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Southampton, England, United Kingdom

Southampton, England, United Kingdom

Southampton, United Kingdom

• Report to Crew Accounting Manager• Balance sheet control account reconciliations• Management of data to assess accuracy, completeness and timeliness• Communication and liaison with shore and ship based operational teams to improve the flow of financial and non-financial information• Dealing with multiple currency reporting • Process improvement, including mapping of Cunard gratuities process to enable further understanding and increase departments ability to challenge information provided • Preparation and analysis of monthly results• Variance Analysis • Liaising with auditors both internal and external• Liaising with other areas of the business to provide financial information to enable decision making.

Eastleigh

• Report to Group Financial Director and Managing Directors• Maintenance of an accurate accounting system with appropriate internal controls• Preparing monthly management accounts and commentary• Preparing Annual Report and Consolidated Accounts including subsidiaries and branches• Integration of acquisitions • Maintaining and supervising Nominal Ledger, Sales Ledger and Purchase Ledger, ensuring timely payment of suppliers.• Staff and Contract Worker payrolls • Overseeing annual staff returns including P11D and P35 preparation• Overseeing annual budgets preparation• Monitoring cash position and out turn against budget• Preparing quarterly VAT information and Returns• Investigation of queries and anomalies• Liaising with auditors, bankers and VAT advisers• Liaising with other departments with regard to their income and expenditure• Supervising a team of accounts staff

Portsmouth, United Kingdom

• Report to Group Financial Controller and Financial Directors• Organise, Motivate and Develop team of 3 staff to achieve unit objectives• Monitor and control activity of the Bordereau Unit• Maintenance of the bordereau log• Approval and processing of claims and premium bordereau • Providing month end reports to underwriters in London• Build and maintain relationships with intermediaries producing bordereaux• Arrange settlement of claims balances in accordance with appropriate authorisation limits and any relevant service standards. • Assist the Finance team maintain control over claims floats.

Portsmouth, United Kingdom

• Assisting with month end • Preparation of monthly forecasts• Updating of Weekly Tracker• Analysis of Profit & Loss accounts • Reconciliation of bank accounts• Preparation of business specific adhoc reports as required• Assisting other members of staff

Portsmouth, United Kingdom

• Preparation of monthly accounts for the central ledger for the UK Automotive part of the business• Including approval of invoices, reports, journals.• Liaising with plant controllers across the UK, as well as parts of Johnson Controls in the US and Europe. • Assistance with the preparation of budgets and forecast for the CFS, costs within the automotive business, as well as forecast of below EBIT costs for the UK legal entity.• Also responsible for preparation of the year end Statutory accounts for Johnson Controls Automotive UK.• Preparation of statutory accounts for other smaller entities within the automotive side of Johnson Controls.• Use of SAP & Hyperion systems

Portsmouth, United Kingdom

• Preparation of monthly management accounts for contract based in Portsmouth Naval Base. • This includes review and approval of journals, approval of Invoices, and preparation of Vat Returns, preparation of reports for management, at both Port level and Managing Director level. • All aspects of monthly accounts production.• Preparation of budgets and forecasts • Supervision of Staff• For Interim Financial Controller role, I was responsible for preparing theConsolidated monthly accounts for the whole business, as well as year end Accounts preparation

Southampton, United Kingdom

• Preparation of accounts for variety of sized businesses ranging from small sole trader businesses to non audit limited companies from manual and computerised records• Supervision of junior members of staff.• Worked as part of a team on various audit assignments.• Client liaison

Southampton, United Kingdom

Southampton, United Kingdom

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