Emily Phillips Email & Phone Number

Dunstable, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

Pinewood Studios

• Managing of 5 Controllers and one Analyst. • Cash collections, monthly and Quarterly targets circa $ 45mil quarterly. • Maximising cash collections working closely with customers and the business. • Managing Credit Risk. Using D&B reports, and financial accounts from customer to open credit lines with AVID.• Conducting annual credit reviews for Customers. • Supporting sales through the identification of appropriate payment terms to minimize risk and maximize revenue.• Booking approvals from a credit perspective to ensure collections are probable.• Reviewing Credit Exposures on accounts and working with Operations and S&T to ensure we have credit and stock allocated in place to ensure timely quarterly shipments.• Preparing quarterly Bad Debt Reserves.• Working with Internal & external Auditors to ensure up to date procedures are in place• Preparing SOX audit information. • Preparing monthly cash collection Targets for Europe.• Minimizing Aged Debt, and ensuring over 90 is below 10% of Receivables. • Managing withholding Tax, and other taxes from emerging regions to ensure relevant documentations are collected to minimize W/O to the company.• Working with the Accounting team on VAT issues that may arise. • Working closely with OM, sales and Rev Rec to ensure order status is understood and no processing delays.• Posting cash when team members are absent. • Implementation on Acquisitions, end to end testing, creation of Training documents and conducting onsite training in multiple countries. • Project lead for the offshoring activities of the finance functions to the Philippines. Creating training documentation, procedures and ensuring business efficiency. As well as the Accounts Payable Manager role below. With both of my teams I conduct bi-weekly 1:1’s, regular team meetings and also manage appraisals and goal setting on a yearly basis, whilst producing and managing Monthly KPI’s both internally and globally.

• Implementation of the new T&E system, sourcing a new system with IT and then working with them to implement, whilst ensuring we adhere to statutory requirements. • Currently working on a new workflow system implementation for all AP Processes and Approvals to replace open text . • Managing of 3 AP Clerks, and one Payables Coordinator.• Ensuring timely processing of supplier invoices to ensure suppliers never put the company on stop.• Daily processing of T&E claims within Company Policy.• Working with procurement and ensuring the Open Text (workflow) system is working correctly, and using the correct hierarchy. • Managing weekly payment forecasts and payment runs, within company policy, and inventory requirements. • Producing monthly team KPIs to drive and manage performance. • Reducing Aged Creditors to 5.3% on over 90 days.• Minimising Debit Balances

• Day to day Supervision of 9 team members who processed 20,000 invoices a month• Restructure of the AP department• Setting up new Systems and ensure the compliance within the AP Department• Reducing Debt on Query ledgers by 500k and maintaining this• Overseeing the payments team with all weekly Bacs Runs and Foreign Payments• Setting objectives and conducting 1:1 Reviews• Introducing and maintaining monthly Stats• Meeting Deadlines on a monthly and weekly Basis• Ensuring Monthly reconciliations are achieved

Bachelor Of Laws (Ll.B.), Law

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