Daphne H. Email & Phone Number

London Area, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

• Sole responsibility for producing monthly payment runs and full back-up reports for a portfolio of up to 1,100 properties both UK and international (rent roll of £300m pa) for management authorisation. • Day to day application of legal documents and other updates to database.• Management of 200+ turnover leases, processing and distributing monthly/quarterly figures to meet contracted deadlines; organising externally audited annual certificates; involvement in approving top-up payments and credits.• Working with and training other team members, checking that accuracy meets internal audit standards.• Liaising with real estate and property acquisition teams, finance departments, external legal advisors, landlords and agents.• Production of regular and ad hoc management reports.• Direct involvement with the set-up of a new property database (Trimble/Manhattan) and participation throughout: in progress meetings, data cleansing and migration, checking data integrity through to parallel report production. New database is now a trusted management tool.

London, United Kingdom

Looking after the growing number of La Senza and Pinkberry franchises in the UK.• Liaising with La Senza’s Administrators on settlement of rent, services and insurance charges. Involvement in regular update meetings with the Administrators and internal Finance departments• Analysis of costs for the new management in the Middle East, provision of figures and information for treasury funding and budgets• Relationship management with external rating advisors• Providing information and reports to enable the smooth transition to new management• Analysis of capital expenditure for refurbishment and new store projects

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Working within a team of five, I worked on analysis of the company's portfolio of stores UK-wide to improve cost efficiency and help cut unnecessary expenditure. I set up systems to improve the efficiency of the department and enable fast production of information and reports, both within the company and externally.Other responsibilities included, but were not limited to, assisting with managing the property database (Retrieve) in conjunction with agents, report production to board level and covering the facilities management helpdesk.

North London

Supporting a team of 4, solely maintaining property database, execution of legal documents, managing filing system, safe scheduling and location of Title Deeds, regular liaison with legal firms, external agencies and internal departments, archiving, overseeing legal and project spends.

• Calculated and recorded complex treasury activities – multi currency cash pooling, typically of £3m per day, short and long-term investments, foreign exchange and money market trades• Total management, reconciliation and analysis of up to 25 electronic sterling and currency cash books and nominal ledgers through to production of annual accounts• Preparation of fixed and variable intercompany balances, analysis, agreement and settlement of accounts

• Sole accounting responsibility for company-owned industrial estate with annual turnover of £1.5m pa (2001). Setting and monitoring annual budgets and meeting tight deadlines for production of annual accounts; liaising with external auditors and providing relevant backing data to keep audit fees to a minimum• Implementation and migration of new accounting system; revamping chart of accounts• Additional accounting responsibility for a further 3 subsidiary companies and administration of 30 non-operational UK properties; production of monthly HQ accounts and backing analysis

• Bi-monthly collation and reporting worldwide company figures; preparation of monthly VAT and royalty tax returns; monitoring of capital and special revenue expenditure