Jane Spooner Email & Phone Number

London, England, Gb

London, Gb

As a senior member of the Group Finance team, I owned the reconciliation, preparation, and analysis of more complex and higher risk group reporting to internal and external recipients. I also managed the end-to-end process for submission of statutory accounts and annual tax returns for all joint venture entities. As well as maintaining the quality of routine reporting, a period of change for the business and expansion of my role created lots of variety, integration, and change. I simplified processes and reports inherited from other areas of the finance team and improved their accuracy, transparency, and quality. This involved redesigning reporting templates, designing, testing, and implementing updates to journal posting processes, and managing relationships with stakeholders I supervised a project to enhance the automation of joint venture statutory accounts preparation in CCH. This involved adding entities for which accounts were previously prepared in excel and reducing the amount of manual intervention to produce an accurate set of accounts.I initially joined the company on a short-term contract to assist with preparation of group financial statements, before performing the role of group financial accountant, eventually becoming line manager to three direct reports. I also provided part-time support to the HQ Management Accounting team for a period of nine months and ran an excel tutorial group for the finance team.

Singapore, Sg

Supporting the financial controller with the preparation of the consolidated financial statements, I was focused on pensions, share based payments, earnings per share and the preparation of parent company financial statements.

Edinburgh, Scotland, Gb

Leading and managing the Client Reporting and Transfer Agency Support Team, I reported to the Head of Strategic Projects and Client Reporting and managed external client reporting to Investors in alternatives products, utilising Webfolio, eFront, and advanced Excel spreadsheets to collate data which then generated monthly, quarterly, and annual reports.As well as ensuring a strong control environment was maintained for routine reporting, my role contained lots of integration, variety and change. We were in the continual process of acquiring companies; creating many moving financial parts, numerous stakeholders and necessitating the integration of multiple systems, processes and internal reports. I inherited reporting processes from other parts of the business and improved their overall quality, efficiency, and speed of reporting. This involved managing clients, data generators, editors of reports and external service providers.I designed new reports and formatting for monthly and quarterly accounting which went to the relevant fund Board for the specific products as well as external clients. Some of which became routine reports. When I joined the company I worked on hedge funds. During my employment, I was promoted once and acquired a full suite of alternatives; property, private equity, hedge funds, infrastructure and Pan Alternatives. My role also grew, from spending half my time managing these functions, to having a team of two and all three of us working on this full timeAs the business grew, I designed and implemented group reporting templates. My team became the group reporting team for management information and for AUM & MI reporting.I was also responsible for monitoring the marketing budget and making sure costs were appropriately recharged.During appraisals I regularly received top two ratings for my communication skills, customer focus, motivation, knowledge of the business and quality assurance.

Gb

Worked within the Insurance and Investment Management group, on external audit engagements of both listed and unlisted Investment Management companies and Private BanksAssignments included audit of compliance with FSA regulations over client assets/client money; an AAF 01/06 report on internal controls; the review of statutory accounts prepared under UK GAAP and IFRS including consolidated financial statements and the financial statements of an LLP; and a review of quarterly FSA returns and ICAAP as part of the assessment of going concern for the external audit engagement - I gained a comprehensive insight of Hedge Funds, Private Banks, Investment and Asset Management companies I acted as the key contact point for numerous PWC Assurance assignments, with clients such as Rathbone Brothers plc, Merrill Lynch International Bank and Portfolio Managers Ltd, and Cerberus European Capital Advisors LLP. I liaised with compliance, business development managers and other functional areas to produce management reports and became extremely adept at managing the expectations of internal parties and clients in the production processAdditionally, I gained extensive experience auditing internal controls under the Sarbanes Oxley Act and other controls based audits, including identification and documentation of opportunities for clients to improve business processesThe people management and development side of my job, saw me manage, coach, review and appraise team members on their performance, as well as acting as Career Coach for nine first and second year accountantsI received the highest possible rating from trainee accountants for delivering training courses; something I realised I’m both good at and enjoy!

London, Gb

Based within the Technology, Communications, and Entertainment group I managed external audit engagements for Media, Telecommunications and Computer Software clients as well as Venture Capitalist / Private Equity Funds and Management companiesI oversaw the complete lifecycle of audit engagements from resource planning to report issuance, designing and implementing audit tests to suit specific circumstances, and I undertook research and analysis of audit issuesCompleted numerous assignments incorporating the audit of internal controls under the Sarbanes Oxley Act; audit of USGAAP with particular attention to software revenue recognition; and audit of compliance with Australian Financial Services License for Venture Capitalist Investment Management companiesCoached and led teams of up to 5, reviewing and appraising their performance