Peter Simon Email & Phone Number

Budapest, Hungary

Budapest, Hungary

Budapest

London, United Kingdom

I was the Finance Manager reporting to the Finance Director and the Managing Partner at the Future Capital and Cocoon Wealth group, overseeing the work of financial accountant, preparing financial statements and monthly management accounts for 20 entities in our group structure and investment portfolio. Major responsibilities:• Financial statements preparation and review• Monthly management accounting and cash flow reporting for the 'Dinosaurs in the Wild' project• Group consolidation, account reconciliations, and tax relief calculation• Report on weekly cash collection and bad debtors to the Managing Partner• Deal with tax queries from HMRC, preparation and submission of VAT returns• Fund accounting for limited liability partnerships• Liaison with Client Services, Legal on ad-hoc queries and manage external auditKey achievements:• 2016 Successfully closed the 2014 and 2015 audits before filing deadlines, introduced weekly cash collection and bad debtors reports to support fast and accurate decision making

London, United Kingdom

I was the in-charge Senior Auditor on Centrica's power generation (thermal/power stations, wind farms, nuclear), midstream (trading) and downstream engagements, leading IFRS group reporting and UK GAAP financial statutory audits. I managed the controls testing project from preparation to reporting, and worked on the FRS101 transition for 11 entities.Major responsibilities:• Plan the audit, define component audit approach based on Group Instructions, and build up the component audit strategy• Provide extensive coaching and manage the work of 2-3 junior members• Perform risk-based financial audit, applying professional scepticism• Conduct controls testing and liaise with Internal audit, evaluating their testing strategy and work performed• Summarize and present the audit findings, the related risks with financial impact, and provide recommendations to the client on the internal control deficienciesKey achievements:• 2015 My high-quality documentation on manual journal entries related to fraud and management override of controls was used on Centrica's group year-end engagement, thus the Audit Partner expressed his satisfaction and thanked my thorough investigation over manual journals which urged need for re-running certain SAP reports due to incorrect data queries

Budapest, Hungary

I worked as a Revenue Controller in the global Asset Under Management ("AUM") finance team and was responsible for calculating, analysing, booking revenue and signing-off publicly disclosed AUM revenue figures and other related information. I managed the daily work of 2-3 people and had to ensure complete and accurate calculation of the periodic license fees, accounting accruals, and revenue estimations relating to the Firm’s license agreements with Fund providers and Exchanges.Major responsibilities:• Liaise with senior executive Finance Management in New York, Business, Sales, Legal, Billing and Collection globally• Manage clients globally in Europe, America, APAC, South Africa and Middle-East• Perform periodic license fee calculation of over 2.200 AUM products (ETFs, Institutional and Mutual Funds, Futures & Options contracts), and coordinate billing process• Conduct month-end close of AUM revenue, and other related financial processes (10Q, 10K reports), including variance analysis and account reconciliations• Prepare and present monthly results and variances against forecast on a product and client level to senior executive Finance Management in New York, Product Control and Sales• Enhancing revenue recognition controls to comply with US GAAP• Manage relationship and queries from external auditorsKey achievements:• 2014 Successful tutor for cross-functional teams in different regions (Mexico, US, Europe), and worked in the due diligence process for the new ERP system and in the development, implementation of AUM revenue stream ("order to cash") into SAP• 2013 Successfully developed and implemented various new complex fee calculation features to work around system limitations (AUM revenue grew by approximately 55% from 2013 to 2014)• 2012 Put through the implementation (including User Acceptance Testing) of approval workflow of system objects impacting license fee calculations

Budapest, Hungary

I led external financial audit teams for companies operating in pharmaceutical, energy, oil and utilities, retail, manufacturing, and automotive business sectors, in accordance with IFRS, US GAAP and local GAAP standards. I conducted SOX review and controls testing, and reported to the US SOX Assistant Manager.Major responsibilities:• Provide extensive coaching and manage the work of 1-3 junior members• Conduct full and limited scope financial audit of the financial statements• Contribute to develop the risk-based audit approach and strategy• Perform SOX review and controls testing, liaised with Internal Audit function• Prepare internal and external reports (audit opinion, control recommendation)Key achievements:• 2011-2012 Succeeded in the full project management of TEVA Pharmaceuticals Hungary's financial audit (US GAAP, SEC, SOX) and met all reporting deadlines, hence got rewarded with excellence certificates from the Senior Manager and the signing Director for my commitment and precise work• 2011-2012 Excellent tutor in providing training for new joiners (outstanding evaluation) in accounting, audit methodology and stocktaking procedures, documentation

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Accounting And Finance

Partially Qualified