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London, England, United Kingdom

- Preparing the complete month-end accounts pack, presenting it to the Finance team and C-level colleagues and being able to dig down into specific data points when requested.- Working with debt funders to design and implement KPIs and reporting packs, allowing them to track and take confidence in their investments.- Producing regular compliance reporting for investors, leading on audits, managing covenants and arranging drawdowns.- Identifying new revenue and cost saving opportunities, investigating them and presenting my findings to the Financial Controller and CFO.- Financial modelling of new products or services and aligning them with our funding sources.- ReviewingbudgetsandforecastswiththeFinancialControllerandourexternalconsultant.- Managing the relationship with the outsourced accounting team and identifying tasks suitable for delegation whilst considering factors such as GDPR and the risk of data loss.- Using data and automation to improve the efficiency of regular tasks, the effectiveness of cost- recouping exercises and to solve the underlying issues behind bottlenecks.- Partnering with Sales and Marketing to drive growth, aiming to understand how they use data and building this into continual improvements in reporting and data visualisation.- Partnering with Fleet to ensure a regular supply of vehicles for the Sales team and to confirm that we’re getting the best possible pricing in a fast-moving market.- Focusing on risk reduction with the Credit Control team by providing insightful and timely information and suggesting ways in which processes can be standardised. Analysing trends to find out in which areas the team can get the highest return for their time.- Acting as the main point of contact for the yearly audit and auditing other teams’ processes.- Managing payroll, ensuring compliance with FCA and FLA regulations, cashflow and treasury planning, and training both onshore and offshore staff.

London, England, United Kingdom

- Leading a team of Reconciliations Analysts responsible for bank account, control account and off-balance sheet reconciliations across multiple countries and group companies.- Ensuring a rigid control framework is applied and maintained using proactive approaches to month end reporting. Standardising controls across the group to improve clarity, consistency and accuracy of reporting by different companies.- Currently involved in the operational migration of 400+ bank accounts to a new finance system following a merger. This has involved taking the highlights of both company’s reporting to produce more efficient and informative analysis.- Brought our US subsidiary’s bank account control processes into the head office team, agreeing and managing strict KPIs and providing regular reports to US finance managers. This company is undergoing high growth so it has been important to act quickly on requests and build scalability into processes.- Reformed the month end reporting process for the team, automating lookups and taking a proactive view to discrepancy identification and tracking. Ensured this process was scalable and used this opportunity to implement new, more stringent controls.

London, England, United Kingdom

- Day-to-day management of £2.5bn in operational and trust monies including short and medium term cash flow planning, carrying out FX trades and making cash investment decisions. This involved considering FX, credit rating and liquidity risk and maintaining a commercial view of the business and industry.- Building weekly treasury reports for directors and c-level users to provide summaries of the company’s cash position and risk exposure. Amending the report regularly to reflect the changing direction of the Treasury function during a merger.- Redesigned the out of date retail cards reconciliation process, working with non-financial end users of data and banks to provide a report with the most relevant data. Used this opportunity to improve my big data handling and analysis skills.- Managing the retail estate’s banking needs including maintaining the shop card network, trialling new cash deposit and withdrawal methods and monitoring the cost of providing banking services to the retail business. Failure to maintain this environment would lead to a loss of the ability to collect revenues and a poor customer journey.

London, England, United Kingdom

- Producing reconciliation reports to tight deadlines, working with accountants across various teams to ensure transactions are recorded in a timely fashion.- Working with the fast-moving retail estate to minimise fraud through reconciliation of shop cash and card transaction data. Gathering data on common problems and investigating their root cause to target problem areas and mitigate further risk.- Collation of weekly reporting distributed to functional managers, looking into the detail being reported and proactively providing additional information where data is ambiguous.- Fostering relationships with various teams to follow up on reports, including having to explain accounting concepts to non-financial users and chairing meetings with stakeholders to resolve outstanding issues.- Assisted with a GL migration following a merger, moving 100+ accounts via manual journal posting.- Focussing on efficiency: closing down redundant accounts, optimising filing systems, automating processes, training new starters and maintaining process documents.

Luton, United Kingdom

- Updating sale, purchase and general ledgers, monitoring stock from purchase through to sale. Working with accounts receivable to reconcile stock figures with invoices and reduce the financial effects of any variances.- Month end activities such as calculating depreciation, accruals and bank reconciliations, much of which was between multiple group companies.- Trialling a new invoicing system and reporting my findings to the board. This involved client site visits and working with the operations and technology teams.- Collaborating with external stakeholders, such as clients, in order to understand their needs in relation to the finance department.

Education record

Ba (Hons) Accounting & Financial Management And Economics, Economics & Accounting

Economics, It, Business Studies, Maths

Activities and Societies: Treasurer on Tring School Sixth Form Committee