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London, Gb

London, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

• Interpreting the financial impact of various non-energy costs for the markets across the business. Rebuilding the reporting of the data to automate the processing of the information to be analysed saving 4 days of working time.• Managing the financial impact to the financial statements of a new battery optimisation project, taking hundreds of thousands of lines of data to process and shape.• Helping produce the forecast and budget for the project working with non financial… Show more • Interpreting the financial impact of various non-energy costs for the markets across the business. Rebuilding the reporting of the data to automate the processing of the information to be analysed saving 4 days of working time.• Managing the financial impact to the financial statements of a new battery optimisation project, taking hundreds of thousands of lines of data to process and shape.• Helping produce the forecast and budget for the project working with non financial stakeholders to pull together. Reshaped this process by reducing the FTE involved in this by 5. Show less

London, England, United Kingdom

• Coordinated across two main stakeholders for Hoppy, a price comparison website and Powersuite a collection of various energy optimisation tools.• Responsible for management accounting monthly and statuary accounting yearly (audit and preparation of accounts), including planning and implementing the financial structures of the new business areas in the EDF systems.• Challenged, analysed and presented commercial financial reports and investment appraisals to support the stakeholders in… Show more • Coordinated across two main stakeholders for Hoppy, a price comparison website and Powersuite a collection of various energy optimisation tools.• Responsible for management accounting monthly and statuary accounting yearly (audit and preparation of accounts), including planning and implementing the financial structures of the new business areas in the EDF systems.• Challenged, analysed and presented commercial financial reports and investment appraisals to support the stakeholders in decision making that they undertake. Show less

London, England, United Kingdom

• Responsible for assimilating the data across the whole business portfolio to understand the monthly movements• Business partnered with the commercial areas of the business to challenge and understand the monthly performance.

Watford, United Kingdom

• Managed the finance requirements for Miniclub (a joint venture between Mothercare and Boots). Represented Mothercare but also liaises with Boots • Business partnered with several Heads of Department (including marketing, buying, merchandising). Regularly interpreted financial data to non-financially minded people• Monthly discussion of budgets, forecasts and actuals with Cost Centre Managers. Variance analysis and providing monthly commentrary. Provided support for strategic… Show more • Managed the finance requirements for Miniclub (a joint venture between Mothercare and Boots). Represented Mothercare but also liaises with Boots • Business partnered with several Heads of Department (including marketing, buying, merchandising). Regularly interpreted financial data to non-financially minded people• Monthly discussion of budgets, forecasts and actuals with Cost Centre Managers. Variance analysis and providing monthly commentrary. Provided support for strategic decisions• KPI analysis for 426 stores – KPIs include sales, margins, margin %, score card• Bi-monthly presentation of the results of Miniclub to the entire finance team (over 50 people) to give an update on performance• Assembled the statutory end of year accounts for Miniclub. Main point of contact for the auditors Show less

Doha, Qatar

Reviewed existing company procedures and developed process maps Assisted in setting up a new ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software system (COINs)Worked with Software providers to resolve implementation issues Participated in training new system to employees

St Albans, United Kingdom

• Joined as an Associate and got promoted to Assistant Manager after consistently strong performance• Ensured clients have complied with relevant accounting standards (mainly IFRS), laws and regulations when preparing their accounts• Field managed (led the onsite team) audits for the University of Essex, University of Central London and Morgan Sindall (FTSE 250). Teams consisted of up to 5 members of staff. This involved delivering a service to clients by hosting weekly meetings, as… Show more • Joined as an Associate and got promoted to Assistant Manager after consistently strong performance• Ensured clients have complied with relevant accounting standards (mainly IFRS), laws and regulations when preparing their accounts• Field managed (led the onsite team) audits for the University of Essex, University of Central London and Morgan Sindall (FTSE 250). Teams consisted of up to 5 members of staff. This involved delivering a service to clients by hosting weekly meetings, as well as daily technical problem solving with both the audit team and the client• First point of contact for the client - responsibility for the team delivering work on time and to a high technical quality (alongside delivering his own work)• Facilitated meetings with client management teams to understand the clients’ operations, computer systems and internal controls• Other clients included the Football Association, Parker Hannifin, Grosvenor Estates, Crown Estates, NHS – Milton Keynes, Chelsea and Westminster and Abertis (London Luton Airport) Show less

Doha, Qatar