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Guildford, United Kingdom

Farnborough, Hampshire, United Kingdom

• Preparing management and financial accounts for 8 legal entities;• Analysis and reconciliation of YTD financials; • Analysing current processes; driving and training payment and credit control teams on improvements and efficiencies.

Blackwater, Surrey

• Manage a team of 18, comprising 14 Investigator Specialists (project accountants), 3 AP Specialists and 1 Vendor Management Specialist - responsible for managing project budgets, payments and site relationships for approximately 5000 sites located in over 100 countries throughout the EMEA and APAC regions;• Liaising with contract, regulatory, project and finance teams to drive upstream improvements, reducing overall EMEA payment cycle turnaround time by 15% in 2015 period;• Identify best practice and investigate root cause of financial issues within projects. Recognize and develop opportunities for continuous process improvement leading to greater efficiencies or competitive commercial advantages;• Manage EMEA team through IPO, defining and enforcing SOX controls, liaising with internal and external auditors to ensure compliance;• Short and long term cashflow forecasting for 6 legal entities – variation and discrepancy analysis;• Define payment strategies for key geographical locations, ensuring all documentation, international and domestic tax and legal requirements are considered. Successes include:o Japanese payment strategy, instrumental in the largescale growth for INC Japan;o Instigating, streamlining and standardizing Russian and Ukrainian processes to fulfil all legal and tax regulations, leading to winning business from competitors due to the ability to successfully perform payments where other companies cannot;• Designed and implemented central system for global invoice management, allowing full visibility for finance and non-finance stakeholders. KPI’s and metrics built using this system; • Lead project to consolidate EMEA and APAC teams into a central hub, enabling standardized processes and controls and increased team collaboration;• Management of internal and external audits, ensuring all queries are satisfactorily closed out;

Woking

• Manage the operational relationship between the EMEA SSC and outsourced teams in the purchase to pay process cycle - ensuring team is running at its most productive, including strengthening internal controls, analysing time-in-motion studies, and ensuring all transactions meet strict internal and external audit requirements;• Responsible for absorbing European P2P functions into the main AP arena and outsourcing to overseas transactional teams. Successful projects include both trade invoice and overhead payment processes for several European entities, resulting in large-scale financial savings due to staffing and office reductions;• Managing, monitoring and motivating 4 offshore teams, consisting of a total of 20 staff, mentoring them to meet SLA targets including accuracy and turnaround times;• Analysing, refining and installing procedures to ensure most efficient practice is undertaken, resulting in greater control of data for standardised reporting and auditing purposes;• Lead European tax reclaim project - recovering over £3,000,000 per annum of unclaimed tax from Spanish, Portuguese and Italian point of sale transactions;• Resolution of historical items throughout European AP ledgers, reduction of 95% of items within 3 months. Processes put in place to avoid such balances building in the future;• Evaluating projects worth and feasibility based on a time and results analysis;• Monthly general ledger, control ledger and transactional aging report analysis;• Learning foreign language accounting systems and training offshore teams to use efficiently;• Ensuring P2P teams are working to maximise working capital through payment term analysis;• Analysis of month end packs from outsource teams to review SLA’s, highlighting any issues and providing guidance for any targets missed;• Prepare records for financial and tax audits, liaise with auditors from several countries to ensure all requirements are met;

• Analysis and reporting on monthly and yearly costing trends, advising stakeholders on where greater profitability can be generated;• Monthly general ledger reconciliations and analysis;• Cash book management and reconciliation, including responsibility for migration of cashbooks during company merger;• Production of monthly rechargeable project cost invoices;• Production and reconciliation of monthly AP reports;• Auditing expenses claims and reviewing process for streamlining;• Managing and overseeing credit card process and reconciling submissions;• Project cost and cash book journals;• Production of weekly and monthly BACS runs;• Analysis of costs relating to CIS Tax Supplier Scheme;• Supervising, training and giving technical accounting advice to staff members.

Woking

• Controlling various aspects of purchase ledger and advise on processes to stabalise understaffed finance team.

Woking

• Providing leadership and direction to a team of 6 accounts payable clerks, ensuring payments are made to hotels in line with contracted terms;• Responsible for over 450 hotels within Portugal, Mainland Spain, Madeira and Cape Verde including building relationships and resolving queries;• Continuously review AP procedures to ensure efficient and professional service;• Supervising and training staff during the transition period between Sage Line 100 to SAP;• Supervising, assisting and training 6 UK and 8 India based staff during the transition of the accounting function between the countries;• Reporting and monitoring KPI’s;• Preparing, paying and reclaiming deposits;• Supplier account reconciliations;• Aged creditor analysis.

Woking

• Aiding Finance Manager to resolve long-standing purchase ledger queries, including payment allocation and overdue debt issues;• Assessing current and creating streamlined procedures for handover to subsidiary office;• Documenting new bespoke system procedures to assist subsidiary office accountants.

Horsell

• Performing all aspects of purchase ledger, including depreciation, fixed assets, prepayments and accruals;• Purchase, sales and nominal account reconciliations;• Sales ledger duties, including credit control and payment allocation;• Sterling and foreign currency bank reconciliations (US Dollar and Euro);• Collaborating weekly sales figures for reporting;• Assisting with VAT reporting;• Production of Excel spreadsheets for financial reporting, sales forecasting, stock takes.