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Hammersmith, London

Signant Health is a Private Equity owned clinical trials data technology group with turnover of USD 450m.• Running of all transactional finance aspects of the UK and Ireland operational business in relation to general ledger, tax, payables, cash and payroll. • Partnering with other departments to make improvements to the running of the UK and Ireland business. Actively promoted business engagement with Finance.• Management and development of UK and Romania finance team members.• Running all aspects UK and Ireland month-end to deliver reporting consistently to demanding deadlines.• Set up and improvement of controls and procedures to meet demands of a rapidly growing business in order to meet Private Equity standards.• Work with tax advisers on UK tax issues such as annual tax compliance, tax planning, benefits taxes policies, VAT/Customs planning and intercompany restructuring.• Delivered annual statutory accounting of the operations in the UK as well as the UK corporate legal entities under IFRS (12 entities).• Main contact for UK external advisors including banks, auditors, company secretarial and tax advisors for UK and Ireland business. • Responsible for bank compliance work to ensure the Group complied with all reporting and covenant requirements. • Key support to the VP of Finance on group finance issues including transfer pricing, bank refinancing, investor repayments and group accounting issues.• Key project member on the sell side due diligence work to support exit by first Private Equity owner who sold the company to current Private Equity owner.• Key finance member on projects to set up entities in new countries such as Romania, Ireland, Czech Republic and Philippines.

London, United Kingdom

Vue Cinema Group is a private equity owned international Cinema group with turnover of £600m)• Managing the team that produced the consolidated results, balance sheet and cash flow reporting for the group month-end, bond reporting and reporting to private equity owners.• Working on the Offering Memorandum processes for the sale of the business to new Private Equity owner, raising of listed bond finance and the acquisitions of business in Poland and Italy.• Integration of acquired businesses in Poland and Germany to align reporting and processes.• Managing the interim and year-end audit and statutory accounts process for both consolidated and individual companies.• Implementing improved procedures to help the finance team move to a group function structure as the company expanded rapidly.• Working on a variety of financial accounting, tax and treasury projects for Group CFO and Director of Financial Control.• Implementation of CaseWare statutory reporting software for consolidated and individual entities.

London, United Kingdom

Running the month end process for the international division which involved producing the consolidated result, reviewing the results submissions and producing the board pack for the International CFO.Supporting the finance teams in Germany, Spain, Italy and London in all aspects of finance.Working on the due diligence process to provide information for the sale of the business.

Bath, United Kingdom

Private Equity owned geotechnical engineering and marine surveys company with turnover of €50 million; • Completing the group consolidation and group financial statements for December 2011 year end reporting under UK GAAP.• Completing the financial statements and related documents for Belgium subsidiary under Belgium “Alarm Bell legal rules” for company in financial difficulties.• Provided analysis required by private equity owners and senior management team to enable restructure of the business.Reason for leaving: Company went insolvent.

Berlin Area, Germany

Sirius is an AIM listed property investment and development company with a property value of €500 million.• Running of the finance department and managing the team which consisted of 25 members. This included controlling the accounts payable & receivables functions, monthly management accounts reporting, budgeting, decision support and all corporate reporting.• Setting up the controls and procedures to change the function from that of a small private venture to being able to support rapidly growing international listed venture. Had to ensure the newly launched company on AIM met the required standards of corporate governance.• Being the finance representative in executive meetings that helped senior management decide the strategic direction of the company.• Presenting to the board in executive meetings on the group performance and other financial initiatives.• Changing the finance function from being focussed on financial reporting to business partnering with the commercial areas of the business.• Recruitment and development of the finance team from being a small team of 6 that increased to 25 as the company rapidly expanded.• Managed the interim and year end audit process. Prepared the first and following fully compliant IFRS listed company financial statements for the group. • Running the annual budgets and quarterly reforecast reporting processes.• Co-ordinate tax team on local and international tax issues impacting the group.• Implemented a new SAP finance system for both finance and property reporting.

Guildford, United Kingdom

Octavian was an international gaming company with turnover of €32 million.• Preparation of the statutory consolidated financial statements and running of the year end audit. This was a multi-location audit with divisions in several countries. • Provided the required financial analysis for the due diligence and prospectus documentation for possible company merger with Ebet, an Australian Stock Exchange listed company.• Providing the business plan and financial support to the European Sales Director in the proposal to expand in to the German Gaming market.• Producing monthly management accounts, cash flow forecasts to advise on the cash flow problems and payment of suppliers.Reason for leaving: Company went insolvent.

London, United Kingdom

UBM plc is a Media company which had turnover of over £900 million during this period.A role supporting the CFO, Deputy FD and Communications team which was 60% project work and 40% re-occurring work.Project work including:• Providing the main financial support to the group communications team. This involved helping them in dealing with information requests from external analysts and determining what updates could be given to the stock market. • A working capital review of a major subsidiary that was disposed of as part of an agreement mechanism. Had to project manage dealing with people who were no longer to be part of the company, working around a number of control weaknesses to get relevant information and making site visits to a number of US and European sites.• Key member of the project management team for the implementation of the new group consolidation and accounting system to be used for monthly management and year-end reporting for the divisions and the board. • Key member of the project team preparing for the transition to reporting under International Financial Reporting Standards including writing technical papers on standards, assessing impact on current accounting policies and ensuring systems to capture the additional required information.Re-occurring Work including:• Completing of the year-end group consolidation and preparing London stock exchange compliant financial statements under both UK GAAP and IFRS.• Working with the tax, legal and company secretarial departments to implement a number of complex group company restructurings.• Coordinating the group forecast and budget processes to ensure all required information submitted critically appraised and that the strict board reporting timeframes were met.

London, United Kingdom

Cable & Wireless was a international telecomms group at the time.• Managing the monthly result for the Corporate region (circa £350m pa) whilst balancing the strategic requirements of the Corporate MD to manage UK board expectations with that of the local Regional Directors to motivate their local teams.• Directing regional sales teams on regional performance, areas to improve and setting commission payments.• Business partnering with sales teams in preparation of bid tenders and pricing setting. This ensured the sales team improved the structure of proposals whilst ensuring proper corporate governance was met.• Interlock of region budgets from a detailed bottom up view with the target expectations set by the board.• Briefing FD and MD of Corporate UK team on monthly performance and production presentation packs for their monthly review with the UK board.Finance representative on the debt management side to help resolve billing and collections problems to facilitate cash flow improvements.

London, United Kingdom

Cable & Wireless was an international telecommunications group at the time.Writing monthly financial report and providing analysis on the monthly result for Director of Global Planning to help understand performance and KPI's.Work on the preparation, consolidation and review of teh annual operating plan as part of the budgeting cycle. This involved critical analysis of "bottom up" submissions for to ensure interlock with overall target and direction required by the Global Board.Producing a monthly financial commentary for the UK Finance Director to explain the monthly result and preparation of the presentation for the meeting with the global board. Managing the accounting and reporting of the revenue, margin and opex for the channel monthly results.Managed a team of 3 analysts.

London, United Kingdom

I worked in the Aberdeen office for 3 years and qualified as a member of the institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland in 1997I then transferred to the London office and reached the level of Audit Manager. Worked on various multinational audits and also transaction services work such as due diligence, working capital reviews and listing transactions.

Ba Hons, Business Studies, First Class 1

Secondary School, 6 Higher Grades And 10 O Grades