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Shooting Star Children’s Hospices is a leading children’s hospice charity caring for babies, children and young people with life-limiting conditions, and their families.Whether lives are measured in days, weeks, months or years, we are here to make every moment count. We support families from diagnosis to end of life and throughout bereavement with a range of nursing, practical, emotional and medical care.Responsible for all aspects of accounting, financial reporting, cashflow management, budgeting and forecasting and data compliance for the charity.

Premium Credit Ltd provides funding for Insurance Premium Finance to both commercial and individual customers. PCL is owned by Cinven, a UK based Private Equity company, and is based in Epsom. Responsible for all aspects of financial control and reporting, accounting operations, statutory financial reporting, tax and VAT reporting.Experience has included:- Key member of finance team working on due diligence as part of two business sales to Private Equity in the last 4 years, and a £200m bond issuance process- Assisted with implementation of securitisation funding facility across five major banks- Co-ordination of AUP (Agreed Upon Procedures) with external accountants for securitising banks- Improved efficiency of accounting operations team, restructuring workflows, challenging and re-engineering processes resulting in a headcount saving of 5 from a team of 18.- Mentored and developed new manager following internal promotion enabling her to become more effective and confident.- Improved moral and motivation of finance team by setting clear goals and expectations, ensuring clear communication channels and providing regular feedback to all team members- Implementation of new General Ledger system following business sale, Microsoft Dynamics GP.- Responsible for all aspects of financial control, reconciliations, monthly reporting- Finance representative on company wide core system rewrite of bespoke operating system- Established and ran a cross departmental working group between finance, accounts, operations and customer service to help to identify and resolve issues effectively and on a timely basis.- Prepared statutory accounts within 3 months of year end

Responsible for all financial and statutory reporting, accounting operations and financial accounting teams.Key achievements:Embedded strong culture of financial control within the business resulting in improved accuracy and timeliness of financial reporting.Reduced reporting timetable by five days to ten daysKey member on various governance and cross functional working groups to ensure appropriate finance input and representationRestructured finance workflows, challenged and re-engineered processes resulting in a headcount saving of 3Reorganised the finance team by undertaking analysis if requirements and skills, redefining roles and recruiting into the team, resulting in improved levels of financial control and overall team performanceSet clear goals and expectations and initiated a training and development program for finance department

Group financial controller for this listed subsidiary of Hitachi Capital Corporation. Responsible for all consolidation, management and statutory reporting.Upgraded Oracle Financials accounting softwareReviewed processes and procedures, assessing skill levels of the team members, introduced clear and challenging goals.Developed and improved the relationship with the group's subsidiary companies by ensuring regular, clear and relevant communication.

Joined Dial Contracts Ltd as assistant financial controller and was promoted to Financial Controller within 6 months. Responsible for all aspects of financial control, monthly reporting, statutory accounts preparation, corporation tax and VAT.Assisted FD with Information Memorandum for sale of Dial Contracts Ltd to ABN Amro Leaseholdings and subsequent merger with Leaseplan UK Ltd.Migration of core data from Dial's vehicle management system to Leaseplan's system.Implemented training and development programme for Finance staff, improving staff morale and motivationIncreased efficiency and reporting deadline by one day to five days.

Responsible for portfolio of clients providing bookkeeping, accounts preparation and audit services.Also responsible for management of trainees within the Walton on Thames office, organising timing of assignments and managing training needs

Small two partner firm of Accountants and Insolvency PractitionersWorked on IVAs, CVAs, management accounts preparation

Trainee accountant in general audit division