Mark J. Email & Phone Number

Manchester, England, GB

Manchester, GB

London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

• Government - (PMO Analyst)Working as a PMO Analyst supporting a project investigating a major liquidised construction company for the Insolvency Service. Key responsibilities included,
• Allocation and reporting of costs to the client.
• Liaising with workstream leads to produce weekly cost forecasts.
• Weekly PMO calls to discuss variances with senior management.
• Weekly resourcing calls to ensure staff were allocated across the project appropriately.
• Various analysis’ to highlight project utilisation and wellbeing statistics.Global American Custodian Bank - MiFID II Regulatory Change (Data Business Analyst)

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Migration of ring-fenced banking operations from India.
• Migration of trading portfolios from Wall Street to Murex.
• Mitigating opportunity cost and customer settlement risk by forecasting the banks trading and retail positions.
• Examining operational processes and writing procedures for the Treasury function whilst recommending processes to improve efficiencies.
• Process mapping operational processes for the Treasury function.
• General support of UAT and providing feedback.

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Look after the Reconciliations team of 12 FTE from a technical point of view.
• Drafting impact assessments and writing test scripts for future projects, managing and coordinating current projects within the department and also being a point of contact for company wide projects that require.
• Ownership of several large and small change agile methodology projects including; o Setting up accounts allowing Visa to settle WorldPay in several currencies saving on foreign exchange costs. o Designing and.
• Producing weekly and monthly KPI reports for Financial Accounting and senior management, highlighting discrepancies to P&L or the balance sheet.
• A thorough knowledge of the merchant settlement cycle is required to problem solve technical issues ensuring merchants receive cash and WorldPay receive debt.
• Working closely with Treasury to ensure intraday limits are adhered to and nostro accounts are funded appropriately to make merchant payments.

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Reconciliation of merchant payments and card scheme settlements together with the reconciliation of Worldpay domestic and international bank accounts;
• Accurate completion of account and journal postings including substantiation of P&L entries;
• Investigation and reporting any erroneous entries and rejected payments;
• Provide accurate advice and information to both internal and external sources in a timely and professional manner, taking full ownership through to resolution;
• Continually look for way of improving efficiencies, providing potential solutions and follow through to implementation;
• New Acquiring Platform Training Partner - Worldpay is in the process of migrating to a new system which I shall be learning the process and rolling this out to colleagues;

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Daily reconciliation's across a range of accounts;
• Familiar with a wide range of financial instruments and processes coupled with a good knowledge of accounting principles;
• Building a strong working knowledge of a range of financial specific technologies and back office programmes;
• Highly proficient in the use of excel and other word programmes;
• Liaising with a number of internal departments to resolve issues that arise on accounts.
• Supporting accountants to ensure account is fully reconciled by month end;

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Processing donations, including those received via cash, cheques, PayPal and other various website donations, inputting them to the sale ledger;
• Ensuring all purchase invoices are logged, matched with supporting documentation, authorised by the appropriate manager and input to the purchase ledger;
• Creating end of month payment plans via Sage and uploading on to Bankline;
• Various bank reconciliation's – taking a systematic approach to errors to problem solve;
• Producing Gift Aid reports and liaising with HMRC to process;
• High standard of attention to detail and numeracy skills required;

Police & Criminal Investigation

Aat, Accounting

AAT Level 3 Competent AAT Level 2 Competent

Bcs Foundation Certificate, Business Analysis

Bcs Practitioner Certificate, Business Analysis

Nanodegree, Business Analytics, Pass

Nanodegree, Business Analytics, Pass