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London, England, United Kingdom

Varied high-profile role covering the below areas:- Finance partner for due diligence and valuation of merger & acquisition targets; - Divestiture negotiation/management, particularly in regards to ongoing TSAs. - Finance ownership of the cloud, data center, and IT infrastructure business unit. - Implementation of a strategic, company-wide migration from data centers to the cloud; with negotiations for long-term contracts with major vendors such as AWS, Azure, and Oracle.

London, England, United Kingdom

Business partnership & ownership of the P&Ls for the Cyber Security and Data & Analytics divisions, as well as global business transformation initiatives in commercial strategies (pricing/discounting/packaging), cloud migration, and API product developments. Actioning such a diverse role requires the ability to lead the conversation with senior (VP/Head level) stakeholders and manage/mentor a team of qualified accountants.

London, United Kingdom

Early promotion during a restructure, managing a team of qualified accountants, I've overseen the creation of a reporting suite & consolidation of systems for a new international business unit. Ongoing me and my team are responsible for forecasting, financial reporting, quotas & commissions. We business partner with the senior leadership of the organization to determine strategy and measure performance.

London, United Kingdom

Working in decision support for the UK strategy team, aiding business unit decision making with profitability analyses, business case modelling, post investment reviews and the presentation and analysis of results.

London, United Kingdom

Rio De Janeiro Area, Brazil

This role represents a promotion to a different area of IBM, with increased responsibility and ability to enact change. IBM's Asset Recovery Services is a business focused in maximizing value and minimizing impact to the environment from used equipment, through re-manufacturing, reselling and recycling. I analyze performance and drive change internationally by initiating process and system improvements globally and advising on best practice between the regions. Day to day duties include consolidating revenues and profits from the regions into a worldwide analysis, to be reported to senior management; advising on multinational deals; and project management.This included project managing the development and introduction of a web portal for Asset Recovery Solutions, region by region.The majority of time in this position is spent enacting projects to transform and grow a rapidly-expanding business. This may involve managing structure change, new systems, new processes and developing existing routines, to short, agile deadlines.

Rio De Janeiro Area, Brazil

Job Summary/PurposeAs a Customer Account Manager, my purpose was to oversee the completion of the contracts after the point of sale. I manage and facilitate the various administrative functions and departments, needed to ensure contracts can be made to the legal and profitability standards required by one of the largest companies in the world. I also leverage my previous experience with systems and process efficiency to continually improve the effectiveness of the department as a whole.Regular Functions• Managing relationships with clients and vendors, which include some of the largest and most well-known companies in America.• Providing salespeople with reports and assistance, enabling them to do their job with increased confidence and effectiveness.• Continuously improving process efficiency through the use of automation techniques and new methods.• Conducting training workshops in tools such as Excel for all levels from beginner to advanced.

Rio De Janeiro Area, Brazil

Central London / Weybridge

Job Summary/PurposeThis was an early promotion, for a role which has historically been given to a qualified accountant, before I was certified. This was in recognition of my continued proactive work agenda and my early completion of the ACCA exams.As well as being required to project manage for head office finance, the role involves acting as a financial partner to the centrally administered revenue divisions. Under my responsibility are three revenue divisions: Newsquest Media Sales, Newsquest Digital and Newsquest Direct. Job OutlineThe job requires providing high level, complex analysis to the operating board (CFO, CEO and an MD) and acting as a performance analyst and finance partner for the national inpaper sales, national leaflet sales and digital divisions.Regular Functions• Creation of budgets and rolling forecasts for the divisions.• Incentive strategy and implementation for all staff below the Managing Directors.• Profitability analysis on and the production of project proposals.• Continually increasing productivity through process improvement.• Advising Managing Directors on the financial implications of significant undertakings such as new contracts with major customers or CapEx.• Implementation of new reporting tools or techniques.Key AchievementsAutomated Booking System - I project managed an automated consolidated solution for our booking system which reduces FTEs required; removes human error and improves customer service through consolidated invoicing. This project was first suggested more than 5 years ago, however I provided the impetus to restart the project from mid 2011 and it is due to be completed Q1 2012.Creation of a Business Reporting Tool - The inherited business tool for the Newsquest Media Sales division was an open source BI software package. It was slow, unreliable and inadequately supported. I built a new reporting tool using Excel, SQL and VBA to create a series of dynamic and flexible dashboards.

Surrey

Job Summary/PurposeThis was a 3 year graduate scheme for the head office finance function of one of the largest regional publishers in the UK. The role involved several areas of accountancy and I progressed from trainee level to supervisory level in all disciplines described below:Responsibilities• Business/Financial Analytics – Regular detailed analysis and providing high level formal board reports to the operating board.• Taxation – Production and computation of the company and its subsidiaries’ tax submissions for corporation tax.• Statutory Reporting – Converting year end management accounting data into UK GAAP standard annual reports to be submitted to Companies House for the consolidated group entity and all subsidiaries.• Internal Auditing – Conducting internal audits for the group’s subsidiaries in accordance with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.• Budgeting/Rolling Forecasts – Reviewing subsidiaries forecasts and production of the head office’s budget.• Management Accounting – Month end journal posting, KPI reporting and reviewing CapEx.• Treasury – Managing the group’s cash level, submitting internal and external payments and building the cashflow forecast.

Management Accounting

Passed all exams in under 2 years on a course that traditionally takes at least 3 years to complete.

Ba(Hons) - 1St, Accounting And Finance

Activities and Societies: Student Representative, Student Mentor. Achieved 1st class degree and won the course tutor prize for the top mark.