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Epsom, United Kingdom

• Dedicated time to completing an array of small projects / home improvements and acted as a full-time parent to support family members throughout a period of professional development

Woking, Surrey

Key Achievements and Responsibilities ;• Successfully improved EBIT profit margin by 1.5 percentage points by reviewing and makingpermissible changes to underperforming client sales contracts• Actively reduced operating expenses by circa GBP 250k per annum (recurring) by introducingintelligent 'quick win' cost savings• Accredited by HQ for driving expeditious changes through global overseas reporting hub; these changes automated the answers to a new set of critical questions posed by the Group CCO and saved circa 70 hours of manual effort globally on a biweekly basis• Successfully designed and implemented various challenging, business-critical reportingworkarounds using data from SAP ERP, as information wasn't available in Global BI system• Implemented SAP ERP in 2012 in the UK, prior to a global rollout; played a key role in completing the implementation• Spearheaded negotiations with HQ to add a new business-critical KPI to Global BI system;demonstrating the ability to influence at a senior level• Championed the management and development of 2 Assistant Finance Business Partners• Functioned as a Strategic Finance Business Partner; connected finance with the business andliaised with all teams• Provided senior stakeholders with the financial information, analysis and insights they needed to make more informed strategic, operational and tactical decisions; elegantly challenged their thinking and helped them to drive improved business performance• Developed and evolved the reporting framework, along with KPIs and Metrics, to track and monitor business performance and support the company's strategic direction• Provided a forward-looking and commercial view to help articulate different options and influence decisions• Controlled quarterly planning cycles; provided timely and accurate analysis of budgets, forecasts and financial trends

Woking, Surrey

Key Achievements and Responsibilities ; • Played an instrumental role in a pilot project that kicked off the successful implementation and subsequent global roll out of SAP ERP• Spearheaded the complex set up of assessment cycles in SAP ERP CO Module to bring production and overhead costs onto the client facing projects• Held in high regard by senior finance team at HQ; frequently provided constructive feedback on significant changes made to global finance systems and processes• Competently managed several challenging accounting system migrations, each of which were completed successfully within very demanding timeframes• Personally, selected by HQ to coordinate and support the rollout of a new global online inter-company reconciliation system• Maintained financial accounting systems to provide day to day controls• Led regular meetings with profit centre owners to discuss and prepare budgets / forecasts and supporting information• Challenged with producing monthly management accounts on a very strict timetable and preparing extensive reporting of profit and loss variance analysis on a monthly basis• Identified problem areas (revenue shortfalls, cost control etc)• Conducted detailed reviews and reconciliation of various balance sheet control accounts on a monthly basis• Successfully completed inter-company reconciliations on a quarterly basis; ensuring that all company objectives were met and achieved

West Byfleet, Surrey

West Byfleet, Surrey

West Byfleet, Surrey

Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey

Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey