Job Title: FD
Company: Marshall Monteagle
Edward Beale was appointed Group Finance Director of Marshall Monteagle in February 2013. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant with broad commercial and city experience. He is an expert adviser on practical governance and corporate reporting issues. He is also an advocate of understandable financial reports. He is the author of “21st Century Accounting Standards”, setting out the step change required to make Financial Accounts understandable. His specialities include corporate reporting, corporate governance, and financial and management accounting. He has worked diverse range of companies including PwC as an Assistant Manager, Malabar Cotton Company as CFO and Chief Executive of City Group Plc. He has an MA in engineering from Cambridge University.
Work
2016 – Present Non-Executive Director, London Finance & Investment Group Plc
2014 – Present Non-Executive Director, Swallowfield Plc
2013 – Present Group Finance Director, Marshall Monteagle Plc
2008 – Present Non-Executive Director, Western Selection Plc
2008 – Present Non-Executive Director, Tudor Rose International Ltd
2007 – Present Non-Executive Director, Heartstone Inns
2007 – 2013 Board Member Accounting Council of the FRC
2006 – Present Member, Corporate Governance Committee, Quoted Companies Alliance
2002 – 2016 Non-Executive Director, Finsbury Food Group Plc
1999 – 2017 Chief Executive, City Group Plc
1995 – 1998 Chief Financial Officer, Malabar Cotton Company
1992 – 1995 Divisional Finance Manager, Inchcape Plc
1987 – 1989 Group Accountant, Tozer Kemsley & Millbourn Plc
1987 – 1989 Financial Controller, Retail Division
1983 – 1987 Assistant Manager, PwC
Education
1987 Member, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
1980 – 1983 MA, Engineering, Queens’ College, Cambridge University
1973 – 1979 Ampleforth College
About Marshall Monteagle PLC: Marshall Monteagle PLC is an investment holding company. The group has a diversified range of investments and operations which include the following: procurement, logistics and trading in various hard and soft commodities, food production and processing businesses, portfolios of listed equities in the UK, Europe, USA and the Far East and Commercial and Industrial Properties.
