Management Accountant for research and data collection company.• Revenue recognition calculation to show sales across 12 month period for Passport subscriptions or relevant timescale for consulting projects.• Production of monthly management accounts, sales cost reports and cost projections to leadership team for 14 regional offices.• Research cost reports, travel costs and consultancy cost reports to departmental managers as per bespoke requests.• Preparation of employee number data to be incorporated within cost reports, allowing accurate cost per head analysis and comparison to prior year (including re-presentation with amended departmental staff allocation).• Working closely with HR department to develop payroll journals, report vacancies, identify and correct payroll errors and ensure correct data reported to HMRC.• Various National Statistics reports including monthly revenue, quarterly international trade and capital expenditure analysis. Cleansing of system data to automate reporting process, including US state information in specific fields and zip codes independently verified.• Commission checking against sales data. Rep and manager reporting on a monthly basis and linked to team specific costs including travel. Implementation of software to automate bonus and commission payments to sales teams globally.• Various ad-hoc reporting for leadership team, auditors or award nominations. Management accounts information provided to office managers and tailored to specific requirements.• Working with sales and purchase ledger administrators to ensure records are accurate and comply with statutory reporting obligations.• Review of major variances on P&L including healthcare, rent, building costs, exchange rate movements.

Finance Manager for government contracted Work Programme scheme.• Management of Accounts Payable department, including seven members of staff. Responsibility for all processes and sign off of weekly payment runs.• Ensuring all month end deadlines are met within the Accounts Payable department, including system generated and manual accruals.• Recruitment of new staff, ensuring cover for leave, training and development, review and assessment of staff performance.• Direct contact with ADP outsourced payroll providers. Posting of payroll journal to nominal codes, issue of regional reports, reconciliation and sign off from Financial Director.• Year end payroll reporting including P35, P60, P11D and PSA preparation and submission.• Preparation of monthly purchase order and general accruals, including liaison with corporate and regional heads of department.• Monthly management meetings with various corporate heads to discuss departmental spend.• Preparation of the monthly management accounts for sign off on 4th working day after month end.• Monthly account reconciliation of major balance sheet accounts including payroll, accruals and prepayments.• Provide reports on monthly spend within site or department with relevant variance analysis.• Process monthly corporate and property recharges. Reconciliation of inter-company balances.• Liaising with Facilities Manager to ensure all property related matters are accounted for correctly.• Manage internal and external audit function. Assisting with year end compliance. Working with tax advisors for preparation of UK group accounts.

Finance Manager of a leading business services agency in the travel / tour industry, dealing with business to customer and business to business markets. • Production of timely and reliable management information in order to meet monthly reporting deadlines.• Preparation of budgets and Management Accounts, investigation of variances against benchmarks, analyses of differences and exploration of potential problems with non-financial departmental heads.• Prepare and review monthly / quarterly returns and third party submissions.• Lead projects including system migrations, in particular the implementation of new PDQ hardware to allow processing of 6 digit PIN’s to introduce access to lucrative Chinese market.• Weekly / Monthly cashflow forecasting to ensure debt management, payment of suppliers and compliance with banking covenants.• Management and personal development of ten departmental staff including training, grievance and disciplinary procedures.• Bringing all areas of the Finance department up to date and improving communication with other departments, through regular meetings and the issue of key information reports.• Compilation of Statutory Accounts for year ended November, 2011 in preparation for audit in April, 2012.• Payroll processing for 30 head office staff and 75 operational staff. General HR administration including training, absence and grievance procedure.

Production of Management information, using SQL reports, to a Facilities Management organisation on a newly implemented system (Dynamics AX).• Report head office costs to Group Financial Controller and departmental budget holders.• Consolidating Business Unit cost and sales to produce Company level Profit and Loss results.• Recording KPI’s at Business Unit level and issuing results in league table format to encourage improvements throughout the Business.• Liaising with Departmental Managers to ensure all manageable costs are detailed . Significant investment areas including IT and building costs are recharged to end users using staff levels or floor space as cost drivers.• Preparation of head office budgets for next financial year and future four years.• Working with payroll department to ensure correct deductions and reconciliation of Balance Sheet accounts.• Processing depreciation charges and reconciling to asset register.• Calculation of prompt payment and volume discounts. Reconciliation of receipts.• Issue weekly reports detailing responsibility to ensure key performance indicators are met and constantly improved.• Assisted creation and development of Executive Dashboard for monthly reporting.• Powerpoint presentation at induction days outlining financial performance over past 5 years. Present simply and concisely to varied audience. Tailor responses to questions as appropriate.• Motivating managers to promote growth and consistency through league tables.• Presenter at on-line chat room to encourage best practise throughout the business.• Review performance and revise forecasts for monthly management packs.• Reviewing insurance liabilities with Company Secretary and amending provisions.• Main intermediary with HSBC since out-sourcing of company’s fleet of vehicles. Developing relationships to ensure costs reflect the company structure and charges received in suitable format for importing to accounts software.

• Analysed and reported overheads, making accruals and prepayments where necessary.• Reconciled all balance sheet accounts and provided for defects and insurance claims.• Brought bank reconciliation up to date, investigated sizeable irregularities over the previous three years and adopted procedures to allow daily reconciliations.• Accounted for the Joint Venture, recording costs, sales and profit splits.• Completed VAT returns from month end ledger reports. Made adjustments for sundry payments and receipts, not processed through Purchase and Sales Ledger. Calculated private fuel and hire car allowances. Separated and reported overseas suppliers in European Union section of returns.• Reported Hire Purchase agreements according to interest payable capital elements for short and long term creditors, based on ‘sum of the digit’ principles.• Negotiated consolidation of assets on quarterly basis to obtain lowest interest rates with new finance provider.• Worked with the external IT support group to upgrade servers. Oversaw the installation of cabling at head office. Allowed secure access to network for remote sites and laptop users, utilising VPN technology.• Commissioned new payroll reports, allowing reporting in line with the European Working Time Directive.• Learnt intricacies of the Sub Contract Ledger including the voucher system. Managed the transition in April 2007 following changes in legislation and trained staff for monthly electronic returns.• Full responsibility for reporting and preparing accounts for subsidiary company. Attended monthly Board meetings, submitted audited accounts and filed at Companies House.• Managed a contract awarded by the Malaysian government. Arranged legal documents to be signed by Directors and representatives of the Embassy in London, to allow the overseas bank account to be created.

Reporting directly to the Company Secretary of a printing company, I managed a small accounts department ensuring that all aspects of the day to day work were carried out correctly. • Managed the Purchase and Sales Ledger clerks to meet month end deadlines and overcome day to day issues.• Printed out month end reports and reconciled Debtors and Creditors before closing the ledgers.• Accrued direct costs and overheads, made prepayments and provided for holiday payments.