Brett Rigby Email & Phone Number

Napier, Hawke’S Bay, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

Consumer BU Commercial Chapter Lead

Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

Supporting the Telco Portfolio

Auckland

Senior Financial Analyst supporting Client Delivery and Operations & Fixed Data Portfolio

London, United Kingdom

Overview of position• 6 month contract• Approximately £80m budget per annum• Project for internal management reporting for the organisation• Covered a vacancy for a VAT Tax Accountant• Ad-hoc projects as requiredKey Achievements• Implemented new reporting system (Coda XL) that used Excel-based reporting for the finance team.• Completed the detailed annual CLOS reporting for the business to the Department of Culture Media & Sport. This involved converting VB & VE annual accounts into DCMS formats. • Created customised reports for VisitEngland that instantly report financial information in the customers’ preferred formats

London, United Kingdom

Overview of position• Promoted to the position of Finance Business Partner• Overall financial responsibility for three divisions with expenditure totalling £33m• Sat on divisional management teams for all three divisions• Member of the Senior Finance Team• Responsible for the production, collation and timely delivery of the divisional budget and forecasts, including detailed analysis and commentary• Management, supervision and development of two Assistant Management Accountants and a Project Accountant• Prepared and led the operational review on a monthly basis; these were attended by Divisional Director, Director of Corporate Services & Director of FinanceKey Achievements• Implemented new forecast process and templates for the entire finance team so consistency was achieved across the society• Built monthly reporting system using Excel macros that created transaction reports, variance reports, trend reports and payroll reports that were linked to SharePoint for distribution to all budget holders within NSPCC• Oversaw the completion of a £20m Government Helpline Development Programme for finance• Set up cost per contact reporting for two helplines that linked call statistics to expenditure to measure financial performance• Managed a costing exercise to measure the full cost of training & consultancy and implemented discount reporting to measure NSPCC charitable contributions• Implemented reporting cube for payroll details• Created variance checking excel spreadsheets for the finance team to use to increase efficiencies around month end• Led on the development plan to strategically change the delivery of ChildLine to ensure it can continue to run effectively with substantially reduced funding

London, United Kingdom

Overview of position• Overall financial responsibility for North Region of Services for Children & Families• Responsible for the production, collation and timely delivery of the divisional budget and forecasts, including detailed analysis and commentary• Management, supervision and development of one Assistant Management Accountant.• Responsible for the production, collation and timely delivery of the divisional budget and forecasts, including detailed analysis and commentaryKey Achievements• Implemented new forecast procedure to decrease time spent by budget holders each month.

Napier, New Zealand

Overview of position• 6 month fixed term contract• Heavy involvement in the financial reporting and tax compliance for investment entities, which required the application of a separate and complex set of rules• Prepared financial reports and income tax returns for groups of companies, trusts, partnerships and individualsKey Achievements• Integrating clients to BDO terminology and systems, following the merger of another accounting firm with BDO Spicers • Preparing end of year financial reports for complex investment structures• Taking an active role in the reviewing of work done by the junior accountants

Wellington, New Zealand

Overview of position• Prepared financial reports for groups of companies, trusts, partnerships and individuals • Prepared GST (goods and services tax), income tax, and FBT (fringe benefit tax) returns • Overall responsibility for the information technology systems at the firm, including setting clients up with their own accounting systemsKey Achievements• Communicating with the tax department to successfully get large amounts of interest and penalties written off for a client with student loan and income tax debt• Heavy involvement in the process to update and implement a clients accounting software system• Setting up the firm’s template for first time adoption of NZ IFRS and completion of accounts for the firm’s first NZ IFRS client• Promotion from graduate to senior accountant, with corresponding responsibilities, including the mentoring of junior staff• Secondment to a student accommodation business to assume the duties of a staff member that resigned at short notice, and involvement in the process to hire and train a new accounts assistant.

Bca, Accounting

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