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London Area, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Key Responsibilities• Prepare, report and file all of the UK companies’ statutory accounts, including calculation of all US to UK GAAP differences (9 legal entities) and implementation of new accounting standards.• Managing the monthly and quarterly management accounting and reporting for 5 companies including variance analysis and commentary.• Preparation of the annual tax computations and returns and the main point of contact with HRMC, including for SAO and BRR.• Support the business with all transactional taxes and review off all returns.• Main contact for all restructuring and financing activities for the EMEA region.• Main accounting contact for all press enquiries including interviews with journalists.• Management, training and mentoring of the regional accounting team.Key Achievements• Implementation of 4 new companies to relocate the EMEA HQ’s to London• Reduced the time to prepare and sign off the statutory accounts to 2 months through process reviews & improvements.• Finalised an on-going corporation tax, Customs duties and transfer pricing audit.• Creation of a new global treasury entity to facilitate global financing and restructuring requirements.

London, United Kingdom

Key Responsibilities• Prepare, report and file all of the UK companies’ statutory accounts, including calculation of all US to UK GAAP differences (4 legal entities).• Establish policies and procedures for statutory accounting and reporting.• Preparation of the annual tax computation and return and main point of contact with HRMC.• Support the business with all transactional taxes and review off all returns.• Drive and ensure compliance with corporate policies, governance and SOX.• Review and perform due diligence on all new Franchise partners.• Management, training and mentoring of the regional accounting team.Key Achievements• Conversion of all UK entities from UK GAAP to IFRS/FRS101/FRS102• Creation of 4 new companies to relocate the EMEA HQ’s to London, including the recommendation of Accounting standards, functional/presentational currency, intangible asset creation and valuation, hedging implementation and all accounting entries involved both under US GAAP and IFRS.• Reduced the time to prepare and sign off the statutory accounts from 9 months to 3 months through process reviews & improvements.• Implemented a mentoring scheme for all management accountants.• Finalised an on-going VAT audit.• Helped reduce month end reporting from 5 days to 3 days.

London, United Kingdom

Integration of Aquisitions both from a legal perspective as well as all parts of finance into the groups global models.Managing and developing a team of 11 professional staff across boarders, to deliver both management & financial accounting for the Markets division of Thomson Reuters, covering 51 legal entities located in 64 countries across Italy, Iberia, Central & Eastern Europe, Middle east & Africa. Consolidation and rationalisation of 3 service centres across EuropeCreation, implementation and monitoring of SOX and internal policiesMonitoring timely and accurate monthly/quarterly/annual closes ensuring all critical processes and all obligations are metManaging primary relationships with internal and extewrnal customersProject work including the implementation of a new global billing system

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• Managing, training, developing and motivating a solid, business oriented, high performance regional financial controllership team of 6 professionals based in Amsterdam and other remote locations• Stewardship and review of financial statements for group and local compliance• Performance and evidence of SOX Controls • Ensure appropriateness of controls for internal and external compliance• Regular balance sheet and cost reviews with decision support finance team and tax department• Monitoring the month end close process for the region and ensuring critical processes and reconciliation obligations are met• Managing primary relationship with Regional Tax department, Group Finance, Internal Audit, Treasury, Regional Markets Business, the Global Service Centre and External Auditors

London, United Kingdom

• Responsibility of all accounting functions for all UK and European Thomson Financial active legal entities (13 entities)• Corporate reporting for both all TF UK & CEMA entities and all entities within the Reuters UK RSC• Working with external auditors in the preparation, finalisation and audit of the statutory accounts for the 12 legal entities• Tax analysis, calculation and reporting for 12 entities• Calculation and review of group transfer pricing transactions and the preparation of related analysis for senior management• Calculation, review and monitoring of the companies foreign currency exposure and hedging contracts• Sarbanes Oxley compliance for all aspects of 12 legal entities• Responsibility of payroll accounting for every Thomson entity incorporated into the London and Antwerp service centre• Management of a team of up to 9 employees, including 2 based overseas

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

• Preparation of monthly management accounts including accrual and prepayment journals • Variance analysis• Preparation of monthly forecasts• Preparation of annual budgets approx $50m• Balance sheet reconciliations• Establish and maintain good communication and relationships with business and senior managers

Weybridge, Surrey, United Kingdom

Full Management and financial accounting responsibility for all the groups Corporate, Holdings and Treasury entities, covering the UK, Netherlands, Luxembourg & Switzerland. Assisted with the Group consolidation. Preparation of budgets (1/3 & 5 yr) and quarterly forecasts, and the monthly variance analysis. Corporation tax, VAT calculation and reporting,. Assisting with Treasury on cash pooling and hedging.

Chessington, United Kingdom