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Hull, England, United Kingdom

Engaged primarily to manage the year-end audit process and to provide support and cover for a colleague during a period of absence. Reporting to Finance Director.▪️ Delivered audit requirements to tight timescales.

Hull, United Kingdom

Led month-end close, monthly reporting and planning processes, coordinated business control team and contribution from other business areas. Reported to Company Controller and Business Controller. Prepared monthly and quarterly management accounts and produced performance reports including budgetary control statements and variance analysis with narrative explanations and recommendations. Led preparation and presentation of annual statutory accounts. Led delivery of Corporation Tax, engaging with tax consultants, preparing data for tax return, and advising management on tax planning options presented by consultants. Maintained clean and accurate ledger. Prepared and submitted VAT returns and Intrastats returns. Delivered accounting and ledger maintenance processes including adjustment and accrual journals, budget virements, forecast uploads, invoice processing and invoice creation. Oversaw internal control processes, including physical stock takes, reviewing stock adjustments/write offs, maintenance and validation of fixed asset register. Liaised with external auditors. Coordinated and implemented site and Group internal controls. Performed duties as Secretary of Health and Safety Committee.▪️ Delivered Inventory Management proposal to reduce significant stock waste due to recording inaccuracies and duplication, to save £250k waste and increase turnover to over £1M per month.▪️ Delivered accurate statutory Annual Accounts.▪️ Identified and resolved materials handling issues, implemented changes to increase accountability. ▪️ Analysed and recommended selling/scrapping of less popular brands to Senior Management to enable improve marketing and R&D focus on profitable brands.

Hired to lead month-end close and monthly reporting and planning processes (including flash forecast), lead business control team and manage contributions from Production, Sales and Commercial teams. Reported to Business Controller. Maintained financial ledger and accounting processes, including balance sheet cleansing and calculating accruals and prepayments, ensuring SAP data correct/complete. Prepared monthly and quarterly financial accounts, and reports to support analysis of financial and production performance. Coordinated to completion site and Group internal controls, and directly implemented physical inventory and capital expenditure controls, ensuring business governance in place. Liaised with other Wartsila Corporation teams for smooth operations. Prepared VAT and Intrastats returns. Liaised with external auditors. Prepared information to complete Corporation Tax return.▪️ Developed monthly production review slide pack to improve relevance and clarity of key performance indicators presented to Senior Management team.▪️ Gained strong operational understanding of and built excellent relationships with Sales, Commercial & Delivery, Procurement, Logistics, Technical and QEHS teams.▪️ Promoted importance of best practice, appropriate recording of material and labour transactions, and explained reasons information required and impact of non-conformance on company performance.▪️ Acted as key business partner to Materials Management team, assisting in process improvement, relocation of stores following site move, implementation of new material storage bin location system, and updating materials master data to reflect new locations.▪️ Acted as key business partner to Production team, analysing performance and arranging and leading weekly production variance meetings with Production, Materials, and Engineering Managers, reviewing variances and challenging root cause to drive out variances and improve production efficiency.

Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Hired to monitor non-business unit income budgets, relating to Health Education England’s Learning & Development Agreement (LDA) and associated activities. Reported to Principle Finance Manager. Reconciled funding streams against schedules and LDA, ensuring correct levels of income received and accurately accounted for. Performed financial analysis, reporting and forecasting on budget areas relating to medical and allied health professional education and training. Participated in Department of Health national cost collection exercise for education and training, and contributed to production of statutory accounts and financial plan.▪️ Identified and recovered income from partner organisation previously overlooked.▪️ Undertook Principle Finance Manager additional duties to cover 4-month absence, including setting budgets and production of reports and forecasts, reporting to Assistant Director of Finance.▪️ Played key role in centralising management accounting activities for medical and allied health professional education and training. Built effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Hull, E Riding Of Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Hired to work as part of team delivering financial services to external customers (Clinical Commissioning Groups) and internally to Yorkshire & Humber Commissioning Support. Contributed to maintenance and improvement of customers, and own, financial ledgers, including posting of journals, virements and uploading forecast information into financial systems. Played active role in monthly reporting and forecasting through analysis of designated budget areas, and updated information on monthly financial board reports. Participated in production of statutory returns, annual accounts and NHS Agreement of Balances.▪️ Undertook secondment to NHS Hull CCG to provide maternity cover for Management Accountant. Supported monthly reporting, forecasting and medium-term financial planning.▪️ Delivered tracking against actuals, recommended products and services for discontinuation and renewal, recurrent and non-recurrent allocations.

Exeter, United Kingdom

Hired to work within Finance and Business Information team, providing support to wider accounting and management team in Finance Department. Performed monthly and quarterly forecasting, and annual budget build activities. Reported to Management Accountant. Provided finance and business information support to People & Leadership, Transport Services, Legal Services, Information Management, Performance & Analysis, Inventory Management, South West Regional Procurement Unit, Administration Services, Chief Officer Group/Support Team. Produced full monthly management accounts for responsible areas, including statements of budgetary control, variance analysis and staff variation reports, with narrative explanations and recommendations. Contributed to annual closure of accounts and production of statements of financial position and income. Supported auditing and benchmarking activities. ▪️ Succeeded in 6-month secondment to Project Management Office, assisting organisational change project re-designing administrative support services to improve service delivery. Calculated savings in post reductions and salary costs.▪️ Played key role in delivery of various departmental savings towards achievement of overall organisational £53.5M budget reduction over 4 years following Comprehensive Spending Review, providing plan for 20% reduction whilst maintaining core deliverables.▪️ Delivered detailed £2.7M transport forecast and budget for fuel for fleet of 1000+ vehicles, not previously produced due to complexity of fuel consumption/price changes, enabling fuel budget setting and resource allocation.▪️ Developed vehicles matrix to inform capital budget plans and decisions, ensuring fleet as up-to-date as possible with maximum lifecycle benefits and efficiencies, including re-allocation on high/low use. ▪️ Designed and implemented lean and effective reporting capabilities, including coding to require criteria input, allowing data draw to respond to FOI language cost queries.

Exeter, United Kingdom

Worked in the following areas:* Exchequer* Corporate Finance* Basic Command Unit Finance and Administration

Accounting And Finance

Accounting And Finance, Technician