Head of FP&A and Treasury. Reporting into the CFO I am responsible for all Financial Planning activity at Cromwell including,- Leading the Annual Budget Process, meeting the challenging demands of both Domestic and International parent stakeholders- Monthly rolling forecasting through a robust Risks and Operations tracking process- Created and owned the cashflow forecasting of the group and prepare regular reporting against forecast- Lead a highly capable group of Senior Financial Analysts, focussing on giving the business financial insight to drive key business decisions- Tracking project success through monthly variance reporting - Partnering the Senior Leadership Team by providing various ad hoc analysis and financial insight - Attend monthly board meeting presenting financial results and R&O updates

Responsible for the end to end Group Financial Planning and Forecasting of Cromwell Group (Holdings)Ltd. Reporting to the Head of FP&A the role includes full P&L and Balance Sheet forecasting, owning the annual plan cycle as well as quarterly forecasting and the Long Range 5 year forecast. Manage a team of 3 Finance Analysts who are tasked with partnering with various areas of the business.Other responsibilities include pulling together the month end commentaries against forecast and prior year and presenting these back to senior stakeholders. Support the management accounts team in pulling together monthly and quarterly accounting packs required by our US parent company.

Moved from previous Business Partnering role at First Utility to be the Finance Business Partner Lead for Customer Operations (Customer Services, Credit Control and Metering)• Produced the 2017 Customer Operations Budget, which is the largest and most complex area of the business and accounts for roughly 75% of the headcount. As part of this process I presented the budget to the Exec team including UK Managing Director, CFO, CIO, COO, Group FD, UK FD.• Compiling the annual budgets and regular reforecasts and presenting this back to the exec including CEO, UK MD, CFO, COO & CIO• Presenting to the Customer Operations Leadership Team (including the COO) on a monthly basis showing the snapshot of performance from the previous month, year to date trends and analysis and also adding value on future risks and opportunities• Produced the Budget Presentation for the COO to present at the board meeting • Various Scenario Planning activity carried out as part of the 2017 budget process• Accountable for the monthly management accounts and work alongside the Financial Reporting team to make sure that the actuals are a true reflection of business activity• Project Lead to reduce the bad debt within the business. The challenge was to create a number of initiatives that would successfully drive down bad debt and reduce the overall aged debt of the business. • Produce monthly reporting packs for my respective areas with variance analysis, trend analysis, outturn and a host of graphs. • Prepare Cost per analysis including Cost per Contact, Cost to Serve, Cost per Complaint.• Work with the Credit Control function on their monthly Debt Pack, this includes collections analysis, debt trends and bad debt.• Attend a monthly review of debt with the UK Managing Director, CFO, COO, UK FD, Head of Credit Control, Head of Revenue Assurance and Financial Controller.• Line management responsibility for the Assistant Finance Business Partner

Moved from a Financial Reporting role to a more commercial Business Partnering role.I was the Finance Business Partner for the following areas, Credit Control, Billing, Human Resources, Metering, Legal Services, Regulation, Trading & Pricing• Responsible for annual budgeting and presenting to the executive team including the CEO, CIO, CFO, COO• Produced new budget reporting templates which were rolled out to the business• Monthly variance reporting• Liasing with the financial reporting team to produce the management accounts• Forecasting debt collection activity and cost of collections

Management Accountant within the Financial Reporting area of finance. • Producing the monthly management accounts • Controlling and coordinating the annual audit requirements. • Treasury management with daily, weekly and monthly cash flow forecasting• Responsible for the monthly payroll cycle of the business• Oversaw the Purchase Ledger function• Project Managed the implementation of the new payroll system

Carried out this time whilst studying for my CIMA qualification, responsibilities included,• Accruals & Prepayments• Fixed Asset Register• Balance Sheet schedules• Annual p11d and p32• Quarterly VAT returns• FTE reporting

Junior accounting tasks including,• Cash book reconciliation• Accruals and prepayments• Purchase Ledger Management

Financial Analyst within the Strategic Outsourcing department on the Pfizer contract.• Daily and monthly invoice reporting• Calculating the inter company agreements and sharing with 15 other European countries • Apart of a project team which created a "Useful links" intranet site which was an internal search engine for IBM specific links and won the Stephen Wilson Innovation award