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Marlow, England, United Kingdom

Uxbridge

Offered the permanent position of Financial Controller for Verifone UK Ltd, Verifone Latvia and Hypercom Financial Terminals AB, reporting into the EMEA Controller. This role was primarily responsible for review of monthly US GAAP results and reporting, statutory accounting (including Audit), indirect tax and corporation tax filings and compliance.Key Achievements:-• Project managed the merger of the two trading UK Entities into one.• Liquidated 4 non-trading UK entities, co-ordinating cross department actions.• Managed the outsourcing of Indirect Tax and Statutory Reporting to a third party.• Project managed the upgrade of the software used to collect customer direct debits.

Uxbridge

Responsible for US GAAP GL accounting, managing the month end close process, SOX compliance, managing a team of 5 Finance professionals, reporting to the UK Finance Director.Key achievement was the successful transition of the Verifone UK GL and Cash functions to the company's Shared Service Centre in Poland during the second half of 2015.

Slough, United Kingdom

Director of the EMEA Financial Shared Services Centre responsible for the US GAP transactions for the EMEA region of Equinix. The SSC processes transactions on behalf of Equinix entities in Germany, UK, The Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Dubai, Italy and Luxembourg. Managed a team of 63 people and an annual budget of £2m.Functions within the SSC include PTP, OTC, FA, RTR, SOX compliance and statutory reporting for Equinix Italy and Equinix (Services) Ltd.Key achievements:Introduced Service Level Agreements and associated monthly reportingIntegration of 3 entities into the SSC: Italy, Germany and DubaiIntegration of a German acquisition including data migrationPlanned the impact on the SSC with regards a number of legal entity mergersProject Managed the relocation of the SSCEstablished quarterly balance sheet reviews between the SSC and Country Finance Directors

Stoke Poges

Led the project to transition the next phase of Finance tasks to the Shared Service Centre based in Krakow, Poland.

Stoke Poges

Responsible for the EMEA Balance Sheet reporting, Inventory Accounting, SOX Compliance, Tax (including the TP regime) and Treasury function.Managed a team of 5, of which 2 were based in The Netherlands.Introduced quarterly balance sheet review meetings and project managed the implementation of notional pooling for EMEA to maximise interest earnt and eliminate interest expense.

Stoke Poges And Krakow, Poland

Led the Record to Report stream of the Shared Services implementation project for HDS Europe. Based in Krakow for 2 months to assist with go-live, training of staff and to ensure the books were successfully closed.Key Achievements:Recruited and trained the SSC Financial Accounting Team, 8 heads initially.Standardised the balance sheet reconciliation format across 16 entities.Documented the RTR process maps and desktop procedures.Managed the integration of 4 entities: Sweden, Finland, Austria and CEEProject managed the implementation of the Fortis Bank cash management system.

Stoke Poges

Responsible for the US GAAP transaction processing for 6 EMEA entities: Spain, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Norway and MEMA. Managed a team of 5 responsible for accounts payable, accounts receivable, fixed assets, intercompany, inventory, cash, deal accounting , general ledger and period close.Project managed the set-up of the department, recruited the staff, designed and documented the processes, worked with IT on the Oracle 11i ledger creation.Managed the integration of 2 entities into the SSC, Italy and Norway including data migration for Norway to Oracle 11i.

Stoke Poges

European Accountant May 1999 to December 1999European HQ Accounting Manager April 1991 to April 1999European Management Accountant October 1990 to May 1991Financial Accountant, HDS UK Ltd July 1987 to Sep 1990

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