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United Kingdom

London, Gb

United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

- Maintained monthly SaaS ACV book valued at c.£21m, tracking key movements from new sales, expansions and churn.- Quarterly reforecast processing, bridging key moving parts to budget and provide accurate outlooks for the year-end.- Managed integrity of financial model in Planful, ensuring correct data and up to date information is loaded onto the planning model.- Prepared quarterly MI packs for the board.- Accurately forecasted invoice timing and cash collection, ensuring accuracy of Cash EBITDA metric.

- Was part of the team that Assisted FARA AS (formerly part of Ticketer Group) successfully through a sales process.- Created a dynamic financial model from scratch for recent sale process, including a 3-year forecast covering P&L, Balance Sheet & Cash Flow.- Assisted with sales process prep including MI packs for external meetings with potential buyers.- Made improvements to revenue recognition process utilising existing data models and systems to automate month-end process.- Created model for weekly cash-flow monitoring and forecasting.

London, England, United Kingdom

- Design and maintenance of the group’s 5-year financial model, incorporating new levers as required by management.- Aided the Group’s yearly planning cycle, with a hybrid approach to inputs takinga top-down approach to Revenue in line with market expectations but combined with a bottom-up approach for costs.- Updated quarterly outlooks in line with recent actuals and updated the business of any upsides or shortfalls to the plan for the year.- Created KPI reporting on headcount productivity as part of a cost efficiency strategy to maintain the group’s growth objectives.- Prepared monthly board packs for internal and external stakeholders, which includes deep analytics around key metrics such as gross margin, business unit performance, contract base movement, monthly churn as well as extensive commentary on monthly performance vs plan.- Was active in Due Diligence processes for potential acquisition opportunities, assessing management packs, forecasts and several data points for valuations.- Supported ad-hoc reporting and analysis as required by management.

London, United Kingdom

- Monthly preparation, completion and presentation of the Profit & Loss Statement to management.- Completed accrual analysis based on supplier invoicing trends and variances. - Analysed supplier invoices and reported on monthly prepayments.- Prepared journals for Accruals and Prepayments, presenting an accurate view of the P&L and Balance Sheet.- Investigated Cost of Sales nominals to identify further variances on supplier invoices aiding to the preparation of the accrual journal.- Reviewed cost of goods sold nominals to categorise as either work in progress or as a fixed asset.- Monthly review of Work in Progress as part of the revenue recognition process.- Reported on monthly deferred revenue for both recurring and non-recurring revenue.- Examined services which could be recognised as revenue based on service delivery in line with IFRS standards.- Created journals for deferred revenue adjustment, creating a more accurate representation of the P&L.- Weekly reporting for management on cash movement across bank accounts over the week, addressing key movements and significant highlights.- Assisted in daily bank reconciliations, allocations of receipt/payments via bacs and review of the daily bank statement.- Assisted in redefining the accounts historically to present according to business units/service categories allowing management to have access to more valuable information.

London, United Kingdom

- Led a team of 6 achieving monthly invoicing and billing targets.- Weekly preparation of staff rota assigning tasks to individuals as per targets.- Prepared customer accounts for billing procedures.- Production and issuing of invoices for services delivered. - Calculated VAT due on sales.- Completed customer credit checks on a case by case basis.- Allocated payments made on invoices.- Calculated and processed credit notes for customer cancellations and renewal contracts.- Prepared customer contract novation agreements for inter-company takeovers. - Monthly audit of services delivered and individual customer billing. - Reported on services towards the end of contract for account managers.- Assisted with customer billing queries, including liaising with client relation teams for raising service credits.- Other admin tasks include customer accounts on CRM, invoices, refunds, fraudulent orders and billing errors.- Presented team KPIs to management and colleagues.

London, United Kingdom

- Prepared client accounts up to trial balance.- Contributed to end of year statutory accounts compilations for companies house, including profit & loss accounts and balance sheets.- Producing period credit control lists for clients, with necessary accuracy.- Managed client opening balances.- Adhered to HMRC guidelines and deadlines with accuracy.- End of year corporation tax computation for limited companies.- Accounted for quarterly client VAT returns.- Reconciled VAT records against invoices and credit notes, checking appropriate tax codes.- Checked balances of sales tax, purchase tax and VAT liability accounts of clients.- Bank reconciliations on Excel, making necessary adjustments for VAT refunds and bank charges.- Compiled bank cash flow statements on Excel.- Recorded and reconciled director loan account transactions and dividends.