Chantelle Murray Email & Phone Number

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Newbridge, County Kildare, Ireland

Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

Dublin

Ex- Officio director for Irish subsidiary companies within the group Oversaw all month-end and year-end accounts for 7 direct entities within the group and all of GVC’s 100+ PSPs Managed a team of 25+ across three different departments: finance, reconciliations, and payments Responsible for all PSP’s used by the business, day-to-day management and escalation point for issues and assigning duties to team re the PSP’s (e.g. daily reconciliations)Manage all Risk and Fraud projects… Show more Ex- Officio director for Irish subsidiary companies within the group Oversaw all month-end and year-end accounts for 7 direct entities within the group and all of GVC’s 100+ PSPs Managed a team of 25+ across three different departments: finance, reconciliations, and payments Responsible for all PSP’s used by the business, day-to-day management and escalation point for issues and assigning duties to team re the PSP’s (e.g. daily reconciliations)Manage all Risk and Fraud projects in relation to PSPs and implement controls to minimise both. Built and engineered bespoke internal finance, operational and KPI reports used within the business Designed and implemented all financial controls relative to payment processors and grey market territories used by the businessResponsible for reviewing PSP contracts to ensure all T&C’s are being adhered to and implemented effectivelyPreparation of adhoc reports for the board Weekly treasury reports including cash-flow forecasting, detailed settlement schedulesYearly cashflow forecasting including provisions for chargeback costs PSP costing analysis and forecasting FX analysis and planning on PSPs across 30 currenciesManage all internal and external auditsIntegration of new Financial systems and new company backoffice Worked closely with different factions of the business i.e. Operations and Marketing, to ensure that all requirements are met and to advise and make recommendations on risk issues on new processes or campaignsKey Projects Built various financial models to ensure the control and viability of new PSP’s being introduced to the businessDesigned all cashflow reporting monthly, quarterly, yearly and rolling forecast in relation to PSP revenues and associated charges being used across the business Worked on multiple in-house development projects to ensure that the financial requirements of the business were consistently met in a rapidly changing environment Show less

Dublin

Responsible for all month end and year end accounts Preparation of monthly reports for the Board of Directors and preparation of all KPI's Set up the finance department for a start-up company Designed and produced all internal reports Implemented all financial controls within the BusinessMonthly revised forecasting to reflect the position on the business based on previous months results and activations Responsible for all pricing for call rates.Responsible for all… Show more Responsible for all month end and year end accounts Preparation of monthly reports for the Board of Directors and preparation of all KPI's Set up the finance department for a start-up company Designed and produced all internal reports Implemented all financial controls within the BusinessMonthly revised forecasting to reflect the position on the business based on previous months results and activations Responsible for all pricing for call rates.Responsible for all margin analysis Implemented and managed stock control for handsets, sim cards and marketing materialManagement of company cashflow Involved in commercial contract negotiations with suppliers.Overall management of Payroll, HR, VAT, Corporation Tax and Commreg reportingResponsibility for 2 direct reports - in Finance and in IT Key Projects Launch of a new MVNO in Irish Mobile market Set up and negotiated commercial contracts with Top-up POS providers Negotiated launch promotional offers.Worked closely with IT developer to design daily reports on new customer activations, top-up sales and usage. Built various financial models to test the viability of new tariffs, and rates to ensure margin protection Implemented Fraud control checks within the business Designed Utilisation models to test the viability of new tariffs and special promotional rates Show less

Prepared month end accounts for Yahoo Europe- staff of 384 peoplePrepared all balance sheet accounts for the company- 120 in totalUsed Hyperion, Oracle 11i, Essbase and Assurenet Financial tools

Prepared month end and year end accounts for marketing department of 30 people with a budget in excess of €60m.Actively supported marketing director on project work such as change for good.Prepared and implemented 5 year long term plan. Analysed Marketing expenses in relation to royalty for brand marketing.Prepared accrual schedules for marketing for intercompany and external.Prepared balance sheet reconciliations.Responsible for calculating cost benefit analysis of all… Show more Prepared month end and year end accounts for marketing department of 30 people with a budget in excess of €60m.Actively supported marketing director on project work such as change for good.Prepared and implemented 5 year long term plan. Analysed Marketing expenses in relation to royalty for brand marketing.Prepared accrual schedules for marketing for intercompany and external.Prepared balance sheet reconciliations.Responsible for calculating cost benefit analysis of all weekend promotional offers on clubcard points and Christmas promotions for forecasting and actual results. Worked very closely with sales financial analyst to understand what the drivers were for sales variances in order to ensure that the marketing budget was aligned to the sales budget so that the budget was phased to support any big sales drivers and to promote seasonal change. Key Projects:Built a financial model to calculate aging of clubcard debt.Trained cost centre managers in financial accountability and budget management.Restructured ROI marketing actual spend and budget to be aligned with UK marketing actual spend and budget and provided insight to the marketing director on the cultural differences that created core differences between the two. Created financial report to compare ROI marketing to UK marketing as a percentage of sales. Show less

Prepared and completed all month end and year end accounts with a turnover in excess of €25m a year.Prepared monthly budgets and forecasting.Prepared bi-monthly P&L Director reports per client, per discipline and per site.Managed the credit control function.Implemented internal controls.Key Projects:Led the introduction of new accounts system.Built financial model for credit controlBuilt financial model for WIP calculation.Worked with Database SQL… Show more Prepared and completed all month end and year end accounts with a turnover in excess of €25m a year.Prepared monthly budgets and forecasting.Prepared bi-monthly P&L Director reports per client, per discipline and per site.Managed the credit control function.Implemented internal controls.Key Projects:Led the introduction of new accounts system.Built financial model for credit controlBuilt financial model for WIP calculation.Worked with Database SQL administrator to create a timesheet database that could be accessed remotely in order to capture the employee time spent on each project for accurate P&L analysis. Built model for P&L analysis to client, cost center and site detail. Provided insight into the profitability of each site type that were built for the different clients. This enabled the commercial director to make decisions on the tendering of new proposals to negotiate the best deal for the company. Show less

Prepared quarterly and monthly reconciliations.Prepared VAT returns and all VAT related issues for SPVs.Performed client relations role account openings and day to day administration of SPVs.

Advised on design of new accounts system.Operated AP and AR accounts.Built financial models for internal and external controls.

Completed client accounts, including bank reconciliations, accrual and prepayments, trial balances and balance sheet.Prepared tax returns for clients and all appropriate ledgers for the accounts.

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Ba Hons, Accounting