Hodgens Global

Chief tax adviser at Hodgens Global providing international citizens with support on their personal UK tax matters.

Chief Tax Adviser

Created to support your tax reporting and compliance needs, regardless of location., Hodgens Global exists exclusively for the private individual who is obliged to declare worldwide income for taxation purposes. If you are planning to transition from one tax regime to another, or need guidance and tax agent support to manage your tax concerns, we are here to provide you with a dedicated service.

Director

EDA Professional Services Ltd

Specializing in US and UK expat taxation, providing a wide range of services including self-assessment tax return preparation and filing. Providing tax planning advice in full compliance with both IRS and HMRC guidelines and reporting requirements ranging from basic income tax to reporting on far reaching issues such as inheritance tax, trust taxation, capital gains and the territorial tax issues.

Senior Tax Advisory Manager

Various international companies

Following the great recession of 2008, there followed a tumultuous period of job changes as I tried to navigate a future in employment while maintaining a stable home environment for the family as an expat, working with many other expats in a similar situation.

Senior financial management and consulting services

Halcrow, a CH2M Company

A leading UK multi-disciplinary firm of civil engineering and infrastructure development specialists (later acquired by CH2MHill who were then acquired by Jacobs) where I oversaw a rapid period of growth in revenue, headcount and profitability in the region, with improved commercial management of projects and the working capital employed in these long term projects, building focused and improved relations with the banks, providing greater visibility of the business. Arranged banking facilities that led to improved trade finance deals, an increase of personnel in the region from 400 to 1,300 and tripling regional turnover. Continual long range forecasting and planning.

Regional Head of Finance - Middle East

V.Ships

A diverse international ship-management consultancy business overseeing several large scale acquisitions of the company during a strategic program of growth. Responsible for monthly and annual consolidated financial reporting and analytical reviews in co-operation with international finance teams throughout the group. Key successes included the sale of a UK based entity within the group, a new company set up for a JV with Radisson Seven Seas Cruises in the UK, in full compliance with CAA regulations, and a reorganization of Italian based entities into a tax efficient holding structure.

Group Financial Controller

Galaxy Energy Group

A privately owned $3billion trading business responsible for monthly executive reports of marked to market trading results, consolidated financial data for the group, with analytical reviews. Developed internal controls, finance teams and banking relations in Geneva, Monaco, Houston and Singapore.

Fisons plc

Initially appointed as Group Internal Auditor, based at head office in London, of this listed multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical/scientific equipment corporation, later assigned to a permanent role as the Nordic Financial Controller for the Group in Sweden where key successes included controlling a multiple currency transaction base to successfully protect the balance sheet, creating an effective management of the taxation issues arising on cross border transactions in the Nordic territory. Set up strong systems to ensure all after sales service activities of the high value instruments sold to universities and biotechnology companies were correctly monitored, reported and analysed - such as warranties, provisions for installations of the instruments and implementation of analytical software programs, stocks of spare parts, and working with the engineering teams providing the customer support.

Nordic Financial Controller / Group Internal Auditor

Sea Containers

Internal auditor, based at Group HQ, of this listed international container business with port operations throughout the world. Subsidiary activities included a leading passenger ferry shipping business, SeaLink, with operations between the UK, Ireland and continental Europe and Venice Simplon-Orient-Express transport and hotel operations. In 1989 the shipping business was acquired by Stena Line which was later acquired by P&O, a company which has since been acquired by DP World.

Group Internal Auditor

CLB Littlejohn Frazer

Audit senior, with ICAEW training, at this City of London based firm of chartered accountants, specializing in Lloyds of London insurance syndicates and Members' agents. Other clients were engaged in large-scale freight forwarding operations.

Audit Senior

I like to provide solutions, to help expatriates progress with their lives and their careers without having any uncertainty about their tax position. I am happy that I get to resolve problems for so many people, and to resolve tax worries that needn’t have existed in the first place.

I am inspired by others who make a success from their opportunities to pursue an expat life. The Hodgens Global business was created in Scotland with the expats' needs for clarity and tax agent representation in mind. We now have a representative office in the UAE.

Hodgens Global represents an international client base providing tax advisory support, enabling them to be fully tax compliant, preparing and filing tax returns and advising on various taxation issues including capital gains, trusts and inheritance tax. We are client focused with a professional, international expat background. No matter where you are located, or the nature of your enquiry, you will receive courtesy, respect and swift professional assistance. 

Having been an expat for most of my career, I can relate to most of the concerns where people often need help.

Laurence Hodgens

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Head of Operations

Deliveroo

Overvsaw the resource, hiring and work allocation of the in house creative studio across a range of disciplines including print (retail, DM, press, media inserts), digital (websites, MPU, banners, bespoke DCO templates), TV and Radio. We serviced all 12 global markets and support on huge brand launches and marketing activations. The creative team was roughly 9 people when I started and the team grew to nearly 30 during my time there so there was a unique set of challenges in terms of prioritisation and allocation of work to make sure we were working on the most impactful briefs.

Creative Studio Manager

Sapient

Directly responsible for resourcing the daily workflow across the Creative and Artwork department employees and freelance resource which included reporting on freelance figures against budget and forecasting freelance spend. I maintained a thorough production knowledge of all projects happening at one time to make sure allocation of work was as seamless as possible across the skillset in the creative studio. I held strong working relationships with the Creative Services Manager, Studio Managers, Client Service teams and Creative Operations Director.

Creative Operations Manager

Your Favourite Story

Managed the allocation of work in the agency across a team of designers, copywriters, back end and front end developers and data analysts, working closely with the project management team to deliver projects on time and on budget.

Digital Traffic Manager

Burberry

Supported across all key functions of the EMEIA Marketing team: bought media, digital, engagement and events. Connecting marketing and business functions, and supporting delivery of cross-functional projects. Lead the creation and delivery and deployment of marketing assets for key regional campaigns.

Marketing Delivery Coordinator, EMEIA

Alongside being a superuser across the marketing department for the purchase to pay process, I was a key team member in the implementation and integration of new SAP modules with senior management into a department and managed the roll out to the rest of the global head office. Here I had experience identifying issues and opportunities to maximise benefits of new systems/processes within a department. In this role I also supported the finance partner managing large scale budgets across the central marketing team including the fashion shows budget.

Project Finance Administrator, Marketing and CMD

This was my first role working within a global company. I was responsible for ordering all press sample product for global markets using an SAP system. I managed daily correspondence with PD/vendors representatives regarding orders/shipments/invoices, created all Purchase Orders to vendor in SAP system and also trained others in using this system. I worked with marketing accounts to produce budgets for seasonal spend and analysed seasonal spend for all global PR markets. I worked closely with shipping to manage logistics partners, customs and freight forwarders and the accounts team to resolve any invoice queries from the vendors. This is where my skills in PO management and knowledge of SAP systems led onto my next role at Burberry focusing on centralising purchasing across the marketing teams.

Press Sample Purchasing Coordinator

With over 15 years commercial experience working both client and agency-side and roles in project/operations/studio management, I'm a well-rounded professional in the creative sphere. In previous years I have run creative studios, large scale productions and managed creative production budgets for big-name clients such as Burberry, Sky, Mercedes-Benz and Deliveroo. After Deliveroo I got the taste for start up life and enjoy the huge learning curve/problem solving challenges that you get when working for a start up which has led me to a broader focus on operations in general. 

I would say my professional super powers are:
- building solid and communicative relationships in my own teams, cross functionally, externally and with senior leaders
- being able to jump in to situations and new processes quickly and contribute productively while having minimal impact on the creative process/delivery
- enjoying a fast-paced environment under pressure but still remaining calm
- being kind and understanding whilst also being constructive

I'm always interested in learning more particularly within B2B marketing and operations in general so always free to connect!

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