• Creation of month end pack• Main point of contact with external accountants for Statutory Accounts• Main point of contact with bank manager• Improve accounting procedures and internal controls• Understanding of ERP systems, financial processes and reporting to ensure that the financial flow is complete and accurate

• Preparation of management accounts for all entities in the group• Payroll control account reconciliation• Reconciliation of Management accounts to stats accounts• Intercompany matrix and reconciliation for consolidation

• Managing the day to day finance operation• Responsible for the preparation and submission of the monthly accounts pack to Directors • Labour and Overheads Variance analysis • Coordinating the forecast and budget process• VAT return and HMRC reportingAchievements: • implementation of Making Tax Digital• automation of WIP reconciliation, saving 1 day • review of unnecessary IT licences and review of recharges, saving circa 10K a year• creation of an estimating revenue model in excel, speeding up the production of quotes by 2 days

• Process improvements aimed at facilitating the production and review of the monthly accounts• Improving Cashflow forecast preparation and variance analysis • Business Partnering with other departments in order to improve reporting• Main point of contact for AuditorsAchievements:• Automation of TB and Board Pack preparation, resulting in more analysis and increased accuracy.• Automation of the GRNI process. Time reduction of half a day, best invested in analysis• Creation of Stock reports which improved the stock control and annual audit

• Assist in the preparation and distribution of the management accounts pack• Preparation of monthly Gross Margin Analysis by product ranges• Reconciliation between Stock movements and General Ledgers• Preparation of monthly cost variance analysis between standard cost and actual cost• Assist in the preparation of yearly forecast and budget• SAP transition

• Produce by weekly cash flow forecasts consolidating all Fitness First Territories• Analysis of Group cash flow forecast to identify territories with cash shortfalls or surplus to arrange inter-company loans or repatriations• Work with the Head of Risk to improve accounting controls• Produce multi currency inter-company reconciliation and resolve any imbalances between the territories’ accounts and the Group accounts

• Coding and reconciliation of revenue postings following system implementation• Improve the efficiency of the rejection and debt reporting in order to maximise revenue collection• Analysis of UK unallocated cash and find solutions to recognise old unallocated cash as revenue• Responsible for the set up of 2 processes under the new Member First system: 1.Cash deposit reconciliations between bank account and expected Point Of Sales of 84 UK clubs 2.Implement the use of control accounts and investigate month end discrepancies• Supervise the work of 2 treasury controllersAchievements: • Analysis of the billing cycle following faults in system implementation; once rectified, they generated circa £100k of turnover.

• Assist in the preparation and distribution of management accounts• Ownership of rent control account made up of circa 160 leases of a monthly value of over 1.5m, rates schedules of a monthly value of over 800k, marketing accounts of circa 200k per month• Project work: liaise with Group Financial Controller to maintain IFRS rent files for c 160 clubs, to be used for monthly IFRS journal postings• Maintaining Prepayments, Accruals, Provisions and Control accounts• Responsible for the prioritization and testing of defects for the UK business

• Support Business analysis and investigation of report queries raised by the group territories• Understand the context and usage of the reporting suite and the relationships between reports • Work with business analysts and process experts to understand the business requirements and ensure these are reflected in existing or new reports.• Support diagnosis of live issues to resolve in conjunction with Business MIS lead and MIS Technical team• Execute UAT on live data to determine the effectiveness of data fixes and accuracy of new reports before go-live.• My Italian nationality and language was a great contribution to the communication with the Southern European territories.

• Providing daily, weekly, monthly, 1 year and 3 year forecasts in terms of volumes and FTEs for Bonds and ISAs, reaching up to 1000 FTEs at peak time.• Budget forecasting, such as tracking the cost per transaction and cost of staff.• Weekly & Long Term Forecast for the Bond Helpdesk using Qmax, influencing decisions on FTEs required to achieve agreed service level.• Ability to work on initiative and remote team working, due to the fact that my team was split across Bournemouth & Swindon with my Team Manager based in Swindon.

• Solving Payment Queries and dealing with technical investigations on mortgage accounts.• Identify process improvements and communicate them to the teams/managers• My investigations led to two projects which involved me being seconded to Technical Support. Over a thousand mortgage accounts had to be reconstructed to improve customer service and minimise risks• Applying BACS payments to mortgage accounts.• Posting journals to move money between ledgers and mortgage accounts• Nominal ledger reconciliation