Achievements• Offshoring financial activities and rebalancing the 20+ finance team• Developed and rolled out financial controls and governance protocols to bring structure into the business• Integration activities for businesses acquired in prior years• Financial lead for due diligence on the acquisition of an SME• Improved balance sheet reporting and instigated a new way of thinking within the team• Wrote a revenue recognition accounting paper to clarify the accounting treatment for the acquired SME which was to apply to the Capita Group• Wrote a foreign exchange hedging strategy paper and process for implementation across the Capita Group• Successfully rolled out Project Reporting standardisation of reporting and consistency in accounting treatment• Consolidation of centralised services into other areas of Capita to deliver further operational efficiencies• Client negotiations to resolve contractual weaknesses• Coaching and up-skilling staff to deliver to requirements

I am Financial Controller for Business Consulting and Business Process Services/Outsourcing. These are the two ends of the spectrum in terms of the market offerings for CGI UK.The key aspects of the role are full P&L and B/S control and governance, maintenance and adherence of management throughout the business units, leading on the rollout of PSA and acting as the central contact point for every issue relating to the rollout with the business units.

• Improved control and governance around the central cost base• Improved quality of the service line reporting to senior management and increased visibility of financial and non-financial metrics to give greater business understanding to Executive Board members• Close working relationship across six countries in which Business Consulting exists and initiated a global standardisation process and moving best practice between these six countries• Lead position in resolving a number of financial and non-financial issues and sharing knowledge and approaches to activities• Establishing an offshore management accounting function to assist all six countries and promoting the use of standard practices• Occasional involvement in streamlining the UK Business Consulting reporting flows and consistency and accuracy of the reporting for which I have received an internal award

Acting Finance Director for Netherlands Business Consulting to cover for a colleague recovering from stress and going through the transition phase of the business and fixing underlying issues in the business plan, management and control.

Financial Control of the UK Outsourcing cost base and resourcing pool of c.2,200 heads.Financial review of projects and programmes under the control of Outsouricng servicesInterrogation of systems and processes so as to best achieve the desired results of the business driving efficiency and effectiveness of processes, systems, control and reporting

AchievementsActive member of the finance team that was put together as a finance shared service conceptEstablished a balance sheet and cash flow forecast modelRoleFinancial control of project accounting ledgers for multiple divisions within the UK business covering revenue recognition down to operating profit and variance reporting on the same as well as business orders pipelineThree UK staff reporting to me and eight Indian staff reporting to my team. Continual push to offshore work, so always looking for greater efficiencies in the business and processes

AchievementsSuccessfully lead a week long User Acceptance Testing programme in India for offshore locations for the rollout of Cognos as the primary reporting tool for the GroupTransitioning and automating the Group's Treasury back office accounts to the Group financial systemsIntegrating the management accounts of two acquisitions involving face-to-face training with 18 employees in SwedenRedesigned and assisted with implementation of a new intercompany process for the GroupActing Financial Planning and Analysis manager for six months responsible for leading and directing all Group management reporting activities. Awarded temporary role due to skills and knowledge, but also due to the good relationships that I had with all countries across the group. Seemless transition was achieved and subsequently complemented by CFO and Group FC for thisRoleFinancial control for 20+ centrally held units of the income statement and balance sheet including monthly variance analysis, forecasting and budgetingConsolidation and production of the Group Management Accounts for the Board plus estimation of statutory results on a monthly basis. Reports prepared for the plc Board on behalf of the Board

AchievementsInvolved in the rollout of the upgraded accounting transaction system (Agresso)Successfully applied a number of macros to my work improving efficiency and reducing the reporting timeRoleFinancial control for 20+ centrally held units of the income statement and balance sheet including monthly variance analysis, forecasting and budgetingMonitoring and controlling numerous balance sheet reconciliations ranging from work-in-progress, accruals, prepayments to car and PC control accountsWorked on a sale and leaseback deal for the UK side of the Company and established a cost control and recharge process to the businesses over the life of the assetsReconciliation between Agresso (transaction system) and the reported results of the departmentsResponsible for putting together the department's disaster recovery documents

Achievements & RoleConsolidation of all UK divisional level results and budgets and reporting up to the UK Board and GroupGenerated and developed reports for the businesses and a number of UK DirectorsResponsibility for calculating every UK employee's charge-out rate to internal and external customersInvolved in the outsourcing of the finance department to Bangalore. Trained a member of the Indian team in the London office and then spent two weeks in India when the new office went liveAutomated a number of reports for the Indian team using VBA macros

Achievements & RoleMaintaining the accounting ledgers of the GroupPayroll processingConsolidation of the Group accounts and presentation of results to the Group Managing DirectorPreparation of business proposals, calculation of the Group cost of capital and business valuation