The founder of Porterdale is Steve Carroll, who has a wealth of experience working with hundreds of small and medium sized businesses.
Steve and his colleague, Lindsey Owen, personally deliver all Porterdale’s services.
Steve Carroll
Before founding Porterdale in 2015, Steve spent 15 years as a Finance Director at various £5m to £25m turnover companies and 7 years at a leading international advisory firm. Extensive commercial experience includes the successful completion of company acquisitions, disposals, cash flow management, and raising finance.
Steve qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant and is licensed by CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) as a Member in Practice to ensure his services continue to meet the highest professional standards. Other qualifications include a Professional Certificate in Executive Coaching.
In 2015 Steve was appointed as an Access to Finance Advisor with the Sheffield City Region Growth Hub where he is still engaged for a couple of days a week. This project team has since supported well over 1,000 businesses with their growth plans, including directly delivering over £40m of capital grants to unlock over £100m of projects.
Steve was also appointed as a Business Growth Advisor with Business Sheffield in July 2019.
You can see more of Steve's experience on his LinkedIn Profile.
Lindsey Owen
Lindsey joined Porterdale in April 2021. She helps clients as a part-time Financial Controller, typically when the finance team only has 1 or 2 people. The most common support given is ongoing advice for a day a month, practical systems/process reviews, and helping when new finance staff are being appointed.
Lindsey has over 20 years working in accounts, more recently in senior finance roles. From a small, owner managed business where she was at the heart of the leadership team to providing day to day strategic advice on company growth within a much larger group.
Experience includes responsibility for two business relocation projects and using a variety of different systems, including Sage, a bit of SAP and extensive use of Excel.
You can see more of Lindsey's experience on her LinkedIn Profile.
WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY…….
“Lindsey helped us through a time of staff change in our accounts office and in the process made us into a thriving new team. She showed us how we could use our systems to make day to day tasks streamlined and reporting quicker and easier. All this was done with a practical and realistic approach, and we felt comfortable having her here to guide us through and we know she’s just on the end of the phone if we need her. We almost hope we have a reason to get her in again – because we think she’s fab as well as being great at accounts!!!”