Reporting to the UK Finance Director, I manage the CB&I UK finance team who are responsible for payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable, cash, financial accounting and management accounting. • Management of the submission of monthly Management accounts to the US parent company.• Management of the preparation CB&I UK Ltd.’s Statutory accounts and managing the statutory audit of the accounts including the conversion to FRS 102. Management of the process to submit tax returns, including coordinating with our external tax consultants. Provision of tax information on a quarterly basis to our global tax department.• Long term contract accounting for CB&I UK’s ongoing projects. Attending Project reviews with members of Project Management and the UK management team. • Dealing with annual insurance renewals.• Reviewing tenders and identifying key commercial and financial risks, in particular tax, contracting structure foreign currencies, cash flow, bank guarantees and insurances.• Management of the annual budget process. Review and feedback to the overhead budget owners based upon their budget submissions. Final review of the budget submissions with the individual budget owners and the UK Operations Director.• Taking action to improve the company cash flow. Reporting upon and forecasting cash flow and contract capital. Maintaining CB&I’s relationship with its UK bankers. • Accounting for the companies Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution pension schemes, review of the annual Actuarial reports.• Responsible for ensuring that the company business controls are working effectively and managing the audit of these controls by the Internal Audit group. Reviewing controls and procedures and identifying areas of weakness and taking action to make improvements.• Set up of CB&I UK Ltd branch in Japan. Ongoing financial management of branches in Japan and Korea as well as establishments in Georgia, Azerbaijan and Nigeria.

Working in CB&I UK’s head office in central London, I was responsible for the Financial Accounting for CB&I UK Ltd, Lutech Resources Ltd and a further 10 smaller and dormant companies. In 2011 CB&I UK Ltd.’s Revenue was over £500m.• Managing a team of 4 staff responsible for recording all bank transactions and issuing and recording customer invoices. • Management of the preparation and audit by external auditors of the company’s statutory accounts. • Supporting the company’s external tax advisors in the preparation of annual tax returns. Review of the returns and presentation to the Finance Director and Tax director for sign off prior to final submission.• Management of the preparation of the group’s monthly VAT return.• Responsible for ensuring that the company business controls are working effectively and facilitating the audit of these controls by the Internal Audit group. Identifying areas for process improvement and implementing solutions.

Based at the Construction site I was responsible for the financial management and project accounting for the project, a £500m lump sum contract for the expansion of the LNG Import terminal at the Isle of Grain near Rochester in Kent. I was a member of the Project Management Team, providing the Project Director with information and support to enable him to make decisions. • Attending weekly Project Director Staff meetings where the senior Project Management team reviewed the previous week activities and agreed on the plan for the upcoming week. • Management of a team of 2, a Management Accountant and a site based Financial Administrator.• Review and analysis of monthly results and forecasts, attending Project forecast review meetings with Project Director and Project Management team.• Reporting to the Area Finance Director and our US parent, providing them with accurate monthly management accounts and forecasts.• Preparation of monthly cash flow forecasts and reporting of cashflow against forecast, taking action to improve cash flow.• Performing health checks on potential sub-contractors and suppliers to mitigate insolvency risks.• Ensuring project compliance with CB&I accounting policy and Sarbanes Oxley controls.• Ensuring compliance with CB&I capitalisation policy and performing lease v buy analysis for potential fixed asset purchases.• Ensuring hedges are in place to cover projected foreign currency cash flows.• Management of the contracts of a number of sub-contracts providing facilities to the project site.• Management of the site Procurement team who were responsible for the procurement of site tools, equipment and consumables.• Ensuring bank guarantees and insurances are in place as per the terms of the contract.• Implementation of Concur (an electronic expenses submission and approval system) and TAP (an electronic invoice approval system).

Responsible for the financial management of the South Hook LNG Import terminal project, a £800m lump sum contract for the Engineering, Procurement & Construction of an LNG Import terminal and associated facilities near Milford Haven in South West Wales. I was initially based in head office during the Engineering phase of the project before moving to the construction site for the construction phase of the project. • Reporting to the Project Director, providing him with support in making financial decisions. • Reporting to Area Finance Manager and providing him with information required for financial reporting. Reporting monthly results to our US parent.• Review and analysis of monthly results and forecasts, attending Project forecast review meetings with Project Director and Project Management team.• Preparation of monthly cash flow forecasts and reporting of actual cashflow against forecast, taking action to improve cash flow.• Upkeep of project Risk and Opportunity registers, including monthly review with Project Director.• Management of a team of 2, a management accountant and a site based Financial Administrator.• Preparation of client change orders, upkeep of the project change order log. Negotiations with client to agree final Change Orders for signature.• Ensuring project compliance with CB&I accounting policy and Sarbanes Oxley controls.• Attending reviews of the project by CB&I global management.• Ensuring hedges were in place to cover projected foreign currency cash flows.• Performing due diligence on potential sub-contractors and suppliers.• Ensuring compliance with CB&I's capitalisation policy and performing lease vs buy analysis for potential fixed asset purchases.• Ensuring bank guarantees and insurances are in place as per the terms of the contract.• Implementation of new systems including Hyperion enterprise and planning (a financial reporting system), WTE (an electronic timesheet system).

Responsible for managing a team of 7 accounting clerks to produce the results of the Infrastructure Consulting group. The Infrastructure Consulting group would have around 200 Infrastructure engineering projects at any time worth around £40m per annum working for clients in the road, rail, water and utilities and defence sectors.Tasks included review and presentation to the group management of the monthly financial results; laising with project managers to resolve issues and ensure accurate results are reported; implementation of a forecasting database to improve the accuracy of the financial results being reported; reporting upon and taking action to improve the cashflow of the group; key user in KBR's global SAP implementation, responsible for reviewing the SAP solution and identifying issues and areas of improvement prior to the implementation.

Responsible for Management Accounting and reporting of a number of Government & Infrastructure sector projects. Tasks included:Accounting for KBR's interest in the RMG Joint ventures, 3 separate DBFO PFI contracts to improve sections of the road in the UK. The Joint Ventures had a combined revenue of £60m per annum.Set up of an Irish branch of Kellogg Brown & Root (UK) Ltd and set up of branch statutory and management reporting processes for the Dublin Port tunnel project, a £15m project where KBR worked as the clients Construction supervisors.Setting up the processes to produce monthly joint venture accounts for the Directs project, including the production of project budgets, forecasts and management of project cashflow. The Directs project was a £22.5m project to set up and operate on-road trials to demonstrate the operation of road user charging systems in alliance with WS Atkins and Thales.

Joined the graduate accounting scheme and moved around different areas of the business whilst studying for my Professional Qualification. Worked on a series of 6 - 9 month assignments.1) Project Accountant responsible for accounting for a number of small and medium sized onshore and offshore Oil & Gas projects. Tasks included preparing Management Accounts and Reports on a monthly basis; raising project invoices to clients; paying supplier invoices; preparing a project forecast in conjunction with the Project Manager.2) Overhead Accountant responsible for the Management Accounting for a number of IT overheads. Tasks included preparing monthly reports for the overhead managers; preparing overhead forecasts based upon actual income and expenditure and feedback from IT management; upkeep of IT fixed asset registers.3) Management accountant responsible for consolidating and reporting the results of the Government & Infrastructure Europe & Africa business sector. I was responsible for preparing an Executive summary of the groups results; booking the results of DML, a majority owned subsidiary, based upon their management accounts; raising Authority for Expenditure forms for DML and monitoring expenditure against the Capital budget approved.