Heather Stanway

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About Heather Stanway

Finance Director with experience across a number of sectors. Thrives on challenge, highly adaptable and a very quick learner as demonstrated by successfully working within different industries and companies, including: Airline, Retail, Industrial equipment wholesale, service entities and manufacturing. Excellent team leader and people management skills with proven experience developing junior team members, driving positive results, and motivating teams though changing or challenging circumstances with collaborative approach. Strong technical accounting knowledge often being the lead on all new accounting transactions completed by companies. Significant experience around improving both operational and financial controls, and constantly challenging the current ways of working to improve performance and efficiency and introducing new ideas into the companies worked for. Able to drive the production of high quality analysis, valuable insight and financial support to the business in the most demanding of environments, and to use this to demonstrate how this supports future business strategies. A self-motivated, pro-active and persuasive individual who is very confident working with and managing all aspects of senior management both within Finance and Operationally to ensure EBIT profitability is constantly improved, and any cost increases seen are mitigated.