Jon Jenkins

Experience

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  Allied Leisure PLC

  Sept 1999 - Dec 2001

  Assistant Management Accountant

  Management accounts, management reporting

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  Calotels Hotel Group

  Jan 2002 - May 2004

  Management Accountant

  Ran the finance department and heavily involved in the operations for this family run hotel chain looking after 5 hotels. Responsible for introducing the first online hotel booking system in Bournemouth as well as signing one of the first partnerships with a mobile company to introduce Wi-i across the hotel.

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  Coutts Information Services Limited

  Jun 2004 - May 2007

  Financial Controller

  Whilst working for this privately owned global business with in excess of £40m+ turnover reduced the finance function from 14 employees down to 7 whilst improving management information quality and reduce production of that information from 10 working days to 5 working days.

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  DMC MGT Limited

  Jun 2007 - Sept 2009

  Virtual Financial Controller

  Management Accounts, Management Packs, Board Meetings aid Good Decision MakingRegularly looking after 80 small businesses (up to £10m turnover) and start ups becoming an integral part of their business and help them achieve their potential through robust financial modelling and planning. Regular management meeting attendance to talk talk strategy and implement change.

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  Ward Goodman Ltd

  Sept 2009 - Feb 2011

  Outsourced Finance Manager

  My one and only foray into the 'traditional' accountancy practice. It was at this time that cloud accounting came about. An industry background and cloud computing where not a match made in heaven for the 'traditional' approach.

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  Smart Accountancy Systems Ltd

  Jan 2011 - Jan 2020

  Managing Director & Founder

  Worked with in excess of 300 small business clients, using my own business as a guinea pig to test out all the new tech before releasing into those clients. As fast as we grew and as quickly as we introduced new service lines we never quite gained the traction we needed to push on. All the tech was good but there was still something missing that would have made it great.

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  Even Learning Ltd

  Jul 2012 - Aug 2017

  CEO & Co-Founder

  Providing every small business and individuals with the skills to make best use of cloud productivity tools such as Google Apps and MailChimp was our ultimate ambition. So much so we were an accredited training centre. That's right way back in 2012 you could have gained a qualification in cloud computing. Only problem was no one really knew what it was. Right service, wrong time.

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  Finance Projekt

  Oct 2016 - now

  CEO & Founder

  Imagine what you could do with more time and better quality information faster? After spending the last 11 years being an early adopter of tech I put those skills to good use by helping small businesses and practice accountants transforming finance functions with tech.Finance Projekt helps small businesses to leverage the power of their people and technology systems. Connecting software to create entry less accounting systems and more.

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  Hindsight

  Jun 2019 - Dec 2023

  CEO & Founder

  Start the day with a clear, up to date overview of the most critical client issues, risks and opportunities. Reduce the noise generated by too much data. Get alerted and surface the exceptions and issues most vital to address. Help your clients foresee problems before it is too late, get the recognition you deserve. Hindsight offers continuous monitoring for your entire Xero client base. Highlight the portfolio's struggling clients requiring your support and generate opportunities to demonstrate the value you add to their business. Show less

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  EventHQ

  Dec 2019 - Dec 2020

  Managing Director

  What are the chances of buying an online events booking system months before a global pandemic? We may not have sold many tickets but we did learn so many valuable lessons. Timing is everything!When a previous client informed me about closing an "Event management software - your attendees want to book and pay for multiple courses in one go" I couldn't bare to see it go to waste. What was essentially a good piece of tech with paying customers didn't deserve to go in the bin.

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  Webrecruit

  Dec 2022 - Apr 2024

  Finance Director

  Working alongside an experienced senior management team helping businesses attract the top level talent they need to drive success in their organisation.