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Perth, WA, AU

Perth, Australia

• Key Responsibilities:To provide finance support to the Network & Infrastructure division.
• Coordination, preparation, and monitoring of operating and capital budgets for the Division.
• Preparation, analysis and presentation of detailed management reports and KPI’s.
• Provide financial input to business reviews undertaken by the Division.
• Preparation and coding of payments to creditors, invoicing of external works and maintenance of payments on corporate credit cards.
• Month end reporting including commentary

Perth, Australia

• Key Responsibilities:To provide support to the Budgeting and Reporting team.
• Creating and maintaining reports using Cognos 7 (Powerplay & Impromptu) & 8.2 Report Writer tool..
• Built a YTD profit and loss report using Cognos 8.2 report writer tool that included a dashboard P&L with drill through to selected reports. This was used by the business for analysis and commentary.
• Month end, forecasting & budgeting processes including adhoc reporting and analysis.
• Project cashflow reporting from an accrual and cashflow basis.Achievements:
• Lead a project to migrate the Business Analysis branch from Cognos 7 to Cognos 8.2. This involved documenting the branches requirements to assist IT in tailoring training sessions in the right business context to meet.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

• Key Responsibilities:To provide a management accounting service within the Management Accounts – Lending and Development Team to assist Management achieve the Company’s targets.
• Understand and assist with the preparation and processing of Management Accounts Lending operations to agreed deadlines.
• Assist in the analysis of complex financial information and provide explanations of business trends on key performance targets.
• Process, develop and maintain business critical financial models using a variety of software (including Excel & VBA) to meet monitoring and reporting requirements.
• Ensure procedures and documentation maintained in line with companywide procedures.Achievements:
• Created efficiencies and re improvements to processes using excel modeling and VBA programming.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

• Key Responsibilities:To assist operational management in improving divisional performance through the provision of accurate information. The role necessitates a proactive approach to identifying opportunities for.
• Products/Promotions: To analyze the contribution to the business of new product launches, promotions and other sales activity. Category Performance: Shop Contribution Statements: Shop Key Results: Shop Performance: To.
• Shops: Produce shop investment appraisals for new shops, refits & re-sites, in accordance with group policy. Bakery: Produce appraisals for bakery capital projects, in conjunction with the Factory Manager. Monitoring.
• Materials: To analyse material costs & variances to standard and report to management. Labour: To monitor labour costs and variances to standard / target / budget and investigating variances. Overhead: To analyse.
• Develop reporting on an ongoing basis to ensure that it continually evolves and focuses on the current issues. Developed a Sales report that provided the sales team with current trading and performance results of.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

• Key Responsibilities:Assist Business Support Accountants (BSA's) in guiding their budget holders with both financial and operational responsibilities.
• Produce, agree and maintain with budget holders annual phased budgets to ensure robust financial control of resources.
• Support budget holders in the use of business software applications.
• Provide support and/or cover for accountants in Finance department to ensure continuity in the provision of financial services.
• Month end reporting, analysis and commentaryAchievements:
• Identify on an ongoing basis and record issues requiring review of financial controls and procedures.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

• Key Responsibilities:Month End:
• Volumes: Being owner for volume downloads and issue of volume report by plant and by material type. Reports: Produce reports after each month end to meet the needs of all customers. Variances: Complete understanding of.
• Volumes: Work with planners to ensure volumes are accurately signed off, Contractor Pricing: Prepare workbook for commercial to update contractor pricing forecast. Variances: Using knowledge of on-going variances and.
• Volumes: Work with Managers –Set up Finance and Category to ensure volumes are accurately represented in Budget. Work with Managers to ensure budget accurately prepared. Prepare $/unit data: Based on information.
• Maintained costings in SAP including Draft, Bulk and Semi finished products and Finished products. Handling queries: Ensure any queries are actioned timely and accurately as they arise. Spring 2007 Gift set costing in.
• Provide financial perspective to business including handling of systems issues within SAP.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

• Key Responsibilities:
• Month end reporting, analysis and commentary
• Monthly/ quarterly forecasting for the IT division. Recognition and analysis of actual V’s budget variances and reporting of results to management.
• Database Management: Maintenance of accounts on Integra. Achievements:
• Developed new ways to improve the forecasting process using Excel and Integra. Set up a model to improve the validation and checking process saving 14 hrs monthly.
• Developed a model to list outstanding purchase orders and GRNI’s for the previous three years. The results were used to track PO/invoices in the current year and clean up the general ledger.

London, United Kingdom

• Key Responsibilities:
• Managed the group’s budgeting and forecasting processes.
• Analysis of variances and trends in relation to budget, target and actual financial numbers. Reporting of results to management.Achievements:
• Designed from first principal the group’s annual budget model. The Excel based model was populated with historical detail and then distributed to the financial director and business managers with instructions on the.
• New budget process. This included written instructions, setting targets, statutory reporting, reallocation of Business Support Costs (overheads) and recharges below the line, development of standardised reports.
• Designed from first principal the group’s annual Capital budget and Establishment (payroll) models. The Capital budget was used to record non-housing capital spend and the establishment model was used to account for.

London, United Kingdom

• Key Responsibilities:
• Month end reporting, analysis and commentary
• Analysis of variances and trends and reporting to management.
• Database Management: JD Edwards.
• Weekly cash reporting & KPI analysis to management.Achievements:
• Developed an ongoing bank reconciliation model that was used monthly by the accounts team and at year-end to account for any unposted items of a material nature.

London, United Kingdom

• Key Responsibilities:Maintaining the accounts of the Home Ownership division that included:
• Cash flow management.
• Covenant management.
• Loan accounting and reconciliation.
• Loans database management and reconciliation.
• Loans payments.

London, United Kingdom

• Key Responsibilities:Reconcile the Division’s top 20 contractors for outstanding invoices and negotiate settlement with suppliers. Achievements:
• Negotiation of settlement with contractors: This was achieved by verbal and written means. In one example for a large contractor I saved the group £46,000.
• Total invoices settled >5000, £1,000,000. Achieved savings of £100k in negotiations.
• Developed a model on Excel utilising Contractor statements and extracts from various systems to reconcile outstanding invoices into seven categories based on their status from outstanding to paid.
• Worked closely with the maintenance/payments team to ensure invoices were validated correctly for payment.

London, United Kingdom

• Key Responsibilities:Ensure the accurate transfer of data from SUN accounting to Investran for one fund under administration (8 in total).
• Entering journals of every type description.
• Reconciling Trial balances, Charts, Quarterly investor summaries and Investments.
• Entering and reconciling fund bank statements
• Entering and amending static data on Investran.
• Entering investment activity including purchases, realisations, conversions and de-merges on a daily basis.

Bachelor Of, Business - Accounting & Finance

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