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Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Provide governance, management and reporting of the financial forecasts and commitments across the delivery programmes within IT Infrastructure.Responsibilities:- Work with existing VMO2 systems and processes to provide best practice guidance to project and programme managers in order to obtain accurate and timely information.- Create, develop and maintain appropriate means to share the historic, current and forecast finance profile with the Management Team (eg dashboards, reports etc)- Manage and action cross programme funding actions to provide a single point of tracking funding decisions.- Assist with Business Case creation to ensure best practice and financial tracking from project inception.- Work closely with Finance and other business areas to provide the most accurate information to stakeholders and the Management Team.- Liaise with our Cloud Service Providers to optimise our spend and be able to forecast what our spend will be as a business.

Slough, England, United Kingdom

Responsibilities: - Following a 2020 restructure I was repositioned within Stores, as Performance Manager. Assigned to a Region, Business Partnering the Regional Leader to assist the delivery of Retail objectives. - Key role objective to analyse performance using data. Highlighting key drivers to improve the output of the stores within the Region and provide focus areas for the Regional Leader, along with building relationships with the Store Leadership to upskill them and improve their approaches. Also had dotted line leadership to 20 Store Leaders.- Continued with my previous role responsibilities focusing on the Stores P&L and OPEX costs to deliver these commercial reports along with new KPI reporting to support Retails objectives.Key Achievements: - P&L Rollout: During the COVID Lockdown, I rolled out the Stores P&L Dashboard to Store Staff, providing training sessions to the delegates to improve their Commercial knowledge and understanding of the impact of value over volume. This resulted in upskilling the estate staff to deliver business objectives.- Business Partnering: Supporting Regional Manager with 40 Store Leader and Assistant Store Leader dotted line direct reports. Leading the Region to be No.1 area in 2022 for a number of KPIs.

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Provide governance, management and reporting of the financial forecasts and commitments across the delivery programmes within IT Infrastructure.Responsibilities:- Work with existing VMO2 systems and processes to provide best practice guidance to project and programme managers in order to obtain accurate and timely information.- Create, develop and maintain appropriate means to share the historic, current and forecast finance profile with the Management Team (eg dashboards, reports etc)- Manage and action cross programme funding actions to provide a single point of tracking funding decisions.- Assist with Business Case creation to ensure best practice and financial tracking from project inception.- Work closely with Finance and other business areas to provide the most accurate information to stakeholders and the Management Team.- Liaise with our Cloud Service Providers to optimise our spend and be able to forecast what our spend will be as a business.

Slough, England, United Kingdom

Responsibilities: - Following a 2020 restructure I was repositioned within Stores, as Performance Manager. Assigned to a Region, Business Partnering the Regional Leader to assist the delivery of Retail objectives. - Key role objective to analyse performance using data. Highlighting key drivers to improve the output of the stores within the Region and provide focus areas for the Regional Leader, along with building relationships with the Store Leadership to upskill them and improve their approaches. Also had dotted line leadership to 20 Store Leaders.- Continued with my previous role responsibilities focusing on the Stores P&L and OPEX costs to deliver these commercial reports along with new KPI reporting to support Retails objectives.Key Achievements: - P&L Rollout: During the COVID Lockdown, I rolled out the Stores P&L Dashboard to Store Staff, providing training sessions to the delegates to improve their Commercial knowledge and understanding of the impact of value over volume. This resulted in upskilling the estate staff to deliver business objectives.- Business Partnering: Supporting Regional Manager with 40 Store Leader and Assistant Store Leader dotted line direct reports. Leading the Region to be No.1 area in 2022 for a number of KPIs.

Slough, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Responsibilities: - Reviewed Frontline Store costs to drive efficiencies in optimising channel performance and proactively looked for opportunities to reduce the +£60m OPEX, along with driving cost culture change. Worked with Finance partners providing forecasts for OPEX Budget spends annually or business needs and 3-Year plans, along cost optimisation programmes. - Concluded the creation of the Stores P&L Dashboard to greater understand revenue streams within Stores. The tool supports cost culture for improved profitability along with the commercial knowledge of store leadership to know the value the channel has to the business. - Supported the Stores Refit Programme, calculating the ranking to choose which stores to renovate next with the allocated CAPEX budget. - Completed detailed historical Post Investment Reviews (PIRs) back to 2017 for 80+ Refits and finalised a simple approach going forward to assess each store post refit.Key Achievements: - Stores P&L: Collaborated with the VBS (Value Based Steering) Team, to complete and finalise the Stores P&L Dashboard. For the first time this provides a bottom up detailed view for Retail to assess its value other than purely volume that the channel delivers.- Cost Culture: Broadened the understanding of Stores Senior Leadership Team, on how OPEX budgets are calculated and the requirement to change their mindset to Telefonica O2 policy approach than previous unrestricted authorisations.- Refit PIRs: Reviewed performance against investment of current Refit Stores to understand what good looks like.

Slough, United Kingdom

Responsibilities: - Accounting of Overhead Costs for the Commercial Teams; Sales & Retention, Marketing and Digital & Strategy; with annual budget of c£440m. - Liaise with stakeholders to gain insight on actuals v budget/forecast variances to provide month end commentary, whilst challenging historical accounting approaches to improve the integrity of the results.- Payroll and non-payroll costs analysis, manage interim recruitment invoices for billing, accruing and contract spend reviews. - Maintained compliance for Sarbanes-Oxley and drive standardisation of processes across the Overheads Team to improve synergies.Key Achievements: - Processes: Challenged historical procedures to improve accuracy of numbers, both owned and wider team.- Projects: Utilised my Excel skills to provide Payroll with a manual tool to calculate key adjustments during system changes.

Slough, United Kingdom

Responsible for the accounting of c£200m per year of Marketing Opex and Customer Investment Costs (CiC) spend. - Advised relevant stakeholders costs impacting their P&L and Balance Sheets at each month end.- Continuously developed and improved the speed, accuracy and insight of accounting models.- Streamlined numerous processes to create a variety of timely month end reports utilising MS Access to remove human error, reducing production from days to hours.- Challenged stakeholders against their Budgets, Forecasts and Outlooks to understand activities and reasons for variances.- Questioned the validity of manual accruals to reduce Balance Sheet risks.- Presented month end final figures and variances at the WD5 review.

Slough, United Kingdom

During my role as Overheads Accountant I analysed, interrogated and reported on key overhead expenditure on a monthly basis. Whilst also ensuring reconciliation and alignment between P/L and Balance Sheets.Labour Capitalisation- Validate, process and journal Opex and Capex projects booked in Clarity.- Report key monthly movements and providing summary breakdowns.- Recalculate annual and adhoc hourly/daily rates for numerous area of the business to accurately recoup P/L costs to projects.Retail Capex- Produce timely expenditure analysis reports for Stores to monitor spend to budget throughout the year. - Highlight areas for investigation, ensuring predicted spend will be achieved and funds are fully utilised.Contractor Supplier (Finance Point of Contact)- Maintain relationship with Contractor Supplier and attend Quarterly Reviews. - Resolve any issue delaying payment to key supplier and removing any future barriers. - Perform validation checks on invoicing, verify headcount listing and accrue when applicable.Telephony Ledger- Monitor individual budget line spend for cost area to forecast, highlighting to stakeholders where issues arise.- Accrue accordingly each month end and ensure all items are valid.Other Responsibilities- Overhead Team Month-End Reports (Budget/Actuals/Headcount) OUC/GLA mapping- IFRS16 Integration - Capex Month End Reports- SOX Controls

Leeds, United Kingdom

During this period I worked on the Operational Support side of the Corporate Collections procedure where I helped find solutions to historical ledgers and dealt with Litigation Accounts. For my core role as a Credit Controller I managed a portfolio of corporate customers, with a ledger value to around £5m. I am the sole Credit Controller responsible for the debt position of these clients and liaise with the customer to ensure they keep within payment terms and resolve any issues so that the customer becomes a regular payer to aid the company cash flow. I am also given on a regular basis one-off customer accounts to investigate and resolve historical issues to be then passed to other collectors to maintain once the clients problems are have been solved.Key Achievements and Responsibilities: Query Resolution- Solve Corporate and Business customer payment, invoice and service issues internally & externally to ensure customers make payments on time.- Engage with key client internal and external stakeholders with regular conference calls to resolve debt positions by finding solutions and agreeing action plans.Credit Control- Handle incoming and make outgoing calls internally and externally, seeking customer ledger payment details whilst ensuring company policies are adhered to. Produce Credit Control reports internally/externally to improve payment resolution.Litigation Account- Dealt with legislation when customers enter a form of Insolvency, protecting the financial position of the company and that contracts are legally fulfilled where applicable.Ad-hoc Reports- Use my knowledge of MS Access to produce Daily and Management reports to aid Advisor account query resolution efficiency, internal Debt Meetings and Treasury Cash Flow budgets.

Leeds, United Kingdom

Secondment to support the BAU processes of the Commissions Team. For this role I acted above my regular grade to complete monthly and adhoc tasks to assist whilst resources were stretched during the implementation of a new project. My duties were to interrogate 3rd Party queries and conclude if payment were due to them and also prepare monthly payments to set commercials with analysis to review with key stakeholders, and then submit the required payments via Accounts Payable. I also conducted analysis of 3rd party performance trends to review their individual commercials along with other periodic performance scales to finalise if further payments were due.I enjoyed this role as it allowed me to use my existing skills, develop further ones and with the changing business environment undertake and deliver meaningful adhoc tasks.

Leeds, United Kingdom

Secondment to be a ‘Collections Strategy Analyst’. This role focused on the analysis of the processes within Corporate Business Collections with an aim to remove waste, streamline tasks and overall encourage a new change culture within the department as part of a restructure. This role interested my appetite for continuous improvement and to seek more streamlined solutions to wasteful tasks.

Leeds, United Kingdom

After finishing at university I sought a job that both suited my knowledge of accounting and computers. I joined O2 on a temporary basis but from February 2005 I became a permanent employee. My core role as part of the Business Collections Team was the production of consolidated corporate invoices in different formats to match customer’s needs, reconciling them before sending them to the customer and supporting the wider Business Collections department.Key Achievements and Responsibilities: Streamlining - Improved the team efficiency to enable production of invoicing from 700 per month in 2004 to over 2,500 monthly invoices by 2010 over a period where staff reduced from 12 to 8.Innovation - Introduced new methods, such as the method to email invoices to customers for the first time and developed the production a variety of bespoke invoice reports using MS Access.Leadership - Helped colleagues with queries from all levels of the company, deputised in the absence my team leader, managing 8 staff members and trained new starters.

Leeds, United Kingdom

Part-Time employment whilst at College and University - I obtained substantial experience in the importance of working part of a team and face-to-face interaction with clients, along with the responsibility of training new starters. Ran the Produce Department in the absence of a manager, departmental turnover £120k a week.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Accounting And Finance

Education record

3 ‘A’ Levels - Business Studies(B), Computing(C), General Studies(E), 1 ‘AS’ Level - Statistics(E).

High School

11 GCSE Grades A to C incl. English (B), Mathematics (B).