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Chertsey, England, United Kingdom

Sourcing innovative world foods for a changing UK consumer

Leatherhead, Surrey

Leatherhead, Surrey

Leatherhead, Surrey

King Edward Primary School

North Tyneside Learning Trust is a collaboration of schools working in partnership with employers, universities and colleges to improve education and life chances for all children and young people.King Edward is a maintained primary school, forming part of the NTLT collaboration. My role was Finance Governor as part of the full governing body of the school, as well as being part of the Finance and Staffing committee and the Pupil Outcomes & Data committee.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

I led a major move into outsourced and cloud accounting services for the Firm, developing a strategy and proposition for outsourced financial management for Small Medium Enterprises, 3rd Sector and the Education Sector and taking that to market. Client service work included - - Provision of outsourced Financial Director and Financial Controller services - Strengthening stewardship and controls, financial processes, reporting systems, management information, KPI’s and financial analysis to support growth - Finance function reviews - reviewing the effectiveness of financial systems, processes and procedures and providing improvement recommendations

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

In 2000 P&G created a Financial Shared Service Centre in Newcastle, centralising the financial services for Europe, Middle East and Africa.FINANCIAL SERVICES GENERAL ACCOUNTING SENIOR FINANCE MANAGERI led the centralised transactional accounting team. This team was the productivity engine for the service centre leveraging the scale to drive continuous improvements and efficiencies within transactional processes and enable organisational agility to optimise the organisation structure.FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS SENIOR GENERAL ACCOUNTING MANAGERProvided team leadership for business projects involving the design and development of new general accounting systems and processes. Key skills: Business Transformation, Organisational Change Leadership, Relationship Management and Process Simplification.FINANCIAL SERVICES GILLETTE LEGACY SYSTEMS ACCOUNTING MANAGERIn January 2005 P&G announced the acquisition of Gillette. Following the transition of work from Isleworth my focus was on stabilisation and improving accounting quality in Gillette legacy accounting systems until integration into P&G systems. Key skills: Accounting Stabilisation and Process Re-engineering, Simplification, Commercial Business Reporting, Complex Accounting Analysis and Organisational Leadership.WESTERN EUROPE REGIONAL FINANCE SUPPLY CHAIN FINANCE CONSULTANTThe regional finance organizations form part of the global corporate accounting group and lead the improvement of end-to-end regional accounting and forecasting data integrity and reliability. I was responsible for policy compliant supply chain accounting, regional analysis and commercial reporting for Western Europe.FINANCIAL SERVICES GENERAL ACCOUNTING MANAGER, ITALY, IBERIA, NORDICSProvided accounting and analytical expertise, delivering the month end close, Balance Sheet reconciliations, profit proofing and continuous process improvement for legal entities in Italy, Iberia and Nordics.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

This role was a rewarding experience providing a good grounding in a variety of disciplines and playing a part in a growing and developing local business.Key responsibilities were Management Accounting - budget preparation, cost and margin analysis, cash flow management, statutory accounts preparation, various analysis.

Audit - client responsibilities on various companies with turnover ~£90MAccounts preparation