David Wicker FCMA
Management Accountant
Part Time Finance Director
Surrey, Sussex, London, Middlesex

PROFILE

Summary:
A commercially orientated Interim Finance Director with a proven track record in improving the growth, profitability, and performance of SME and PLC businesses including 3M, BOC, Diego and Next. Adept at building productive and co-operative working relationships with board members and other stakeholders to deliver the business strategy.

Contact David by emailing him at david.wicker@plancs.co.uk or call 0121 554 4057 and we will ask David to call you.

Key Skills:

• Financial Leadership - Providing financial and management information that adds value to the organisation and supports informed decision-making. Able to clearly define financial objectives and ensure their delivery.
  
• Planning - Insisting on being ‘One step ahead of the game’ by having strong Strategic, Financial, and Organisational planning skills.
  
• Commercial Awareness - Understanding the full commercial implications of business issues, enabling the establishment of frameworks that ensure the company’s best interests.
  
• Change Management - Implementing organisational change and managing business process improvement.
  
• People and Communication - Communicating pro-actively with all stakeholders and creating effective teams.

Style:
A well-organised financial leader with a strong results orientation and a ‘can do’ approach to business challenges balanced by well-developed team, customer and client management skills.

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Conceived and implemented plans that improved a company’s cashflow by £23m.
  
• Improved a national multiple retailer’s profitability to 15% of net sales and enabled it to be sold on a p/e of 30 for £120m.
  
• Turned around a retail business from a £1m loss pa to a profit of £700k pa.
  
• Enabled high growth performance in a mature retailer.
  
• Conceived and managed the introduction of EPOS into 235 stores.
  
• Built successful, well-motivated finance and IT teams.
  
• Saved a company from a £1m bad debt.

Contact David by emailing him at david.wicker@plancs.co.uk or call 0121 554 4057 and we will ask David to call you.

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Last updated 2008-03-03