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United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Escort of prison contract workers throughout the facility to facilitate building works taking place. Contract position for 12 months.

Brackley, England, United Kingdom

Provision of accounting services to small enterprises

Aylesbury

• Acted as subject matter expert (SME) to the team to ensure adherence to the project principles and provide the right customer outcome• Analysis of data relating to customer redress, cost monitoring, departmental responsibility, and management information and indicators• Complete cases that have been reviewed and raise queries, request further information, or challenge issues where appropriate in order to derive the correct outcome• Work within tight deadlines and display a willingness to work outside and beyond the normal hours including weekends to ensure that objectives are achieved, particularly when urgent requests demand a flexible work pattern• Assigned responsibility to ensure that staff submit data in a timely manner in order to ensure that targets are met and project objectives are maintained in terms of qualitative and quantitative standards that meet project timescales• Extensive communication skills in letter writing and direct contact with customers to answer questions, deal with complaints, and provide a superior level of customer satisfaction by being empathic, understanding and fair• Provide an overview of the work of team members to ensure compliance to QC standards• Adapted to flexible and frequent changes in work-streams by learning new work processes quickly and always displayed high levels of professionalism, integrity, and respect.

London, United Kingdom

National Security and Defence software applications• Demonstrated a strong business acumen and an ability to drive a project• Created a detailed business plan for start-up operations, financial accounts, and sales projections• Built relationships with venture capitalists, potential customers, and high-level officials including government ministers regarding product development• Made numerous presentations at symposia to law enforcement agencies such as the FBI

London, England, United Kingdom

Assist in budget preparation and management activities, develop financial procedures, manage cash, maintain accounting software (Sage/TAS/Capium), perform book-keeping functions, maintain ledgers, oversee expenses, maintain account receivables and payables, record all financial transactions, assist in preparing balance sheets and income statements, prepare VAT and customs documents, and act as the principle representative for all financial matters.

Canary Wharf, London, United Kingdom

Assisted in the design and creation of a new department within the bank to develop procedures and processes to ensure business continuity in the event of unforeseen events/disastersCreated and implemented a global backup standard within the backup environmentProtected and preserved the integrity of business critical data (52Tb held on 1,500+ servers) and provided daily global conference call reports to impart key business critical informationRisk management analysis of potential financial and operational risks from the implementation of changes to processes from a business and regulatory stand pointLead responsibility for providing the business with the restoration of data and emergency server recovery for litigation and business continuity requirementsLead co-ordinator of 24/7 support in the event of critical system failures/outagesUK Lead in a major global project to migrate all European (Frankfurt, Paris, Milan, Moscow, Amsterdam, and Madrid) backup operations into one centralised location in LondonOrganised and frequently chaired regular meetings with relevant teams to discuss ways of improving the performance and efficiency of backup operations and, implement solutions to overcome actual and potential faults within the environmentLine management responsibilities including conducting performance appraisals, work allocation, project management and resource coverageMonthly one to one meetings with reporting staff to ensure workload balance and to afford an opportunity for coaching and mentoringControl-M job scheduling (continuation of role from the Credit Suisse acquisition of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette)

111 Old Broad Street, City Of London

System administration of trade processing functions to ensure trading transactions were correctly and timely calculated.Utilised 'Autosys', an automated job control system for scheduling, monitoring, and reporting jobs which were defined using a GUI (employing a single command, executable script, or NT batch file).Prevented major outages of trading platforms by enacting corrective action when the bank's systems failed.Received numerous commendations for keeping the trading desks up and running at the start of day, as previously any outages could not be rectified until late into the trading morning by which time the loss in trading revenue was extensive.SWIFT payment system experience (interbank bank transfers for multi-million USD transfers).* DLJ was acquired by Credit Suisse First Boston in 2000

Bachelor Of Accounting, Economics, Commerce, Accounting, Law

Year 12 (Forms 1-6)