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São Paulo Area, Brazil

• Planned and delivered one-to-one lessons to ESL students of various ages from 5 to adult, professional and cultural backgrounds while constantly motivating them to take charge of their own learning and helped them to set their own goals.• Created and taught relevant English lessons focusing upon the needs and problems of individual students as well as following the Oxford New English course for adults. • Trained and guided ESL students in their job search through the use of practice interview and writing skills in English. These individuals became very successful and competitive candidates for multinational companies.• Created lessons that exposed students to English culture (i.e. food, music and holiday traditions).• Combined students' personal interest with lesson objectives to create student specific activities.• Improved reading and pronunciation skills through the use of Penguin English graded readers and Read with Oxford.• Helped numerous students to achieve better academic performance, increase their proficiency level, deliver successful business presentations and prepared a family for their emigration to the USA. • Provided translation services on various subjects such as new product launch social media posts, marketing brochures, events organizing, and subtitles for promotional videos.

São Paulo

• Taught 30 hours per week of English as a second language to all levels to students aged 9 and up with class sizes up to 10. This also included teaching in Colégio Objetivo Teodoro and Grupo Ultra (in-company). • Focused on improving students’ grammar, listening, writing, reading, and speaking skills and encouraged student self-correction on writing assignments with the use of a correction code.• Instructed students using textbooks, worksheets, games, and visuals to help improve reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills.• Maintained accurate and complete student records, administered tests and completed evaluations in order to analyze student performance and progression. Achieved a 100% pass rate for all students. • Met with parents and guardians to discuss their children's progress and to determine priorities for their children and their resource needs.• Attended various training sessions and company meetings.

Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom

• Assisted with the implementation of a new accounting software program specifically designed for Project accounting.• Investigated and documented all the standard operating procedures within the finance department.• Responsible for the performing of major activities in the Accounting department: Cash flow forecasting, budgeting, month and year end closing, processing purchase invoices, customer and supplier payments and general analysis for senior management.

Barcelona Area, Spain

• Over 100 hours teaching practice.• Taught English to classes at all levels including young learners, teenagers and adults that involved in school and private one to one classes for Cambridge ESOL exams.• Business English in company at Lastminute.com to 3 classes of the following levels Elementary, Intermediate and Upper Intermediate to class sizes of up to 10 people. I had to produce my own material as well as following a business English course book.• Planned and provided interesting and varied lessons on a variety of topics.• Used situations and role-play to provide context and foster a more enjoyable learning atmosphere.• Identified students’ strengths/weaknesses and adapted teaching methods as appropriate.

Barcelona Area, Spain

• Calculation, analysis and posting of Credit loss provisions for Private Business Clients Loan portfolio in accordance with IFRS39 & FAS5. • Monthly consolidation of Loan provisions for DB Spain.• Prepare monthly reporting packs for provisions on DB Spain loan portfolio including executive summaries, interpretation of results, and market analysis for senior management.• Global reporting of Credit Loss provisions for DB Spain.• Improve excel working documents to enhance automation and ease of use.

Barcelona Area, Spain

• Responsible for the Deutsche Bank SAE´s fulfilment of the Sarbanes - Oxley Act (SOX) as part of the Internal Controls environment.• Determine the propriety and integrity of all account balances held within DB Spain and assessing any potential P&L impact of their misstatement. • Assist in the implementation of a new system DB Integrity to computerise the balance sheet substantiation process.• Identify and document all key controls performed by the finance team within a new system DB Monitor. This entailed an analysis of existing processes, problems caused as a result of process deficiencies, design of new processes and procedures as well as training and implementation of new system for the entire finance team.• Monthly meetings with senior representatives of all business areas to ensure compliance with SOX.• Monthly reporting to local management and Head Office.

London, United Kingdom

• Preparation, review and consolidation of reporting data for the Private Equity business group within Corporate and Investment Banking Markets.• Preparation and review of IFRS compliant statutory accounts for the companies in the above mentioned groups, liaison with auditors for sign off.• Preparation, collation and analysis of the HSBC Group’s equity investments for the half yearly Group investment review, reported to the Group’s risk management committee.• Reconciliation of individual investment partnership accounts to individual general ledgers and provision of information to Group Tax for company tax computations. • Preparation of all forecasts, commentaries and analysis of the companies in the above mentioned groups.• Planning and action for the above mentioned groups to ensure adequate working capital to maintain their liquidity.

London, United Kingdom

• Financial control of the Project and Export Finance (“PEF”) business unit of HSBC Bank plc.• The production of the monthly global P&L and performance commentaries on the results for CIBM executive management.• Undertake monthly balance sheet reconciliation’s between sub systems and the general ledger and ensure that reconciling items are cleared in the next accounting period.• Maintain the records of outstanding debtors and liaise with the business unit to determine the recoverability, or otherwise, of such debtors.• The annual operating plan and rolling forecast process.• Understand and ensure compliance with all relevant internal and external rules, regulations and procedures that apply to the conduct of the business for which responsibility is assigned.

London, United Kingdom

Key Achievements• Consolidation of European Practice PEMA revenue & costs (using Virtual P&L’s) which required meetings in France, Germany & Netherlands with the country finance heads to ensure costs for PEMA reported correctly. Each PEMA country needed to be set up a cost centre as they generate revenue for the whole of Marsh and therefore PEMA’s expenses need to be allocated on a fair basis. • Creation of revenue & management reporting throughout European offices from zero base.Responsibilities• Project Manager for the creation and integration of a revenue tracking database on Lotus Notes. This was rolled out at the end of October 2005 and replaced the current manual system in excel.• Reporting monthly European revenue. This involves collating reports from each country and individual reports from each UK Project Manager.• Producing and analysing Monthly Management Reports to assist senior management into to making prompt and accurate decisions.• Preparation of budgets and forecasts for UK Cost centres (UK & European Central Management) plus consolidation of European practice budgets & Monthly Europe P&L’s. • Responsible for the monthly reporting cycle for UK & ECM, which includes preparation of accruals, review of actual results and management commentaries.

London, United Kingdom

Various acccounting tasks

London, United Kingdom

• Preparation of monthly departmental cost reports and responding to resultant management queries. This involved variance analysis and led to more efficient budget forecasting and cost control.• Responsibility for the accounting and administration of the charity “PRS Foundation” which was set up to make donations to musicians and musical events. This involved the creation of the chart of the accounts, monthly accounting reports and payments of charitable donations.• Maintenance of the fixed asset register (Hard Cat), monthly reconciliation of Hard Cat to the accounting system and calculation & distribution of depreciation.• Other main duties included inter company reconciliation’s, quarterly VAT returns, preparation of Income & Expenditure and Balance Sheet reports as well as providing business analysis for senior management as and when required.

London, United Kingdom

• This position dealt with a number of private banking operations including an Investment company, charitable trusts, two pension schemes and a horse stud company.• Preparation through to completion of monthly management accounts including calculation of accruals and prepayments, and balance sheet reconciliation. Producing investment appraisals, variance analysis, VAT returns and intercompany accounting.• Assisting with year-end accounts, liaison with auditors, budgeting and cash flow forecasting including anticipation of excess funds and placing these on deposit over fixed periods of time.• Organisation of quarterly dividend distributions, receipt of major dividends and reconciliation of monthly investment income and investment sales/purchases.• On joining the company 75% of the job was manual and it is now fully computerised.

Brighton, United Kingdom

Monitor and administer funds on behalf of underwriters in respect of various insurance schemes.

Haywards Heath, United Kingdom

Responsible for commission payments to IFA brokers and their consultants.

2 A Levels - Business Studies & Computing, As Level Management Accounts & Gcse History

7 Gsces (Including English Language & English Literature)