• Proactively support the management of all aspects of financial control and reporting for Gatwick Airports Capital Delivery programmes for Airfield, Baggage, IT, Pier 6 and GAP.• Work with the Capital Programme leads to deliver the capital plan, highlighting risks & opportunities.• Review and challenge cost plans and capital business cases ensuring financial elements are sound and realistic.• Support & approve capital plan business cases & provide post project appraisals & project analysis to evaluate business cases have been delivered.• Apply Finance, Commercial & Operational experience to identify any unusual patterns of spend against approvals, expected project durations & further spend providing validation capitalisations are correct.• Provide monthly adjustments to ensure both Management & Financial accounting is correct with commentary vs. forecast ~200 projects.• Oversee internal & external audit processes for projects included within the Capital Investment Plan.

• Advise Management regarding the financial implications of business decisions to aid growth & profit across the business. Work with Management to develop a continually improving monitoring system, which is valuable, timely & user friendly. \designed to enhance their departmental financial knowledge and thus respond to the information provided.• Provide a support service by working with the Management team to help make financial decisions.• Develop and manage financial reporting systems.• Controlling and forecasting income & expenditure.• Ensuring spend is kept in line with budget.• Analysing financial performance and contributing to medium & long-term business planning/forecasts/strategy.• Offering professional judgement on financial matters and advising on ways of improving business performance. Advising on the financial implications and consequences of business decisions.• Interpreting and communicating financial data to non-financial managers.• Monitoring & evaluating financial information systems and suggesting improvements where needed.• Answer finance related issues and provide high quality customer service across the company.• Keep up-to-date with developments in Finance by reading relevant journals, going to meetings and attending relevant courses

Top clients have involved Sussex Pub Enterprises, PS Property Maintenance, The Wisborough Restaurant & Bar. Services have included, Cash-flow Management & Working Capital improvement, Profitability improvement, Business Strategy & re-branding, Taxation Management.

• Business partner with the regional financial teams consolidating financial data & financial statements at an HQ level.Principal Accountabilities:• Manage the HQ level banking systems providing internal and external monetary transactions.• Assist Grant Managers with donor financial performance reporting.• Run the organisations payroll function. • Implement financial policies and procedures across the organisation.• Manage the organisations fixed asset register.• Manage & maintain the organisations accountancy package.• Assist the C.E.O with external audits.• Report directly to the board of directors with regard to financial statements, external audits, financial risks & future financial strategic planning.

• Responsible for ensuring that there is accurate and timely financial reporting (including Key performance Information) for Distribution Projects, Civils and Smart Metering, contributing towards the completion and understanding of UKPN Management Information. Supporting the Distribution Projects team to develop earned value analysis and the Civils and Smart Metering team, helping them deliver their targets and remain commercial. Principal Accountabilities:• Produce accurate and timely monthly performance reports, understanding the key messages, and proving relevant analysis where appropriate.• Provide support in understanding the reasons for the variances and work with the Delivery Managers and operational staff to improve efficiency• Challenge costs and work to improve the financial performance; developing meaningful management information to complement, or form part of future reports.• Production of the annual budget and monthly forecasts, including liaising with relevant SMT to ensure budgets and forecasts are accurate and achievable• Lead the month end process for Distribution Projects, Civils and Smart Metering including: preparation of journals, communicating with the Operational business and addressing any ad-hoc queries.• Prepare monthly performance reports including: management accounts, (profit and loss, balance sheet & cash flow summary), review of variance analysis of reporting, and ad-hoc reporting as required andSuccessfully deliver systems and process improvements to increase the efficiency of the finance team and improve the quality of financial data and reporting, including:-a. Project Reportingb. Earned Value andc. Job Costing Analysis • Provide support to the production of the Network Asset Management plan ensuring that, unit cost indicators are robust and in conjunction with finance colleagues, there is cross region consistency where appropriate.

• Work closely with the Managing Director providing financial support.Principal Accountabilities:•Devise and maintain office Financial systems•Arrange travel and accommodation for the Managing Director and other members of the board.•Attend meetings and provide general assistance during presentations; handle phone calls, enquiries and requests dealing with them as appropriate.•Deal with incoming emails, faxes and post often corresponding on behalf of the Managing Director.•Carry out background research and present findings•Produce documents, briefing papers, reports and presentations.•Have responsibility for accounts and budgets.•Deputise for the Managing Director, making decisions and delegating work to others in the Managing Directors absence.•Become involved in decision making processes.

•Act as a true business partner to provide insightful financial analysis in order to enhance understanding of cost drivers and support performance evaluation and investment decisions•Analysis of monthly management accounts and production of reforecasts taking account of the business unit position.Principal Accountabilities:•Develop processes, tools and reports to help managers across the region control their spend. •Source, review, analyse and provide relevant financial information to managers.•Develop financial models and analyses to support strategic initiatives and help drive financial decisions•Liaise with operational managers to identify and drive cost efficiencies.•Support and review the annual budget process and revised forecasts throughout the year.•Understand and use unit cost information to help drive efficiencies, including training and driving improvement in data quality.•Undertake financial awareness and training to Managers, including financial instructions, processes, systems and reporting.•Continually seek initiatives that will improve efficiency and effectiveness of all operational teams.•Undertake special investigations and ad hoc management accounting tasks as required.

To assist the Finance Manager in providing Commercial and Financial support to the UK International Division in monthly reporting and analysis, forecasting and budgeting.Principle Accountabilities:Month end closing and reporting – calculate intercompany rebates, review departmental expense reports, calculate and accrue bad debt provision and update debtors/payment receipts and detailed margin analysis including price/volume/mixMonthly Reporting – prepare and issue monthly management reports for CIS, MEA and Sultan sales areas, prepare and issue departmental expense reports inclusive of analysis and interpretationMargin Management – daily margin exception analysis, review exceptional pricing requests (tenders, promotions, FOC goods, credit notes) and analyse effectiveness and ROI for marketing campaigns.Consolidate monthly sales and expenses forecast and participate in monthly Sales and Operations meetings.Work with the HR function to track headcount and related expenses vs. budgetSupport payroll processes for overseas employees.Analyse financial information to produce forecasts for the business to provide value-added financial support to better enable management decision makingAssist with the development of financial models and reports which assess and model the impact of business opportunities or company restructures on the current and future financial results and group strategic plans.Participate and support projects across the division including external benchmarking, customer profitability and route to market.Apply sound financial and commercial awareness to the UKI business to identify risks and opportunities and make appropriate recommendations.Assist with the annual price review

To business partner with the Sector and Regional Marketing, Sales, Finance and Mill teams to provide financial council on medium to long-term strategic initiatives.Principle Accountabilities:Responsible for strategic financial recommendation on Baby Wipes, Moist Bath Tissue, Adult Care, Feminine Care and Kitchen Towel across the European Consumer business. Provide analysis, insight and recommendation to support decision making processes according to portfolio strategies (cash generation, gross margin and volume growth), using promotional evaluation, payback analysis, cannibalisation and target costing evaluation on new product launches.Lead financial updates to the multi-functional teams including detailed Analysis of Change variance analysis with regard to Volume, Trade Promotion, Consumer Promotion, Product Mix, Cost of Sales, Distribution, Advertising, Consumer Promotion and SG&A spending against prior periods and forecasts. Highlight and drive action on problematic areas.Collaborate with the multi-functional teams across the categories to identify, analyse and drive delivery of cost saving initiatives.Lead Risk & Mitigation programs to achieve committed results.Coach and develop Finance graduate trainees and junior members of staff. Offering mentoring and guidance with regard to career development, analysis and approach on projects and assignments, and systems training.

To business partner with the European Consumer Supply Chain Sector and Regional Business teams to provide financial advice, evaluation and analysis on key business opportunities.Principle Accountabilities:Provide insight and analysis on actual and forecast results with regard to Freight, Storage, Handling, Administrative costs.Manage the annual European Supply Chain budget process and Monthly Key Driver updates for full year projections.Evaluate cost saving initiatives to drive margin improvement, including Capital and Strategic projects.

Working on the Family Care Business - Bath Tissue, Facial Tissue, Kitchen Towel (Andrex, Kleenex, Hakle, Page) responsible for the Management Accounting/Reporting for the European business.

Responsible for the Co-Packing & Subcontracting Accounting for the European Business and Finance Business Partner to European Purchasing.

Reponsibile for the Willis Ltd broker portfolio of the Commercial Business.

Responsible for the Credit Management of the Willis Ltd Commercial Insurance Portfolio.