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Chester, England, United Kingdom

Chester, England, United Kingdom

Deeside, North Wales

 Responsible for the following for 2 entities (International and Ireland divisions): Production and distribution of weekly sales performance reports Production and accompanied analysis of period management accounts Balance sheet reconciliations Budgeting and forecasting including preparation of figures and presentation Customer/store performance analysis, including sales and GP monitoring Pricing for new customers to provide competitive prices whilst ensuring maximum GP Management and oversight of data held in 5 separate systems including SAP, Teradata and Aries

Hammersmith, London

 Delivery of monthly management accounts and Executive report, and the circulation of final figures, to published deadlines. Working with directors, heads of departments and budget holders so that they are able to understand and articulate performance against budget or forecast and support them with subsequent decision making, providing support and challenge where appropriate. Supporting budget holders and other stakeholders with the identification of financial KPIs to support performance appraisal. Responding to and resolving any queries from budget holders Playing a key role in the development of the annual budget; forecasts and 5 year financial model; including modelling of employment costs and scenario analysis. Consolidating budgets and forecasts from all teams. Identifying key issues and recommend continuous improvements to the budgeting and forecasting process. Working with the financial accounting team to ensure that correct coding is applied to income and expenditure, following up on any queries Liaising with budget holders and the financial accounts team at both month and year end to ensure that accruals, prepayments and accrued income are accounted for correctly Manage finance systems and develop new processes to ensure improve reporting and analysis (for example, developing an automatic reporting/control tool for restricted funds projects from funders such as the Big Lottery Fund)

Kingston Upon Thames, United Kingdom

 Providing support to the annual budgeting and forecasting process through system design and maintenance, communication of planning requirements to users, consolidation of cost centres and distribution of final positions Design, production and distribution of monthly Management Accounts ensuring that information produced is both useful and appropriately presented Responsible for designing budgeting processes, including working in multi-currency to be sued across multiple departments and country offices Business partnering for various cost centres (including Internal Audit, CEO and Major Gifts) providing both income and expenditure variance analysis and support for budget holders Responsible for coordinating and applying month end journals, accruals and prepayments Experience of coordinating data from multiple sources including Sun Systems, Raiser’s Edge and Salesforce Responsible for analysing and reporting on non-financial information, such as volunteer recruitment and departure numbers Providing ad hoc assistance and analysis for the wider finance team and beyond

London, United Kingdom

 Leading the organisation in all aspects including finance, long term strategy, programme design and delivery Overseeing the production and delivery of a £45,000 annual budget for the organisation Responsible for line management of 1 other member of staff and regular office volunteers Monitoring and evaluation for the entire organisation and individual programmes Fundraising target of £50,000 through standing orders, trust and foundation support and community fundraisers Reporting to funders on the continued success of the Daneford Trust Project management of Overseas Volunteering and Global Citizenship Programmes. Cultivation of partnerships, both in the UK and abroad to aid these programmes Marketing and communication of the Daneford Trust’s work, including annual reports

Kingston Upon Thames, United Kingdom

 Working in the Youth Volunteering team to prepare youth volunteers before they depart on the ICS scheme Responsible for organising flights, visas, travel to training weekends, ensuring that volunteers are prepared with immunisations and motivating volunteers to take part in the programme Currently leading on the Delivery of the ICS Entrepreneur pilot project. This involves project planning, marketing, assessing, volunteer support, championing new software (e.g. VSO Learning Hub platform for volunteer development) and organising return volunteer activities Line management experience with recruiting, assessing and managing an intern for the ICSE programme Working closely within the team of 5 programme development advisers, as well as the rest of the youth volunteering team , others throughout VSO (e.g. ICS Fundraising) and external partners Providing extra support to those volunteers with additional support needs

London, United Kingdom

 Working in the volunteer support team to help gain work permits for volunteers. Competencies displayed include communication, organisation, prioritisation of work and the ability to work as a team. Working in the applications section of volunteer support. Responsible for organising and assessing new applications, communication with volunteers to gather further information and booking volunteers onto assessment days Effective decision making displayed through the evaluation of potential volunteers’ suitability, especially in relation to education roles Involved in various project work including working as a project manager for a partnership with the St Helena UK government office. Also involved in projects such as monitoring and evaluation for an electronic filing plan and the pilot of the preliminary telephone interview stage of assessment High level competency on Microsoft office, as well as other databases such as Frond.

Certificate In Business Accounting, Accounting And Business/Management, Pass

Master'S Degree, Construction Management

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Geography, 2Ii