Oversight of key financial and management reporting processes for 2 leading infrastructure contractors in partnership with Surrey Highways. Employed with Kier for 5 years, followed by a TUPE transfer to Vinci Construction - Ringway- Full ownership of the budgetary process and performance review of a large range of capital and revenue streams totalling over £100m p.a. turnover- Gained an overall perspective of the contract, interacting regularly with a dozen operations managers and client service leads- Deputised for the Business Unit Financial Controller for a few months on several occasions- Developed the Finance Assistant, enabling him to carry out finance month-ends unsupervised- Streamlined month-end processes to enable reviews to happen up to 2 days sooner- Overhauled timesheet control and the calculation of labour recovery rates from various sources, significantly improving the integrity of margins reporting by reducing under-recoveries by 75%

Extended assignment for a global leader in data security solutions to manage the budgeting, forecasting and review of the £10M+ UK Services overhead in a new SAP environment, to resolve legacy data issues, and to develop new reporting tools and enhance the visibility of results

Comprehensive revenue recognition for a fast-growing US-based premium electric car manufacturer with 3000+ high-value deliveries per quarter for the European market.

Multicurrency EMEA region P&L reporting to the US, and year-end balance sheet reconciliations requiring extensive investigations with outsourced payroll bureaux to clear up longstanding issues

Dual role - key member of the SAP CRM roll-out team, and in a finance capacity responsible for reporting on a number of business units in a post-merger environment- Organised the transfer of 2500 contracts and 10,000 open purchase orders onto a new SAP platform, a situation not encountered before internally- Introduced 50% time-savings to a detailed region-by-region analysis during a year of post-merger organisational change, by using Advanced Excel data handling techniques- Produced a course of action for the CFO on how to resolve unmatched internal invoices totalling £600k, highlighting cause-effects and recommending practical solutions

Reporting to the Finance Director, a combined Multilingual management reporting, SAP systems integration and business partnering role for a leading global energy and services group, to provide quality information to directors and budget holders to enable correct commercial decisions to be made- Re-built the management reporting in SAP to enable 12 regions nationwide to fully own the review of 2500+ contracts, achieving 25% time-savings on the production of consolidated KPIs- Developed excellent relationships with Group colleagues in France and regularly provided in French a high-quality business commentary for 6 legal entities- Organised workshop SAP training and end-user support for 12 regional managers & their staff, to enable them to better focus on contract margin improvement and cash collection- SAP Key user for FI CO PS modules, and custodian of all master records

Extended assignment to develop new management reporting tools during SAP system roll-outs in BBC Factual & Learning, and BBC PropertyAcquired a proficient knowledge of SAP R/3 , Hyperion FM and BBC legacy systems at very short notice

Contract assignment to re-align annual budgets to a new divisional structure

High-pressured US GAAP multilingual global reporting role in a shared financial service centre, working to strict deadlines and regularly complying with external auditor scrutiny- Achieved a new quality standard in the completion of audited global reporting of 60 legal entities, fully justifying the validity of all intercompany eliminations every quarter- Administered AS400 month-end systems and provided end-user support for 300+ staff worldwide- Developed & supervised a small team of accountants

Supervisory role controlling all finance aspects relating to the purchasing, maintaining and selling of 35000+ units p.a.