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London, Gb

To own the operation and support of Workday (and other internal information systems), and lead continuous improvement across Alfa’s information systems landscape

 Freelance Finance, accounting and management consultancy services across different industries. Group accounting functions, team building, ERP system implementation, post implementation integration, performance improvement. Consultancy service offering international business entering UK market, business finance function setting up, educational / Business advice to Chinese families aspiring to educate their children in the UK, and / or move their business interests to the UK. The business offers a comprehensive service to Chinese family run businesses, from school placements to successfully advise the families to invest in the UK and migrant as either entrepreneur or investor.

SAP EWM post implementation business process / reporting development & improvement- utilities SAP system capability to support the business process and reporting needs efficiently.Mapping out SAP reporting data strategy and carried out Proof of Concept for the business to implement.

Preston, North West England, Gb

Preston, North West England, Gb

Manchester, Greater Manchester, Gb

Lift and shift R2R management accounting function from Stansted airport to Manchester Airport shared services centre.

BNN is currently going through a potential reverse merger with a US listed company, this role is to head up the group finance function to liaison with BDO auditors and assist Dual Diligence before the merge taking place. BNN has a group of companies in China, the consolidation and group account function are based in UK and formed as part of my responsibilities, this project are expecting to be completed by the end of September 2018 after the successful submission to SEC.

London, London, Gb

The role is primarily responsible for setting up the 3 year £60m capital delivery processes, managing the month end capital spend forecasts for the group, assisting with collation of data for tracking project performance and conducting post investment reviews. Then expended to quarterly forecast, depreciation forecast and group capital spend management & reporting, then extended to ERP system (Board, workday) implementations in the last two years of the project.Process improvement for financial discipline of capital projects – working closely with technology team programme and project managers, delivery leads to understand requirements and cost drivers to embed an effective process to track and deliver agreed capital projects within the budget and time scales. Evaluating business management information systems and working closely with the project team to select and implement the new business back office systems – Board and WorkdayImplementing back office system (Workday project modules) after the completion of the selection process. This role forms a key business partnering function to the Board for capital Investments in the provision of high quality business analysis and investment appraisals, reporting to facilitate understanding the financial performance of the key capital investments.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Alcoa BCS is part of a large, exciting company. Alcoa is the world's leading producer and manager of primary aluminium, fabricated aluminium and alumina facilities, with 59,000 employees in 30 countries and $24.9 billion in revenues in 2014. Alcoa's aluminium products and components are used worldwide in aircraft, automobiles, beverage cans, buildings, chemicals, sports, recreation and a wide variety of industrial applications. Alcoa Building and Construction Systems (BCS) is a leading supplier of architectural systems, services and building products to the global construction market, with offices in 10 countries in North America, Europe and North Africa. The interim business partner role is to lead and transit the changes to BCS Europe sites after the business structure change, to transit BCS Europe HQ’s function to BCS HQ directly. The role involves reviewing the existing reporting processes, drive automation and synergy to be consistent with the North America’s reporting process; to work alongside BCS HQ finance vice president, as the central contact for the 5 European sites daily performance and reporting, as well as the major capital projects. The transition is completed successfully financially and operationally. The scope of the role involves to work closely with different manufacturing sites general managers, operational managers and financial controllers on a daily basis, working closely with global share services to centralise reporting.Manage and support ASAT (Alcoa self-assessment test) internal audit based on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Monthly reporting, forecasting, planning and year end reporting.Manage Alcoa BCS Europe daily P&L calls and weekly forecasting calls with plant financial controllers and general managers.Provide guidance to the sites finance teams and operational teams.

London, England, Gb

Greenergy is a leading national provider of road fuel with significant infrastructure and service capability. In 2014, they supplied 15 billion litres of petrol, diesel and biofuel globally. In the UK they supplied more than a quarter of all road fuel. Much of this is provided on a managed basis, with services covering stock management, scheduling, haulage and biofuel compliance.The interim infrastructure controller has the central responsibility of financial controlling and business partnering for Greenergy infrastructure business, known as terminals. Terminals as standalone enterprise hold infrastructure to blend, store and supply fuels to UK market. Greenergy operates a vertical reporting model, the infrastructure controller acts as financial controller for all aspects of the terminal business and takes ownership of director level reporting to the Board. I proposed and drove changes to the existing management reporting methodology, improved the system reporting tool and rectified the wrongly charged contract rate to recover additional £75k revenue and established the new reporting process to avoid future revenue loss. As an interim Infrastructure controller, my responsibilities are for all aspects of terminal accounting from cost control, working capital management, financial reporting & forecasting, business partnering and system improvement. The scope of work associates with Terminal site management teams, commercial, contract accounting, business development (Thames Oil Port / Thames Enterprise Park) as well as driving newly implemented accounting system (Oracle) improvement.This is a fast moving business with responsibilities such as weekly financial reporting, monthly board reporting, daily business partnering. This role was successfully handed over to the perm Infrastructure financial controller after 6 months interim cover.

Warrington, Gb

 Developing/improving business models to meet business needs, including statutory and regulatory budgeting and planning, compliance with banking covenants (key ratios), valuations for shareholders and providing business decision support by facilitating ‘what if’ analysis for clients. Co-managing business change projects to fulfil ENWL’s vision “to be the leading energy delivery business”. Acting as finance business partner to advise the finance team how to best serve the business. Influencing strategic decision making in regulatory incentives and associated out performance opportunities e.g. distributed generation incentives and set ENWL future strategic directions for Distributed Generation. Evaluating OFGEM DPCR5 initial proposal and setting up modelling to evaluate final proposal. ENWL delivered a successful price control settlement for its stakeholders. Developing processes and templates to analyse and evaluate DPCR5 allowances and monitor business regulatory performance. This approach was adopted for collecting business information to focus on regulatory performance and statutory financials. Developed contract model to evaluate commercial contract negotiation/reach sound commercial decisions.

Bradford, West Yorkshire, Gb

Yorkshire Water is a water supply and treatment utility company servicing West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, the East Riding of Yorkshire, part of North Lincolnshire, most of North Yorkshire and part of Derbyshire, in England. The company privatised under the terms of the Water Act 1989, when Yorkshire Water plc, the parent company of the Yorkshire Water business, was floated on the London Stock Exchange. The parent company was Kelda Group in 1999. In February 2008, Kelda Group was bought by a consortium of infrastructure funds. The time when I served the business, the company was awarded the title "Utility Company of the year" by Utility Week magazine three years in succession while no other company has so far won it more than once. I have grown and developed a great part of my professional skills in this business during the 5 year period. I was involved in the financial services sector, commercial contract management, management accounting and financial accounting reporting and mostly valuable, the regulatory finance framework to take the responsibility for the business 5 year price review financial modelling and submission to OFWAT. I was heavily involved in terms of process automation, system improvement and reporting process improvement. > 2007 – 2009 Senior Financial AnalystUndertaking PR09 financial modelling and auditing process, liaising with department heads and operational colleagues to collate business plan information and proving frequent update on the results.Worked with OFWAT modelling team to test and implement newly developed modelling system and influence/indirectly manage PR09 project team to ensure the process worked. Yorkshire Water implemented the new OFWAT system and won the chance to influence OFWAT modelling team. The relationship with OFWAT helped achieve successful price control.> 2005 – 2007 Financial Accountant / Contract Accountant Assistant / Payroll AdvisorVarious finance roles in the group.

Underwriting and assessing customer credit rating for loan applications.

Master'S Degree, Finance, Accounting And Business Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Studies

Bachelor'S Degree (Distinction), International Finance