Management of a global finance team overseeing 8 entities in 7 countries: UK, Spain, USA, Japan, Singapore, Korea & India.Monthly Reporting & Group Consolidations.Financial control & cash management.Process improvements & Business PartneringMaster Data Management Project UK Finance

Business partnering with the University of Sussex & the Project Team for the 3 main project funds: Capital £10 Million a year, Long Term Maintenance £7 Million a year & Discretionary Projects. Monthly client billing & project query support. Lead in a £763k PO closure project & transition of project receipting process from Finance to Projects including process documentation generation & manager training. Design & implementation of monthly management reports.

• Business risk assessment of the pension accounts, leading the validation of true queries, HELD for payment confirmation & clearance of reconciled items.• Implementation of efficient monthly reconciliation & query handling processes.• Director reporting & flash statistics.

• Finance lead for Payroll Project business partnering with HRSS.• Process improvement initiatives resulting in 90% of active employee debt recovered in 6 months, exited employee strategy established & ledger clearance.• KPI’s & business risk reporting established.• TEAMS cloud-based storage implementation.

• Business Partnering with HRSS Payroll on process improvement initiatives including SAP WBS & wage type interfaces.• Accounts restructure project.• Audit.• Budget & forecasting.• Monthly management accounts & group reporting.

• Financial Accounts including FRS 101 conversion.• Commercial analysis & reporting.• Internal controls & process improvement initiatives.

• Monthly management reporting & support services group reporting.• Business partnering, management of five direct reports.• Generation & implementation of process improvement initiatives.• SAP & Profix.

• Air Safety Support International monthly management reporting• Monthly steering group & quarterly board reporting • DFT monthly regulatory reporting • Budget & forecasting • Project reporting• Business partnering• Navision & Cognos

• Change agent responsible for implementing initiative’s to increase efficiency & increase productivity.• Responsible for the professional development of a 16 strong team.• Accountable for the delivery & management of group VAT (50,000 transactions per quarter), intrastate, EC goods & sales returns.• Deferred tax/duty, CIS Returns & P11d & PSA Analysis.• Accountable for the delivery & management of the group payroll accounting (£15 million a month) and hedging governance.• Responsible for the delivery & management of fixed assets & month end including 700 balance sheet reconciliations for 19 companies utilising the group ERP Oracle 11i & SAP systems.• Statutory Account submissions (turnover £78 & £18 million).• 2010-2013 Managed the absorption of 14 companies into the FSS GL as they transitioned into the service. This included process definition from varying legacy systems to the group ERP system Oracle 11i, SLA & OLA agreement & KPI reporting, team & task restructuring.• 2013 Improved Financial Shared Services process efficiency by saving 1500 hours / £100k while implementing KPI’s for improved error review/correction & service performance reporting.• 2010 FSS implementation of the groups Internal Control Questionnaire. Coordination of control attainment assessment of 42 controls over 10 accounting systems, management of weekly update reporting and responsibility confirmation between FSS & 17 group companies.

• Management of accounting team of 5 administrating Sales, Purchase & General Ledgers.• Monthly accounts, group reporting, quarterly forecasts, cash flows & VAT returns, annual & 5 year budgets.• Finance process development & SOP’s implementation.• Steering committee member & heavily involved in implementation of bespoke insurance & accounting system.• Merging of IHS processes into Europ Assistance UK finance team from February 2007.• SAP implementation: - process development & procedure documentation.

• Gathering of activity based cost information & verification of figures as part of a business case team.• Building variance reports for strategic insight & providing cost extrapolation for five year strategic plan.• Assisting with the implementation of Hyperion V3.3.1 via monthly manual rolling forecast reconciliations & verification into Hyperion.• Building of Hyperion reports using excel reporting tool Essbass V6.5.3.

• Incremental budgetary forecasting, profitability report alterations (direct & indirect costs requirements).• Activity based key driver update through time survey for OROS modelling into SAP.• Operations month end: account reconciliation, production of director & manager reports.• Financial Modeling cost / benefit analysis including redundancy & cost savings evaluation for presentation to union representatives, courts & company members.• Automated process improvement of uniform cost accounting through the regional implementation of a new supplier.

• Statutory Account preparation (turnover £10 & £9 Million).• Corporation tax computations & quarterly VAT returns.• Annual budgets & quarterly revised forecasts, including product & department reports. • Monthly ledger closure, production of accounts & budget/forecast variance management reports.• Fixed asset audit. Monthly fixed asset register up-date & depreciation.• Management of the Treasury Department / Assistant Accountant & Purchase Ledger Department (creditors totaling £1.5 Million), team of 3. • 2002 Development & implementation of intranet based on-line ordering system ‘Directa’ enhancing processing efficiencies by 80% & subsequent further development to include HR & IT tasks. • 2001 Development of bespoke reports via Report Writer & FRX for enhanced cost & revenue analysis.• 2001 Merged five separate company purchase ledgers into one.• 1999 Implementation of Great Plains Dynamics & upgrade to V6.• 1997 Coordination of Exact system upgrade.Joined as an Accounts & Administration Assistant.Progressed to Assistant Accountant & Purchase Ledger Manager in Jan 1997.Progressed to Systems Management Accountant/Purchase Ledger Manager in Jan 1999.