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Newcastle Upon Tyne, Gb

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

South Shields, England, United Kingdom

- Responsibility including staff, reporting, monthly control accounts and query resolution for all aspects of the finance function including accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, invoicing and cash control.- Pensions - Trustee board member for the Port’s two defined benefit schemes, full responsibility for the annual pension scheme accounts.- Statutory reporting - Lead for the external audit, collecting all evidence and co-ordinating responses from across the business. Full responsibility for all balance sheet reporting including stock and an extensive fixed asset register- Capital accounting - providing in depth monthly analysis to senior management aiding cash management, investment decisions and adherence to bank covenants.

- Management accounts and performance reporting for the group c. £50m revenue and c. £40m costs.- Commercial Modelling including capital investment appraisal.- Budgeting and Forecasting including ten year forecast model.- Development of the management accounting database system (Essbase).

Perth, Australia

- Forecasting and Reporting for all departments including Maintenance, Commercial and Engineering totalling over $400m revenue and $100m costs per year.- Complex contract analysis and internal audit, ensuring correct on-charging of costs and advising the correct application of accounting standards to improve reporting and profit.- Introduced a new time recording system for the business that was more efficient and reliable and ensured there was enough information to satisfy audit requirements and customers.- Responsible for the Maintenance department budget process including eight year business plan.- Involved in the end-to-end process of moving financial system from SAP to Microsoft Dynamics including design, testing, report writing, introduction and training.- Prepared half year and end of year accounts for three subsidiaries.- Attended stocktakes, reviewed inventory / obsolete stock, prepared business cases, provided cost information for insurance claims and was a founding member and treasurer of the DBP social club.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

- Author of the Programme business case which secured c. £350m funding over five years and delivered c. £4.5bn benefits for the Department. - Programme Finance Business Partner. Interface between the Programme and 19 other Directorates, ensuring that each Directorate was aware of our planning, purchasing, bidding, budgeting and forecasting intentions..- Finance Manager for the Programme’s 20+ non-IT projects with budgets up to £2m and a large IT project which cost £31m and delivered £143m benefits.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Roles as a trainee accountant included:- Project Finance Manager - PAYE- Business Modeller - CT & VAT- Business Group Analyst - NI

Bachelor’S Degree, Ba (Hons) Accountancy, 2:1

Modules included: Management Accounting, Stewardship Accounting, Law, Taxation & Audit.

High School

4 A Levels - Business Studies (A), Mathematics (A), General Studies (C) and Spanish (D) 11 GCSEs including English (A), Mathematics (A).