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Sandy, England, United Kingdom

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Responsible for monthly management accounts, revenue reporting and analysis, budgeting and forecasting.• Improvement and rationalisation of the monthly management accounts.• Initiated monthly review meetings with budget holders to discuss variances and strategy.• Reporting for UK and EU funded projects, monitoring expenditure and grant income received.• Production of Annual Budget Plan and half year Re-plan, in particular working closely with the Sales team on revenue forecasting, and the R&D team during an expansion resulting in a headcount increase of 100%, and reporting proposals to the Board.

Sawston

Responsible for production of annual accounts for Head office, management and external audit• Developed strategies for cost centres to ensure accurate accounting and achievement of cost reduction and increased cost efficiencies.• Launched a new database to record and compare non-financial indicators across the RDC’s (Regional Distribution Centres).• Reconciliation and review of balance sheet accounts, including payroll, accruals and prepayments.• Monitoring and reconciling capital expenditure.

Sawston

Responsible for the accounts of the London and provincial RDC’s.• Improvement and rationalisation of the monthly accounts pack, saving 20% in the timing of accounts pack production and distribution.• Set up new database for providing overhead information to Cost Centre Managers at RDC’s, resulting in more effective and timely cost review.• Production of monthly variance reports with timely and effective follow up and investigation of variances.• Streamlined the Budget production process, improving completion time by 10% and introducing meetings with budget holders for variance and performance discussion.

Sawston

Responsible for the provision of sales information to customers, managers and directors• Analysis of revenue using the Business Objects database and SQL system to evaluate sales by product, customer, supplier or buying group.• Preparation of the monthly Sales pack, analysing sales by product type, producing reports of sales with comparison to prior year and budget.

Sawston

Sawston

Education record

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc)

Education record