Brandon Bocking Email & Phone Number

Ely, Gb

Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, Gb

Wokring in Tesco Finance's 2nd line function - designing, testing & implementing Key Financial Controls for one of Tesco's largest ever finanical transformation projects - "Optimised Supplier Experience & Accounts Payable Automation". I am supporting on our Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR) Framework as it enters the business as usual phase.

Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, Gb

In my first role outside of the graduate scheme at Tesco, I joined the Group External Reporting & Control team. This team is one of the lines of defense for financial control at Tesco, with business units submitting their financial data to us for consolidation. We are also responsible for compiling the statutory accounts for the annual report and other external reports.Key Achievements:- Involved in multiple smooth Year-End close processes including the preparation of the consolidated income statement and consolidated balance sheet. Prepared notes to the accounts including Adjusting Items, EPS, Discontinued Operations, Other Investment and various other Balance Sheet and P&L related notes.- Co-ordinated & implemented accounting considerations for major transactions across the Group with specific focus on the impact to the consolidated Group accounts.- Improving the Internal Controls in Financial Reporting by designing & implementing workbooks and processes including easier and automated triangulation of the annual report, thorough and automated periodic review files and other analytical tools.- Designed and implemented improvements to the Group Chart of Accounts and becoming an expert in the financial consolidation system (Hyperion Financial Management) and its interactions between primary statements and some sub-systems.- Closing many a Period-End for the Group, with activities including preparation of consolidated primary statements, review of individual BU accounts, challenge and analysis of movements.

Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, Gb

This was my final role in the Graduate Scheme in which I completed by CIMA studies. (Manager designation 1 July 2021).Working as part of the Investor Relations team, the main activities we were responsible for was contacting and responding to Investors, both institutional and retail, answering any queries they had in relation to our performance and to our ESG goals. We were also responsible for managing expectations of sell-side analysts and compiling the consensus on our performance on a regular basis. The team were also heading up all the external publications in relation to our performance; Slide deck, Press releases, Live Q&A, preparing the CEO & CFO for these presentations.My main duties included;• Preparing and planning for the team to execute external results, including project managing the results announcement process and focusing on accurate and complete deliverables.• Communicating and responding to queries to Investor relations, including internal queries, questions from shareholders and the wider investment community.• Taking ownership of a key document contributing to the results announcement, including developing new material that is useful for the CEO/CFO to use during the results announcement and following investor meetings.• Co-ordinating with other teams by acting as a key conduit between IR and the wider business, focusing on relationships that can simplify our working process between teams.• Developing understanding of sell-side analysts and their thoughts on the business through engagement with their queries and published notes. • Supporting the Head of IR – ESG with queries and research relating to Tesco’s work on sustainability.

Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, Gb

The second role in the graduate scheme saw me a business partner working closely with the Procurement & Business Support operational team. As finance business partners, our team were responsible for the short, medium and long-term financial planning of the operational teams, finding risks and opportunities for these teams, and providing relevant and useful support and guidance to help the operational teams achieve their goals and projects.My main duties in this role included;• Reviewing the monthly management accounts, analysing, and investigating the reasons for variances and seeking to understand the wider business context behind them.• Preparing the long-term plan for the specific area and developing the budget for the following year and presenting this to the Finance Director.• Finance business partnering with relevant business leads in various areas relating to Store Expenses to develop projects for investment committee, support them on their business plans and forecasting for their divisions.• Working with a range of business areas to identify and develop opportunities to save on operational running cost or to reduce risk of budget variances.• Preparing quality management information and recommendations to help leadership’s decision making.• Partnering with the procurement team to assist in the business’ response to COVID-19 to keep the stores and colleagues safe, including the stock tracking and the financial scrutiny of sourced consumables.

Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, Gb

The beginning of the Finance Graduate programme, taking on 3 rotational placements and studying CIMA.This role was working in control in the Group Functions team. This team owned a variety of processes for Tesco PLC as a group. Areas accounted for as part of Group Functions included Pensions, Share-Based Payments and Insurance. Projects that the team conducted included; Liquidation of dormant companies, Corporate simplification, Statutory accounts for subsidiaries and accounting for Major transactions coming through Tesco PLC.My main duties in this role:• Assisting in the preparation and review the periodic management accounts for our business unit.• Reviewing the suitability and effectiveness of key financial controls that were applicable to our business unit and recommend solutions or next steps based on the results of the self-assessment. • Conducting periodic balance sheet and general ledger reconciliations to ensure integrity and legitimacy of transactions within the accounts.• Assisting in the financial decisions required when conducting corporate transactions and making the necessary journal entries required to follow accounting standards for these transactions.• Championing and participating in the introduction and development of new accounting systems being introduced at Tesco, including Oracle Fusion and an updated version of HFM, the consolidation software.• Liaising with external auditors during our year-end and half-year process, whilst also creating notes to the accounts for the annual report.

Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, Gb

A wide range of skills are learnt here, including organisation, prioritisation and customer service. Assisting operational processes to make sure the shop floor is well stocked, queries are handled efficiently and customers are satisfied. I take the effort to work together with colleagues to create an atmosphere in the store that is pleasent for all customers. It is my job to make sure that every customer has a simple and stress-free time shopping with us.I have a range of experience in all store formats and would like to say thank you to my colleagues for supporting me at:- Wisbech Extra- Sheffield Infirmary Superstore- Sheffield West St Metro- Sheffield Broomhill Express- Kings Lynn Extra

London , United Kingdom, Gb

Assistant to the Anglia CCGs Finance Team, providing high quality, responsive and proactive finance reporting and invoice validation for North, South, West Norfolk and Norwich CCG.Assisting in production of monthly management accounts and annual accounts. Conducting analysis of data, reconciliation and query discrepancies. Responsible for liaison with Contracting and Analytic teams.During my placement I have grown in my role and have become a makeshift team leader in which I feel responsible for not only my work, but also the work of my two part time colleagues I share my role with. I have taken steps to evolve our team and used feedback from the team to help shape an efficient working method.In the latter part of my placement I have gained new skills in Event Management as I have taken a leading role in organising a whole day event for the students that are going to be a part of the placement programme for next year (New Cohort Event 2017/18). This event included all organisation from start to finish including venue booking, date setting, organising external speakers from CIMA etc, and content from the students to be included.

Accounting Professional Qualification, Accounting And Finance

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Accounting And Finance

A-Level: Business, Food Tech, Geography (& Mathematics As-Level)

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