Mark Waters Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Basingstoke

Chessington, Surrey

Role : Finance Manager for the corporate business support unit based in Chessington, Surrey. Company Profile : Merlin is the largest European entertainments company in Europe with attractions in 22 countries and across 4 continents. Brands include Sea Life, London Eye, Alton Towers, Madam Tussauds, Legoland Parks to name but a few. The portfolio includes circa 100 attractions generating 55 million visitors per annum.Duties:* Management of a team of 12.* Manage centralised purchase ledger via electronic capture processing circa 55,000 invoices P.A.* Review and authorisation of weekly BACS run and inter-company payment runs.* Created and responsible for automated foreign payments via external FX payment specialist.* Manage Sales ledger function.* Manage corporate VAT returns, including Intrastat and EEC sales lists.* Responsible for finance treasury function - 40 accounts reconciled monthly, daily treasury reports, monthly FX reports, assist corp treasury team on funding and payments.* Cash flow reporting* Manage inter-company process, generation of circa 700 invoices monthly with approx 250 entities.* Manage corporate stock ensuring reconciliation between stock system and general ledger.* Manage fixed assets, monthly depreciation, capitalisation from project W.I.P and disposals.* Monthly review of balance sheet file ensuring reconciliations comply with department standards.* Responsible for annual balance sheet budget preparation.* Main point of contact for external auditors and preparation of PBC (prepared by client) audit file.* Manage general ledger integrity and month end close of various corporate entities.Achievements:* Transformed inter-company process through new processes and procedures* Created new treasury role to provide back office support for corporate treasury team.* Set up user friendly system to revalue the FX on the PL/SL due to limitations of Sage* Created and implemented automated weekly foreign payments.

Barnes - South West London

Role:Finance / Operations Manager supporting the business owners based in Barnes with an additional showroom in Hampstead.Company Profile:The Hi End provide audio/visual systems to both new build property and property undergoing refurbishment. Typical services included - project management, complete rewires, security systems and multi room integrated audio and visual solutions. With showrooms in Barnes and Hampstead, the target market included off the shelf retail sales to complement the core customer base of high net worth individuals and prestigious property developers.Duties:* Production of monthly management accounts, analysis and variance commentaries.* Cash flow reporting and central point of contact with funding bank.* Balance sheet reconciliations.and fixed assets.* Income statement and balance sheet budget preparation and presentation.* Purchase ledger control including matching of GRNI, PO's and payments via BACS/Cheque.* Sales Ledger including raising invoices, credit control, processing client payments.* General ledger posting, accruals, prepayments including month end reporting pack.* Stock management including W.I.P analysis and deferred income analysis and commentary.* Main point of contact with external auditors and creation of year end statutory reports.* Assisted project managers in production of job sheets.* Sole responsibility for I.T systems being the main point of contact for in house queries and external providers.* Manage company vehicle fleet including standardising signage and replacement vehicles.* Sole responsibility for managing external services - ensuring maximum benefit at a competitive cost base, e.g. mobile phones, insurance.Achievements* Implemented new processes reducing month end close by 5 days.* Sole responsibility for effective relocation of Aldershot offices/warehouse.* Saved £9k per annum by terminating 3rd party Navision contract and taking ownership.* Company secretary for three entities.

Guildford, United Kingdom

Role:Assistant Financial Accountant - reported directly to the Financial Accountant for a finance team of circa 25. Provided management cover in Financial Accountants absence and had 5 direct reports.Company:PKF (UK) LLP is an accountancy practice that offers a variety of services but specialises in the medical / healthcare sector. Recently PKF has merged with BDO to become the largest international accountancy firm aimed at the mid-tier market, operating in 138 different countries and with revenues in excess of $6 billion.Duties:* Responsible for the monthly partner reporting pack (100 + partners) detailing time analysis, disbursements, profit margins.* Responsible for analysis and commentary of variances to budget to partners and the Finance Director.* Implemented new processes to drive improvements in purchase ledger.* Responsible for reviewing and processing supplier payments ensuring that they were paid within agreed time scales.* Responsible for the accounting on the bad debt register, liaising closely with the Credit Control supervisor. * Responsible for reconciling client bank accounts.* Managed accounting for companies vehicle fleet.* Sole responsibility for VAT returns* Sole responsibility for the fixed asset register* Preparation of monthly payroll reconciliation and close liaison with HR.Achievements:* Improved performance of various departments through new processes and segregation of duties.* Played a key role in assisting the development of year end processes to incorporate new reporting for LLP status.Reason for leaving after only a year - I was head hunted by my previous FD who was now an MD and wanted a finance manager with the necessary skills to improve the finance function and drive through new commercial processes and ideas.

Bordon, Hampshire

Role:Management Accountant - managing the finance team of 5 and reporting directly to the FD.Company:Armour Automotive is a division of Armour Group Plc specializing in the car accessory market. Products include CD players, speakers, amplifiers, wiring connections, in car DVD players, aerials etc. Sales channels were either OEM or through major retailers such as Halfords. Turnover at the time was circa £20m with 140 staff based at the Bordon site.Duties:* Production of monthly accounts pack (1 UK subsidiary and 1 foreign Subsidiary) including commentary on variances.* Responsible for all balance sheet reconciliation's including accruals and prepayments.* Responsible for stock accounting including WIP analysis and close liaison with production manager.* Management of the sales ledger and purchase ledger including Sales order processing.* Responsible for all bank reconciliation's including currency accounts.* Monthly cash flow reporting.* Responsible for arranging foreign cash requirements including standard vanilla forward/spot currency deals and reporting on the subsequent FX implications.* Responsible for daily flash reports containing various performance indicators.* Sole responsibility for payroll - processing monthly and compiling year end returns.* Production and submission of VAT returns including intra-stat and EEC sales listing.* Preparation of year end audit files and key point of contact for external auditors.Achievements:* Set up new process and spreadsheet for reconciling a customer remittance that originally took 3 days to complete manually to just 3 hours.* Key player in the implementation of a new software package (Dynamics) to replace Sage.* Successfully improved the process of reporting commodity codes and subsequent Intra-Stat / EEC sales listing to an automated process that linked directly to the VAT return.* Key player in the financial integration of an acquired subsidiary.

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