Martina De Brida (Fcca) Email & Phone Number

Florence, It

Emea

Emea

Firenze, Toscana, Italia

London, United Kingdom

In charge of providing a range of accounting, taxation, compliance and business advisory services to a portfolio of 9 European clients with branches or subsidiaries in UK, in the fields of fashion, retail and assets management.• Supervision of monthly preparation and analysis of management accounts, with solutions of arising accounting issues;• Responsible for the preparation of the year end financial statements for group accounts consolidation and UK audit;• Corporation Tax computation and analysis.• Providing in dept research and advise on taxation queries related to the UK fiscal system.• Support and main point of contact for the audit of the UK subsidiary.• Supervision and control of the bookkeepers and junior accountants activities.• Selected to provide advise on accountants and financial professionals recruitment to multinational clients, thanks to extensive corporate and management experience.

London, United Kingdom

Leader of a team of 3 people, in charge of Revenue Assurance and revenue recognition compliance with external and internal reporting as well as accounting requirements.• Monthly review, analysis and comments of revenue, focusing on correct allocation to different segments, products and customers.• Key role in the implementation of new revenue assurance tools that will enhance the quality of information delivered to our internal partners.• Responsible for ensuring compliance of revenue recognition with internal policies, IFRS and SOX.• Provide relevant support to the contract process, ensuring that revenue recognition and VAT impact are understood and correctly addressed in line with policy.• Provide effective support for the internal and external audit process ensuring all requirements and deadline are fully met.• Responsible for implementing and maintaining an effective and robust controls environment in line with IFRS and SOX requirements.• Responsible for monthly submission of FCF information and analysis of variances of actual against budget and plan.• Involvement in forecast and plan preparation for specific ad hoc projects or product which required detailed and specific analysis of revenue recognition rules.• Effective management of the revenue assurance team, ensuring a high performance culture is embedded in the work style and ensuring high level of motivation, moral and engagement are maintained.

London, United Kingdom

Management and control of key accounting areas and tasks like: statutory and tax reporting, monthly and year end submissions and other accounting elements. • Monthly review, analysis and comments of all Balance Sheet and Cost accounts in group and local ledgers, including alignment between the two and drill down analysis of material variances.• Participation in regional balance sheet and cost reviews, providing detailed explanation of different elements and reports.• Management of local ledgers and review of annual financial statements for local compliance, including preparation of clear and detailed audit files and tracking schedules.• Management of the relationship with external auditors and statutory board of auditors for statutory/tax audits, liaising with Compliance and other relevant departments in order to ensure a timely and successful completion of the audit.• Presentation and explanation of completed Statutory accounts and ratios to the Board of Directors and the Board of Statutory Auditors during official BoD meetings in order to obtain approval for the Financial Reports.• Completion of tax packs, booking of tax provisions and monitoring tax accounts movements, in collaboration with the Tax Department.• Managing relationships with internal (the Business, Global Service Centre (GSC) in Bangalore, Tax, TP and Treasury departments) and external (EY, PwC and Patterson) customers and providers in order to ensure a timely and efficient service delivery.• Ensure the month end close is in line with Thomson Reuters global reporting timetable. Review of critical accounts in order to ensure that they are reconciled to underlying documentation and that the transactions are coded accurately with proper back up in line with Thomson Reuters accounting policies and SOX requirements.• Management and coordination of the administration assistant resource in Italy, providing full training and support in the performance of her tasks and encouraging development.

London, United Kingdom

LBBW London Branch• Financial reporting – IFRS compliant: month end preparation and completion of financial reporting for the branch, ready for consolidation. Use of consolidation systems.• Monthly Balance sheet and P&L reconciliations between London branch and HO systems using SAS.• Assistance in preparation of accounts and documentation for the year-end and half-year audit.• Fixed Asset management and reconciliation.• Preparation of daily liquidity and cash flow reports.• Assistance in the New Products Development Process, in charge of preparing and distributing relevant required information.LBBW SPVs• Fully in charge of preparation of Statutory Accounts for two newly created SPV Companies with ca 2ml assets managed by the branch.• Management of daily accounting activities for the SPV Companies• Assistance in the management and organisation of audit process for the SPV Companies

London, United Kingdom

Accounting to Reporting 2006 - 2007Promoted from AP to the role of Accountant with the following duties:Financial reporting: assisting in the preparation of quarter-end reporting to be sent to the consolidation team.Fixed Asset management.Italian VAT accounting.Account reconciliations: especially focused on Balance Sheet accounts.Preparing and reviewing monthly AP/GL reconciliation.Auditing requirements: preparing reports and analyses twice a year.Process mapping and rationalization in view of SAP implementation.Monthly booking and reconciliations of accruals.Purchase to Pay Coordinator - Accounts Payable 2005 - 2006Extensive experience as AP Italian Team member covering a variety of duties:Processed an average of 200 invoices a week.Prepared Withholding tax returns for Italy and Withholding tax GL reconciliation.AP Supervisor deputy with duties including KPI management and recruitment of new team members.Projects and Achievements:Manager of Unallocated Cash project: duties included clearing up unprocessed Customs Documents and, after process improvement, keeping the system of manual anticipated payments working month by month without creating unknown unallocated cash.Cleared the Debit Balance and supplier statements to allow an easy passage from an old accounting system based on Oracle to SAP.

Padova Area, Italy

www.vimm.itManaged the Accounting System of the Foundation.Gained two years of bookkeeping experience, especially in invoicing input, supplier statements reconciliations and related problem-solving, and bank reconciliation. Carried out year-end operations and final financial reporting.Assisted the Administrative Director in budgeting and forecasting.Became very familiar with specialist programmes like CFE (Programme for European Funds Contracts), Non Profit Solutions (Database for Non Profit Organisations) and E-views (Economic Statistics Programme).Managed Italian and international funds dedicated to the development of the Foundation's Research Projects.Reconciled expenses and Funds used. Specialised in new European Projects.Purchase Ledger duties included batching, matching and coding, BACS, some market research about price and maintaining relationship with suppliers.

Education record

Fully qualified

Masters Degree; Ba & Ma, Economics; Combined

Result: 97/110 Subjects examined included: Micro-economics and Macro-economics, International Economic Politics, Company Management.

Education record

Awarded 5-month Erasmus exchange scholarship due to high exam grades. Subjects included: HR Organisation and management, Marketing.