Dane S. Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Derby, England, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the entire finance function.• Restructuring the finance team to reflect the single company across two divisions. Line managing a team of 4 based across the two sites.• Ensuring the accuracy of the group accounts, consolidating them for reporting. Providing detailed commentary and an executive summary to make the numbers more meaningful.• Creating SOP’s and processes to ensure accuracy and consistency of data input and accounting treatment.• Key part of strategic business decisions, providing analysis to enable effective decision making and giving recommendations.• Driving improvement in financial performance by effective cost control and strategic spending, leading to material improvement in the bottom line. • Producing business cases for capex purchases, ensuring costs, payback and benefits are accurately calculated. • Pricing large packages of work, ready for quote submission.• Continued responsibility for the Derby based composites manufacturing business.• Ensuring sales targets were hit, by driving production and shop floor management.• Dealing with severe HR matters, investigations and disciplinary hearings. • Implementing pay scales using a skills matrix, making pay rates fair and standardised for shop floor workers.• Delivering weekly management meetings to update the other managers on current events, business development, setting targets etc. Ensuring they deliver key messages to their staff via toolbox talks.• Hosting customer meetings and conducting factory tours of the Derby site.• In charge of the running of our invoice finance facility and being the focal point for their annual audit

Derby, England, United Kingdom

• Expanding on the duties of the Management Accountant role, given responsibility for the accounts of a further 4 Neos businesses across multiple industries, each with varying accounting packages and pension schemes.• Managing a team of 3 based across each site. • Sharing the responsibility of running the Derby based composites manufacturing business with another member of senior management.• Ensuring sales targets were hit, by driving production and shop floor management.• Orchestrating the timely production of each company’s management accounts, ensuring reporting deadlines are met and the numbers are accurate.• Coaching staff on best practice. Aiding their career development by delivering 1-2-1 reviews and PDR’s.• Deciding which suppliers to pay, within the budget set by the directors.• Driving the implementation of our new system.• Providing information for the annual R&D submission to HMRC.

Derby, England, United Kingdom

• Reporting to the Managing Director and Group Financial Controller (off-site) - Full autonomy in producing the management accounts for Neos Composite Solutions Ltd, who are one of the 10 companies within the group. Responsible for sales / purchase ledger, cash book, bank reconciliations, fixed assets, stock etc.• Reporting profit and loss, balance sheet, cash flow and trading forecast in accordance with group timetable.• Managing the assistant accountant and ensuring their work is completed accurately and in a timely manner. Performing appraisals and setting objectives.• Liaising with the external auditors at year-end.• Managing payroll, the pension scheme and expenses.• Closely monitoring working capital. Dealing with credit control and supplier payments.• Preparing and submitting statutory returns - VAT/PAYE.• Preparing and presenting the annual budget.• Monthly variance analysis actual to budget.• Maintaining the costing system.• Producing weekly sales and cash forecasts.• Preparing and submitting monthly KPI’s to group.• Sourcing finance for capex purchases.• Submitting monthly reports to the factoring company, managing the relationship for the Derby site.

Annesley Woodhouse, England, United Kingdom

• Producing the management accounts and distributing to shareholders / senior management.• Completion of balance sheet reconciliations.• Performing variance analysis, investigating why they have arisen and feeding back to budget holders.• Presenting monthly financial performance to the General Manager, Head of Finance and other senior management.• Integral to successful completion of year end audits.• Ensuring capex spends are correctly recorded, expensing spends which do not meet the company’s capitalisation criteria.• Producing quarterly and yearly budgets.• Producing other ad-hoc forecasts, such as Covid-19 impact. Sensitivity and ‘what if’ analysis.• Setting annual overhead absorption and labour rates.• Ensuring the quotes produced from the engineer’s BoM are accurate and the correct overhead absorption rates have been used. Once checked, sending a formal quote to the customer.• Maintaining the company’s standard costing system.• Appointed treasurer of the charity committee. Ensuring all activities of the committee are auditable by producing robust policies. Banking charity cash and arranging payments to nominated charities.• Stock and lineside stock checking and control.• Creating Power BI models.• Conducting interviews for new members of the finance team.• Supervising the Finance Assistant. Ensuring their work is completed in a timely manner and high standards are maintained.• Maintaining the costing system by retaining the responsibilities of the Cost Controller.

Annesley Woodhouse, England, United Kingdom

• Team leader for a project to revise the company’s costing system, to take extract the full potential of the ERP system installed in 2015. A complete overhaul, from recalculation of the company’s bills of manufacture for its many parts to calculating new cost rates for overhead absorption. • Organised an engineering work study to time all operations through the factory to form the basis of standard BoM hours. Agreed these new timings with the Operations department.• Comparison of revised bills of manufacture against the originals to understand the impact of new costings and to validate the new BoMs.• Analysis of new BoM timings for labour and machine time against actual full-time employee hours and theoretical machine availability, to verify the accuracy of data generated from the engineering work study.• Setting the standard hours and material quantities for BoMs.• Deciding which purchased items go into a bill of manufacture and which will be absorbed as an overhead, based on qualifying criteria such as annual spend or ability to accurately measure usage.• Identifying and accounting for any “sub-job” tasks that explain the gap between labour/machine hours per the BoMs and actual labour time needed in production departments.• Categorising different costs into overhead types depending on cost behaviour i.e. variable/fixed and machine/labour.• Organising meetings with all key stakeholders in the project.• Designing and updating the project’s milestone plan. Presenting progress of the project to department heads once a month, justifying any delays and implementing recovery plans if behind schedule.• Finance reviewing any changes to BoMs and authorising the cost impact of the amendment.• Rolling the current cost of purchased items to standard cost at year end.• Deciding on appropriate bases of apportionment for all nominal ledger and department combinations relating to indirect departments. • Standardisation of stock item units of measure.

Annesley Woodhouse, England, United Kingdom

Working in the aerospace industry for a JV between Rolls-Royce and Chromalloy.• Solely managed all aspects of purchase ledger.• Implementing electronic invoicing to reduce paper waste and improve efficiency within the purchase ledger.• Prepared the company for the government’s Duty to Report legislation. Involved checking the company’s eligibility by understanding what the qualifying criteria was and whether it was met, understanding what must be reported and modifying ERP system to generate the required reports. • Responsible for the successful migration of purchase ledger data from our old system to an ERP system in 2015. • Weekly bank reconciliations of GBP, EUR and USD accounts. • Responsible for a variety of journals, including accruals and prepayments.• Monthly foreign currency forecasting. Accurately predicting how much foreign currency we would need for the month ahead and placing the order with treasury.• Daily cash forecasting. Reporting this to the Finance Director each month as part of the management accounts pack and presenting this in a summarised format.• Placing millions of pounds’ worth of cash deposits with the bank to earn interest on surplus cash. Using the cash forecast to calculate how much the company can invest without compromising its ability meet financial obligations.• Assisting with HMRC import audits and financial audits at year end.• Authorising the use of the company’s deferment account for imports into the UK. Ensuring that the correct commodity code and customs value is used to prevent failed HMRC audits and reducing the risk of fines being imposed.• Worked on a capital project to save the company £800k over 10 years by installing inverters to factory machinery. Instrumental in the verification of external contractor’s saving projections.• Carrying out anti-fraud checks when setting up new suppliers.

Annesley Woodhouse, England, United Kingdom

Working in the accounts payable department of a busy utility organisation. • Accurately made postings directly to the cash book and nominal ledgers.• Improved the end-to-end time of the invoice process, from receipt to payment. By coaching the storemen at our depots on how to correctly account for deliveries and stock. • Used own initiative to create standard operating procedures for all accounts payable tasks. • Processing the BACS run.• Reconciled supplier statements to ensure we had recorded all invoices.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

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Aat, Accounting And Finance

Btec National Diploma In Sport And Excercise Science

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