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Main Responsibilities- Responsible for overheads in Europe including monthly reforecasts and preparation of annual budgets.- Overseeing capital expenditure spend and projects for Europe, including fixed asset control and depreciation.- Delivering high quality financial analysis, reporting and commentary.- Building strong working relationships and maintaining robust controls over costs and key processes, working closely with all areas of the company.- Preparing and posting appropriate accruals & prepayments.- Completing month and year end tasks to a high standard including reconciliation of balance sheet accounts.Involvement and Recognition- High cost centre forecasting accuracy.- Analysis and presentation of Operations performance to directors and CFO.- Engagement in business efficiency programs with an aim towards continuous improvement, including revised purchase order process and introduction of Logistics KPI reporting and presentation.- Proactive involvement in ad hoc projects - commercial & financial - supporting Cost Centre managers and Directors as required, including Facility P&L and cost reduction opportunities. - Year end audit consistently passed without adjustments.- Process documentation created and maintained up to date, passing AEO certification audit.

Main Responsibilities- High-quality management of cash book and cash flow forecasting.- Maintaining strong controls over key processes, working closely with Accounts Payable, Credit Control and Commercial Finance to assist the team in all areas.- To ensure monthly general ledger reconciliations are prepared accurately and on time.- Preparing and posting appropriate accruals & prepayments.- Intercompany account reconciliation and query solving.- Completing month and year end tasks to a high standard including reconciliation of balance sheet accounts.- Delivering high quality financial analysis, reporting and commentary.Involvement and Recognition- High cash flow forecasting accuracy.- Financial Control lead in quarterly workshops to the business, explaining the financial reports and the challenges the finance department faces.- Improvement of reporting of queried recharges to intercompany accounts to ease the process.- Training and supporting new starters.- Part of the Sports and Social Committee and help out with the Charity Committee.

Main Responsibilities- Delivering high quality financial analysis, reporting and commentary.- Completing month and year end tasks to a high standard, ensuring brands are correctly accounted for.- Building strong working relationships to ensure planned A&P spend is accurately accounted for.- Ensuring activities are correctly set up on IFS so that orders attract the correct discounts.- A&P spend reviews to ensure release of non-required spend.- Liaising with credit control and commercial team to avoid working capital issues.- Reconciliation of month and year end balance sheet accounts.- Commercial and brand P&L reviews.- A&P spend recharging to brand owners.Involvement and Recognition- Created MI Reporting - improving visibility of KPI’s across the business (Brand Health Tracker and; Supply & Operations Planning report)- Built a ‘new samples’ ordering form with VBA elements, to simplify and reduce errors occurring.- Assisted in the migration of the bottle samples ordering process to a different handling company.- Improved the efficiency of processes for Finance Analysts including: missed accruals and price queries.- Commercial Finance lead in the quarterly workshops to the business.- Helping with the improvement of the SPAT system.- Implementing activities in IFS in Singapore.- Training and supporting Commercial Executives.

Main Responsibilities- To provide commercial administrative support to the Off Trade commercial teams, ensuring new product and promotional activity is raised on IFS and Hyperion in a timely and accurate manner.- To work alongside sales and commercial Finance teams to ensure appropriate promotional accruals are maintained and any pricing queries are cleared quickly.- To support commercial forecast reviews to improve channel forecast accuracy across account base, to drive business efficiencies.Involvement and Recognition- Took lead in the spirits range review for M Local stores in the UK.

Main Responsibilities- Maintaining and developing relationships with customers, suppliers and colleagues. Delivering excellent customer service.- Prospecting and seeking business opportunities to achieve challenging targets.- Making quick and accurate cost calculations and providing customers with quotations, including negotiations on price, costs, delivery and specifications with buyers and managers.- Advising on forthcoming product developments.Involvement and Recognition- I was taken off the 2-year graduate scheme after 6 months, for my quick learning and commitment to customer needs.- Top 4 in the region for new car sales and highest in the company for sales of both new cars and Finance and Insurance products in 2014.

(GRACE is one of the largest non-profit organisations in Portugal dedicated to Corporate Social Responsibility, and has links with CSR Europe and BITC (Business In The Community) amongst others)Reviewed English version of the website.Created competition regulations.Identified and characterised GRACE’s associates according to several pre-set parameters.Enhanced my positive and passionate side as seeing what was taking part in the environment of this organisation really encouraged and motivated me to work even harder.

(Shop selling household and beauty products)Being the face of the business, providing a quality service to customersDealing tactfully with any issues that could arise.My commercial awareness and problem solving skills were enhanced during this period, at the same time promoting my negotiation and communication skills.

(CO357 Computing for Business and Accounting)Tutored 1st year university students taking part in this module during their tutorials.Developed my skills in Microsoft Word and Excel.Enhancing my leadership qualities, solving issues whilst making sure the students were as prepared as possible to succeed in the course.

Edited and migrated the content of the Medway Council’s old website onto a new template using Alterian, working as a team of 4.Developed my skills in Alterian, and worked under the pressure of having an extremely tight deadline and huge responsibility, as the website had to be completed in time for its re-launch error free.

Assisted multiple teams, including: Sales (Domestic Market), Communication and Corporate Responsibility and Human Resources.Key responsibility was being in charge of the news sections of the company’s intranet, accessed by all employees on a daily basis.Working with a range of different teams enabled me to make use of my interpersonal skills in an ever changing environment whilst allowing me to get a better understanding of the strategies of a multinational company and how it operates on a daily basis.