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Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom

Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom

Working with the Account Governance Leader as a Finance SME- Performing holistic business controls assessments to underpin quarter close / year end financial reporting- Working collaboratively with our account teams ensuring contracts are managed effectively, matching the requirements of the contract, IBM’s internal controls, & meeting the expectation of our customers- Identifying areas of concern and working proactively with the contract teams to document, communicate and resolve these areas within the requirements of the business.- Identifying pervasive issues in delivery, establishing root causes and closing the loop by feeding back to solution design teams for new deals to guard against re-occurrence- Developing & communicating best practice to less experienced offshore centres of competence

Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom

- Responsible for all aspects of the financial management and reporting of the Technical Support Services (TSS) Portfolio of contracts in the Global Technology Services business. - Liaising with the contract teams to understand their financial performance and advise on items requiring specific financial treatment.- Supporting the analysis of IBM driven maintenance services compared to 3rd party product support.- Performance measurement included Mthly and Qtrly outlooks and comparison to the actual result.- Prior period comparisons for both revenue and cost (QtQ and YtY). - Outlooks including roadmaps of actions to improve performance and working with the contract teams to close the roadmap items.- Consolidation and presentation of the position to the senior management team, explaining any issues from a financial perspective, whether they be accounting decision, concessions or other impacts to the financial position.- Budgeting and planning for future periods.- Debt management, ensuring invoices are paid on time and if not actions were in place to ensure collection of debt.

Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom

- Responsible for all aspects of the financial management and reporting of the Financial Services Portfolio of contracts in the Infrastructure Services business. - Liaising with the contract teams to understand their financial performance and advise on items requiring specific treatment. - Performance measurement included Mthly and Qtrly outlooks and comparison to the actual result.- Prior period comparisons for both revenue and cost (QtQ and YtY). - Outlooks including roadmaps of actions to improve performance and working with the contract teams to close the roadmap items.- Consolidation and presentation of the position to the senior management team, explaining any issues from a financial perspective, whether they be accounting decision, concessions or other impacts to the financial position.- Signing and Backlog management and certification of value.- Budgeting and planning for future periods.- Debt management, ensuring invoices are paid on time and if not actions were in place to ensure collection of debt.

Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom

- Responsible for the forecasting of monthly and quarterly cost for the Infrastructure Services business in the UK and Ireland. - Managing the integration of the Strategic Outsourcing and Integrated Technology Services cost infrastructure to form Infrastructure Services- Working with the business / contract teams to improve the accuracy of cost forecasting. - Coordination with the offshore Cost Team who managed the elemental cost lines, to ensure they understand any variances from outlook or specific one time events.

Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom

- Responsible for the Financial aspects of the Plan process for the SO business in Europe following deployment of the business targets from WW- Extensive discussion and coordination with the various stakeholders to ensure they understand their elements of the plan and develop action plans / strategies to achieve the targets. This included inputs from many non financial teams, such as resource, vendor management, etc.- Consolidation and analysis of the inputs, to ensure consistentency and they meet the requirements and to highlight any concerns / gaps in the assumptions.- Upward communication of the plan both in presentation and specified formats for the WW and Global Technology Services teams. - Ensure the plan was interlocked by country, customer group, delivery element and contract level, taking into account the inputs provided by the country business teams.- Work within very short deadlines to ensure the plan deployment for the business linked with all other business plan deployments.

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

- Responsible for the consolidation of the financial results and outlooks for Strategic Outsourcing Delivery in Europe, focused on the cost of delivery for the business. - Coordination of the month end activities of the Country teams, working with these teams on a regular basis to understand their outlooks and providing a consolidated Europe view of the delivery business. - Management, consolidation and communicate of a regular weekly process where each of the Countries present their latest business assessment to the Executive management team for Europe. This was also used for the various communications to Europe and into WW businesses- Ensuring all targets and budgets are set within the countries to support the Strategic Outsourcing business to deliver on its targets. Manage the regular interlock between SO and SO Delivery on the various aspects of the Europe business.- Working with the country teams to ensure they are using consistent and understandable sources of information and that best practice is used in each country.- Required a good knowledge of the various work items in each of the countries and ensuring assistance and guidance is provided to the countries as required to ensure issues are overcome with limited financial impact.

Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom

- Responsible for the Accounting team, based in the UK, covering Italy and France working remotely to the business management.- Ensuring full integrity of the financial results for the business, including reconciliation of all balance sheets and ensuring accounting rules and control points were applied correctly.- This required developing strong relationships with the senior teams in the country business teams and advising them on accounting treatments for particular contracts. - Regular reviews within the senior management team in Europe and the WW Executive management team- Managing the transition of tasks and activities to a centralised team for Europe based in Budapest.

Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom

- Responsible for the consolidation and planning activity for Global Technology Services (GTS), including the deployment of the annual plan across the Lines of Business and customer groups, liaising with the country and Europe management teams to ensure interlock.- Responsible for Sales Expense management for GTS predominantly Strategic Outsourcing working with the Sales Executives to understand bid progression for the country and expected levels of Expense spending, along with action plans to address any issues highlighted.

Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom

- Responsible for consolidation of the regional revenue results, for UK, Ireland, and Netherlands (North Region), in the monthly cycle and planning / forecasting for future periods. - Deployment of the North region annual plan ensuring this is fully interlocked at Line of Business and Customer grouping level. This required interaction across the whole senior management team in North region. - Defining and agreeing the plan for the Netherlands which was split from the North Region during a structural organisation change.- Debt planning, using the Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) measure, reporting and analysis. Working with the Accounts receivable team, IBM Global Financing and the Lines of Business to ensure DSO was optimised across the business.

Hursley, England, United Kingdom

- Responsible for all aspects of pricing from small contract changes and Request for Service to a full blown repricing of the deal in the initial stages of delivery.- Learning the Pricing tools and providing direct linkage between the solution development team and the financial impacts of the solution.- Capital planning for deployment of the new contract.- Support to the Finance and Planning manager for the contract in all aspects from billing to commercial discussions, cost management and 3rd party supplier ordering and purchases.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

- International assignment to promote skills transfer from the UK to NL- Responsible for revenue and cost management fro the contract portfolio for the service business in the NL.- This required process transformation to bring consistency with the processes and approach in the UK, and improve efficiency, improved speed and clarity of reporting across all elements of the portfolio.- Tools development and knowledge transfer were key to success.- Integrating and working with the local team, to generate trust and acceptance of the changes in process.

South Bank, England, United Kingdom

- Providing financial analyse for the various services contracts in the Financial Services Sector, ranging from small maintenance contracts to large Strategic Outsourcing.- Predominantly monthly management and reporting of the financial position, including planning and outlooking performance for future periods.- Working with the contract team to ensure financial entries completed correctly and on time in the accounting period.

Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom

Entry level Accountant working on complex service contracts to ensure revenue and cost for the contracts accounted for in each reporting period.

Southampton, England, United Kingdom

Multiples roles in a trainees capacity, including Payroll, Accounts payable, Cost Management and work flow analysis of the production process in STC. I was also responsible for the Customs and Excise returns required to support the Inward Processing Relief (IPR), This was successfully audited by HMRC during this period.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Accounting

Activities and Societies: Member of the University Ten Pin Bowling team

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