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The role involves being the Finance person for the Personal and Home care areas. (Palmolive, Sanex and Ajax) New product and variations to existing product P&L required to help with business decisions and quarterly commentary on actuals.Preparation of the Working Capital forecast, for the Northern Europe Hub (Nordics and UK & Ireland) for quarterly forecast and budget, and quarterly commentary of any resulting variances.

Following the introduction of a new reporting system I came into the business to set up new reports and procedures. I also covered the Corporate Warehouse FP&A manager role while a permanent person could be recruited.

Following my last contract I have been able to enjoy an extended break to enjoy the summer and take some time out with my teenage sons.

Finance business partner to the Tax & Accounting UK MD, reporting Directly to the UK FD.MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES - - Supporting the MD of the division completing and reporting actuals, Forecasts, Budgets and Strategic plans. Along with my 1 member of staff- Production of the monthly reporting pack and attending the reviews with the European MD & CFO.- Business 33.0m€ revenue giving 8.4m€ EBITAKEY ACHIEVEMENTS -- Creating dynamic business model for the new cloud solution business case. Working with the business to ensure continual funding for the new product development and a large involvement in the back office systems and revenue recognition.- Successfully identified the cost challenge in 2017, leading the management team to identify cost cutting and tight control to achieve the 2017 EBITA number tat was successful.- Lead, and did, the majority of the Strategic plan, from a Finance point of view. Creating complex models to capture contractual projections and future business growth. Then accompanied MD to Belgium for the European Finance and Strategic plan review.

Following the end of my contract I took summer off and then looked for a new role

Reporting to Head of Commercial Finance with 3 members of staffMAIN RESPONSIBILITY– Monthly actuals and forecast analysis & reporting to Clear Channel International (CCI), including commentary. Helped complete the annual budget and then reporting to both CCI and UK Stakeholders. Also lead the team of Business Partners working with the Directors and their teams, ensuring that their financial numbers were known and understoodKEY ACHIEVEMENTS- Completing all monthly actuals and forecast reporting to CCI on time, despite receiving details late into our team meaning our time to complete work was significantly reduced- Volunteered to step in and reconciled the 2015 actuals for one product, both revenue and actuals, when Financial Accounting team struggling with workload. Ensuring that the Audit was completed without issue in this area.- External Audit feedback picked me out as being particularly helpful and easy to work with. I believe that this is also the case with everyone I worked with during my contract, ensuring that I worked collaboratively with my Finance Manager peer to allow her team and mine to work well together and gain real synergies

Was able to take my redundancy notice period, from ADP, to enjoy the summer!

Reporting to ADP UK CFO with 8 members of staffMAIN RESPONSIBILITIES–Initially the role was to do BPI and pricing project work, then role expanded to include managing the Billing and Collections teamKEY ACHIEVEMENTS- Managed the outsourcing transition of the Billing & Collections team from the UK to Bucharest. Ensuring all billing was accurately produced during the hand over and with the new team, and reducing the aged debt from 23% of debt to 11%, in just 4 months. Then taking both teams forward, improving all monthly Service Levels.- Sole Finance person responsible for the launch and integration of 2 new products. From contract negotiation with suppliers, price calculators and contract annexes, for Sales team, through to the billing and financial reporting of these numbers.- Led the project to upgrade Oracle financials from V11i to V12, for the UK business. Worked with the Corporate Oracle team to complete this major upgrade, to time and achieving all monthly deadlines. Took the opportunity to develop the account code string to allow for better automation for analysis.- Created and built a local Hyperion model. Brought in this model to allow the UK to produce management reporting in the way the UK business worked, rather than through the product view required by Corporate. Allowed UK Directors the ability to review their cost base for the first time in the UK.

Following voluntary redundancy from Fujitsu, I was able to take 9 months out. During this time I volunteered at a local school, being a teacher’s assistant in Maths classes. I loved the break, but it helped solidify teaching was not for me and I actually enjoy business finance.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES( Auto Controller) – working with the business unit(BU) in the production of BU’s monthly actual results and budgets, annual Mid Term Plan (MTP), and working on bids. (20011/12 full year numbers Revenue = £36M, Profit £5.4M)KEY ACHIEVEMENTS - Set up all Financial systems for the newly won Global Ford Contract, liaising with countries through the Global trading model, invoicing processes for the Central Project Office, foreign exchange hedging & understanding the UK&I and Global P&L- Proactively raised issue of volumetrics and cost control with Account Director whilst there was still time to contain and control them for the full years’ resultsMAIN RESPONSIBILITIES (FP&A) - consolidation of the budgets and input of central judgementKEY ACHIEVEMENTS- Key member of the team, both unit and division, to transform the MTP and Budget into the new organisational structure (and subsequent reporting), proactively identifying issues and clarifying resolutions before the team encountered problems. Took lead with the majority of PSD HFM users to use the new system and re-create budgets for the new reporting.- Responsible for the whole divisions realign of Q1Budget following final organisational adjustments and considering the Q2Budget criteria and communication to the business. Time management and communications at all levels in the organisation were required.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITY (Auto Business Controller) – working with the business unit in the production of BU’s monthly actual results and budgets, annual MTP, and working on bids.(2010/11 Full Year numbers – Orders £61.1M, Rev £13.9M, profit £2.6M)KEY ACHIEVEMENTS- Was the finance member of the team who won the Ford Global Network deal (£50M), signed in March 2012. Understanding the Global finance model and ensuring tax and foreign exchange liabilities were reduced, or eradicated, and was the member of the team who worked to get the Global agreements sign off with the 6 main regional FD’s and Global Business Assurance - Worked with the account team on the Mercedes account, turning this onerous contract into a breakeven/profitable one. Achieved through cost controls, project billing and enforcing contractual terms not previously enforced.- Improved the perception of the auto unit's forecast by completing the forecast documentation in a clear and concise manor, to deadlines, both for within the unit and reporting upwardsMAIN RESPONSIBILITY (FP&A)- the consolidation of BU’s monthly actual results and budgets, reporting to PSD division.KEY ACHIEVEMENTS- Automating a number of the monthly reports to reduce the time taken in completing them- Learnt HFM Forecast input from scratch in less than two weeks, including the top level balancing and supplementaries, and then supported the rest of the EBU Finance team to complete their inputs to achieve the overall deadline.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES (M&S CONTROLLER)– complete responsibility for the financial numbers of the account and their reporting, working along side the service delivery and account management team. (2009/10 full year numbers Revenue = £28.8M, Profit £6.2M) KEY ACGIVEMENTS- Ensuring the account team complied with company processes for new business, ensure visibility of the new work and good business was taken- Worked with the business on a new IPOS project, ensuring costs were controlled and over runs identified and mitigatedMAIN RESPONSIBILITIES (FP&A)- the consolidation of BU’s monthly actual results and budgets , reporting to PSD division.KEY ACGIVEMENTS- stream lining the input from the various finance people to achieve deadlines and improve reports quality- maintaining weekly reporting numbers during Q4, including a bridge reporting how things are changing to allow easy analysis, and understanding, for both finance and business management

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES- consolidation of all information and reporting of supplementary analysis work to Group Company, in Japan, for the quarterly budgets and Mid Term Plan. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS- Manually consolidated the Q2Budget for the new UK&I region, as the HFM system did not have a structure that could achieve this. This also involved obtaining information from two newly acquired units, who had not reported forecasts in this way, plus exchange rate and internal revenue eliminates considerations- Led successful reporting of 2009/10 headcount for year end, ensuring numbers reported by HR & Finance were consistent (This had not been achieved all year.)

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES - Financial reporting of the unit for actuals, forecast and MTP covering the P&L, Balance sheet and cash flow statement. (Full year 2005/06 Revenue of £64.5M, profit of £8.3M, 2006/07 Revenue £63.5M, Profit £11M, 2007/08 Revenue £63.2M, Profit £12.8M)KEY ACHIEVEMENTS- Financial Authorisation for £126M of new sales, in 2007/08, bring in 6 new named customers and taking responsibility for the conversion of these bid P&Ls into operational P&Ls including – trans-European bids with exchange rate, taxation, transfer pricing, and transition accounting complications- Finance lead on the bmi contract, a life time accounted contract. This contract contained gain share and open book commitments with the customer, and was particularly challenging with the change in Fujitsu’s reporting, from UK GAAP to IFRS, being completed at the same time as a change in bmi management - Successfully ran and reported the second half performance of the unit, weekly, in 2007/08, allowing the unit to achieve their profit target for the year. This was completed through the identification and ownership of key initiatives, ensuring the concentration of the whole unit to support and achieve these goals- Covered Unit Director role during the MTP, completed in November 2006. Communicated with board members, unit’s team, and finance staff to understand the full strategy for the organisation and resulting requirement for the unit. Was awarded a Gold award by the company for the significant achievement and my performance during this time.