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London, England, United Kingdom

GAM Investments is one of the world’s leading independent, pure-play asset managers. Who provide active investment solutions and products for institutions, financial intermediaries and private investors. GAM Investments operate in 14 countries and collectively manage CHF 100 billion in assets.

• Forecasting - mid month, month end, and yearly forecast• Budgeting - assist with the completion of the annual budget• Preparation of the management accounts including international banking group assistance• Daily PL production and variance analysis• Senior Management MIS• Regular Costs and Accrual review• Assistance with the Group Financial Reporting pack• Analysis of key expense headings to support MI and for tax computation purposes• Preparation of the daily balance sheet.• Data enrichment reporting• Projects: ODS usage, New cost center, Variable interest rate, C1 codes, CRE separation• Profit Centre reporting and Cost Allocation

London, United Kingdom

• Create financial forecasting, cash flow reports and dashboards for executive committee and senior management• Develop and distribute monthly metric information for eight EMEA regions and corporate finance • Production and analysis of quarterly client and fund profitability to identify product profit margins• Evaluate and prepare financial reporting to assist in management decision making process• Identified inaccurate client billing of £1.2m and updated departmental procedures • Investigated and cleared £2.5m outstanding balance of revenue recharge account• Created, implemented and coordinated new fund reimbursement process to maximize cost recharge to custodian• Achieved corporate team recognition awards for successful projects and acquisition due diligence reporting

London, United Kingdom

• Responsibility for the production of management fee billing for 220 institutional and retail clients • Prepare and coordinate with offshore associates client payments comprising of £21m • Daily interaction with Client Relationship Managers and Business Units; Operations, Legal, Product, Risk• Provide variance analysis of monthly client fee accrual• Prepare and maintain monthly balance sheet reconciliation• Assist with statutory and regulatory reporting• Prepare and maintain payroll clearing reconciliation account• Assist and liaise with external auditors• Establish, implement and review internal controls and procedures• Main project lead at London office on the successful implementation of global revenue and billing solution• Fully trained and coached local office and offshore associates in India for a month on new revenue system

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for client performance fee calculation, client billing and revenue collection• Responsible for all aspects of revenue accounting across London Group• Assist in preparation, review and co-ordination of monthly financial reporting information• Produce monthly balance sheet reconciliation’s for review• Assist in the preparation of annual tax computations• Preparation of monthly revenue accruals• Ensure transactions are recorded in accordance with accounting standards and policies• Produce and review monthly revenue and expense analyses for all London departments• Assist with maintenance of UK fixed asset and bookkeeping register• Prepare and provide analysis of revenues and expenses to assist in the performance of the UK Group

London, United Kingdom

• Supervise team of three ledger clerks and ensure section operates efficiently• Collate, register and post large volume of vendor invoices to ledger (Sun Accounts) for London Group• Review and analysis of employee expenses and ensure compliance with company travel policy• Liaise with suppliers and internal departments and handle daily queries• Reconcile supplier monthly statements• Manage and coordinate invoice and staff expense payment run process• Maintain signatory and authorization listing• Set up BACS, CHAPS and foreign currency payments• Reconcile cashbooks and VAT postings• Preparation of monthly accruals• Company Administrator of American Express corporate card• Contact and company liaison for UK airline and corporate hotel providers• Coordinate with HR department on Expatriate reallocation agreements• Conduct staff appraisals, train and develop team

Ba (Hons) Business Studies (Services), Key Modules Include: Financial Services, Retail & Distribution, Tourism & Transport

Btec National Diploma Business And Finance, Key Core Units Include: Finance, Accounting, Applied Statistics, Marketing, Business Law

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