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Tamworth, Staffordshire, Gb

Worcester, Worcestershire, Gb

London, England, Gb

Short term project to create detailed and high level financial plans to assist partnerships between the NHS and local authorities in the East of England return patients with learning disabilities back into the community with housing projects. This work is to be performed from January to March 2021.

• Produce monthly management accounts for medium sized home builder• Build relationships with senior management and provide business advice, commercial support and budgeting / forecasting services to budget holders• Cash management, reporting and control of payments• Responsible for payroll in conjunction with out-sourced provider• Review and improve processes and procedures• Responsible for the maintenance of the general ledger• Review balance sheet reconciliations• Produce VAT and CIS returns• Assisting with year end statutory accounts, liaison with auditors and tax consultants• Build and maintain relationships with key suppliers and stakeholders• Produce regular cost claims for debt funding from stakeholder• Manage finance team of up to 3 persons including annual appraisals• Created, controlled and performed finance processes for home working due to Covid-19• Performed commercial tasks in Buying and QS whilst staff furloughed due to Covid-19

Birmingham, Gb

• Short term contract to review balance sheet and processes for social housing provider.

Atherstone, Warwickshire, Gb

Senior interim resource during peak season with particular emphasis on cash controls and fixed assets.

My role was initially to prepare the final trading accounts of Sandwell Homes Ltd prior to the reintegration of the organisation back into Sandwell MBC (SMBC). I was contracted for further periods to produce year end information for SMBC's consolidation, planning and performing the transfer of balances back into SMBC's books, align accounting policies and procedures with those of the Council and to provide management support for a team of up to 15 staff performing budget monitoring, accounts payable, accounts receivable, balance sheet and system controls.Role successfully completed June 2014.Sandwell Homes Ltd was an arms length management organisation (ALMO) that managed the local authority housing stock of 30,000 homes in the Borough of Sandwell. The annual expenditure of the company was in the range of £90m to £100m p.a.

Birmingham, Gb

Role involving planning and performing tasks related to the closure of the organisation including the production of the Annual Report under IFRS and FReM, presentation to Audit Committee and arranging for the laying before Parliament.Role successfully completed July 2012.

Performed dual roles in completing financial matters for the Home Access Programme and performing the Head of Finance role as a member of the Becta closure team.

High Wycombe, Gb

Culmination of 20 years continuous employment with Bryant / Taylor Woodrow / Taylor Wimpey.Team leader at UK Housing head office producing consolidated management and statutory accounts.• Successfully managed a team of 10 staff including performance management and appraisals• Consolidated UK Housing monthly management accounts from 12 regions and head office• Completed the annual statutory accounts and interim accounts for UK Housing under UK GAAP (10 trading and 40 dormant companies)• Verified the quarterly reporting to plc of UK Housing profit and loss account, balance sheet and disclosures (under IFRS reporting) for group statutory format consolidation using Hyperion and TM1• Performed the UK Housing Land bank consolidation and reconciliation to gl and sales units• Reviewed the regional data submissions of land sales, land sale debtors and land creditors• Controlled the underlying data allocation to produce regional p&l, head office p&l and balance sheets and Flash report to group (consolidated GL Reporter)• Produced company balance sheet including proportional consolidation of joint ventures• Ensured regions completed checks to confirm that balance sheet reconciliations had occurred• Oversaw the delivery of information packs for external Auditors and the Tax department• Regularly updated and improved the company chart of accounts• Identified and implemented improvements in the reporting and consolidation process• Closed Solihull office, transferred ledger balances to new Head Office, archived documents

High Wycombe, Gb

• Completed the monthly reporting to plc of UK Housing detailed profit and loss account, balance sheet, cash flow, key performance indicators, forecasts, budgets and commentary for monthly group reporting• Formulated detailed Head Office overhead P & L forecasts and budgets. Reporting to budget holders and regular meetings to discuss actual results and review and formulate forecasts and budgets• Produced company balance sheet including proportional consolidation of joint ventures• Completed key balance sheet reconciliations e.g. Cost ledger, Sub-contract ledger, purchase ledger, reviewed remaining balance sheet reconciliations• Verified monthly head office routines e.g. cash flow reporting and bank reconciliations, payroll costing, accruals and prepayments, inter-company reconciliations and recharges• Produced information packs for Auditors and Tax dept.• Successfully supervised and trained 4 staffNotable Project Achievement:• Implemented new Flash reporting system to provide Board with early view of monthly resultsSuccessfully integrated the major acquisition of Wilson Connolly into the UK Housing reporting systems in 2004

• Member of committee which produced the Bryant Group Annual and Interim Reports• Produced Group consolidated monthly and quarterly management accounts and board packs, • Produced monthly management accounts for Construction division including site accounts• Performed segmental analysis of fixed assets, debtors and creditors.• Managed the Fixed Asset register system• Controlled costs and calculated service charges for tenants for an industrial estate of 10 factory / warehouse units• Controlled the finances for an in-house (company) car leasing company including the budgeting and recharging of fleets of cars and vans• Controlled the factory costing and accounting system for joinery products• Calculated group bank borrowing and completed money market loan• Controlled the group weekly and monthly cash reporting and forecasting system• Updated the Group Internal Control Manual• VAT – produced the group return and reconciliation. Meetings with HM Customs and Excise. Notable Project Achievements:• Consolidated the purchasing of mobile phones from ten suppliers to one supplier, saving £300k p.a. with upgrade of all phones and improved customer service.• Consolidated fleet purchasing arrangements with one major supplier and implemented an in-house leasing company to take advantage of VAT savings. Savings of £750k p.a. achieved.• Rationalised finance reporting structure and systems by removal of divisional legal entities, their staff and ledger systems. Some functions transferred to head office and some to regions, savings in excess of £1m p.a. (2002)Management Accountant, Bryant Group 1992 – 1998Notable Project Achievement:• Proposed, planned and implemented the computerisation of joinery factory job costing system using ERP software already used within Group ensuring that one set of source data could be used for finance and payroll in addition to the joinery management.