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Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Centre For Sport Exercise & Health At Bristol University

Bath, United Kingdom

Senior manager & technical expert responsible for ensuring ongoing business-wide CASS Compliance, the ‘Go to’ person for all matters CASS. Member of CASS Governance Committee, CASS Technical Forum, CASS Oversight Committee & Regulatory Change Committee. Areas of responsibility; keeping abreast of CASS regulatory developments & industry best practice; ensuring CASS documentation, such as CASS Manual, cash & asset flows & CASS policies are current, that supporting processes & controls are embedded. CASS review of legal documentation such as terms & conditions, contracts.Played a lead role in developing the CASS Controls Framework; developed & implemented Prudent Segregation policy & calculation methodology.

Bath, United Kingdom

CASS subject matter expert (SME) responsible for ensuring development & delivery of a new business-wide CASS compliant technology solution.Lead SME responsible for the design of an integrated (Sonata/Autorek) Cash Allocation, CASS Reconciliations & Client Money GL Solution.CASS SME for advising on CASS related operational design & development decisions across all back-office areas of the new trading platform, including: new money, transfers, trading & settlement, dividends, distributions, corporate actions, fees & charges.Build of Sonata GL Solution, contributing to software development decisions of the software provider to ensure delivery of a CASS compliant product.Oversight of client cash allocations, client cash reconciliation & custody asset reconciliation build.Oversight of process mapping, testing & delivery.

Bath, United Kingdom

Senior leader for CASS, responsible for ensuring robust CASS governance, oversight & control in a changing business environment & regulatory landscape.Responsible for daily management/oversight of client cash & custody asset reconciliation teams, development & documentation of internal policies, controls & procedures, including CASS Manual, CASS controls framework & CASS Risks; responsible for MI & reporting to Board, Executive & Senior management. Responsible for recruitment, performance management, training, coaching & mentoring; developed a flexible, multi skilled team to enable restructuring to support growth & succession planning.Development & delivery of company-wide CASS training in conjunction with external consultants. Integral in raising CASS awareness & the development of a CASS Culture.Management of regulatory & FCA audits, due diligence & internal audits. Risk management and regulatory review.

Bath, United Kingdom

Management responsibility for client money reconciliations & reporting; developing, embedding & streamlining BAU process, controls & procedure; development of MI; staff training & performance management; raising CASS awareness. Absorbed custody asset reconciliations into the Finance team, built a cross functional team, streamlined BAU processes, developed MI.Managed custody asset transfers rectification project.

Bath, United Kingdom

Client Money Reconciliations & Migration Rectification ProjectLead a historic cash reconciliations rectification project following migration to new bespoke trading platform software; developed a new client cash general ledger; defined & implemented supporting process & controls for a bespoke trading platform.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Bristol

Interim cover of Finance Director position for a specialist drum scanner manufacturer & investigation of record keeping issues.All aspects of daily accounting including statutory accounts preparation, cashflow management, payroll, company secretarial.Review of and update to financial processes & procedures

Bath, United Kingdom

Interim project accountant for Fundsdirect's wrap platform development project.Finance representative on all project matters relating to financial controls, financial data recording, reconciliation & reporting.Design & implementation of a GL solution, including staff training on delivery.Preparation of overhead & development budgetsClient money reconciliations; calculation, collection & settlement of fund manager & advisor commissions.

Bath, United Kingdom

Interim cost accountant for a security paper manufacturer, responsible for monitoring & maintenance of standard costs; stock reconciliation; purchase order processing; internal audit deliverables

Bath, United Kingdom

Interim racecourse accountant responsible for all aspects of daily accounting and payroll; month end reporting and race day flash reporting.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Responsibility for all aspects of book keeping, accounting and internal control procedures for a software development company specialising in the development of computer gamesResponsibilities included producing statutory accounts; monthly management accounts, departmental ROI calculations and balance sheet reconciliations; invoicing; purchase ledger; management of creditors; cashflow forecasting; payroll; VAT returnsIn the first 3 months I undertook an audit of the preceding 6 months of trading for the 3 group companies & resolved and an incomplete records rectification project.

Staines, Berkshire

Interim accountant responsible for addressing daily & month end financial accounting issues throughout a one year/2 stage integration of the accounting function into the parent company (IBM).Co-ordinated all aspects of the change over from manual to automated inter-company cross charge accounting for the EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Asia) Group of Lotus Companies

London, United Kingdom

Accounts assistant for a luxury goods retailer, reporting to the Financial Accountant & responsible for managing a team of 4 accounting staff.Responsibilities included preparation of monthly management accounts; monthly group central reporting; ad hoc management reporting; inter-company accounting; preparation of audit deliverables; assisting with budget preparation; creation of a fixed asset register; fixed asset and stock reconciliation; accruals & prepayments; journal processing & review; credit control.

London, United Kingdom

Interim contract for a facilities management provider to complete an audit of service contracts for a large client in order to determine accruals for management reporting purposes.

London, United Kingdom

Interim accountant responsible for statutory account preparation for a number of special purpose vehicles (SPVs); rectification of incomplete books & records; departmental accounting controls review.

London, United Kingdom

Interim role to prepare statutory accounts; assist preparation of completion accounts used to determine the valuation of a franchise.

London, United Kingdom

I completed my chartered accountancy training with first time passes, progressing from Trainee Accountant to Audit Senior.Experience gained in statutory accounts preparation, systems documentation and testing, personal tax (6 month secondment), accounts preparation and incomplete records work, reconciliation work, risk assessment, ratio analysis. As an Audit Senior I was responsibility for all stages of interim and year end audit assignments, managing teams of 2-4 people and reporting to manager and partner levels.

License To Practice Acupuncture (Licac), Member Of The British Acupuncture Council (Mbacc), Acupuncture

Aca, Chartered Accountant, First Time Pass

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba (Hons), Management Studies & Psychology