We interrupt our usual schedule for a special ruby anniversary edition of our Meet the Team series! Anne Lane is our Finance Director and is the glue that holds together different moving parts and departments within the business. Need help with excel or with business central? Anne’s your go to knowledge hub for all things spreadsheets.  

Anne’s role 

Anne has been with Peacock Salt for an enormous 40 years this year! Impressive to be in the same company for that many years and still within the same department! The only other job Anne has ever had she recalls is being a petrol pump attendant! Anne first started at Peacock Salt as a bookkeeper, the after completing her university course became assistant accountant, then accountant then Finance Director! She comments that the best part about her job is the team she works with, and she appreciates them for all the work they do together. She finds her role as Finance Director rewarding but challenging in the same vein, even 40 years in the job she still learns something new every day.

If Anne wasn’t at Peacock Salt, she’d be…

Anne often daydreams of becoming a lady of leisure, in a stately manor with its own maid service and cleaners! As a youth, Anne had many ideas of what she could do as a career including a teacher, cabin crew or even a policewoman, however she finds crunching numbers thrilling so she believes she would have found her way to the finance world regardless.

A piece of advice for Anne’s younger self

“Never believe you know it all!  You need to keep on learning, but most of all you should never be afraid to pass on what you know.” Anne states that she’s devoted to Peacock Salt, that’s how she became finance director in 2006 which is one of two of her proudest moments. Her other proudest moment is working to become a fully qualified accountant over 20 years ago when she had a 2-week-old baby. She accredits her career success to Peacock Salt and the support they gave her over the years.  

Life outside of work

Family all the way. Anne’s amazing 3 children and their families especially her 6 almost 7 grandchildren. Her favourite things are lazy days spent with family, long walks with her crazy border collie Ben, long weekends in her motorhome, and jet setting to somewhere warm.

Peacock Salt in 3 words

Exciting, Caring & Fulfilling. 

Thank you, Anne, not only for sitting down with us for a special ruby anniversary edition of our meet the team series, but also for all of your hard work and dedication to us here at Peacock Salt. We truly would be lost without you!