EXPERIENCE
JULY 2005 – JULY 2023
HEAD OF FINANCE, HARTWIG CARE LTD (CLECE CARE SERVICES (CCS) AND CSN CARE GROUPS), LONDON REGION
- Successful management and support of a finance team and completing all the following finance relating tasks:
- Overseeing and supporting staff with in-house Payroll for 500+ permanent employees for 20business units/ branches on differing pay cycles and any other payroll related matters such as pay uplifts, National Minimum Wage compliance, P60s, P45s, P11Ds, payroll reporting, etc.
- Overseeing Invoicing and credit control for London Region £ 20 M turnover, no debts over 6 months old, have achieved excellent cash flow position of the company.
- Purchases control, supplier contracts and reviews, purchase ledger management: successful overhead spending reduction via regular spending review and price reviews/ negotiations with suppliers.
- Weekly management reporting, including review of financial and operational targets.
- Month end closing with profit or loss reporting, balance sheet reconciliations overview.
- Forecasting
- Bank reconciliation and payments including direct debits, payroll and suppliers. All the day to day banking authorizations.
- Leading on audit. Preparation of all the required information for annual external audit for multiple business entities.
- Recruiting, inducting and day to day management of Finance team employees.
- Implementation of new Staffing and Finance systems, ensuring smooth transition from one software to another.
2. Management of Recruitment Team including following:
- Overseeing Advertising including contracts with Recruitment Partners
- Monitoring work of recruitment staff including numbers of applications received, call backs, interviews booked, interviews attended, and actual staff employed.
- Personnel file checks audit, including making sure applicants have right to work, DBS checks and referencing
- Chairing team meetings.
- Dealing with Care Quality Commission and Home Office audits in relation to Recruitment compliance.
3. Operations Management including:
- Training of new staff
- Implementation of new systems/ software
- Weekly operational reporting
- Management of day-to-day operations including complaint handling, staff issues and general day to day tasks
- Forecasting
- Assisting with tendering and various audits.
- New contracts rollout.
4. HR including staff contracts, training, appraisals and disciplinary actions and redundancies.
5. General Office Admin
Supplier contract management, dealing with landlords, lease reviews, management of Reception staff, IT subcontractors, dealing with any tasks necessary to enable good working order of the office.
