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Reporting to the Finance Director and responsible for managing a team of four.Achievements:• Developed sophisticated modelling to provide integrated profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow forecasts to ensure the correct level of borrowing was in place to fund the company’s move to a new office.• Project managed the implementation of a new job management software used across the agency, from the scoping of requirements and selection process through to installation and training. Benefits included the accurate estimation and scheduling of work as well as improved resource allocation and timely reporting on profitability and efficiency.• Successfully managing and implementing a new accounting package, including an overhaul of the COA and all ledgers to better match our reporting requirements, migration of existing data and training of all users.• Developed robust commercial processes and pricing models, including training of non-finance staff to build commercial knowledge and competence around the business.Key Responsibilities:• Responsible for the all elements finance function, from AP & AR to financial and management reporting.• Following the move of FD to a part time role, now also responsible for IT, Facilities and HR Administration.• Provide commercial and financial decision support to the COO including pricing, margin analysis, modeling and forecasting.• Review, provide commentary and issue monthly accounts.• Preparation of annual budgets and quarterly forecasts.• Preparing and submitting all statutory reporting including statutory accounts, corporation tax, VAT and PAYE.• Managing entire audit process and liaising with auditors.• Ensure all necessary processes and controls are in place and fully adhered to both within the finance department and across the wider business.

Reporting to the Financial Controller and responsible for supervising the purchase ledger supervisor and assistant.Achievements:• Developed a new monthly reporting process which facilitated far more accurate and timely management accounts along with highly presentable variance analysis and budget reporting.• Designed, developed and implemented a new monthly MI reporting pack utilising new KPI’s to enable in depth commercial analysis of separate clients for the first time.Key Responsibilities:• Preparing monthly management accounts including the analysis of costs and calculating all necessary accruals and prepayments.• Providing reports of spend against budget and meeting with budget holders to ensure budgets are not exceeded.• Preparing and processing payroll for all permanent and freelance staff including annual reporting and submission of PAYE, P11d and PSA information.• Producing monthly and ad hoc MI reporting on the profitability and efficiency of clients and departments as well as in depth analysis at a job level.• Supervising two purchase ledger staff.• Reconciliation of all control account and balance sheet.

Reporting to the Head of Finance and responsible for the Management Accountant, Margin Analyst and Overhead Payments Assistant.Achievements:• Liaised extensively with the Project Team responsible for the development and implementation of a new reservation system to identify gaps in financial functionality as well as testing accuracy and completeness of the functionality and reporting. Developed new controls and procedures for both for the migration process and ongoing use of the new system.• Developed a new pricing and MI system for the Touring product to ensure sufficient absorption of fixed costs into the pricing and to produce accurate margin information both for reporting and operational purposes.• Produced detailed analysis of marketing spends and liaised with the marketing department to produce an accurate forecast and sufficient reporting to enable the department to effectively control their budget.Responsibilities:• Provide financial and commercial support to the business.• Identify areas for improvement in procedures and processes to improve profitability.• Review management accounts and produce a commentated analysis of variances between prior year, forecast and plan.• Review, implement and maintain all financial controls and risk management procedures and ensure they are adhered to.• Providing accurate and timely management reporting and financial planning to support business managers in making commercial decisions.• Produce forecast currency requirements for all products, monitoring actual usage against the hedge purchased.• Manage, reconcile and review the divisional balance sheet.• Manage the annual audit preparation and liaise with auditors as required.

Reporting to the Finance Manager.Achievements:• Redesigned reporting process to increase the efficiency and accuracy of month end procedures and to work with new Oracle accounting system.• Identified gaps in the reservation system’s costing functionality and created a database to identify incorrectly costed elements of bookings and to calculate correct costing for manual loading. This greatly increased the accuracy of margin reporting both for business decisions and then management accounts.Key Responsibilities:• To produce accurate management accounts, including a detailed review of gross margin, overheads and marketing.• Produced rolling monthly gross margin forecast.• Reviewed all cost charged to the business P&L to ensure the accounts accurately reflect businesses performance.• Prepared month end balance sheet reconciliations and identified potential issues.• Maintained and reconciled the accounting system for all applicable areas.