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Southend-On-Sea, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for the effective and efficient financial management of the CompanyEnsure the Finance and Corporate teams provide an efficient, professional and high quality serviceEnsuring the Company complies with all relevant Company law, financial regulations, and any other legislationDevelopment of and maintenance of a 5 year financial strategyDevelopment of the Company’s business planDevelop, monitor and maintain the risk management strategy and risk registersLiaise with statutory and internal or other auditors to ensure that an effective and independent audit of the Company’s activities is carried outEnsure that a Human Resources strategy is in place for the Company which embraces best practice in recruitment, induction, training and development of staff.Ensure that an IT strategy is in place for the Company and ensure that fully effective IT systems are in place.Maintain fully effective media and communication support for the business.Develop and ensure maintenance of a review process for all corporate policies and procedures.Ensuring effective performance management systems are in place.Oversee, manage and keep under review all formal complaints, freedom of information (FOI) and subject access request (SAR) applications.Agree, ensure delivery of and monitor annual performance targets for the finance and corporate resources teams which support delivery of the Business Plan.Ensure that all staff in the finance and corporate resources teams have annual performance plans in place.Make a positive and creative contribution to overall business strategy and policy formulation including actively contributing to new business opportunities.Contribute to the development of specific and corporate policy to ensure the Company provides the best service to stakeholders.Prepare and present regular reports for the Board, Committees, EMT and the Council.

Southend On Sea, United Kingdom

Southend On Sea, United Kingdom

Direct management of one member of staff.Setting the company’s annual departmental budgets.Preparation of monthly management accounts for Departmental Managers, the Senior Management Team and for the Board of Directors of South Essex Homes.Calculation and preparation of monthly accruals.Preparation of reports to Board and Audit Committee.Monitoring of departmental performance against budget and assisting departmental managers with ensuring spending levels remain on target.Producing financial appraisal reports for any New Business opportunities that present themselves to South Essex Homes.Production of subsidiary accounts and consolidation into group accounts.Assisting with the production and calculation of company restructuring proposals.Preparation of monthly balance sheet reconciliations.Monthly analysis of payroll and reconciliation of payroll records to accounting records.Preparation and production of the year end accounts including liaising with auditors and ensuring satisfactory completion of the annual audit.Calculation and submission of Company Corporation Tax Returns.Calculation and submission of quarterly VAT Returns.Liaising with HMRC for PAYE Settlement Agreements and calculating the annual PAYE Settlement Agreement annual return.Calculation of Service Charges for both leasehold properties and general rented properties at the start of each year and then the associated under or over collection at the end of each year.Giving presentations to new employee groups (at induction sessions) and all staff (at staff briefings) on the functions and jobs of the finance team.

Southend On Sea, United Kingdom

Direct management of one junior member of staff and mentoring of other junior accountancy staff.Setting the company’s annual departmental budgets.Preparation of monthly management accounts for Departmental Managers, the Senior Management Team and for the Board of Directors of South Essex Homes.Calculation and preparation of monthly accruals.Monitoring of departmental performance against budget and assisting departmental managers with ensuring spending levels remain on target.Producing financial appraisal reports for any New Business opportunities that present themselves to South Essex Homes.Assisting with the production and calculation of company restructuring proposals.Assisting with the set up and implementation with a new company wide financial software suite from planning the layout and development of the system, re-writing policies and procedures, and training of staff with the organisation on using the new system and the new company requirements.Preparation of monthly balance sheet reconciliations.Monthly analysis of payroll and reconciliation of payroll records to accounting records.Assisting in the preparation and production of the year end accounts including liaising with auditors to assist with the accounting process and ensuring satisfactory completion of the annual audit.Calculation and submission of Company Corporation Tax Returns.Calculation and submission of quarterly VAT Returns.Liaising with HMRC for PAYE Settlement Agreements and calculating the annual PAYE Settlement Agreement annual return.Calculation and reporting of quarterly Value for Money indicators (KPI’s).Calculation of Service Charges for both leasehold properties and general rented properties at the start of each year and then the associated under or over collection at the end of each year.Giving presentations to new employee groups (at induction sessions) and all staff (at staff briefings) on the functions and jobs of the finance team.

Southend On Sea, United Kingdom

Setting the company’s annual department budgets.Preparation of monthly management accounts for Departmental Managers, the Senior Management Team and also for the Board of South Essex Homes.Calculation and preparation of monthly accruals and prepayments.Monitoring of departmental performance against budget and liaising with managers when spend is lower or higher than expected..Monthly analysis of payroll and reconciliation of payroll records to accounting records.Assisting in the preparation and production of the year end accounts including liaising with auditors to assist with the accounting process and ensuring satisfactory completion of teh annual audit.Administration of company credit card accounts.Calculation and submission of Company Corporation Tax Returns.Calculation and submission of quarterly VAT Returns.Liaising with HMRC for PAYE Settlement Agreements and calculating the annual PAYE Settlement Agreement annual return.Calculation and reporting of quarterly Value for Money indicators.Liaising with other organisations and sharing information for benchmarking purposes.Chair of Staff Forum, a group which discussed and deals with employee’s workplace issues.

Hertford, Hertfordshire

Setting approximately 100 different service charge budgets for housing schemes.Meeting with staff at all levels and residents to discuss budget requirements.Monitoring Spend on a quarterly basis.Year end reporting, analysing actual spend against budgeted spend and producing detailed variance analysis.Calculating year end accruals and prepayments.Producing Income and Expenditure statements for both auditors and residents.Analysing electricity and telephone accounts and distributing spend between cost centres.Analysing accounts and journaling any miscoded items.Logging of scheme assets and calculation of associated yearly depreciation charge to scheme.Training members of finance team on use of ‘vision’ software. The system for extracting data from Sun accounts to Excel.Member of short term focus group looking into the procedures and policies of the Customer Service Centre and suggesting improvements.Member of Short term focus group mapping the company’s procedures so standard policies could be written.‘EDM Champion’ for south east region – involves dealing with any issues the region has concerning the new ‘Electronic Document Management’ System.

Hertford, Hertfordshire

Monthly monitoring of budgets.Monthly meetings with budget managers to discuss the position of spend against budget and any budget movements that need action.Reconciliation of budget system to ensure accuracy of budgets.Correcting items on error suspense accounts.Other ad-hoc analysis of costs as was needed.

London, United Kingdom

Coding of company invoices and gaining authorisation for payment.Performing cheque runsAnalysing expense accountsReconciling supplier statements to accountsAssisting in the implementation of new systems and procedures for the handling and processing of invoices.

White Plains, New York, Usa

Coding invoices and obtaining authorisation for payment for both Rail Europe and its sister company Eurovacations.com.Performing daily cheque runs.Reconciling supplier statements.Issuing invoices in various currency and processing payments from the companies partners in Europe.Updating general ledger activity, including entering deposits, credit card activity and payroll onto Lawson.Assisting in month end by gathering and entering accruals.Analysis of expense accounts for management.Monthly reconciliation of bank accounts and credit card merchant statements.Updating of fixed asset register and updating of depreciation costs.Designed and created an Access database that kept track of Rail Europe’s key clients statistics. Monthly returns were entered onto here and key sales information was entered so user defined reports could be obtained. Once finished this system was used by approximately 12 people.

Mba (Leadership Practice)

Acma, Chartered Institute Of Management Accountants, Associate Member

Successful completion of all CIMA exams and associate membership obtained for the Institute.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Accounting And Management Information Systems, 2:2

During the course of this degree a variety of different business areas were studied besides those dealing with the Accounting.