Paul Askham Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

• Responsible for consolidated management reporting of Society, coordination of Budget / Forecast process including build / maintenance of consolidated Excel models and Anaplan models and partnering with HR function.
• Production of consolidated monthly management reports for the Society of Lloyd’s,
• Coordinating with colleagues in the Finance Business Partnering team to bring together commentary from all functions, ensuring it is complete, accurate and consistently high quality
• Analysing variances in income lines and Central expenses
• Summarising the consolidated position and drawing out key trends and drivers
• Management of Anaplan planning tool including maintenance of reporting dashboards, loading of actual and forecast data, building reports and supporting colleagues in using the system

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for partnering with Asia Pacific and Americas Regions to deliver regular accurate management reporting and Budget / quarterly forecasts
• Working with local teams to ensure accurate monthly reporting
• Consolidating commentary from local offices and driving continual improvement in standard of analysis supplied by local offices through constructive feedback and clear guidance on expectations
• Monthly / Quarterly reporting to regional management and UK functional management of consolidated regional results
• Working with local teams to consolidate annual budget and quarterly forecasts, providing support and challenge as appropriate

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for correct accounting of revenues, provision of management reporting and coordination of Budget/Forecast process
• Reviewing monthly revenue outputs for accuracy and completeness and preparing accruals, deferrals and transfers as necessary
• Analysing monthly results to understand and communicate variances to budget and identify risks and opportunities
• Providing commentary on weekly and monthly trends in a key business indicator produced from detailed analysis of various data sources using reporting tools including Microstragegy and Hyperion
• Budgeting and quarterly forecasting non-volume driven revenue including collecting and challenging inputs and financial modelling
• Supporting implementation of new reporting solution using detailed knowledge of revenue streams to ensure output is correct and meets reporting requirements

• Supported Business Operations Division, providing financial analysis to key stakeholders and regular management reporting information on divisional performance.
• Maintained accounting ledgers including all required accruals, prepayments and transfers
• Analysed monthly results to understand variances to budget and identify risks and opportunities to be included in quarterly forecasts
• Conducted monthly meetings with cost centre managers to communicate results, gain insight into drivers of costs and understand future plans
• Prepared monthly reporting packs for senior divisional management to present relevant financial information and highlight key issues
• Supported budget process:

• Worked in a team of six responsible for producing annual budget and quarterly re-forecasts for Jet2.com and Jet2holidays as well as commercial support for the business.Jet2holidays:
• Forecasted specific P&L lines, obtained inputs from people across the business and used commercial knowledge to model likely behaviour
• Liaised with reporting colleagues on a monthly basis to understand variances to forecast and inform future forecasts
• Assisted in managing the Jet2holidays forecast Balance Sheet
• Produced overheads budgets bringing together inputs from managers across the holidays business
• Produced pages of budget output pack; communicating key elements of the budget to non finance colleagues

• Sole member of finance responsible for financial record keeping and working capital management of business (turnover circa £2m).
• Controlled purchase and sales ledgers
• Bank reconciliation and cash flow management
• Weekly payroll for up to five employees including filing end of year returns
• VAT management
• Foreign currency exchange and management

Acma, Cgma

Qualified since June 2013

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Mathematics