Finance Manager responsible for the preparation of the management accounts, monthly reports, KPI analysis, accruals, prepayments, stocks/products profit monitoring, cash management, foreign currency negotiation, capital expenditure, budgets, payroll for 25 employees, audit and year end, R&D expenditure, VAT, Instrastat and EC sales list.Duties further extended in February 2015 to be responsible for producing the monthly management accounts and executive reports, as well as cash flow forecasts for Starco GS, a sister company based in Switzerland. Working on their finance system (Navision) which is all in German and dealing with multi currencies including Swiss Franc, Dollars and Euros this is an exciting new element which also enhances my skills and experience.

Financial Controller responsible for all aspects of the finance function ranging from all the day-to-day finance administration including sales and purchase ledgers, credit control and sales invoicing to the preparation of monthly management accounts, profit and cashflow forecasts, balance sheet reconciliation, VAT and KPI analysis.

Temporary role reporting to the Financial Accountant working on Aptos finance system. Responsible for preparing the Q1 Review paperwork for the budget holders (c50) and for the calculation of the balance sheet lead schedules and producing the November management accounts.

Reporting to Finance Director, responsible for managing all aspects of the Finance Department and assisting the FD with specific ad-hoc projects. Duties include:Responsible for the preparation of monthly management reports to strict guidelines and timetable. This includes company P&L and balance sheet, detailed financial commentary, branch accounts, cashflow forecasts, variance analysis, profit forecasts, sensitivity analysis and KPI reporting.Providing a pro-active role in supporting non-financial managers and cost centre owners to review and understand key cost centre P&L's to ensure results have been correctly reported.Providing the senior management team with business information.Manage, prepare and collate information for the budgeting and forecasting cycles for the company. Assisting with financial planning with respect to the longer term business plans.Undertaking the financial year end tasks to a strict schedule to ensure the smooth running of the department through an exceptionally busy transitional period. Personally responsible for clearing down the annual data and entering the new budget information into the systems without disrupting other day-to-day ledger entries.Organising the annual external audit and preparing an extensive pre-audit deliverables file for the auditors.AchievementsSince 2002, sales have grown by 99% placing additional requirements on the Finance Department. Successfully kept pace and developed new routines and processes to become more efficient without increasing the size of the team. Introduced a comprehensive financial analytical tool that provides a slice and dice facility encompassing pivot tables to enable quick and accurate comparisons and data reporting.

Promoted in July 1997 to be responsible for the company accounts on a manual ledger basis including purchase ledger, cash book, sales journal and cash receipts.Responsibilities were extended, during May 1998 having commenced the AAT qualification and the installation of a computerised accounting system (Sage), to include payroll for all staff throughout the company. Further responsibilities then included managing the Accounts function for CMC which included everything from inputting supplier and sales invoices, reconciling the bank and processing payroll. Additional duties included some administration duties retained from Executive Assistant position and managing the facilities in CMC's Northwich offices. These included cleaning contractors, hygiene facilities, waste disposal facilities, telephones and repair / maintenance of building.Successfully set up and managed the new computerised accounting system.Qualified with the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) in August 2000.Completed and passed a Basic Bookkeeping course. Also attended a two-day Sage training course. Project managed the move from Winsford offices to new, larger Northwich offices on time and to schedule. Thereafter, gained facilities management duties to ensure the smooth running of the offices.

Joined as Office Junior and quickly promoted to Clerical Assistant and then Executive Assistant.Reporting to the Managing Director, responsible for meeting and greeitng visitors at all levels of seniority, organising and maintaining diaries and making appointments, producing presentations, arranging travel and accommodation and other ad-hoc duties.

Provided clerical and administrative services to the general public