• High-quality support for property tax and utility inquiries, ensuring timely and accurate responses.• Manage utility billing processes, including meter readings, bill calculations, and timely invoice distribution.• Maintain and update tax and utility databases, ensuring data accuracy and compliance.

• Produced the monthly management accounts.• Balance Sheet Reconciliations.• P & L Analysis – investigate variances, provide commentary, journal corrections.• Ownership of the Fixed Asset Register – including additions, depreciation and transfers.• Dealt with the external Auditors.• Recharges – ensured costs incurred by Norse on behalf of clients, are recharged within agreed timeframes and supporting evidence provided.• Review and allocate; prepayments / drawdowns / accruals.• Office for National Statistics – provided quarterly and yearly information.• Statutory Accounts – assisted the senior Business Partner with compiling the statutory accounts.• Business Partnered with facilities management and the regional directors, being their point of contact for financial assistance.

Having worked for PRS as the Programme Accountant on the Hubs programme (the creation of a joint venture between PRS and two European societies), I was asked to take on a new contract to test the joint venture’s Finance system, CODA.This project involved working within a dynamic team environment consisting of testers, developers, and finance experts. The role predominantly involved working through test scripts, which were designed to interrogate the robustness of the finance system, ensuring it worked as expected in the live environment.Responsibilities included;• Tested the finance system against scripts, to ensure that the financial information being produced was correct at every stage of the process. • When bugs and anomalies were discovered, these were reported in JIRA with all supporting evidence attached. Complex issues, involved follow up discussions with Developers and Finance personnel.• Script writing and devising new tests.• Interface Testing• Created Business Process Maps, for the new ways of working for the joint venture. • Producing T-Accounts, to detail the flow of complex transactions. • Assisted with the production of training guides. • Explained complex financial information to non-finance personal.

Primarily responsible for the development, management and coordination of the financial elements of the Strategic Programme – including business case development, budget/forecast setting, financial reporting and ensuring programme benefits were delivered.First assignment – the ‘Hubs’ programme. The creation of a joint venture between PRS and two other European collecting societies. Total project value - £15 million.Having joined the company in mid flow of this project, I wanted to be confident that the prior year financials were accurate and correct. I therefore carried out a complete audit of the project and discovered £140k of PRS costs had been over looked. With the evidence I was able to provide, this figure was accepted by our counterparts and billed to them accordingly.• Produced full and detailed financial statements, with supporting documentation.• Maintained and updated budgets / forecasts on the accounting system.• Liaised with and responded to all queries by programme personnel on the financials of their projects.• Assisted with the preparation of business cases.• Liaised with the external European project management team, used for the Hubs joint venture.• Understood and communicated the drivers of financial performance variances and their implications to the strategic programme.• Worked with stakeholders to identify & deliver continuous improvements to processes & procedures• Analysed and interpreted management reports for programme staff. Enabling better decision making through insightful, action oriented information and trend analysis.

This was a very high profile project for the Merlin group and crucial for the continuation of the Dungeon’s brand. The task was to relocate the London Dungeons from its original site for 30 years at London Bridge, to sit right next door to their iconic London Eye. My primary role was to be the lead finance specialist for the capital spend & cost control of the new build.Total value of the project was £25 million, delivered on time and within budget.Key Responsibilities;• Ensured the financial exposure on the project was properly controlled and communicated.• Applied project accounting experience & knowledge of accounting standards to ensure the correct costs are booked to the project & any P & L items were dealt with accordingly.• Reviewed the project planners to ensure completeness and sense in light of historic costs, current market conditions and Merlin guidelines, to ensure a robust project forecast outturn. • Produced all monthly reports within the corporate timetable.• Ensured all project costs were accounted for and recorded within the WIP ledger.• Produced a complete Cashflow forecast, having reviewed all payment schedules & contract terms.• Raised purchase orders, reviewed contracts and variations.• Processed and tracked all invoices, ensuring timely payments in line with agreed terms.• Calculated accruals and prepayments / created and posted journals.• Balance sheet reconciliations.• Assisted in the production of the monthly managerial and financial accounts.

Working on one of London’s largest & most prestigious developments sites of recent years the – Kings Cross Station Redevelopment - total value £500 million. Of which Mechanical & Electrical specialist NG Bailey’s part was for £50 million. As a team of two, I worked alongside the Finance Manager to ensure the timely production of the Project Reports.With the Finance Manager being overwhelmed by the size & complexity of the job, my initial role was to bring the situation back to a well organised & efficient function.• Upon joining the project, I helped to turn around a reporting function which was regularly producing reports anywhere up to 2 weeks behind schedule, to a situation where the provisional reports were ready for reviewing by senior management 1 week in advance of final submission.• Extensive experience of extracting date from company systems & converting it into useful information, by way of automating processes, I streamlined the reporting function. Where possible, eliminating the use of manual imputing of date, thus vastly speeding up the process. By building checks within the system, I eliminated many of the problems caused by human error. Key Responsibilities:• Timely production of Project Reports, to be reviewed by senior management & the figures reported to the Bailey board – Including the P & L of the project as a whole / broken down into individual job areas. • Rolling forecast reports of Preliminaries, Labour, Materials, & Sub Contractors - giving expected monthly costs & sales revenues. Commenting on variances between actuals & forecast.• Monthly Accruals, Variance analysis, Budget setting & re-valuation.• Produced the Application for Payment to Network Rail, a value of around £2 million per period.• Working in an open book environment, where our client Network Rail could audit us at any time, I had to ensure all our records were detailed enough to withstand an auditors scrutiny.

SLP Engineering is primarily focused in the Oil and Gas market for the design and construction of minimum facility platforms, accommodation modules, and pre-assembled units. They also have a strong foothold within the Renewables markets for offshore substations and wind farms.At the request of our largest client BP (British Petroleum) for a project account, I put myself forward to take on the new role. The value of the project was in excess of £150 million and I acted as the links between the Accounts office, Commercial Team and the Client. This role provided good exposure to senior members of the company and involved working closely with project managers, quantity surveyors and other finance members.Responsibilities included:• Assisted in the timely production of the monthly Cost Reports.• Complete audit of total costs for the life of the project, dating back to 2007.• The production of a 4 and 12 week Cashflow Forecast, updated on a weekly basis.• Analysis of the Creditors report to ensure the necessary suppliers were paid within agreed terms.• As the only member with access to the new finance system ‘Open Accounts’, I was the first port of call for all questions relating to the information contained within it.

• Assisted with the production of the monthly management accounts.• Maintained the Fixed Asset Register – Including additions & depreciation.• Calculated accruals & prepayments, reconciled accounts, and posted journals.• Worked alongside the Project Accounting team, assisting the timely production of the Project Accounts.• Played a substantial roll in the inception, data conversion, and final ‘go live’ of the new Management Information System – ‘Open Accounts’.• Took charge of a small team; including training, motivation & focus in achieving tight deadlines set for the completion of the Open Accounts project.• Updated procedures to make them more user friendly, this reduced the number of man hours required to complete the task & eliminated the potential for human error.• The ability to use Excel to an advanced level was key in performing my role. I regularly used; Pivot Tables, IF statements, VLookups, Conditional Formatting.

Working within the Credit Derivatives Documentation group, responsible for confirming swap transactions. • Chased counterparties for confirmations for vanilla transactions, documented under ISDA.• Built and maintained counterpart relationships.• Checked our forms & counterpart prepared confirmations for accuracy & adherence to market terms• Query resolution and extensive liaising with the outgoing confirmations group, settlements team and sales / traders, internally and in addition to global external counterparts. • Prepared management reports

• Compiled monthly cost reports on Excel, including purchases and money spent.• Attended monthly meetings with project heads, to discuss progress and expected changes.• Raised purchase orders, cost codes and invoices for the projects.• Cashflow analysis, Budget forecasts, Foreign currency conversion rates.• Payroll duties including, payroll burdens, pay run, man hour costs / ratios.

• Played a key role in the testing and final implementation of the new e-procurement system – IPOS. Ensuring all major defects were eliminated before the system went live throughout the agency nationwide.• Integrated within the finance team. Carrying out crucial working procedures, thus enabling the smooth transition between old and new computer systems and working practices.