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London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Finance transformation

Birtley, Tyne And Wear, United Kingdom

• Responsible for financial management and control of division with 4 manufacturing sites across Europe and through multiple sales companies.
• Active member of the ‘Site Leadership Team’ involved in developing and delivering the divisions annual business strategy alongside other functional leaders.
• Provide regular information and analysis to General Manager and Leadership Team to ensure effective financial planning, budgeting and forecasting against key performance indicators (e.g. Sales, Orders, Net Earnings, On.
• Leading finance team responsible for accurate submissions of monthly financial statements, financial analysis, audit compliance and daily interactions with business partners such as business unit managers, operations.
• Set detailed annual plan for all overhead budget owners in order for division to deliver against profit targets.
• Responsible for sitewide financial control through compliance with Sarbanes Oxley and have led annual internal audit of peer locations.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

• Leading a team of individuals across 2 sub areas responsible for; - Providing accurate P&L forecast and actuals support to the company’s regional and global business unit forecasters and analysts; - Owning finished.
• Responsible for in-depth financial analysis and reporting across multiple levels of the P&L such as NOS, TDC, MSA, Tax and OIX, for both forecast and monthly actuals.
• Establishing improved organisation structures and customer service models, including a query management system, scorecards, customer surveys and work process efficiency changes.
• Leading integration of new work into department from forecasting networks based in Geneva and from other service centres globally.
• Managing impact of high profile divestiture projects.
• Responsible for accuracy of fiscal year actuals and master data hierarchies through technical system restatements.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

• Established and led new team dedicated to the accounting of Fixed Assets and Capital projects across over 100 legal entities across Europe.
• Delivered yearly US and local GAAP submissions for UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain and Nordics to legal entity accountants, external auditors and local tax managers.
• Designed and rolled out efficient ticket based customer support model and web based self-serve help site. Nominated for regional excellence award.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

• Provide monthly reporting, analysis and explanation for raw/pack material, finished product and operating costs and variances. Reviewing these analytically with forecasters across 3 global business units.
• Ensure monthly Balance Sheets and P&L releases are accurate. Errors identified and corrected.
• Accurate allocation of costs via activity based costing for multiple manufacturing plants. Month end close timings reduced from 2 days to 1 day for 3 sites whilst under my ownership through efficiency savings.
• Led internal audit for department in Fixed Assets and Plant accounting areas. Coordinated external audit with D&T.
• Key departmental contact for major divestiture project of global business. Managed ‘carve out’ of relevant costs from financial statements and established month-end and reporting processes for cutover as part of global.
• Expert for Transport and Warehouse cost allocations for EMEA region. Received prestigious internal award for process improvements and education provided in this area.

Mechelen, Belgium

• Responsible for the local cost accounting of the Fabric Care business manufactured onsite.
• Responsible for setting standard costs for new Fiscal Year for all raw, pack, intermediate materials and finished products. Including updating product recipes and operating costs.
• Performed reporting of actual costs/variances and trend analysis, providing insight into business performance.
• Worked closely with production management leaders to identify expected future volumes, production outages, disposals, etc. Highlighted improvement areas and efficiency opportunities.
• Built partnership between local finance and Newcastle service centre.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

• Trained purchasing contacts in the benefits of the low touch invoicing solutions in order to increase volume of vendors using these methods.
• Coordinated team of 5 individuals managing the invoicing processes across 50+ sites in Europe.
• Represented service centre on global SAP improvement project for invoicing processes during 2 week global workshop in Costa Rica. Results delivered 1000+ hrs savings in region.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

• Team member of emerging team in Accounts Payable, responsible for limited touch purchase to payment solutions.
• Owned solutions such as Self-Billing, Consignment and E-invoicing across multiple sites in Europe. Achieving 100% payment on time and zero failed payments KPIs.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

• Administrative role tracking outstanding and erroneous customer payments.
• Developed customer service and basic analytical skills.