Martin Eames Email & Phone Number

Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taff, United Kingdom

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Cardiff, United Kingdom

• Strategic Analysis• Budgeting and Forecasting • Financial reporting - full control of year-end process inc. production of annual statements• Financial accounting• Compliance• Management accounts• Taxation - Control of VAT / Corp Tax planning / withholding tax affairs of Group• Refinancing & Restructuring • Due Diligence• Treasury• Managing and developing finance members and functions• Authorised signatory

• Company accountant for small manufacturing subsidiary who made coin meters for BAYV- initial due diligence- auditing of financials before taking on the management accounts- introduced tighter credit control eliminating previous bad debt problem- VAT, Corp Tax, Year-End, Annual Returns, Update Statutory Books, organised AGM- liaised with MD to prepare annual budget- make or buy decisions- research and development• Collaborated with IT senior developer for 18 months to build bespoke Oracle finance system. Sound working knowledge of relational databases, able to construct straightforward SQL Select statements and extract / update data from live database. Created numerous standard finance reports and GUI’s in Oracle Reports and Forms• Set up of model for production of monthly management accounts on fully consolidated basis together with supporting pack of statistics, graphs, trends and KPI’s• Responsible for ensuring month-end work is completed within specified time and supervising the month-end team with their schedules• Responsible for ensuring year-end audit file is completed within specified time including preparation of draft statutory accounts. Also involved in annual stock audit and act as first port of call for external auditors queries• Set up Analytical Review schedules for fixed cost monthly expense categories to ensure overheads in management accounts seem sensible• Assessed and prepared analysis on various investing decisions for both new product lines and regional expansion• Prepared long-term projections to assess future funding needs• Prepared monthly cash flow forecasts for the Group

Cima Professional, Accounting

CIMA Qualification (Day Release)

Ba (Hons) Accounting And Finance, Upper 2Nd Class (2I)

4 Year sandwich degree course, 3rd year spent at Just Rentals Ltd (now Buy As You View)