- Built a Management Reporting pack for all entities to help speed up the review process- Prepared group consolidation accounts including balance sheet reconcilaitions, providing meaningful comments for any variance.- Ensured that US reporting was prepared and signed off ensuring full governance is maintained.- Manage Investment of client funds achieving best interest rates for fixed term deposits.- Manage key relationships with banks and financial institutions.- Prepared monthly client money calculations to calculate the income and commission earned.- Resolved ring fenced projects such as VAT and Intercompany balance

As a freelancer, building a property business, including a portfolio of HMOs, BTLs, Commercial warehouse, and Rent-to-Rent Service Accommodation.Securing potential property investment opportunities through extensive research and analysis.Some of my notable accomplishments are:• Maximized return on investment by devising and executing actionable investment strategies.• Accelerated profitability through investment property management.

Within this job role, I installed a state-of-the-art SAP ticketing system to address issues/concerns.I provided first-line IT support to promptly address technical issues and inquiries while ensuring smooth operations and uninterrupted workflow.Furthermore, I identified and initiated new projects and process improvements across the entire organization to foster continuous growth and innovation.A few of my contributions are:• Led the implementation of a cutting-edge Purchase Order (PO), Capital Monitoring, Hot-Desk Booking platform, and Employee Expenses systems.• Revitalized SAP operations as SAP Power User, proficiently trained new employees and collaborated with IT teams to drive service improvements.• Boosted team's productivity by revamping multiple finance processes.• Improved the financial system and optimized business efficiency through new software deployment.• Facilitated the inauguration of IT functions to support business prosperity.

I managed a team of 6 and worked closely with CFO, Finance Director and Head of Financial Planning & Analysis.Key responsibilities include:-Prepare consolidated monthly management information for the business across the UK portfolio, including review of key variances against forecast.-Ensuring costs are regularly checked against all companies, especially head office costs.-Upload management accounts to Cognos, in order the group can consolidate the numbers.-Ownership for the preparation and management of the audit process.-Filing withholding tax and VAT returns-Oversee and manage the day to day running of the accounts receivable and accounts payable-Liaising with Barclays Bank and management of online banking system-Maintain the companies fixed asset register.-Improving processes and ensure efficiency is gained in all areas of finance.-Train new members of the team on SAP.

Due to colleagues leaving, I stepped into the business partners team to help the reporting the accounts on the business parksKey responsibilities include:-Implemented SAP for all business parks by ensuring all month end data is being updated to SAP and at the same removing the book keepers who previously held the data to improve the efficiency of the month end processes.-Responsible for month end reporting on 6 companies over 2 business parks-Completion of balance sheet reconciliations-Liaising with the property managers on a regular basis to ensure data is accurate in the month end reporting-Compared actual to forecast variance and provided explanations of the movements-Worked closely with the asset management team ensuring the explanations in the month end numbers are accurate and related.

Further to the acquisition of the business parks and an introduction of a new CEO, this role was created to help forecast the future in line with the strategy that they want to implement. Key Responsibilities - Manage and update the Forecast Model, with monthly actual data and any updates in any assumptions. The model shows the Income Statement, Balance Sheet & Cash flow Statement for 5 years.- Produce the monthly Cash flow forecast - Produce the flash reporting- Liaising with different members of the organisation to get information to update the model.

I like this role, I conducted ad-hoc Cash Flow Appraisals for potential investments, providing thorough financial evaluations.I oversaw the end-to-end Annual Budget Process in line with financial objectives and goals. I also prepared monthly VAT returns by reviewing and reconciling financial records.I also assembled the UK group consolidation for review by diligently compiling and analyzing financial data.I also updated Cash Flow forecasts, incorporating actual monthly data to monitor real-time developments and assess variances between actual and budgeted figures.I also performed bank payment authorisations on Barclays.net platform.some of my outcomes include:• Generated monthly management accounts by presenting accurate financial information and analysis.• Ensured data readiness for SAP implementation by performing data cleansing and preparing and uploading required journals into the SAP system.• Streamlined processes to significantly improve efficiency, particularly during month-end operations by revamping and enhancing multiple outputs, and prioritizing user-friendliness.• Drove regular updates and enhancement of work outputs in collaboration with company-wide stakeholders.

British Land was implementing a new consolidation system (SAP). Key Responsibilities - Project Accountant- Data Cleanse the database, removing old data which is not needed from our database. Re-allocated data to the correct account / lowest level of granular data for more cleaner analysis.- Created a JV management reporting pack, which allowed all JV accountants to use the same report and also ensured consistency was used throughout. It also reduced the number of hours/days in some cases so that the JV results were produced quicker.- Helped produced and re-posted all JV journals in the new system so we can replicate the accounts which have been produced for full year to March 2013 and March 2014 and 6 months to September 2013. This will help us using the new system to produce September 2014 and March 2015 results.- Ensuring that the results are in line with what was reported - an audited pack was produced so that IT auditors can verify the new system is working.- Helped produced reports from the new system in line with our past annual accounts in March 2013 and March 2014. Where necessary adjustments were made to the logic to produce these reports, which included the JV Note (this grouped results by JV partners by P&L and balance sheet), - Helped trained the financial reporting team on how to use the new system, including posting journals and producing the reports.

Key Responsibilities - Joint Ventures- Prepare the quarterly consolidated financial statements to UK GAAP and IFRS, which includes the P&L, Balance Sheet, Net Asset reconciliation, Property reconciliation and narrative of the key movements for the board meetings.- Produce a quarterly cashflow to ensure that the dividends are paid accurately, this invloved liaising with the treasury and development departments for future expenditure.- Prepare the dividend summary calculation based on the cashflow.- Ensure all journals have been posted to UK GAAP and IFRS in the correct entities.- Prepare the Statutory Accounts to UK GAAP to all JV companies.- Produced IPD templates to summarised the property costs including capex in different buckets for the IPD team.- Ensured the capital expenditure account was being monitored every month to ensure we don't overspend. Every quarter this account is being topped up by draw downs from both partners.Key Responsibilities - Residential Accountant- Prepare monthly management accounts for the trustees of the venture.- Ensuring all postings are made timely and accurately on our general ledger.- Review the Monthly Operational Report produced by our agents.- Updated the Asset Register monthly by including the movement of assets, generally when sold.- Produce disposals of assets calculations.- Successfully managed the change of structure which involved liaising with client, trustees and agents to ensure that the 16 off shore trusts were disposed of and bought into 3 on shore companies. The management accounts needed to be changed from monthly to quarterly and involved changing the data source to produce the accounts.- Communicated the structure and managed expectations to all stakeholdersEfficiency- Reduced the time to produce the management accounts from 6 days at the start of the role to just over 2 days includes review time.

Key Responsibilities- Posted quarterly and monthly gross rental income journals to UK GAAP and to IFRS, ensuring all data was posted to the lowest level. This in turn helped all accountants analyse their Gross Rental Income by Tenant. - Analysed the quarterly gross income movements and explained the main variances.- Produced a Gross Rental Income like for like analysis for the whole group analysing the key variances.- Posted the bad debt provision accruals after liaising with the credit control team and asset management teams.- Continued helping with the outsourcing project. This involved setting up a comparison report which allowed us to compare the updated data from managing agents to our own, and where necessary advise for system changes.- Helped trained new users to the database, ensuring that they have all the means to do their job.

Key Responsibilities- Managed over 20 Service Charge accounts, ranging from £50K in value to £2m. - Prepared annual budgets with agents and analysed expenditure quarterly. - Liaised with agents frequently ensuring payments were up-to-date. - Coded all invoices to the correct budget and cost heads.- Helped with outsourcing all of our rental invoicing and property costs to our 6 agents. This involved in setting up templates, that they can send in to update our results. Produced tenancy schedules so the agents can set up their systems accurately from the start.- Implemented a new IT Service Charge Solution, which involved in planning the project, testing and producing "how to use" documents. This system was an online system which allowed, asset managers, managing agents and accountants understand where items were being coded to in advance of the quarterly management accounts cycle.

Key Responsibilities- Responsible in keeping the 25 accounts up to date.- Prepared the VAT returns on a quarterly basis.- Coded all invoices and ensured that they were paid in a timely manner.- Raised all the rental and service charge invoices.- Contacted all tenants prior to quarter day ensuring that payment is due. Chased the late payers where necessary.- Prepared annual service charge budgets and monitored the expenditure monthly. Liaised with the tenants regularly.- Prepared all accounts to trial balance, assisting with the accountant where necessary.