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London, England, United Kingdom

Weybridge, England, United Kingdom

Weybridge, Surrey, United Kingdom

Global cash forecasting, management and liquidity.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

• Boots UK treasury lead managing, forecasting and budgeting £15 billion of annual cash flow for Boots UK, supporting and reporting to the UK Finance Director, Group Treasury, FP&A and Financial Reporting.
• Principal Boots UK treasury contact with Group Treasury (front, middle & back office).
• Daily liquidity management of 15 GBP and 7 currency (USD, JPY, EUR, THB & HKD) bank accounts across Boots UK.
• FX hedging $250m and €250m of annual cashflows through forwards and swaps including hedge accounting under US GAAP.
• Negotiation and management of a $10bn factoring agreement with investment banks.
• Management, drawdown, reconciliation and settlement of in-house cash and loan documentation in excess of £3bn across 30 subsidiaries.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

• Balance sheet and P&L financial accounting of 29 property companies from month end reporting to year end statutory preparation under IFRS and UK GAAP through SAP and Cognos.
• Prepared monthly reconciliations of P&L and balance sheet for 29 property companies with full management of general ledger.
• Prepared quarterly management accounts for 9 property companies over two structures.
• Developed new dynamic models in Excel to analyse and reconcile real estate prepayments and accruals across 4 operating companies and 2 property companies.
• Worked with commercial teams, internal and external audit to manage P&L impact of new processes.
• Prepared 50 annual VAT returns and managed payment process to HMRC.

London, United Kingdom

• Providing financial modelling, strategic commercial real estate advice, reporting and account management for multinational clients including GlaxoSmithKline, Royal Dutch Shell, Pfizer, Level 3 Communications, Aviva.
• On behalf of Royal Dutch Shell, created bespoke financial models and reports using SAP and Excel to analyse a multi-billion dollar business strategy across 6 six countries in Asia Pacific (Singapore, Hong Kong.
• On behalf of Aviva, created bespoke valuation models and reports for a multi-year budget of their UK corporate portfolio. This was in support of the account director, was audit trail compliant and involved.
• On behalf of a UK/US multinational, provided the innovative idea, advice, strategy, modelling and reporting packs on a complex lease portfolio disposal.
• On behalf of Morgan Stanley. Bespoke design of financial dashboards for head of UK real estate.
• On behalf of DTZ’s Chief Financial Officer. Bespoke design of financial dashboards detailing the firm’s global office portfolio.

Certificate In Treasury, On-Going

Diploma in Treasury Management (AMCT – expected to commence after CertT) Certificate in Treasury Certificate in Treasury Fundamentals

Bachelor'S Honours Degree, Economics, Upper Second

Undergraduate degree studying Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Quantitative & Mathematical Economics, Econometrics, Accounting, Corporate.