Anna Hedges Email & Phone Number

Cambridgeshire

Service company through which I undertake Contracts as Interim Finance Manager, Finance Business Partner, Commercial Analyst. Clients have included Homeserve Ltd (Home Emergency Insurance Business),Midcounties Co-operative and Thomas Cook.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Responsible for production of the Monthly accounts and reporting, Statutory accounts and the Accounts Payable and Receivables functions for three entities.Finance Business partnering Senior management for Service delivery sections of the Health Division.

Cottenham, Cambridge

Responsible for the Financial Analysis and Support to the Electronics businesses within Cosworth

Peterborough, United Kingdom

Responsible for Financial Reporting and consolidation for the UK Group of Direct Selling companies. Line management of small Accounts payable team.

Hertfordshire

Management of the Finance Business partners for North Hertfordshire Homes

Peterborough, United Kingdom

Interim Contract supporting the Retail Branch Network on Monthly forecasting of margin and costs and anaylsis work on trading options and opportunities for the network

Warwick

On long term contract, initially to cover the Senior Commercial Accountant role (July 13 - March 14). Responsible for the management of the Management Accounting team, month end reporting, business partnering for £1billion turnover organsation with Trading Divisions: Food Retail; Post Offices, Funeral, Pharmacy, Nurseries, Energy.Finance Manager (April 14 onwards) responsibilty for developing Management Information Strategy for the organisation and for managing the team delivering Society… Show more On long term contract, initially to cover the Senior Commercial Accountant role (July 13 - March 14). Responsible for the management of the Management Accounting team, month end reporting, business partnering for £1billion turnover organsation with Trading Divisions: Food Retail; Post Offices, Funeral, Pharmacy, Nurseries, Energy.Finance Manager (April 14 onwards) responsibilty for developing Management Information Strategy for the organisation and for managing the team delivering Society KPI Reporting. Show less

Banbury

Leicestershire

Manager of the Shared Service Centre Divisional Accounting teams. Total team 40 FTE covering all management accounting activities for the Aggregate Industries businesses. Responsibilities include: Management of the overall team; liaison with Senior Operational Management on the Service Levels required and their achievment; resource management to meet the demands of the Operational Areas; process improvements and standardisation

Contract Role:Project managing implementation of a Service Line Reporting System for the Trust -- providing detailed analysis of the financial contribution of divisions, directorates, specialties, consultant groups.Commercial support for Contracts taken on by the Trust

Short-term contract managing a small team providing a full range of Financial Support for 4 major service areas:. management reporting. headcount and £ variance analysis. business case financial support development. outsourced contract financial management. tender preparation

Managing a team of 5 delivering the finance elements of the full merger of the Society's Treasury function with that of two acquired Societies. The project timescale was extremely tight (3 months) and the two mergers were completed within 14 days of each other.

Responsible for advising on Controls across the entire Financial Management function (c. 100 FTE), reporting to the Senior Manager with overall Financial Management responsibility whose team was responsible for financial support and commercial challenge across the Nationwide Group

Resposible for the team providing financial support to the Business Director of the Banking, Credit Card and Personal Loan businesses: .advice and challenge on pricing, product development and investment;strategic review of businesses..

Business Streams and ABM (Financial Management)I managed a team of 6 designing and implementing Contribution by Product reporting within the business. My responsibilities included: sourcing and implementing a new software package and development of new cost models (Activity Based Costing/ Management) to allocate costs across the product groups; support for all business areas in understanding their costs and how those impact Products and their profitability.

I managed a small team responsible for all Management Accounting support for the 681 Nationwide Branches and the Financial Advisors, including budgeting and forecasting costs, developing sales target setting models and investment appraisal for potential acquistions, new sites and branch developments

My role was to support the Marketing division in pricing new and re-pricing current products - Mortgages, Savings, Banking, and Credit Card.

My responsibilities included: supporting the Sales and Marketing departments in pricing of product and promotions; analysis of the profitability of individual promotions and contracts with different supermarkets and other customers.

I managed a team of two supporting Logistics, Marketing and Personnel and Development for all costs reporting and budgeting.

Accounting And Finance, Membership

Qualified as ACA accepted to membership 1 May 1993. Prize winner in PE1 Exams Summer 1991 Financial Accounting paper

Bsc (Hons), Mathematics And Physics