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Responsible for the day to day organisation, diary management, filing, maintaining client records, payroll, invoicing, data entry, spreadsheet management, social media management and general client correspondence.

Financial management of a small, growing business including management of Finance Assistant, Management Accounts, budgeting, cash flow, payroll, supplier payments and long term strategic planning and forecasting. Key responsibilities:• Preparation and analysis of management accounts for review with the senior management team. This includes producing Revenue and Sales reports as well as forecasts to assess risks and opportunities, managing accruals, pre-payments and fixed assets.• Preparation of budgets, forecasts and cash-flows.• Supporting departments to track budgets vs actuals and working closely with the departments to control operating expenses. • Responsible for invoicing and payroll.• Preparation for the annual audit and financial statements alongside external auditors and to ensure full compliance with finance law and VAT requirements.

Canary Wharf, London

Responsible for the analysis and control of costs across Global Operations, which holds an annual budget of CHF 609M. The key functions supported within Operations are Clearing, Collateral, Valuations & Liquidity, Middle Office and Operations Change.Key responsibilities:• Performing the month end close, liaising with COO to ensure all expected items are correctly booked and providing flash commentary to prior month and forecast.• Coordinating monthly deliverables with the Pune team which include posting of accruals, ensuring allocation of cost to the Front Office are booked correctly and the appropriate finance reports are produced.• Reviewing the monthly costs for each function and explaining key variances between actual and forecast, budget and prior month costs. • Providing the monthly commentary in the EMEA and Global finance packs which are presented to the functional heads.• Production of the monthly forecast.• Ensuring any organisational restructures and updates are processed and correctly reflected in all systems to facilitate up to date and accurate reporting.• Working closely with the functional COOs in delivering the annual budget.

Graduate Scheme (four rotations)Global Customer Care and Supply Chain Management (Mar 02 – Mar 03)• Monthly revenue recognition, cost centre and headcount reporting• Defining bonuses based on revenues received and targets met• Establishing forecasts for costs and revenues on a rolling basis• Project: The validation of actual service revenues in Oracle Financials - process mapping to highlight issues, recommend improvements, implement and monitor corrections to the processBusiness Network Solutions (Sept 01 – Mar 02) • Responsibility of all UK cost centres and accountability for reporting all costs and revenues• Variance analysis • General Ledger analysis and posting of entriesHQ Consolidation (Mar 01 - Sept 01) • Cost centre management • Month end consolidations of the Profit &Loss Account and Balance Sheet for all European entities and the resolving of any discrepanciesAccounting Services (Sept 00 – Mar 01)• Evaluating and revising the accounts payable and expenses procedures and validating an upgrade of the Oracle accounts payable and expenses systems• Auditing expenses vouchers, invoices and cashbook reconciliation• Vendor maintenance

Bachelor'S Degree, Accounting And Business/Management, 2.1

Education record

A - Levels: English Literature (A), Business Studies (B), Biology (C) 9 GCSEs including Mathematics, English and Sciences: Grades A-C