•Determine the status of the business at the present time in ALL of it key areas and address immediate problems or areas of concern.
•Understand the goals & objectives of the business owner(s).
•Develop strategies on how the business can move forward from its current position to achieve its goals.
•Develop an action plan for the implementation of the agreed strategies.
•Identify areas for improvement that may immediately reduce costs, increase sales, improve efficiencies, ensure legslative compliance or other corrective action.
All key functional areas should be reviewed together with management process, people and resources. Improvement action can lead to change and dramatically influence staff morale and have a negative impact on the business. As a consequence the review should include commentary on the business approach and implementation of quality management systems and best practices. Communication to the business is vital as the employees within the business need to understand the future vision and how it will get there. More importantly they are part of the journey and will help the business achieve its goals and objectives.
Non Executive Support
Would you welcome an independent detached view or a professional opinion, whether strategic or otherwise, on specific issues?
FDO can act in a support role offering alternative opinions / views using our collective wealth of experience. Our experience in strategic business issues and internal procedures and controls allows us to work with you in getting best practice into the business but also looking at a strategic level and outside factors that can promote growth but also minmise potential risk to the business.
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Date: 1st June 2010 - Simon Trobridge joins The Finance Directors Office LLP as a new partner.
The FDs office is proud to welcome Simon Trobridge as a new partner to the business. Simon joins us from Deloitte, one of the largest audit practices in the UK, where he was Director of Entrepreneurial Business.
Simon has significant experience in both industry and practice. During the late 90s he led a management buy-out of a coal processing and distribution business which he then ran successfully for six years before realising his investment through the sale of the business.
More recently, Simon has spent six years at Deloitte as head of the Entrepreneurial Business practice based in the Leeds office. His responsibility was to lead audit, tax and corporate finance services including due diligence, debt raising, management buy-out / in, grooming businesses for full or partial exit and disposal mandates including trade sale and private equity.
Simon is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountant in England and Wales.
Date: 13th May 2010 - Seminar in conjunction with Business Doctors
The FD's Office is holding a seminar in conjunction with the Business Doctors
Is your business struggling to reach its potential? Is the current climate holding you back from achieving the next level of turnover and profitability? Or is it just about survival?
If so, 'The Antidote to the Business Consultant' is an event NOT to be missed.
The interactive seminar will give you the opportunity to share the experiences of those who have built, run and/or sold a series of successful businesss and who understand the pressures of being at the top.
Find out how to:
•Spend MORE time working ON your Business not IN it
•Get the enjoyment back into your work life and REDUCE STRESS
•Motivate YOUR staff like never before without spending a PENNY
•GROW your business in a SUSTAINABLE manner
•Find out how to FUND your GROWTH / SURVIVAL
•Plus MANY more top tips and real world examples to help YOU put it into practice
Location:
Cypress Suite
Cedar Court Hotel
Park Parade
Harrogate HG1 5AH
Date & Timings:
13th May - 8.00am – 10.00am
BOOK YOUR PLACE NOW!
Phone- 0845 293 8462
Email- robertc_businessdoctors.co.uk or jeremyvaughan_fdsoffice.co.uk
Online- www.businessdoctors-leeds.co.uk/seminars
This event has been fully funded by the organisers, so it is FREE to attend. Doing nothing or simply standing still in these difficult times is NOT an option! Take the steps now to:
ACHIEVE YOUR VISION
Date: 1st Nov 2009 - Victoria Vaughan joins as Business Development
The FD's Office is proud to welcome Victoria Vaughan as a new member of the team supporting the company with its sales & marketing, and business development. Victoria was previously tutoring business French withi commercial businesses. Prior to that she held senior roles as a Technical Develoment manager within the chemical & paper industry.
Victoria holds degrees in Business French and Chemisrty.
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