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Amesbury, Gb

Supercharged Finance is about online training and coaching to help those in the Finance function to work more effectively and to focus on helping the business, and to develop rewarding and successful careers.Since setting up Supercharged Finance, I've become well-known in the Finance and Accounting world as a business-focused Finance coach, trainer, blogger and speaker. And now I'm a LinkedIn Top Voice.I spend my time writing, delivering webinars, recording training material and delivering online coaching, to help Finance professionals in their journey from accountant to CFO.

United Kingdom

Working with a large financial services client to improve key finance and accounting and control processes

Fareham, Hampshire, United Kingdom

Managing the planning and delivery of Finance Transformation programme.Preparation and planning for close process automation, robotic process automation (RPA) and LEAN process improvement.Also involved projects focused on employee engagement, department communications, and "ways of working".

Southampton, United Kingdom

Reviewing certain aspects of reporting processes, including cost allocations and Finance systems.

Eastleigh

Finance Project Manager for re-implementation of JD Edwards ERP (GL, AP, AR, Procurement) and automation of P2P processes in shared services environment. Came into project part way through development and configuration phase when uncertainties existed over the quality of development and the likelihood of achieving the target go-live date.Very quickly agreed a robust and detailed plan for completion of development/configuration, data migration, testing, communications and training, and implementation.Successfully delivered to this plan, involving co-ordination of resources across Finance Operations, Financial Reporting, Systems Accounting, IT Development and IT Infrastructure teams, as well as the implementation partner (Redfaire) project management and technical resources. Also involved stakeholder engagement with senior Finance executives.Exceptional feedback received from both Ageas and Redfaire management.

Eastleigh

Project management activities for Finance workstream within programme to integrate recently acquired business, Groupama Insurance, into Ageas Insurance. Involved information gathering, activity analysis, project management, project planning, requirements documentation, solution design, impact analysis, implementation planning, stakeholder management.1. Achieved Finance Target Operating Model, centralising four Groupama Finance locations into central Ageas team in Eastleigh. This involved process analysis and transition planning.2. Designed and gained approval for system integration approach that enabled combined invoicing, broker accounting and credit control, from the beginning of the data migration programme. This avoided confusion among 3000+ brokers during the lengthy integration process, and received very good feedback from them.3. Ensured top quality expert input into data migration business requirements and functional designs.4. Successfully project managed 5 out of 25 data migration phases (ones involving manual product processes with heavy Finance involvement, but which represented 50% of the addressable annual premium of policies to be migrated). This involved running cross-functional workshops to gather requirements, writing Business Requirements Documents, working with IT on functional design, and planning/managing testing and implementation, co-ordinating with other phases via Programme Manager, other workstream PMs and PMO.Great feedback from both Finance senior stakeholders and colleagues in IT, Underwriting, Claims, Actuarial and Business Intelligence.

Eastleigh

Initially asked to manage the work to put right financial control weaknesses in 3 key accounts following an unsatisfactory internal audit. Resulted in clean and up to date reconciliations, with smaller than expected write offs. Controls, system interfaces and procedures improved and documented. Follow up internal audit report was glowing, and controls are still holding strong several years later.Implemented new automated reconciliation system (Aurum GroupIt), replacing Accurate NXG.Managed a Finance Operations Controls & Remediation Programme, which involved:- Evaluating control environment- Developing quality monitoring- Mapping processes and documenting procedures- Implementing various control/process improvementsThe programme was incepted following an unsatisfactory internal audit of Accounts Payable. Following the remedial work, the follow up audit was successfully passed but with a recommendation for a strategic review of the systems used in P2P processes. All Finance Ops processes have received satisfactory internal audits since this time.Improved control, reporting and management of broker debt through use of Qlikview in partnership with the Business Intelligence team. Improved quality of information led to large reduction in oldest categories of debt.I undertook the recommended strategic review of P2P systems in 2014. This involved running an RFP process with providers of staff expenses and invoice automation solutions. The result was a proposal with a provider, and a business case. However, the proposals were not taken up at that time.

Eastleigh

Brought in to assist and advice on three areas:1. Building business and commercial agreement for print/fulfilment managed service, working with the proposed provider.2. Report on procurement policies and opportunities within the UK group.3. Investigation into CPM systems.

Watford, United Kingdom

Consolidation of management reporting, forecasts and plans for Hilton hotels in UK, Europe, MEA and AsiaPac, for transmission to US Head Office. Team of 12.Improved engagement and focus in team. Made a big impact in a short time in staff engagement.

De-risking balance sheet through improving global controls (operating in 80+ countries). Improved intercompany trading procedures, including month end eliminations and settlements. Reduced elimination differences from more than $0.5m to almost nothing. This was through process changes involving liaison with Finance teams in all regions.Improved procedures around management charges and transfer pricing transactions, working with Group Tax and regional Finance team to put in place a groupwide shared service agreement. Improved weekly cashflow forecasting processes and instituted regular balance sheet reviews with all business units, involving Finance shared service centre in India and all regional Finance teams. This led to improved cashflow after identification of cash trapped and subsidiaries in need of refinancing.

Finance system transition (Oracle Financials to Coda Dream) and financial reporting restructuring following acquisition, as part of integration project (AMBS).

Day to day running of all financial processes, with a team of three. Support for board with reporting, analysis, budgeting and forecasting. Process improvement and M&A support.Hands-on work to ensure team settled after departure of key staff.Developed improved project tracking and revenue recognition calculation in Excel. This was extremely useful in the process to sell the business.Daily management of cash, including cashflow forecasting, invoicing, debt collection and payment planning.Business was sold to Comptel in May 2008, and I stayed to assist with the start of the integration project.

Reading, United Kingdom

Started as VP (Group Finance) for Telecoms Products division of LogicaCMG. This was sold to private equity back independent group, Acision, in Feb 2007.Overall responsibility for the Group Finance function, which included: group financial control and reporting (management and external); financial systems; investment appraisal and monitoring; tax; group financial analysis, performance management and decision support; M&A support. Managing a team of 18, plus responsibility for relationship with outsourced/offshore Accounting Service Centre in India.Oversaw migration of additional regional accounting and payroll activity into offshore shared service model. Made improvements to product profitability and project reporting.Implemented segmental balance sheet and cashflow reporting, in order to improve control of working capital across the global organisation.Oversaw upgrades of Agresso and Hyperion Enterprise.

London, United Kingdom

Financial analysis; Review and challenge of P&L and Balance Sheet variances for 11 Courts Retail businesses in the Caribbean, plus the captive insurance company. Short term balance sheet and cash flow forecasting.Strengthened relationships with country Finance teams and the new central team based in Trinidad. Developed new analysis tools in Excel to enable better understanding of performance.

Reporting to Group HR Director, responsible for team providing financial reporting, planning and analysis for the HR Services, Group HR and E-working functions, as well as provision of HR management information and analysis (FTE, sickness, attrition rates, etc).Advisor to the HR Leadership Team on HR Transformation Programme business cases, expenditure control, as well as other financial and human capital measurement matters.Provided activity costing analysis for group-wide HR functional costs, enabling decisions to be made to save £15m pa as part of group overhead reduction initiative.In collaboration with IT, provided training for Finance and Project Management communities in effective business case writing.

Responsible for Corporate Centre management reporting, planning and analysis, Group Property Holdings, Investment holding Cos.. Share schemes and pensions accounting (IFRS).Wrote the group accounting manual for share scheme accounting (ESOP, Sharesave, LTIS) under UITF13/15/17. Delivered training for BU and Group Finance teams.Part of IFRS Conversion Project team, with specific responsibility for Share Based Payments (IFRS2) and Pensions (IAS19). Wrote group accounting manual for share based payments, and delivered training for BU and Group Finance teams. Worked with Group Reporting to collate and provide IFRS2 and IAS19 information for first annual report under IFRS.Worked with technical accounting experts to ensure correct reporting of business acquisitions and disposals.

Camberley, Surrey

Barclays Transpay business sold to Travelex in 1999. On transition I was given the role of Finance Director for the new division.Broad, divisional FD role, working for the foreign currency outsourcing business (Travelex Currency Services), serving banks, travel agents and retail bureaux de change. Covered all finance and commercial aspects, from monthly management reporting and financial processing, tax, treasury and risk, through pricing and commercial modelling and contractual negotiations.On transition from Barclays, set in place brand new accounting processes and systems (from scratch) for date of completion. Led a team of 45 people through the change into new ownership.Modelling for new outsourcing contract proposals, followed by discussions with potential partners in the UK and Europe. In one case personally wrote RFP response and led proposal/presentation that won major new contract.Supported business revenue growth of more than double in two years.

Camberley, Surrey

Barclays Transpay; division of Barclays Bank that provided the foreign currency and travellers cheques to the branch network. In October 1999 the currency services business was sold to Travelex and Royal Bank of Scotland. Responsible for all regular and ad hoc performance reporting to management and central finance, and decision support analysis, with a staff of 26.Simplified and improved product and customer profitability analysis.Streamlined budgeting process by moving away from bottom up process to top down.Developed financial models to support strategic proposals involving joint venture discussions and business disposal.

Audit and full statutory accounts preparation for companies and groups up to £30m annual turnover, including preparation of tax computations.

Aca, Accounting And Finance

4th place in Southern Society order of merit at Intermediate level.

Bsc, Maths & Accounting & Finance

Activities and Societies: Corale Society, Christian Union, Cricket Club, Film SocietyBSc (Hons 2:1) in Maths and Accounting & Finance