Responsibilities:• Ownership of management accounts including the Profit & Loss with variance analysis and Balance Sheet, calculations and reconciliations for Accruals, Prepayments, Fixed Assets and Revenue Recognition including commentary.• Managed the Audit Process and liaised with external auditors to complete the year end statutory accounts.• Posted the sales journals for all sites and races.My Achievements• I set up the process in order to produce the Income Statement for 55 racecourses across the UK.• I set up processes for the Balance Sheet, this included reconciliation, investigation and presentation

Providing financial professional services:Responsibilities include:• Revenue recognition compliant with IFRS 15 and Analysis, business partnering with Account Managers and Commercial Director to commentate on variances against budget and ensure revenue accuracy.• Management accounts including the Profit & Loss with variance analysis and Balance Sheet, calculations and reconciliations for Accruals, Prepayments, Intercompany recharges, Fixed Assets and Revenue Recognition.• Management of Work In Progress and Transfer Pricing to accurately recognize the cost and asset value of work done by the technology teams.• Provided guidance and information in the year-end audit regarding EMEA Financial Information.

My responsibilities:• Manager of the international finance function, managing the finances for UK, Ireland, Abu Dhabi and Doha.• Managed the Profit and Loss, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow forecast process by business partnering throughout the company with senior stakeholders.• Produced the monthly financial pack and annual reports to identify results, trends, and financial forecasts within tight time deadlines.• Participated in the monthly board meeting to discuss financial performance and position and improved the information by liaising with directors and meeting reporting requirements.• Managed management accounts including the Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow with calculations and reconciliations for Work In Progress, Accruals, Prepayments, Fixed Assets and Revenue and Cost Recognition.• Business Partnering throughout the company with a variety of senior stakeholders in financial duties, such as costing for Heathrow Airport. To do this effectively I built good professional relationships with directors and other colleagues.• Managed the 2018 budget and forecast process by liaising with senior stakeholders.• Improved the management accounting and other processes in order to report more accurately and time effectively.• VAT returns for UK and Ireland offices.• Produced ad hoc reports and financial information for the managing director and other colleagues when needed.

Preparation of all management accounting, reconciliations and draft budget information before presentation to Financial Controller and members of, Finance Committee, Remuneration Committee and Board of DirectorsPrepare draft Finance papers for the Board and papers for Finance CommitteePreparation of month end reporting, variance analysis and forecasting by departments and overall organisation Prepare management accounts for MIT’s and produce sales invoicesPrepare cashflow forecastsComplete monthly bank reconciliationsEnsure month end routines are complete and compliantPrepare Sales Invoices for quarterly Royalties in BPI ProductionsProvide cover for other members of Finance, eg purchase ledger (low volume) and sales invoicing.

Managing the Finance function with two Assistant Accountants for ABTA Ltd through the year-end audit process and producing the Statutory Financial Statements.Managed the quarterly forecast meetings.Managed the outsourced Payroll function including training and being the main point of contact for payroll.Reported to Finance Director.

My responsibilities:• Manager of the Accounting Function for two companies Leicht Contracts UK Ltd and Enclosure Interiors Ltd which includes managing the Accounts Payable and Receivables including credit control departments including the hiring and managing of accounting employees.• Liaising with auditors to ensure annual monitoring is carried out;• Meeting with the Managing Director and Commercial manager to provide and interpret financial information, discuss the profitability of the two companies as well as each individual project and forecasting the profit and loss for the future based on the financial period and each project.• Strategic planning to ensure the company can sustain the significant growth it is undertaking, Liaising with the sales and operations department to obtain information regarding the status of projects to ensure invoices and payments are done efficiently and effectively.• Cash flow forecasting,• Completed all HMRC requirements including monthly CIS returns and quarterly VAT returns.My Achievements• I have set up all accounting processes for both Leicht Contracts and Enclosure Interiors including Accounts Payable, Receivables and month end reporting which includes VAT analysis, Management Accounting, Budgets, Forecasting, Prepayments and Accruals.• Strategic suggestion that fitters should not be paid a day rate and instead receive a quote per kitchen fitted saving and controlling the costs for kitchen fitting significantly• Strategic suggestion to include within the initial agreement with customers that payment should be made on the original timeframe of the projects accepted at commencement which significantly improved cash flow.• I business partnered and liased with the sales, procurement and project managers within the company for several reasons including cash flow forecasting, profitability forecasting and obtaining accurate valuations to send to customers for payment.

In this temporary role I reported to the Head of the Research Department at the university. My duties were:• Reconciled and updated the wages for several grants and ensured what was on Agresso was accurate.• Entered the budgets onto the Excel Project sheet in order to calculate variances.• Posting Journals to transfer expenses to the correct grants and projects. This was done to enable cross charging to other grants and academic staff.• Set up new Grants and Projects on Agresso.• Received goods on Agresso for received goods from suppliers.• Created and sent out invoices for expenses to grant funders.• Archived closed grants after ensuring that they have been closed on Agresso and CODA with zero outstanding balances.