Brian Dinsmore – Financial Controller

Brian is a Chartered Accountant with over 18 years experience in service and manufacturing industries. In his early years at Raleigh he worked as a total quality facilitator with multi-functional teams, developed new reporting structures for the owners and finalised five years of outstanding tax computations. Later at Griffith Laboratories he was the UK lead member of an international multi-site computer system implementation team. In addition he continually introduced procedures and controls to keep working capital levels to a minimum and acted as a mediator/strategic challenger between the various sales, operations and quality control departments. He prided himself on the accuracy of the financial forecasts.He was then the financial link to create the reporting and procedures/controls in two new start businesses. His risk management and corporate governance principles were well honed in one of these positions.Throughout all these roles he has had a keen eye on the cash balances and a focus on maintaining and strengthening the operating margins without loss of quality.