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Doncaster, England, United Kingdom

Chesterfield, England, United Kingdom

Chesterfield, England, United Kingdom

Managing a small team of project accountants supporting the business prioritise, evaluate, price, control and deliver projects across Commercial and Central Functions.

Chesterfield, England, United Kingdom

Developing and leading the Finance strand within Royal Mail of the re-tendering process for the provision of outsourced IT services to Royal Mail for the next 10 years

Chesterfield

To provide planning, budgetary, investment and reporting financial control to a IT budget in excess of £200m including obtaining Group signoff of annual budgets from CFO. Financial interface with outsourced providers responsible for contractual change approval, signoff of work packages, review and maintenance of shared asset registers.Produced an complete tower based view of IT costs at the behest of the CIO

Chesterfield, England, United Kingdom

Finance lead for IT with responsibility for Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting, development and review of business cases and outsourced supplier proposals, control of spend, contract change evaluation and approval, and performance reporting. Identification of opportunities to reduce cost or improve efficiencyInitially responsible for the the setting up of a corporate IT function to manage newly implemented and deployed Enterprise Finance and other shared systems.

Chesterfield, England, United Kingdom

Managing the business case execution and holding the projects accountable for the delivery of benefits of implementing a single SAP based Finance and BW system across all of Royal Mail Group; presenting the business case to the Board to secure investment funding and negotiating with software providers for licencing deals

Chesterfield, England, United Kingdom

FEP was focused on the improvement of the Revenue, Expenditure, and Reporting Cycles through centralisation, business process improvement and implementation of new software as appropriate. Initially responsible for the overall planning of the individual initiatives within each cycle, I quickly assumed responsibility for business benefits, co-ordinating a team of national representatives in developing a benefits baseline, obtaining signoff by Regional FDs of benefit proposals and ensuring the benefits were realised following successful implementation

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Internal Auditor responsible for cash, stock, accounting and systems audits across Post Office Counter's network of cash and stock centres, and regional and head offices. This included preparation, undertaking the audit and reporting on findings and recommendations to the direct stakeholder and up the audit hierarchy. Led a number audits being responsible for the overall planning, execution and review of findings with the overall stakeholders as well as directing and supporting between 5 and 20 auditors whilst on site on site. Contributed to the development of the audit manual for cash and stock centres as well as qualifying as an ISO9001 Auditor supporting the departments successful application of the ISO9001 standard

Ba (Hons), Accountancy & Finance

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