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Bletchley, England, United Kingdom

Towcester, England, United Kingdom

Effectively execute a support finance function for each individual Project Manager, whilst enforcing complex Group Financial Policy (Europe) and local (UK) processes along with UK GAAP. Spearheaded a ‘1 stop shop’ new Project Report and implemented as a standard template. Introduced PM Timesheet traceability through the accounting system, aside from providing Sales Proposal data consideration, but at the same time looking after the PM’s overall wellbeing.Selected Contributions:• Main UK Project Controller (finance control) for H&M Project, largest build for SSI Schaefer UK Ltd. in Europe (73,000 sq m logistics warehouse in Magna Park MK).• Successfully set up Finance function for Projects Department in Pury Hill location (Midlands) whilst working for Head of Finance in another location (Andover). • Produced accurate financial reports for management review. Providing analysis and commentary to stakeholders.• Prepare & input Timesheet journal.• Set up job in NAVISION, bearing in mind the precision of Jet Reports running in the background. • Worked closely with Project Manager, Finance and Project Admin insuring billing precision and client requirement.• Conducted month-end finance reviews with Project Manager. Subsequently supplying Commercial Director, Head of Finance and UK Managing Director with the latest project status.

Linford Wood, Milton Keynes

Owning eight departments in the Sales Promotion and Employee Benefits Division. Recognised as the main finance ‘go to’, affirming, offering/recommending guidance when needed. Led monthly status review with account managers, suggesting purposeful costs savings. Triumph in collaborating with over 150 staff, having a strong commercial aptitude, maximising profit by finding opportunities through delivery efficiencies and other costs management.Selected Contributions:• Proactively monitor and reconcile profitability of jobs.• Monitoring controls for the Division including Aged Debt, Uninvoiced Debt Report, supplier credit notes and Earned Profit Phasing.• Deliver regular and ad hoc financial information and sound advice to senior management.• Liaising with Group Finance, ensuring month end figures are reported as agreed with each Head of Department.• Assisted in implementing new finance system, from Maconomy to Navision, including parallel testing as well as correcting system failures - working closely with Navision programmers.

Walton Manor, Walton, Milton Keynes

Contract: 3 mths, plus 4 mths extension• Reconciliation of VAT account, EC sales lists, annual PAYE (PSA) return and Intrastat. • Developed new process to present Financial data (individual customer P&Ls) to Business Unit Directors. Collating data from two separate systems, analysing & manipulating to ensure accuracy & integrity. Interpreting information and presenting in a desirable and easy to understand format.• Importing high volume of data, reviewing, analysing and manipulating beforehand, any errors found are corrected. Daily/month sales are downloaded afterwards.• Solving queries on the rebate scheme – communicating with external customers on email and over the phone. Liaising with Field Sales team and Finance to find solutions.

Kettering

• Assisting in development & distribution of management and financial reporting as required by the business and depot sites.• Collation & compilation of P&L data providing advice where needed to assist in the delivery of each depots monthly & quarterly targets and maintenance of financial control.• Providing accurate financial reports on a monthly basis including risks, opportunities & commentaries.• Month end responsibilities include Accruals & Prepayment journals, balance sheet reconciliation, P&L variance analysis. • Purchase order managements – to avoid under/over spend.• Reporting Weekly, Monthly & Quarterly P&L re-forecasting, working closely with each depot site managers to ensure understanding of better budget management (within their control). • Undertaking financial analysis to support business performance management & cost re-engineering opportunities.• Recovered overpayments by reviewing payments & purchasing transactions to identify payment errors.• KPI Analysis – comparing actual results against forecast.• Producing ad hoc reports when needed by depot sites and head office.

Northampton, England, United Kingdom

• Financial support to the Commercial Internet team, including giving Finance advice according to UK GAAP, as well as recommendations.• Sales and Margin Analysis - week on week movements, against last year's Budgets and current forecast• Evaluation of promotions and marketing activity. Calculating the impact of a particular 'offer/sale' item.• Created Internet Weekly trading pack. Collating weekly sales report, calculating Margins & showing Internet visitors shopping habits, using Google Analytics.

Towcester, England, United Kingdom

• Assisted in implementing new Finance system from an out-of-date software to SAP, including parallel testing.• Created Daily, Weekly & monthly reporting of Sales & Orders.• Provide Sales & Orders reconciliation on a weekly basis.• Maintaining high accuracy of the company’s new reporting tool (ERS).• Daily, weekly & monthly reconciliation of ERS & SAP to provide accuracy.• Implemented a new process for reconciling each individual company codes.• Analysing sales & orders between SAP & ERS system.• Problem solving – identifying errors/incorrect data/potential problems and finding solutions and providing other alternatives or enhancements to the new system so that there is little need for human input going forward.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

End to End process• Review & deliver reporting of monthly revenue & costing for client contracts.• Identify & analyse client costs• Ensure that costs are allocated and accounted for within the correct cost centre• Produce a weekly report of cost variances• Raising invoices and debt management provided per contract

Bletchley, England, United Kingdom

Shared Services Group is a global function providing a number of key accounting, control & processing support, such as Procurement, Accounts Payable, Cash & Bank & Expenses.• Achieved a settlement claim of £2.5m against BT following the Ofcom determination ruling. • Redesigned, produced & documented a reference guide for the Accounts Payable forecasting tool and provided training prior to a handover to the responsible team.• Analysed and manipulated large volumes of data. Developed a report detailing cash Receipts and Payments for Hedging USD and Euro, facilitating a better control of the company's future exchange rate gains or losses.• Provided support for a Business Division sale, initiated a site visit, chaired a meeting with direct contacts, agreed actions for both parties and other teams to close the vendor account.• Provided support to Reporting Manager in the preparation of period end analysis and adding commentary explaining cost variances• Maintained a Cash Flow model, assisting in Forecasting and Budgeting, focusing on achieving a monthly cash target (inflow). • Produced effective training plan for offshore colleagues in India. Designed documentation process, training and accreditation whilst working on business as usual tasks. • Prepared & produced Key Performance Indicators (KPI) reporting pack, by calculating and manipulating data from SAP into Excel, in accordance with reporting timetable.• Prepared and produced an 'internal' KPI pack, targeting the operational areas of A/P Processing & Query Management. Set up meetings with relevant managers & identifying areas for non-compliance & non-conformance against the company's targets, rules & regulations.• Completed Quarterly Surveys of International Trade in Services for the Office of National Statistics (government department responsible for official statistics)• Created a glossary of processes & procedures used in capturing & monitoring KPI's.

Bletchley, England, United Kingdom

• Excellent communication skills, able to recover 85% - 90% debt on a monthly basis.• Performed debt collection from worldwide entities, such as EMEA, all EU states & USA.• Forecasting receipts for cash flow purposes.• Resolved customer queries relating to outstanding debts, reconciling accounts and allocating cash to sales invoices accurately.• Reporting and verification of the aged balance.• Worked closely with other members of the accounting team, Account Managers and Legal Support team to solve customer issues and ensure full recovery of debt within client payment terms.• Identified weaknesses in existing procedures and suggest potential improvements.• Produced debtor reports for senior management.• Calculated bad debt provision, which is reviewed & agreed by Finance Director & team managers.• Reviewed monthly debtor with the Finance Director & Finance Planning & Analysis Manager.

Hemel Hempstead Industrial Estate, England, United Kingdom

Watford, England, United Kingdom

Selling and distributing mainly computer hardware and Peripherals

F1 Accountant, Business F2 Management Accounting

F3 Financial Accounting F4 Corporate & Business Law F5 Performance Management F6 Business Taxation

Acca

Nvq, Aat

NVQ Fully Qualified AAT