Background
The client was the UK subsidiary of an US corporation that was owned by US Venture Capitalists.
The UK business had been performing badly for a number of years and the decision was taken to close the manufacturing operation of the UK business and transfer the operation in part to a sister company in Italy and in part to a sister company in Canada.
The current site was then to be sold and the remaining part of the business (sales, customer services and a scaled down Finance team) were to be relocated to a newly leased office.
The business had a local Financial Controller in situ but she was considered to be too inexperienced to project manage this transformation of the company.
The Brief
My role was to project manage the exercise to relocate the two elements of manufacturing to different sister sites and to plan the relocation of the remaining parts of the UK business to a new sales office site.
Key to the brief was the coaching of the local Financial Controller during all stages of the project. Whilst I was there, I also had a task to watch over the month end process and comment upon anything of interest.
