P J Shee BSc FCA

Multi-Channel Retail Specialist

Perreau  Lévignac de Guyenne  47120  France

petershee@fastsols.co.uk

Academic

BSc in Physics Economics and Philosophy from Exeter University

Professional

Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales

Key Experience

Multi-branch retail business from start-up to £7 million turnover
Food & beverage service industry
E-commerce system development & implementation

Availability

Immediate uk/overseas interim contract or permanent

Key  abilities

Wide ranging commercial experience and vision
Troubleshooting - investigating - reporting
Strategy - planning - systems - solutions
Team leading and developing - business driving
Buying - stock control - marketing - selling
Multi-channel retailing - Internet - Mail order - Direct email - Shops

Career History

2008

Toys & Leaning Ltd

Science toys - teenagers toys - technical toys - executive toys
Early learning toys - early reading books - educational toys
Teenagers books - gifts from around the world
Children Tots Teens Teenagers Adults Parents Grand Parents

2004 - 2007

Fast Effective Solutions Ltd
Private consultancy and project development company

Retail Consultant - Business Plans - Budgets & Forecasts - Market Analysis

• Business plans and budgets for private clients and associates in UK and France
• Investigation and analysis of UK retail and specialist French holiday markets
• UK mult-channel retail project development in conjunction with Panasonic

1995 - 2004
The Cat Inn
The Cat Inn  16th Century Restaurant and Bar, West Hoathly, West Sussex

Proprietor - Restaurateur

• Took the business from an old style pub to a quality eating establishment
• Standards and quality focus transformed the business giving national and international reputation
• Refined close in management skills working with a team of 12 to 15 people whilst dealing directly with the public. Standard industry crisis management

1994 - 1995

Finder Information Services Ltd

Speculative - information providing company

Project & Systems Development Manager

• Market development of Finance Finder and Home Finder
• Product development of Home Finder
• Working alongside software writer and developer associate developed sophisticated database systems and software to enable property searches by various parameters including variable distances from chosen locations - product too early

1975 - 1994

Shees Television Ltd

Privately owned, market leading, consumer electronics retail business in Surrey and Hampshire

Proprietor

The Business

• From £1 start up capital to £7 million turnover multi-branch operation
• Arranged £3 million finance for television and video rental product
• Started by door to door selling
• Learnt and functioned as full television service engineer
• Trained and led a technical, sales and administration team of 80 people

Business Skills

• Internal team building, motivating, key indicator targeting, setting bonus levels and payments
• Setting customer care standards and systems for monitoring and enforcing
• Product selection, buying and negotiating
• Sales meetings and seminars, staff training, advertising
• Multi-branch forecasting and budgeting
• Cash management, intermediate finance, negotiating semi-secured borrowing to £0.75 million
• Training accounts staff to full P&L and Balance Sheet level
• Systems specification, design, development and implementation of bespoke systems at the cutting edge of data management. An example is the integrated cash and stock inventory handling and transfer system for a multi-branch retail operation handling 30,000 serial numbered items plus 100,000 ancillary items each year

1970 - 1975

Deloitte & Co

The original top 4 firms of Chartered Accountants - pre PricewaterhouseCoopers

Audit Trainee - Qualified ACA - Computer Audit Specialist

• One of 100 London office graduate trainees for 1970 with quality in-house audit, book-keeping and accounting training
• Audit training and statutory accounts presentation training with various blue chip companies (Hoover, P & O, Cable & Wireless, Daily Mirror, Odhams Watford, IPC Press, Southwark Offset) and other businesses
• A broad ranging education in a multitude of types of businesses and styles of management
• Equally a top level education in internal man management and staff motivation
• Post qualification offered a job by Milan office but asked by London partners to stay as computer specialist
• Technically challenging but left to get teeth into something more pro-active and wide ranging

Personal Development

1991 - 1993

• Learnt a little sailing - bought a yacht in Majorca, put together a crew, sailed the yacht back to the UK
• Learnt a little farming - bought Hereford cattle, hired bull, calved, made hay and all that goes with it
• Learnt a little philosophy - took part of a masters course in Philosophy at Sussex University

1984 - 1998

• Learnt some land husbandry - kept private woodland, re-planted 500 trees (post Dutch Elm disease)
• Learnt some animal husbandry - bought orphan lambs, kept& bred (using AI) some Highland cattle

1965 - 1970

• Various student jobs - builders assistant, decorators assistant, machining blades for earth diggers, post office night sorting - variously working alongside the generations of immigrants from Ireland, Italy and Pakistan
• Ottershaw School - School Captain, CCF Sergeant, Captain rugby 1st XV