I have Post Graduate in Business Administration gained at Loughborough University MBA School in 2006. I have been looking for Business Manager career and have taken up MBA studies as my CPD.
My experiences are in business management, administration and professional accountancy including audits of large numbers of small companies many of whom are small engineering and manufacturing industries in Leicester. As a contractor, I have also gained invaluable administrative and financial control experiences in organisations whose activities included distribution, haulage transportation and logistics, customer services and delivery teams, import and export, retailing, marketing and merchandising, health care, properties development and lettings, hotel and catering.
I am committed to continued learning, managing change and making a significant impact in an organisation by taking on new challenges and assignments, developing/ implementing new systems.
Currently, I am an Associate member of The Chartered Management Institute and wish to progress in Business Management career in a growing and respectable organisation in order to achieve Chartered Manager status.
My industrial experiences are:
Self-Employed/Contractor/ Freelance Finance Director.
Business Name: City Accounting Services.
September 1978– May 2009 (31 years)
Industry sectors: Small businesses engaged in retail marketing of Groceries and Foodstuff, Household and Electrical goods, Computers and IT services, Software and Stationery, Restaurants, Take-Away, Properties Investments and Management, marketing and letting and Clothing manufacturing.
Major achievements: Gained experience in running a series of various family businesses, leading and managing business projects and employees, setting up and developing new businesses, business administration and selling, transfers, mergers, strategic planning, financial management and control, training and coaching business managers, regular supervision and management reporting, international trade and operations management of small businesses abroad, skills in different languages including English (UK and USA), Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, Gujerati, Sindhi, Southern African.
Developed simulation projects of customers services, operations management, lean techniques and six sigma and sales management using Simul8, Sage Accounting and Oracle CRM systems. Managed change in operating models with installations and development of IT/IS systems.
Undertaken agency contracts with various HR and management consultants as systems operator and data processing manager, management accountant, financial accountant, administration manager.
My hobbies include personal trainer in nutrition and weight loss management, daily fitness exercises at health and fitness club, social networking, web-surfing, touring, attending seminars and board meetings, lecturing, writing management books and articles.