Jenny Hatfield Email & Phone Number

Leeds, United Kingdom

Set up own Accountancy practice using expertise in tax, accounting, and commercial advice along with knowledge of the legal sector to provide services to Barristers and ChambersPartnered with Dext and Xero cloud Accounting systems to help customers easily send bills and receipts over with as light a touch as possible reducing the admin needed to do their AccountsWorking closely with Chambers to get reports and information directly, saving Barristers time Building strong long lasting relationships with Barristers and Chambers, getting to know them and tailoring advice appropriately

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

I spent 8 years as a Board member working alongside Barristers, Consultants and Team members in running a successful Barristers ChambersI led the Finance Team which faced many challenges and opportunities in this time including responding to Covid-19 when the courts closed and the impact that had on staffing resource and cash flowWe underwent a property refurbishment project including implementing and monitoring financial controls throughout the project, business case for funding, and risk managementWe implemented new KPI’s aligning to the business strategy and engaged with budget holders to produce reporting to help them understand performance and maintain financial controlWe moved business from heavily paper based accountancy processes to fully cloud based system using smart technology to streamline purchase ledgerAs a result of all our hard work and successful projects we were awarded In-house finance team of the year at the Yorkshire Accountancy awards 2019

Batley, England

Role• Providing business partnering financial support and expert advice to two business units and a subsidiary• Preparation of month end reports and quarterly forecasts and presenting them to the business unit management team highlighting risks and opportunities and driving mitigating actions. • People Management including recruitment, appraisals and one to ones ensuring team is supporting delivery.Key Achievements:• Taking control of Income for the whole organisation, transforming it from an area ranked as high risk to low risk• Successfully leading development of new costing model engaging business development leads in workshops to ensure buy in• Regularly costing new contracts including one for £6m that was won after negotiating where my recommendations were used to change the package• Regularly reporting to the board on subsidiary including presenting and reworking the 5 year growth model, highlighting performance risks and mitigations• Flagged £2m VAT risk and implemented new processes to ensure that services would qualify for exemption completely mitigating the risk• Expert user of Business Objects and eFin financial Systems

Leeds

• Designing, promoting and delivering Financial Analysis Masterclass training programme throughout Asda and George• Acting as financial controller for Electricity, Gas and Water costs with a £300m budget• Responsible for review of all payback calculations and business cases for Energy Efficiency capital projects and signing off cases that met the approval criteria• Analyse impact of completed trials recommending to exec team whether they should be rolled out across the chain• Working closely with the operations team to agree full year budget for occupancy costs that they were engaged in delivering, challenging where needed to bring bottom line profitability in line with corporate objectives• Finance Analyst for 177 stores in the Supermarkets Division – preparing and interpreting weekly reports for Operations Director on performance, explaining Sales Wages and Waste trends and identifying opportunity areas

Leeds

• Working with clients’ finance teams and auditors to bring together accounting figures to be used in tax calculation, querying tax sensitive expenditure, processing the figures and advising on amount and timing of relevant payments due and year end journals required• Explaining tax updates and complex rules to clients ensuring they understand their calculations and agree with the treatment of expenditure• Maintain understanding of clients’ business strategies and group structures and identify value added services the advisory team could provide allowing our clients to run more efficiently and save money• Seconded to audit twice to assist on blue chip clients, work included controls testing, analytical review, ratio analysis and querying clients on unexplained trends.

Leeds, United Kingdom

• Working with Development Director in enabling early investment in carbon capture and storage demonstration and deployment in the region; a new technology for power stations and heavy industry not yet commercially viable, but with billions of pounds of government funding soon to become available for a handful of early demonstration projects.• Working with steering group of emitters in the region to build strategic case for investment in Yorkshire through overseeing reports and project managing awareness raising events.• Carrying out detailed review of financial model used to calculate tariff charges for multi user industrial pipeline, and communicating findings to relevant business contacts without financial background.