Badenoch & Clark & Modis (part of the MPSGI recruitment group acquired by Adecco recruitment group)Reporting to the head of finance, with three direct report’s, I am responsible for ensuring the month end accounting process is completed on time, producing accurate management accounts and information whilst ensuring adequate financial controls are in place. I also work closely with the head of finance and my managing director to ensure that we are commercially aware of strategy and markets including our competitors. Responsible for producing the monthly forecast pack showing expected annual performance against budget and last year.  Monthly finance review pack for MD and head of finance review for CEO and CFO monthly review meeting. Including all analysis for variance against budget and last year, including quarterly performance analysis against competitors. Providing weekly consolidated KPI data (which can be broken down to individual sales consultants) to finance director and managing director Preparing annual budgets working closely with the Finance Director and Managing Director – these then need to be broken down by team and agreed with local sales managers Liaising with auditors, being the point of contact, supplying requested documentation and dealing with queries. Working closely with the Managing Director and Bonus team to review annually bonus/commission schemes that meet the strategy of the company Review all balance sheet reconciliations each month giving sign off, ensuring any reconciling items are chased up and resolved in a timely basis. This involved supporting the rest of the team and dealing closely with other back office functions.

Reporting to the head of finance , with four direct report’s, I supervise the month end accounting process, producing accurate management accounts and information whilst ensuring adequate financial controls are in place. Liaison with the business and senior managers are essential to this role. As well as being the lead for the year end audit. Preparation and distribution to Regional Directors of monthly management packs (containing KPIs as well as financial information) First point of contact for Directors / Sales managers for queries on their results or Gross Margin variances (numerical and percentage) and ad hoc analysis as required by the business Liaising with auditors, being the point of contact, supplying requested documentation and dealing with queries.  Supervised the team to ensure all month end tasks were completed

Senior Management Accountant Reporting to the Finance Manager, and looking after four direct report’s, I manage the month end accounting process, producing accurate management accounts and information whilst ensuring adequate financial controls are in place. Liaison with the business and senior managers are essential to this role. Responsible for producing the management accounts with additional schedules, preparing commentaries and additional analysis for Finance Manager and Finance Director review Assist in the preparation of monthly rolling forecasts and trend analysis as required by the Finance Manager and Finance Director, engaging with the business too Prepared Budgets to draft level working with the Commercial team Prepare the accounts for the separate MOD Projects division Responsible for signing off the teams monthly journals, ensuring they are produced in line with accounting best practice and to SOx standard, and that all department deadlines are met. Review all balance sheet reconciliations each month giving SOx sign off, ensuring any reconciling items are chased up and resolved in a timely basis. This involved supporting the rest of the team and dealing closely with other back office functions.  Responsible for the weekly and monthly Sales and Cost of Sale Reconciliation (reconciling the front office ops system, HR pay and bill system to Finance system). This is the most complicated reconciliation performed by the business.  Assist and review third party returns including statutory accounts and IR and HMCE returns.  Calculate monthly and quarterly Director and Manager commissions for payout Managed four staff included staff development, reviews, coaching and training.

Reporting to the Finance Manager, with one direct report, I manage the month end accounting process, producing accurate management accounts and information whilst ensuring adequate financial controls are in place. Liaison with the business and senior managers are essential to this role. Responsible for producing the management accounts with additional schedules, preparing commentaries and additional analysis for Finance Manager and Finance Director review Calculate monthly and quarterly Director and Manager commissions for payout Prepare the accounts for the separate MOD Projects division Responsible for signing off the teams journals at month, ensuring they are produced in line with accounting best practice and to SOx standard, and that all department deadlines are met. Review all balance sheet reconciliations each month giving SOx sign off, ensuring any reconciling items are chased up and resolved in a timely basis. This involved supporting the rest of the team and dealing closely with other back office functions.  Responsible for the weekly and monthly Sales and Cost of Sale Reconciliation (reconciling the front office ops system, pay and bill system to finance system) This is the most complicated reconciliation performed by the business.  Assist in the preparation of monthly rolling forecasts and trend analysis as required by the Finance Manager and Finance Director, engaging with the business too Assist and review third party returns including statutory accounts and IR and HMCE returns.

Six month travelling around the world covering Brazil, Argentina, Chile, New Zealand, Australia and Thailand.

REED - London April 1999 – October 2005Finance Manager August 2004 – October 2005Following promotion, I became Finance Manager for three sites Haringey, Brent and Doncaster. Main duties were to ensure all finance staff on site complied with processes and provided a good customer service and to help on site managers to control and understand costs. Prepared and Reviewed Monthly P&L’s with the business (non financial staff) to ensure they understood and owned the figures. Prepared forecasts against budget on a monthly basis and investigated discrepancies and reported these to finance director. Ensured financial systems and procedures were implemented and followed ensuring month end deadlines achieved. Managed five staff (including remote locations) included staff development, reviews, coaching and training.

Main duties were to ensure that claims paperwork was completed correctly by operational personnel. Assisted in both internal and external audits of all claims paperwork on various sites and reported findings to financial controller Completion of remote location claims to strict month end deadlines and 0% error rate on submission of claims to the customer Coached non finance staff in the correct procedure for all paperwork in finance related matters for claim and general on site finance requirements Managed two staff included staff development, reviews and coaching and training.

Main duties involved checking all paperwork was completed correctly by operational staff and to compile the claim for submission to the customer. Claim compilation and monitoring using MS Excel. Compilation of monthly invoice to the Employment Service with an information pack as way of verification. Managing the sales ledger, including monthly reconciliation’s, investigating discrepancies. Drafted process manuals for all claim procedures and controls.

Assisted with the smooth running of the accounts function dealing with all day to day queries and processing of invoices and cash book reconciliations Purchase ledger – logging incoming invoices, distributing for authorisation, tracking whereabouts, and posting to ledger, preparing payment runs and reconciling supplier statement’s Processing duty & excise documentation for reconciliation for imported stock. Sales ledger – re-charging duty and shipping costs to clients and credit control Bank & Cash – daily maintenance of cash book, liaison with bank and weekly bank reconciliation. Cover for sales order processing clerk in holiday period. Weekly stock reconciliation with bonded warehouse including taking part in annual stock control for audit purposes Ad-hoc analysis and reporting.