David S. Email & Phone Number

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Knaresborough, North Yorkshire

RRD UK Directory Limited has an annual turnover of £38million and employs 210 staff and is a subsidiary company of RR Donnelley. Head Office is based in Chicago USA, group turnover of $11.6 billion, with operations in North America, Latin America, Australia, Asia and Europe and employs 65,000 worldwide.Finance Manager for the UK plant with responsibility for the monthly financial reporting UK/US GAAP, adhering to tight reporting deadlines and presentation to Senior European Management.Extensive experience in forecast and budgeting process and supporting sales and other operating functions in critical business decisions.Evaluation and appraisal of all capital investment decisions made at plant level and subsequent presentation to the senior RRD board for approval.Assisting senior management during strategic planning process on potential sales opportunities and their commercial viability. Lead annual external statutory audit and also periodic corporate internal audit and implementation of arising recommendations.Management of local working capital, with tight controls over days sales O/S and implementation of new internal controls to reduce inventory levels.

North Yorkshire

Assisting Financial Controller in the preparation of the monthly financial results, budgeting process and strategic planning process. Other responsibilities included preparation of month VAT returns, Government statutory reporting, statutory accounts, job costing variance analysis, negotiation of insurance and utility contracts, management of intercompany accounts and balance sheet reconciliations.Headed up the fire damage claim where working collaboratively with European platform were able to increase our financial loss claim.Finance team member in successful installation of new computer system, JDE Enterprise One.

North Yorkshite

Assisted in the preparation of the monthly financial reporting process and pulling together the management reporting package for senior management team.Developed new job costing and profitability reporting to provide better understanding of asset performance. Newly devised report process assisted in corporate wide initiative to improve efficiency and material consumption which generated annual savings in excess of £500K.Introduced new internal controls covering monthly material stock issue process and inventory check process improving accuracy of the financial results.

North Yorkshire

Reporting directly to the Chief Management Accountant and supervising a small team of 2, I was responsible for the preparation of monthly management accounts with commentary, via the standard job costing system production of material variance analysis reports, monthly VAT and Government statutory reports, asset register reconciliation, assisting in preparation of annual budgets & monthly forecasts and assistance in the annual audit. A major achievement was to lead the successful installation of a new accounting system and the associated training of staff

North Yorkshire

Responsible for the preparation of the month end accounts for each of the 5 depots under my remit.This included posting of prepayments and accruals, reconciliation of stock, sales and cost of sales direct with the depots and presentation of the accounts to the Chief Management Accountant. My duties also included balance sheet reconciliation, control and chasing of rebates from main oil suppliers for all the depots in the division.

North Yorkshire

As an Audit and accounting practice, main duties included auditing of small companies which provided a wide variety of experience. Also gained valuable practical experience in all aspects of personal tax, investments, VAT, management accounts, payroll and preparation of P&L and balance sheet accounts from incomplete records.

North Yorkshire

First finance role after leaving college, providing grounding in key areas including accruals, prepayments, stock valuations, preparation of management accounts, and debt collection. I prepared the management accounts for one local newspaper, before moving on to manage the full sales ledger for D D Distribution, which covered leaflet distribution for the Yorkshire area and on appointment reduced the debtor days down from 70 to 30, in the space of six months.

Chartered Association Of Certified Accountants, Accounting And Finance

Chartered Association of Certified Accountants - Qualified December 1999. Attended evening classes at Leeds Beckett University

Association Of Accounting Technicians, Accounting And Finance

Qualified December 1993 and attended Harrogate College evening classes.

Btec Business And Finance, Accounting And Finance, Distinction

Attended college on a full-time 2 year course and Qualified July 1990