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A short term contract to assist the company through year end. Production of annual statutory accounts and the notes to the financial statements. Balance sheet reconciliations and ownership of the investment register.

Responsible for the day to day running of the central finance team, which comprised 6 members, including project billing, credit control, intercompany, accruals and prepayments and overhead analysis.Production of the monthly consolidated accounts and reporting pack.Introduction of SOX compliance.Monthly review of all Balance Sheet reconciliations.Annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting.

Responsible for the accounting of three Joint Ventures, including calculation of sales rates for each employee working on the Joint Ventures in line with the contracts, WIP Analysis, monthly billing and reconciliations.Key lead in the customer annual audit, providing all relevant backup and ensuring disallowed costs are at a minimum.Preparation of annual budgets and quarterly forecasts

Development, maintenance and continuous improvement of the external financial reporting and management information within the group, ensuring uniformity, integrity, timeliness and quality.Responsible for the timely production of the monthly consolidated management accounts and the monthly financial performance report, meeting deadlines and ensuring compliance with the internal control manual. Liaising with the business partners to ensure that the financial performance report gives the users an understanding of the performance and key issues affecting the business.Responsible for interim and year end statutory accounts, including the strategic report narrative. Meeting internal and statutory deadlines and ensuring the financial integrity of these accounts.Maintaining an excellent relationship with the external auditors, responsible for the annual audit, organising logistics, preparing daily timetable, providing information and liaising with the audit team.

Production of the monthly group accounts, accountable for the quality and timeliness of information.Preparation of half year and full year end statutory accounts, meeting internal and statutory deadlines. Liaising with auditors, and successful conclusion of the yearend audit. Producing a daily year end timetable to ensure all accounts are produced and signed off within the relevant deadlinesAnalysis of the Company and Directorate KPIs.Part of the SAP implementation team for the SAP transformation project.Creation of the Treasury Reports from BI system.A member of the Employee Opinions Finance team organising events and communications to harmonise the global finance team.Ran a number of Excel training sessions across finance and a number of Finance for Non Finance Manager courses across the business.

Responsible for the day to day running of the Capital Delivery finance function, providing a financial control service for the Capital Programme. This was a new department created by myself, the 4 team members were recruited and trained by myself; all reports were designed and implemented by myself.Working closely with the operational and commercial teams to ensure projects were accounted for correctly, providing support as and when required. Monthly calculation of the agreed pain/gain share element of the contract. The introudction of long term contract accounting for projects with an expected duration of over 12 months, attended monthly project reviews, ensuring the approval of new projects was in line with internal procedures. Implementing and taking responsibility for the project closure process.Preparation of annual budgets and quarterly forecasting at project level, with monthly variance analysis.Monthly balance sheet reviews, signing off all journals and control accounts identifying any opportunities and mitigating any risks, ensuring all postings are in accordance with the Internal Control Manual.Ad hoc project work included moving the Project Information Management System to a new environment and implementing improvements, finance representative on the AX5 working group a project to tender out the Sub-contract work for the 5 year period 2010-2015 and reducing the month end timetable by 1 day.

Responsible for the management of the Connections finance accounts team of 4, providing monthly results and analysis.A proactive member of the Regulated Management Team, supporting the operational managers providing accurate decision making information, such as analysis of projects, variance analysis and trend analysis. Chairing monthly meetings with the operational managers and commercial manager to discuss the financial result, ensuring a good understanding.Preparation of budgets and forecasts and subsequent uploads into Cognos, variance analysis, investigating major anomalies.

Responsible for the production of the monthly management accounts of 3 companies, including cost analysis, variance analysis, accruals and prepayments, preparation of journal entries, balance sheet review and reconciliation. Production of Statutory Accounts and Tax PacksProduction of the Year End Accounts comprising Profit and Loss, Cash flow, Balance Sheet and Overhead Analysis and entering into CognosManaging 8 members of staff, setting objectives, carrying out annual appraisals and monthly one to one meetings.

Reporting to the Financial Director responsible for 25 staff and the day to day running of the finance function including commission payments to the agents, staff training, bonus calculation, purchase ledger, cashflow, bank reconciliations, credit control and bad debt write off.Part of the risk group for the company, which involves the identification of fraudulent agents, recovering monies due or referring them to our solicitors