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United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Member of the Scotland Leadership Team working closely with the National Director to provide support at internal and external meetings. Lead on the production of accurate, timely financial information and review and report on the same in accordance with approved budget and Business Plan requirements for Scotland Children's Services portfolio approx. £31M. Lead and manage a team of the Regional Finance Team across a designated area to ensure the provision of a high quality, consistent and effective service utilising Action for Children’s relevant policies and procedures. Develop and drive the team towards improving the financial performance of contracts, reviewing and reporting regularly on establishment, underspends, deferred income, deliverables and budget performance. Work with Business Support colleagues to deliver AFC financial strategies, objectives and requirements to achieve contract deliverables whilst meeting AFC bottom line. Ensures full compliance of allocated Contract Management, following the agreed process to conduct quarterly contract reviews on all contracts with appropriate operational colleagues and ensuring that salesforce records are up to date and accurate for your allocated areas. Working cross functionally and in partnership with local operational management with specific regard to financial negotiations with commissioners and ensures all financial and commercial contract outcomes are met, including attendance at key commissioner meetings to present and explain financial contract performance, to secure retention and growth of existing business.Scotland representative on the Action for Children Health & Safety Committee.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Managing a team of Finance Business Partners to provide full range of financial and commercial accounting services to enable operational management to achieve their business plan and service objectives. Determine strategies and make tactical and operational decisions that mitigate risk to financial viability and support commercial success.

London, United Kingdom

Internal secondment in partnership with OEE Consulting.

Neilston, East Renfrewshire, United Kingdom

Newly appointed trustee.

Glasgow

Action for Children is a UK wide children's chartiy. They work with some of the most vulnerable children by providing services for Local Authorities in four main areas. They are children in care, disability, youth and supporting families.Achievements: Business Development – providing support and advise to Strategic and Operational Directors and Group Managers in respect to new funding opportunities. Awarded government funding to roll out Roots of Empathy programme in Scotland since 2011-12.New Contracts – ensure financial contractual requirements are translated into service delivery and compliance is met.Customers – provide financial and audit reports when required.Senior Management - working with to translate invoice and cash flow requirements from contractual arrangements, ensuring invoices are raised on a timely basis.Credit Control escalations – work with central finance to resolve.Period/Year End financial closedown for 63 projects across Scotland with portfolio value £13M.Internal variance management and reporting, including forecasts, on all projects.Budget management and co-ordination.Project Support – assisting all project teams during forecasts and attending customer review meetings.

Cumbernauld

Barclaycard, customer portfolio previously Goldfish - Morgan Stanley CBGI, is the operations division for credit cards. The role as Senior Financial Analyst was created to allow focus on the financial and operational MI and forecasts.Achievements: Barclaycard Integration – Selected to be part of the procurement project involving forecasting and tracking of vendor activity. Reported savings made due to vendor shut down and tracking early termination costs.Goldfish Migration – Operational and cost impact to Morgan Stanley portfolio.Project Co-ordinator for the Revenue Generation project – producing presentations to the senior management team as well as tracking revenue generation versus volumes reduced.Developed Financial Planning Assistant and delivered monthly 1-2-1's.Annual, quarterly and flash forecasting on call volumes and employee heads to produce monetary cost centre budgets.Monthly cost centre variance analysis – liaising with central London office when investigating.Regular ad-hoc analysis on call volume and cost impacts relating to portfolio changes.Creating monthly and ad hoc power point presentations for senior management group.Daily key statistic reporting on employee heads and performance for management review.Quality checking daily KPI reports prior to submission to management.Producing monthly scorecards for the seven operational and support cost centres – reporting on performance measurements, standards & volumes, employee satisfaction and customer impacts.Monthly employee incentive calculation and submission.Quarterly Excellence award for my additional support to management within all areas of the business.Annual Pinnacle of Excellence award – overall performance within the business.Promoted to Senior Financial Analyst from Financial Analyst.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

EDI Group is a property development company, which works along side the City of Edinburgh Council as well as having private developments. The role was created for the PARC Craigmillar project, the regeneration of the Craigmillar estate.Achievements: Produced quarterly management accounts for the PARC Craigmillar project.Updated business plan with financial summary and commentary.Prepared monthly meeting with EDI Board and City of Edinburgh Council to review financials and approve further spend.Review and approved invoices for project.Liaised with project managers within Housing, Commercial, Education, Landscaping and Infrastructure development.Updated financial assumptions such as – costs/sales growth, contractor fees, loan repayments, scheduling of housing construction and sales.Development of “Project Financial Summary” template, to assist in monitoring spends, approving budgets and reporting.Created project charge codes/references for each individual project and setting up in SAGE.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Shell Shared Service Centre is a financial service provider for Shell UK, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Greece. The role is primarily to act as the Remediation Focal Point within the Sarbanes Oxley project team.Achievements:Responsible for developing and implementing remediation plans for control gaps across all areas of the businessNegotiated ownership of controls with Shared Service customers, to determine scope of remediation requirementsConsulted with local Process Owners to resolve practical and technical issues, in order to adhere to Shell Quality Control StandardsIdentified issues with Methodology and liaising with Central SOX Project Management Office and Quality Assurance.Documenting internal processes to meet the requirements of Sarbanes Oxley s.404, which involves flow-charting processes, preparing control narratives, identifying risks and mitigating controls and preparing a Risk Control Register.Designed testing plans to assess operating effectiveness of the key controls.Timely reporting of local and European statistics, monitoring remediation progress.Appointed JDE Integrity Focal Point for the Shared Service Centre, providing technical support to the business, liaising with internal and external auditors and resolving outstanding actions.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

BBC Scotland developed the new role to provide project accounting support to Programme Managers facilitating accurate and timely budgeting, forecasting and financial reporting.Achievements:Provided finance assistance in the initial development of project plans including budgeting and financial planning,Create new and maintain existing projects, approximately 200, in SAP ensuring that expenses and revenue were mapped correctly.Coordinated monthly budgeting and forecasting meetings with Producers, Production Executives and Finance Managers to validate revenue and expenses for all open projects.Production of monthly profit and loss analysis on open and closed projects including detailed reports on internal and external expenses.Processed cost centre to project adjustments for staffing and internal resource buyouts.Voluntarily reviewed the SAP set up allocating internal expenditure to projects. Worked closely with the Resources department and SAP Focal Point and resolved the issue resulting in a saving of ten hours reanalysis work per week.Identified the requirement to review all closed projects and write off outstanding commitments to produce valid financial information and worked with the Purchasing team to achieve this objective.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Working as a key member within the Fixed Asset Team of a financial shared services centre. The role was initially within the Sweden department and developed to also include Finland.Achievements:Processed all movements in the fixed asset ledgers in SAP and JDE.Responsible for the period-end preparation and submission of fixed asset reconciliations and capital expenditure reports to customer Finance Managers.Collating relevant data and preparing monthly KPI and Internal Control Compliance reports for submission to customers.Member of the SAP User Acceptance Testing team involved in the transition of the fixed asset systems from JDE to SAP and the rollout to the business. Selected for the role of JDE Focal Point (‘Super-User’) for Sweden, which involved responding to local user queries and requests and providing support to head office technical team. Selection was following participation in the rollout of the banking upload system (FINSTA) from ABN AMRO to JDE.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Temporary contract working in the Fixed Assets team.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Virgin Media, previously NTL, the post was to cover maternity leave, as Finance Cashier was later offered a permanent role. Developed into the Finance Assistant role while performing as Finance Cashier.

Certificate In Business Accounting, Accounting And Business/Management

Foundation Level, Service Operating Model Skills

Lean Awareness - 1A, Business/Commerce, General, 1A

Lean Practitioner -1B, Business/Commerce, General

Hnc, Accountancy

Lean Advanced Practitioner - 1C, Business/Commerce, General

Competence in Lean thinking, knowledge and practice