Mark Gilbert Email & Phone Number

Didcot, Gb

Reading, England, United Kingdom

Reading, United Kingdom

Reading, United Kingdom

Responsibilities:• Weekly cashflow and working capital forecast for senior management.• Calculated monthly releases of project costs, intangible allocations and inventory provisioning.• Month end accounting for 3 foreign offices.• Sole charge of month end consolidation processes in Accpac accounting system.• Balance sheet reconciliations.• Liaise with budget holders (including non finance staff) to explain processes, monthly variances and financial principles.• AP/AR meetings with FA Assistants.• Secondary authoriser for payments on HSBCnet.• Manager of 2 staff.• Overseeing accuracy of banking procedures, foreign office accounting, budget holder reporting and accounting system enhancements. • Information provision for US tax returns, and review of returns.Achievements:• Reconciled reimbursable costs with net value of €1.3m resulting in extra €300k costs being reimbursed to the company.• Ownership of annual budget process, interacting with budget holders and board to determine the company’s admin costs, creating consolidated budget of circa €15m. • Delivered improvements and efficiencies to accounting processes to improve accuracy and speed to achieve a 3 day month end close, reduced from 14 days.• Involved in implementing new KYC controls and compliance procedures following takeover by JP Morgan.• Developed new method of month end variance analysis to enable the challenging of results and enhance decision making information for budget holders.• Created interactive NTM report for project managers to track costs in relation to issuances of carbon credits.• Monthly accounting for inventory, reconciling internal systems to registry accounts.• Produced a detailed balance sheet commentary and oversaw the production of income statement and cashflow commentaries.• Overseeing the financial processes of the liquidation of three international offices.• Cover the Group FP&A Manager, compiling the management accounts and submission to parent company.

• Weekly and monthly sales reporting for the group of 14 companies as well as daily flash sales reporting.• Month end accounting entries.• Contribution to and preparation of monthly management accounting packs.• Business partnering with editors to conduct profitability analysis on potential purchases.• Assisting Financial Accountant in consolidation of annual budget and quarterly forecasting.• Maintenance of fixed asset database and month end depreciation journals.• Processing sundry invoicing and chased payments.• Responsible for submission of company EU trade statistics to HMRC.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Business And Finance For Managers

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