Responsible for all aspects of Payroll and Pensions for the University which covers approximately 3000 employees including full-time, part-time, visiting lecturers, ad-hoc staff with an annual payroll budget of £103m. Operating as monthly payrolls.Ensured all local legal reporting and payments to relevant authorities e.g. HMRC, were completed and on time. All finance aspects of payroll were completed.Ensured all Compensation elements are processed correctly through the payroll (salary, overtime, ad hoc expenses or other payments) along with deductions (Tax, NI, Pension, salary advances, health subscription, season ticket, cycle to work etc.) on time and accurately complying with statutory legislation and university policy and procedures.Responsible for providing guidance on the operation of the four pension schemes. Ensuring at the same time that all contributions are paid on time and monthly reporting completed. Providing advice for the interpretation, implementation and any implication arising due to changes imposed on the University and its employees in the schemes.Implemented robust payroll review prior to sign off giving management a commentary overview of payroll. Took the primary role in the continued management, development configuration and support of the SAP Payroll/HR system ensuring that it complies at all times to with statutory legislation and University policy.Managed a team of 3, with one direct report.

• Responsible for the set-up of all payroll activities (Local / International) in the EACR HR Shared Services. • Directly in the Hub for 4 countries on SAP (UK Bi-weekly payroll ~2500 employees including inpats & expats, Ireland, Angola, Nigeria monthly ~1200 employees) and 3 outsourced smaller payrolls. • Managed remaining payrolls from country spokes in Italy, France, Germany, Norway, Romania. In total, services to approx. 7500 employees. • Ensured all local legal reporting and payments to relevant authorities e.g. HMRC were completed and on time. All finance aspects of payroll were completed and included completion of both internal and external audit. • Managed all day to day payroll operations with a direct team of 11 (6 UK, 5 Italy) and indirect team of 12. Managed the HR Co-ordinators team between 8-10. • Managed and reported KPI’s and SLA. • Actioned significant redundancy programmes in two countries post acquisition and completed this work at the same time as managing the transition of all HR Services activities including payroll activities to Kuala Lumpia which was completed to budget and on time.• Deputised for Head of HR Services on all aspects of HR / Payroll.• Lead any system update / improvement projects with IT.

• Responsible for the full set-up of the Shared Service Centre, transition of work and day to day operations of the finance activities covering, Accounts Payable, Employee Expenses, Fixed Assets, Intercompany accounting. • Recruitment based in Romania (team of ~70) – dealing with country legal HR requirements. Working with various business partners in all countries to build their knowledge and confidence in the new SSC processes and system, and drove the change management required. • Completed project via workshops, face to face meetings, conference calls & project communications. • Ensured all aspects of the transition was on schedule to maintain the project “go live” date and also ensure it was to budget. • Ensured local legal / statutory finance requirements were kept and transitioned correctly. Developed and Reported transition KPI’s, along with status of day to day performance KPI’s, to Divisional VP’s of Finance along with the CFO

Reported to the Regional Controller, and managed the management accounting team of 3, covering project accounting (50+ projects), budgets, forecasts, strategic plan for the CPS division of Cameron for the European African, Caspian & Russia (EACR) regionPrepared / reviewed / submitted monthly and quarterly financial forecasts for the division for the EACR region, to VP for the region and the regional controller, on a 4-quarter rolling basis.Prepared / submitted the budget for the division for the EACR region (P&L and Balance sheet), approved by the VP for the region and also the regional controller before being approved by senior management at head office (Houston). Built and presented a 5year strategic plan, a first for the division. Completed additional quarterly and year end US reporting and SOX control reporting. Transferred accounting for the French business to the UK. Dealt with all the accounting for this entity until it was wound down.

Housing Association company which went through a merger shortly after joining which also lead to location change. Led and managed a team of 6 direct, ~50 indirect, for all day to day finance activities covering Income / Rental, Accounts Payable, Banking, Payroll, Reconciliations.

• Supported the senior management team in the successful creation of the SSC for the company footprint in Europe.• Managed the banking and cashier team (16 staff) • Led European and worldwide process streamlining in accounts payables and banking area• Led integration of acquisitions into the transaction accounting area• Lead the work transfer and SAP release for Central Europe relating to banking – dealing with the external bank and ensuring the business carried on at point of go live. • Developed a set of KPI’s / metrics for all of the transaction accounting function• Delivered specific expertise in technical accounting, audit (internal & external) and SOX compliance for the transaction accounting function. Acted as co-ordinator of all related balance sheet reconciliations ensuring reconciliations were completed correctly and reported on a timely basis.• Represented transaction accounting for all month / year end meetings.• Led and successfully implemented and completed the banking & cashier compliance project for Europe. The project was one of the top 12 prioritised worldwide projects for finance. Plus other accounting roles including consolidation, project accounting, statutory accounting, corporate accounting