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Leeds, West Yorkshire, Gb

• St Anne’s provides and develops a range of services throughout the North of England for people with learning disabilities, mental health issues, are homeless or have substance use problems. Turnover for 2018 financial year was £40m.Responsibilities• Head of Management Accounts with responsibility for a team of two management accountants and two business partners.• Project Manager on the upgrade of the new financial ledger system.• Sole responsibly for the production of yearend financial statements and liaison with external audit.• Review and questioning of finances used in tenders for new contracts for services.• Answer any ad hoc finance based questions from other areas of the Company.

Castleford, West Yorkshire, Gb

• Wakefield and District Housing is a registered social landlord with two subsidiaries and one joint venture with Wakefield Council. The Group’s principal activity is the improvement, management, development and provision of affordable housing, the delivery of social added value, and investment in new build development. For the 2017 financial year, turnover was £158.5m with a surplus of £30.7m managing 31,000 properties.Achievements• Assemble of detailed financial information and key involvement in meetings in preparation of the In-depth Assessment by the Regulator.• Key financial involvement in new Enterprise Resource Planning platform during detailed design phase.• Completion of draft financial statements in advance of audit.Responsibilities• Managed a finance function of 25 people ensuring the efficient operation of all functions.• Lead on the annual budgeting process producing the annual Business Plan and papers to be presented to Board.• Preparation and presentation of key papers to Audit and Risk Committee.• Lead finance contact for the development and implementation for strategic priorities of the subsidiaries ensuring all contracts bid for met predetermined Board targets.• Oversee the completion of the management accounts and present the results to the Chief Executive and Senior Management Board on a monthly basis.• Accurate and timely submission of quarterly regulatory submissions.• Active member of meetings to help with reviewing and planning of the direction of new development.• Completion of quarterly covenants to be submitted to lenders.• Review of unsecured creditors to ensure compliance with bank covenant

London, London, Gb

NewDay Limited is a subsidiary of NewDay Group Holdings S.a.r.l, provide products and services to customers within the Near-prime and Co-brand credit markets in the UK. Lead accountant on the Co-brand credit side of the business (net interest income £120.9m).Achievements• 50% reduction in time for monthly reporting by developed and continually enhancing a reporting suite for management.• Collation of detailed financial data and analysis in preparation for IPO listing.• £0.4m saving in retailer payments by review of contract and payment terms.ResponsibilitiesDrive controllership processes and responsibilities for the Group, including making relevant updates on quarterly basis establishing a common procedure for all staff to follow. Managed and motivated a team of three staff membersComplete the month end close, monthly management reporting and analysis Lead contact with the Commercial managers of the retailer partners, developing and discussing new reporting packs externally with the partners; providing any ad hoc reporting; leading meetings to discuss month end performance. Production of annual budget and forecast, and mid month forecast in conjunction with Commercial managers.Developed new reporting for Monthly Business Review to assist ExCo and Senior Management discussion on actual performance and to focus on key areas of improvement.Assisted the development and collation of a monthly reporting file to the new owners including historical data for the previous two financial years.Liaised with Operations and Operational Risk departments to develop and produce reporting each month to be included within their reports to the Board.Key member of the Charity and Social Committees helping to organise events to support the NewDay Charity and provide Summer Fete for all Leeds based NewDay employees receiving recognition from the Company for the work undertaken.

Reading, Berkshire , Gb

Virgin Media is a subsidiary of Liberty Global plc, the world's largest international cable company with revenue of £4,100m in 2013. Assisted in the delivery of divisional projects and key initiatives, utilising divisional knowledge to deliver and explain the month end results to Commercial Finance. Achievements• Sole responsibility to establish an inter-company process with another Liberty Global subsidiary and maintain on monthly basis to ensure group reporting consolidate correctly.• 25% in month end timeline by working with the wider Management Accounts teams to streamline the content, look and feel, and timing of all customer reporting requirements.• Recovery of £0.5m VAT on bad debts from review of write off procedure.Responsibilities• Timely and accurate delivery of the divisional month end results, including key commentaries, to the divisional Head of Department / Finance Director. • Assist and feed into the management of the divisional Balance Sheets including assurance reviews over the balances.• Lead role of the year-end audit process and liaising with the external auditors within Business division.• Key contact of a sub-team of the division to assist with daily queries and identify potential improvement areas i.e. additional billings where incorrect rates were used.• Liaise with non finance team outside of month end to assist in the delivery of key projects.• Perform ad hoc requests from Commercial Finance to aid forecasting and budget process.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Manheim is a £130m turnover used vehicle auction and online Group. Reporting to the Group Accountant and, then following an internal restructure, the Finance Director, to produce consolidated monthly primary statements, forecasts and budgets to be submitted to the US parent company.Achievements• Developed the production of accurate profitability and tender reviews to support the sales team in acquiring new business.• Reduced time requirements by 1 day for the capitalising of fixed asset additions on a monthly basis and maintaining the fixed asset registers.Responsibilities• Timely and accurate production of consolidated monthly profit and loss accounts, balance sheets and cash flow to assist in decision making for financing.• Key contact for the four mainland European countries: collating monthly accounts, forecasts and annual budgets, together with assisting with all ad hoc enquiries.• Collation of key data for forecasting, producing reports for senior management team covering capital expenditure, working capital and profit and loss accounts.• Supervision and training of the reporting accountant ensuring quality and consistency of work.• Active involvement of specific sections of the European annual budget process including the collation of Group numbers.• Assisting with the year-end audit process and liaising with the external auditors

London, Gb

Working within the not-for-profit joint venture finance team as part of a separate stand alone team within the main Aviva finance function. The team consists of one manager and 4 team members, working closely with RBS in Edinburgh and overseeing the supporting documents prepared by the off-shore team in India. I undertook the monthly responsibilities of my line manager for a month whilst a vacation was taken as well as being tasked with a variety of ad hoc requirements to utilise my existing skills.Responsibilities• Lead involvement in Due Diligence exercise involving the collating, analysing, reviewing and reporting upon financial information following Company reorganisation.• Production of financial forecast to assist in financial decision making.• Preparation of statutory year-end accounts and commentary for the external auditors and liaising with them in order to create an efficient process.• Providing year-end analysis on the statutory accounts to Royal Bank of Scotland as part of the joint venture operations.• Preparation of month end and year end reconciliations of key accounts.• Review of working papers and reconciliations for RBS Group reporting prepared by off-shore team based in India.• Collation of information and preparation of FSA returns.

London, Greater London, Gb

Audit manager experienced in managing a wide variety of risk based audits from the planning stage to completion, with a portfolio of 15 clients with a total fee income of approximately £250k. Within this portfolio, I managed a key division of a Listed client, Jarvis plc, as well as SMEs, housing associations, higher and further education and charities. I was also a line manager for three trainee accountants.