Peter Hall Email & Phone Number

Paris, FR

Paris, FR

• Following the retirement of the FD, I was promoted into this role to take on his duties and lead the finance department. Consequently, in addition to maintaining overall responsibility for the items whilst in my.
• Management of derivative and treasury functions including calculating and maintaining sufficient coverage of foreign currency liabilities via a portfolio of upto $70m of option dated forward rate contracts
• Cashflow forecasting and management including reviewing sufficiency of existing facilities and negotiating increases where deemed necessary
• Overseeing the activity of the Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable teams
• Payment approval and acting as main banking contact
• Managing our relationships with our Group Finance team including the Group CFO

• Responsibilities:
• Management of the finance department, which processes the transactions for Exclusive Networks Limited and BigTec Limited.
• Preparation and review of the month end results for discussion with the Finance Director
• Reporting monthly results to the group finance team and responding to their queries.
• Introduction and development of a monthly management reporting pack for the UK leadership team
• Designing a monthly gross margin reconciliation process, such that the results per the profitability report by sales order could be reconciled to the appropriate codes in the general ledger with 100% accuracy.

Farnborough, Hampshire, GB

Worldwide, OO

• Responsibilities:
• Management of a portfolio of audit assignments with fee income of around £400k, with direct responsibility to the audit partner.
• Preparing budgets for individual audit assignments, and monitoring performance to provide a forecast of the final position throughout the life of the audit assignment, discussing the reason for any significant.
• Agreeing audit fieldwork dates with the client, and ensuring that staff bookings and review dates are timetabled in order to meet deadlines.
• Liaison with external parties and component auditors to ensure that they are aware of the requirements and deadlines.
• Arranging and holding planning meetings with client, including discussion of significant risk areas, and agreement of scope of audit procedures and audit fees.

• Responsibilities:
• Planning audit processes necessary in order to gain sufficient assurance and understanding of the client in order to produce audited financial statements following review of prior year audit file, correspondence file.
• Leading onsite audit teams of up to 5 staff on clients with turnover of upto £100 million.
• Liaison with client management, finance and non-finance staff in order to obtain required audit evidence to complete our audit testing and understand the rationale behind accounting judgments made by management.
• Preparing audit working papers to document the audit testing conducted, including objective, description of the work undertaken, results and conclusions reached.
• Discussing audit findings and control improvements with client management and agreeing the treatment audit adjustments identified.