Micheal Brett Email & Phone Number

Kraków Area, Poland

Kraków Area, Poland

• Primary ownership for the service delivery implementing the functional strategic plan by setting operational strategy and team’s goals
• Ensure and sets standards for business partnership with his/her Operating Companies and within HEINEKEN Krakow
• Assess and mitigate operational risk and act as escalation point for Team Leaders to drive issue resolution
• Build internal control mind-set and embed internal controls into processes so controls are designed and executed effectively and any deficiency is mitigated
• Contributes to functional budget planning and proactively controls actual costs vs. budget
• Plan rightsizing of the team of ~60 FTE compared with business requirement

Kraków Area, Poland

• Specific responsibilities include, through the effective management of local and remote finance teams, the deliverance of –
• For 13 entities the accurate and timely management accounts (Oracle), including variance analysis, in accordance with Corporate HQ guidelines and procedures
• Full local financial compliance in terms of the statutory accounts, VAT requirements and local audits (either directly or with support of local bookkeepers and remote finance teams)
• Full, clear and timely reconciliations between local bookkeepers’ ledgers to Amdocs ERP system.
• Calculation of quarterly tax provisions and presentation of tax reporting packs, including full reconciliation between ERP tax provision and final CT submission
• Compliance with all internal control procedures and SOX requirements

• Internal Financial Reporting, US GAAP accounts:
• Ensure that the books are closed accurately and in compliance with corporate and internal calendars
• Managing the review and posting of P&L and Intercompany accounting entries to ensure compliance with policy, Sarbanes Oxley Controls and Service Level Agreements.
• Ensuring all account reconciliations are completed and reviewed as per company deadlines
• Complete monthly and quarterly EMEA balance sheet, P&L and Intercompany variance analysis and participate in monthly Global analytical review calls with the Global Controller Norway and Israel Finance Liaison, US GAAP.
• Liaising with Outsourced Providers to ensure that the books are closed accurately and in compliance with corporate calendars

• Team Lead:
• Supervise up to 5 team members in the review and preparation of the US GAAP and UK GAAP accounts
• Set, monitor and manage objectives for the US GAAP team and provide guidance and coaching to help them carry out their duties effectively. Focusing on team training, morale and maximize team performance through target.
• Team and technical lead responsible for US GAAP compliance on UK and Ireland general ledger accounts
• Preparation of monthly Executive Summary reporting pack for senior UK and Ireland finance personnel and participate in monthly accounts review calls with country controllers
• Review of accounting entries and reconciliations to ensure compliance with US GAAP, ensuring correcting entries are raised as appropriate

• Preparation of statutory and management accounts and grant applications. Clients ranged from sole traders, solicitors, and charities to small and medium sized limited companies in various industries such as cosmetic.
• Auditing of small and medium sized companies at a junior, semi-senior and senior level. As a senior I supervised and delegated work to up to three junior staff members. I dealt with companies with a turnover of up to.
• Preparation of computation for Corporation Tax, Income Tax, VAT, PAYE and a small amount of Capital Gains Tax and the filing of the various tax returns. Preparing and filing the various company secretarial returns

Education record

Business Studies