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London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Financial controllership of the Technology entities and Operations, business partnering and reporting to stakeholders within the business. Assisting with statutory financial statements process and managing statutory audits.

London, United Kingdom

Finance Manager (VP) for the Group Finance involved GL closure, quarterly group financial reporting, external disclosure tables, managing external audits and management accounting policies. Compensation accounting ($1.2bn) for the Group including deferred share-based payment, IFRS2 accounting, liaising with external service provider, external reporting tables in Annual accounts and audits. Led financials planning, budgeting and forecasting for the nominated expense line.Finance business partnering with senior stakeholders within the Group. Managed and developed offshore team of 4 FTEs including training, coaching and professional development

London, United Kingdom

Financial controllership for 7 legal entities and statutory financial statements including external audit. Prepared month end reporting for the Group including production of detailed entity analytics in a US-International GAAP, multi-currency environment. Full ownership of Oracle accounting. Provided accurate, timely and useful financial information, covering all aspects of management reporting to internal and external stakeholders

London, United Kingdom

Client facing management consulting role within Finance and Performance Management workstream focussing on finance transformation and technology projects.Internal Assignments: Supported senior project managers in bidding for major proposals on transformation and technology projects. Key activities involved cost forecasting, man-hours calculation, IT cost, offshore support cost, and post support model.External Assignments:• UK Banking Group: Supporting integration and simplification programme including management reporting, project cost and benefits reporting. • Major insurance business – Defined key processes in ERP implementation project• Oil Group – Managed the transition of finance function to an acquiring company. Defined and executed project plan • FMCG organisation - Performed feasibility study of finance processes to be migrated into shared services model • UK oil corporate - Defined existing finance processes and map into new SAP environment. Detailed cutover planning, transition in SAP ERP migration project

London

Financial accounting and reporting for UK and European business in US GAAP including partnering with US / European teams in Shared Service Centre. Delivered month / quarter end close process to a tight deadline. Assisted with statutory financial statement for nominated legal entities including external audit sign off. Managed finance relations with senior business partners in FP&A, AP, AR, Marketing and Cash accounting functions. Provided in-depth monthly balance sheet and P&L account analysis and account balance commentaries in Management Information (MI) pack. Managed intercompany accounting for European entities.

Certificate In Ifrs

Acca, Accounting And Finance

B.Com, Accountancy